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Posted in Hardware, HP, Microsoft, Windows at 7:47 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
HP Stream Laptops at Walmart. How Much Computer Do You Need in 2023?
I saw some $179 HP Stream Windows 11 craptops at Sprawl Mart yesterday.
And I was like, “Really? HP is still letting Microsoft command them to sell
computers that barely work? How big is the market of people who haven’t already
fallen for these?”.
16 GB of RAM is “barely enough” these days, due to software bloat, if you’re
using more than several programs at once.
They sell Windows 11 systems with 4 GB!
You can barely use Linux productively with 4 these days. Much less Windows.
With Windows 11 and 4 GB, you can barely even boot the computer and load one
program. These things don’t age well because they can barely handle a single
use case that people are going to take them home for.
They are not comparable to Chromebooks, where Google has at least made a Linux-
based OS centered around the device, planning out that it MUST work well with 4
GB RAM.
Windows always needs a new PC, and a good one, because it’s designed to force
people to keep upgrading hardware when Windows “slows down”. It’s deliberate.
They make Windows slower and more obese over time to “feed the pigs” over at
Intel and AMD, who could otherwise not sell very much hardware.
The reason why moving over to Linux feels like you’ve turned back the clock and
bought a new PC again is because there’s nobody trying to sell you a new one.
By far, the worst and most bloated thing I do on Linux, is not even the fault
of Linux, it’s this trend to bigger, fatter, Web browsers for a more obnoxious
Web experience. Not the fault of the base OS, which has barely increased in
system requirements in more than a decade.
This HP Stream funny business cannot possibly be as successful as it was to
start with.
Thanks to the “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.”
concept, people who bought a previous model with Windows 10, and then didn’t
even have enough storage space to upgrade to a newer version of Windows 10,
probably don’t fall for this trap, again.
So the business model of fooling people who have never seen an HP Stream into
buying another really bad computer is almost certainly self-limiting.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Windows_screenshot⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Computer_review⦈_
Other customers who bought the Stream complained of:
Poor battery life.
HP putting the keyboard buttons on in the wrong places.
Broken screens, from the factory.
Computers that suddenly booted up to a black screen, seemingly for no reason,
one day, with no obvious repair. (Common problem with Windows.)
“45 minutes to load one [Web browser] tab.”
One reviewer, on Amazon, claimed that there was static buildup and every time
he went to type something, the keyboard shocked him.
One more note: Have used this on a treadmill and there is massive
static electricity on every key. On other laptops there’s some static
on the machine at first so you can ground yourself and then type just
fine. But this one delivers a shock for every. single. key. stroke.
Ouch.
-“S Larson”
Multiple complaints that even if you don’t use the C: for any user files at
all, you eventually can’t install a Windows update, even if all of your files
are on an SD card.
For $80 less, you can get a Raspberry Pi 4 Personal Computer.
It’s contained in a keyboard with lots of ports. You get 4 GB of RAM and an ARM
CPU, you load the OS and store your user files on an SD card of your choice in
size.
It runs Linux OS images that are actually made planning on the fact that the
thing has 4 GB of RAM instead of being an OS that was meant for 16 GB systems
that was put on the HP Stream after-the-fact.
Hell, for $50 less you could buy a Chromebook. (With support for Linux and
Android applications.)
I don’t know why, exactly, Microsoft continues to get away with convincing OEMs
to cheapen and denigrate their brands to pretend it has something in the same
league with small computers that were made to at least work properly.
HP Stream is a clear example of Microsoft convincing other companies to fall on
their sword to serve Microsoft.
If you handed me one of these HP Streams for free I might take it and see if I
could shoehorn Linux on it somehow, but I would certainly not risk $179 of my
own money on one given the things I have heard from people who did.
From what I’ve read on Reddit, at least some people using the HP Stream have
installed Arch Linux, but they couldn’t install Grub (the bootloader), and for
some reason systemd-boot (LOL) worked. Maybe HP and Microsoft can “fix that” so
that word won’t get around that you can at least use a real operating system if
you have one of these things.
The HP Stream is a Microsoft panic response “but they still don’t GET IT” to
the Chromebook. Which is $50 cheaper, runs faster, and is Linux.
Many people who get a Stream use it… to go back to whatever Web site they
bought it from and talk about all the problems they have with it that make it
impossible to use.
Which is exactly what you would expect from a <$200 thing that came with
Windows.
The market for new devices is limited. Largely by Linux. It’s feasted off of
the legacy UNIX systems and now it kills Windows too. █
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Zuckerberg_Espionage_Hive_(Propelled_Directly_Into_Executive-Level
Management)⠀✐
Posted in Deception at 2:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
The staff pipeline hints at the opposite of privacy, it’s more about
‘monetising’ the remaining Firefox users
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Dani_Chehak_in_Mozilla⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Dani_Chehak⦈_
Summary: When Mozilla does not get its managers directly from_the_C.I.A. it
keeps hiring many managers from a notorious surveillance company, Facebook; the
latest recruit too comes from the Zuckerbergs, so how does Mozilla intend to
assure Firefox users that privacy is a priority? These people know nothing
about Free software and some are actively_hostile toward the Open Web and Open
Source.
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⣿⣿⢃⠏⡭⠉⣯⣿⡍⠉⡟⡁⢩⡯⢹⣯⢩⡏⢉⢿⣉⢻⡏⢩⢻⢩⡍⠉⣯⢉⢻⡯⢽⣥⣵⠉⢩⠉⢩⠋⣿⠩⡋⣯⣙⠅⢘⠍⠉⡭⡉⡏⢹⡫⣛⣙⢹⣽⡏⣯⠋⢹⡯⢽⠙⠉⡭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣦⣼⣦⣤⣷⣬⣿⣼⣼⣧⣼⣷⣼⣧⣿⣯⣧⣷⣼⣧⣤⣿⣧⣿⣧⣾⣷⣼⣤⣼⣿⣴⣿⣧⣷⣴⣿⣷⣼⣇⣿⣧⣼⣄⣿⣿⣾⣿⣤⣧⣤⣷⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣼⣷⣤⣼⣧⣼⣿⣤⣿⣧⣼⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣾⣶⣶⣾⣷⣿⣶⣾⣾⣷⣶⣾⣶⣷⣾⣷⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣿⣤⣿⣶⣷⣶⣿⣼⣿⣶⣾⣷⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣿⣶⣷⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣿⣶⣾⣷⣾⣷⣷⣶⣷⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣶⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠩⣿⢭⡩⡯⣉⢽⠅⣿⢍⢝⣏⢹⡍⢩⡯⢽⠏⢩⡯⣍⢽⣇⣯⢉⢹⢸⡷⢾⠉⢩⡃⣏⢶⣨⢉⢽⡍⡩⣟⢽⣯⠉⣹⢉⡇⡩⣃⣩⡯⣍⢽⡇⣋⢈⢽⠩⠀⢈⢹⡏⢹⢙⣏⢽⡍⢈⢽⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣸⣿⣤⣷⣨⣿⣧⣧⣧⣼⣤⣼⣧⣼⣿⣼⣤⣿⣯⣼⣯⣤⣷⣼⣷⣬⣿⣤⣾⣤⣿⣼⣿⣬⣿⣮⣤⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣤⣿⣴⣽⣧⣦⣿⣧⣧⣿⣧⣿⣴⣿⣷⣶⣽⣧⣧⣧⣮⣧⣴⣿⣤⣿⣱⣴⣽⣤⣿⣤⣽⣠⣿⣧⣷⣤⣿⣼⣿⣿⣤⣼⣤⣧⣿⣤⣼⣧⣼⣿⣴⣿⣤⣧⣴⣿⣤⣷⣼⣿⣴⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠻⢻⢟⡟⡛⠛⡟⡿⢻⡿⢛⣟⠟⣿⢻⣻⢿⢟⡟⣻⡟⢟⣿⢛⡟⠿⡻⢛⣿⠻⣿⡻⣛⠻⢟⡿⢻⣻⣿⢻⢛⡿⢿⡟⠻⣻⠿⠻⡿⢻⣟⠟⡛⡛⢟⠿⣿⡿⠻⣿⡛⣻⡟⣻⠻⢛⣿⡟⣿⠿⡛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⢸⡍⡉⣿⠍⡋⡋⢉⣍⢽⡍⣯⠍⢽⡯⢽⠉⣹⠉⢿⣯⢩⡏⢉⢽⠉⣿⡏⣿⢭⢈⢹⠉⢩⣏⡯⢹⣯⢩⡋⣹⡭⢨⡏⢉⣿⠰⡉⢹⡍⢸⣿⢙⣏⣏⣝⢉⡏⣵⠭⣯⢩⢽⠩⡋⢙⡭⢙⢍⢩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_to_Decolonize_the_City⠀⇛
A recent exhibition in Brussels, in radically reframing
the art and architecture of Art Nouveau, offered some
clues.
o ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Metro_2033⠀⇛
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble.
Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities
have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their
boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and
the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still
remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last
remains of civilisation have already become a distant
memory, the stuff of myth and legend. More than 20 years
have passed since the last plane took off from the earth.
Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void
and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where
previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo,
New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship
of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation,
they are better adapted to the new world. Man’s time is
over.
o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ The_‘War_on_Terror’_and_the_Hell_It_Wrought_After_9/
11⠀⇛
Under the “war on terror” rubric, open-ended warfare was
well underway — “as if terror were a state and not a
technique,” as Joan Didion wrote in 2003 (two months
before the U.S. invasion of Iraq). “We had seen, most
importantly, the insistent use of September 11 to justify
the reconception of America’s correct role in the world
as one of initiating and waging virtually perpetual war.”
In a single sentence, Didion had captured the essence of
a quickly calcified set of assumptions that few
mainstream journalists were willing to question. Those
assumptions were catnip for the lions of the military-
industrial-intelligence complex. After all, the budgets
at “national security” agencies (both long-standing and
newly created) had begun to soar with similar vast
outlays going to military contractors. Worse yet, there
was no end in sight as mission creep accelerated into a
dash for cash.
o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ The_US_Legacy_of_‘Security’_Lives_on_22_Years_Later⠀⇛
Leaders in Central Asia and the Middle East, despite
their authoritarian credentials, have reinvented
themselves as indispensable to a U.S.-led security
architecture, leveraging the GWOT’s prevailing ethos to
quell internal opposition. Even in Latin America,
seemingly distant from the 9/11 epicenter, governments
have weaponized these legal tools against a broader
spectrum of perceived adversaries, including civil
society and grassroots organizations. A hyper-securitized
world is now our new normal.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Lessons_from_Japan’s_‘Lost_Decades’:_An_underdog_in_the_era
of_innovation_and_entrepreneurship⠀⇛
In 1989, when Japan’s corporations were on the
crest of a wave, there was no sci-tech company
among the global top 10 by market capitalization.
The most technologically advanced company on the
list was IBM, founded in 1911 and nearly 100 years
old back then. Now, looking at today’s global top
10 companies by market capitalization — Apple,
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Tesla, Facebook,
TSMC — 8 of them are innovation-driven companies.
Among them, the oldest is Microsoft, founded in
1975, and the youngest is Facebook, established in
2004.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Federal_Court_Strikes_Blow_Against_Categorical
Denials_of_Online_Teaching_Accommodations⠀⇛
Prof. Katherine Macfarlane and I break down Oross
v. Kutztown University
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Students_back_Lithuanian_teachers’_planned_strike⠀⇛
The Lithuanian School Students’ Union (LMS) is
going to join the teachers’ strike at the end of
September.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_school_bans_mobile_phones_amid_drive_to
make_students_pay_attention⠀⇛
Elena Čiobienė has been a Lithuanian teacher for
almost 40 years. Even without technology, she says,
students were inventive in keeping themselves busy
with everything except studying. But with
smartphones, she says, it is much worse.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Western_Digital_announce_the_SN770M_NVMe
for_handhelds_like_the_Steam_Deck [Ed: Linkspam by Liam Dawe.
Not good.]⠀⇛
Need a storage upgrade for your Steam Deck, ROG
Ally or other handheld? Western Digital are the
latest to enter the game with their new WD_BLACK
SN770M NVMe SSD.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Arm,_a_British_Chip_Designer,_Juggles
Challenges_Before_2023’s_Biggest_I.P.O.⠀⇛
He reports to Masayoshi Son, the head of SoftBank,
which owns Arm and plans to sell a portion of the
British company this week in the year’s biggest
initial public offering. Officials in Beijing and
Washington also command Mr. Haas’s attention amid a
widening chip trade war, as does Britain’s prime
minister, Rishi Sunak, and others who have
unsuccessfully pitched the idea of a stock listing
in the country.
And Mr. Haas must juggle the demands of more than
200 companies that use Arm’s technology. Ten of the
biggest — including Apple, Google, Samsung and
Nvidia — have been negotiating for stakes in the
highly anticipated Arm offering as artificial
intelligence drives explosive demand for more
powerful chips.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Arm_Develops_Full_Chip_Designs_for
Multiple_Markets:_Report⠀⇛
Arm reportedly designs reference solutions for
automotive, cloud computing, IoT, mobile devices, a
Bloomberg report says.
# ⚓ Tedium ☛ Based_On_A_True_Interpretation⠀⇛
How bothered should we be by the BlackBerry film
fudging the truth? Honestly, I think we should
embrace Jim Balsillie’s good nature about it.
I finally saw the BlackBerry movie last night, a
film I had been quite excited about, and I gotta
say that it lived up to all my expectations and
then some.
It is clearly the work of a team who, when given
the task of trying to tell the story of a
groundbreaking company, chose to create something
compelling, rather than 100 percent factual, much
as The Social Network attempted to tell the story
of a company whose story had become a popular myth
essentially. The film, by director Matt Johnson,
essentially does the same thing with a smartphone
that was once at the center of public
consciousness, only to disappear almost overnight.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel_Sells_Minority_Stake_in_IMS_Nano_to
TSMC⠀⇛
TSMC buys into IMS Nano, a leading maker of multi
e-beam photomask writing tools.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Putting_The_Magic_Smoke_Back_Into_A_Dodgy
Spectrum_Analyzer⠀⇛
The trouble with fixing electronics is that most
devices are just black boxes — literally. Tear it
down, look inside, but it usually doesn’t matter —
all you see are black epoxy blobs, taunting you
with the fact that one or more of them are dead
with no external indication of the culprit.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printing_A_Sock_Knitting_Machine⠀⇛
3D printing socks isn’t really a thing yet. You’d
end up with scratchy plastic garments that irritate
your feet no end. You can easily 3D print all kinds
of nifty little mechanisms, though, so why not 3D
print yourself a machien to knit some socks
instead? That’s precisely what [Joshua De Lisle]
did.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Book8088_Slows_Down_To_Join_The_Demoscene⠀⇛
As obsolete as the original IBM Model 5150 PC may
appear, it’s pretty much the proverbial giant’s
shoulders upon which we all stand today. That makes
the machine worth celebrating, so much so that we
now have machines like the Book8088, a diminutive
clamshell-style machine made from period-correct PC
chips; sort of a “netbook that never was.”
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ FDA_blasted_over_inaction_on_menthol_ban [Ed: FDA,
which brought COVID-19 "boosters" to hundreds of millions of
human beings after they had been tested on only a few mice]⠀⇛
Public health groups criticized the Food and Drug
Administration on Thursday for missing a self-
imposed August deadline to finalize_a_rule banning
menthol in cigarettes.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Paris_fumigates_for_tiger_mosquitoes_as_tropical
pest_spreads_across_Europe⠀⇛
Health authorities in Paris fumigated areas of the
French capital for the first time on Thursday to
kill disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes whose rapid
advance through northern Europe is thought to have
been accelerated by climate change.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Almost_half_of_Hong_Kong’s_homeless
suffer_PTSD,_study_finds,_as_gov’t_urged_to_offer_greater
support⠀⇛
Almost half of Hong Kong’s homeless people
experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) but lack the necessary support to
manage the mental health condition, a study has
found.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Many_Children_May_Have_Lost_Medicaid
Coverage_Because_of_State_Errors⠀⇛
Federal officials warned state agencies to review
their systems for establishing eligibility, as they
pare back Medicaid rolls. Children in particular
may have been affected.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ 5_Outdated_Ways_to_Prevent_Pregnancy_Show
How_Far_Contraception_Has_Come⠀⇛
Don’t try these at home.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Did_government_overstep_on_COVID_‘misinfo’?
Courts_weigh_in.⠀⇛
A Sept. 8 ruling in Missouri v. Biden enjoins
certain federal officials from pressuring social
media platforms to take down protected free speech.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Best_of_Reason:_The_DEA_at_50⠀⇛
For five decades, drugs have been winning the war
on drugs.
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ France_orders_halting_Apple_iPhone_12
sales_over_radiation⠀⇛
The French agency that regulates radio frequencies,
the ANFR, said testing found that the model emits
more electromagnetic waves susceptible to be
absorbed by the body than permitted.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Former_Twitter_executives:_Privacy_and
security_practices_deteriorated_under_Musk⠀⇛
The Federal Trade Commission is currently
investigating whether Twitter — now X Corp. —
violated a 2011 agreement Twitter entered into with
the agency to settle complaints about Twitter’s
privacy practices. The agreement required Twitter
to implement a security and privacy program,
including regular external audits.
In a court filing unsealed Monday, several former
executives said Musk failed to heed warnings about
potential security concerns, especially as he fired
or laid off large numbers of employees after
acquiring the company last year.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Lawyer’s_Microsoft_email_snafu_goes_from
$1.75M_lawsuit_to_Ctrl+Alt+Settle⠀⇛
The attorney had asked for $1.75 million in the
suit – $750,000 in damages and $1 million in
punitive damages, accusing Microsoft of both breach
of contract and “tortious business dealings” for
“wantonly delaying the simple remedy of aiding one
single email access.”
The original allegation was that Schlachter lost
access to his Microsoft business email account on
May 10 this year, but that the software giant
failed to extricate him from a verification loop
that was preventing him from getting into his
account, which the filing said he paid for via a
monthly subscription.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Grab_those_updates:_Microsoft_flings_out
fixes_for_already-exploited_bugs⠀⇛
Five others are listed as critical.
Let’s start with the two currently under
exploitation. First up: CVE-2023-36761, an
information disclosure vulnerability in Word deemed
“important” by Redmond with a 6.2 out of 10 CVSS
severity rating.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Beware_of_insecure_networked_printers⠀⇛
Despite promises of a paperless office that have
origins in the 1970s, the printer is still very
much a security problem in the modern office.
And even if Microsoft Corp. will succeed in its
efforts to eradicate the universe of third-party
printer drivers from its various Windows products,
the printer will still be the bane of security
professionals for years to come. The problem is
that the attack surface for printer-related
activities is a rich one, with numerous soft
targets.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge_For_FTC_Rules_Intuit_Can’t_Continue_Its
‘Free_To_File’_Advertising_Bullshit⠀⇛
The old saying goes: there’s only two things that
are permanent, death and taxes. For quite a while
now, we could have added a third item to the list:
Intuit annoying us to death with its bullshit
advertisement about filing for taxes for “free.”
You really should go back and read our posts on
this topic if you’re not familiar with it, but the
topline summary is simple enough. Intuit has spent
years advertising to the masses that they can file
taxes for free using its TurboTax platform as part
of a government program, except only a third of the
public qualifies for free filing and Intuit did
every last thing possible to hide the options for
free filing and collected money from many who would
qualify to file for free instead.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Will_the_Cyber_Resilience
Act_help_the_European_ICT_sector_compete? [Ed: Mirko Boehm
moved from OIN to Linux_Foundation this past summer. Always
chasing money, even if that means software patents and
monopolies [1, 2, 3, 4]]⠀⇛
Much has been written about the potentially
damaging effects of the draft EU Cyber Resilience
Act (CRA) on the open source ecosystem (BitKom,
Eclipse Foundation, VDA, OSBA, Linux Foundation –
this post is based on a draft of the CRA from
September 15, 2022). In this post, we are going to
look at the CRA from a different perspective: As a
part of the EU cybersecurity strategy, the higher-
order goal of the CRA is the further development
and strengthening of the integrated EU single
market. Since open source software is the
foundation of nearly every modern digital product,
influencing how the open source ecosystem operates
will be felt by the European businesses and
citizens. Will the CRA be conducive to EU ICT
policy goals?
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Beta News ☛ Uncovering_the_market_in_vulnerability
exploits⠀⇛
A Windows privilege escalation exploit listed for
$8,000 as an executable and $13,000 as source code,
while a Barracuda emails security exploit was
$15,000.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Zero_Day_Summer:_Microsoft_Warns_of_Fresh
New_Software_Exploits⠀⇛
Microsoft’s struggles with zero-day exploits rolled
into a new month with a fresh Patch Tuesday warning
about malware attacks in the wild.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Microsoft_September_2023_Patch_Tuesday,_(Tue,_Sep
12th)⠀⇛
This month we got patches for 66 vulnerabilities.
Of these, 5 are critical, and 2 are already being
exploited, according to Microsoft.
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Adobe,_Apple,_Google_&_Microsoft_Patch
0-Day_Bugs [Ed: Too late. Exploited already.]⠀⇛
Microsoft today issued software updates to fix at
least five dozen security holes in Windows and
supported software, including patches for two zero-
day vulnerabilities that are already being
exploited. Also, Adobe, Google Chrome and Apple iOS
users may have their own zero-day patching to do.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ How_JPCERT/CC_automates_malware_analysis⠀⇛
Guest Post: How to automate daily incident
investigations more efficiently.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ ICS_Patch_Tuesday:_Critical_CodeMeter
Vulnerability_Impacts_Several_Siemens_Products⠀⇛
ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens has released 7 new
advisories and Schneider Electric has released 1
new advisory.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Virus_For_The_BBC_Micro⠀⇛
If you work at all with British software or
hardware engineers, you’ll find that there’s an
entire generation perhaps now somewhere between
their mid-40s and mid-50s, who stand slightly apart
from their peers in their background and
experience. These were the lucky teenagers who
benefited from the British government’s 1980s push
to educate youngsters in computing, and who unlike
those before or who followed, arrived at university
engineering courses fresh from school fully
conversant with every facet of a computer from the
hardware upwards.
# ⚓ The Africa Report ☛ Kenya’s_banks_incur_hefty_tech_costs
over_digitisation,_cyberattacks⠀⇛
Lenders are keen to tighten cyberattack
vulnerabilities that come with digitisation after
Kenya suffered a major cyber-attack last month.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ [Old]_The_Good,_The_Bad,_And_The
Incredibly_Ugly_In_The_Court_Ruling_Regarding
Government_Contacts_With_Social_Media⠀⇛
One has to think that Donald Trump judicial
appointee Judge Terry Doughty deliberately
waited until July 4th (when the courts are
closed) to release his ruling on the
requested preliminary injunction preventing
the federal government from communicating
with social media companies. The results of
the ruling are not a huge surprise, given
Doughty’s now recognized pattern of being
willing to bend over backwards as a judge in
support of Trumpist culture war nonsense in
multiple cases in his short time on the
bench. But, even so, there are some really
odd things about the ruling.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Party-cipate_and_#CelebrateEncryption⠀⇛
Now is the time to show your support for
encryption and influence the European
Parliament to do better for children and
everyone else. Join the #CelebrateEncryption
action and share photos of you and your
friends promoting privacy and celebrating
encryption.
# ⚓ Privacy International ☛ Judgment_says_that_UK_cannot
digitally_spy_on_people_outside_its_borders_without
accountability⠀⇛
# ⚓ USA ☛ Letters_to_the_Speaker_of_the_House_and
President_of_the_Senate_on_the_Continuation_of_the
National_Emergency_With_Respect_to_Certain_Terrorist
Attacks⠀⇛
[...] Consistent with this provision, I have
sent to the Federal Register the enclosed
notice, stating that the emergency declared
in Proclamation 7463 with respect to the
terrorist attacks on the United States of
September 11, 2001, is to continue in effect
for an additional year.
# ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Chat_control:_EU_Council_plans_death
blow_to_digital_privacy_of_correspondence_and_secure
encryption⠀⇛
In the dispute over plans to search all
private messages and photos (#ChatControl)
for suspicious content, a proposal by the
Spanish presidency has been leaked that
ambassadors will discuss on Thursday and is
intended to secure a majority for the
proposed #ChatControl regulation at the end
of the month.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Federal_Judge_Upholds_State_Department_Rule
Requiring_Visa_Applicants_to_Disclose_Social_Media
Information⠀⇛
Visa applicants already are required to
disclose personal information including their
work, travel, and family histories. The
“Registration Requirement,” which went into
effect in May 2019, requires visa applicants
to disclose their social media identifiers
over the past five years, including for
pseudonymous accounts. The policy began
during the Trump Administration and has
continued under President Biden. The State
Department estimated that 14.7 million people
would be affected by the policy each year.
The plaintiffs argued that the Registration
Requirement violated the expressive and
associational rights of both their U.S.-based
and non-U.S.-based members and partners. We
agree: knowing that your social media posts
will be combed through will lead people to
self-censor. Additionally, the rule deprives
visa applicants of the rights to anonymous
speech and private association. The district
court rejected the plaintiffs’ First
Amendment arguments and dismissed the lawsuit
with prejudice, meaning the plaintiffs can’t
amend their complaint.
The district court acknowledged that U.S.
citizens have a right to receive information
and ideas from, and to freely associate with,
non-U.S. persons. But the court rejected the
plaintiffs’ argument that the Registration
Requirement prevents them from doing so
because of the rule’s chilling effect on the
social media activity of would-be visitors to
the United States. The court found that the
plaintiffs’ complaint lacked specificity,
stating, “These allegations fail to identify
a particular instance of speech that any
person wishes to—but cannot—hear.”
# ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_Award_Winner:_Signal_Foundation⠀⇛
All are invited to attend the EFF Awards!
Whether you are an activist, an EFF
supporter, a student interested in cyberlaw
or public interest technology, or someone who
wants to eat good food and drink with other
cool individuals, anyone can have a fun time
at the ceremony.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DOJ_To_Court:_Here_Are_The_Many,_Many
Reasons_Why_The_FTC_Can_&_Should_Be_Investigating_Elon
Musk’s_Handling_Of_User_Data⠀⇛
If you read this morning’s story about Elon
Musk’s impulsive decision to move servers out
of Sacramento and up to Portland in a
dangerous and wholly unsecure manner, and
wondered if the FTC (who has two consent
decrees with the company regarding how it
protects users’ private data) was aware of
it, we already have your answer. Last night,
the DOJ filed a response to Elon trying to
get out of the existing FTC consent decrees,
and called out this story as one example.
(The timing of the story and the filing
coming out on the same day is a coincidence:
the filing was due yesterday, and the book
came out today).
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Batshit_Crazy_Story_Of_The_Day_Elon
Musk_Decided_To_Personally_Rip_Servers_Out_Of_A
Sacramento_Data_Center⠀⇛
Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were
some reports that Elon Musk was in the
process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento
data center. In that article, a number of ex-
Twitter employees were quoted about how much
work it would be to do that cleanly, noting
that there’s a ton of stuff hardcoded in
Twitter code referring to that data center
(hold that thought).
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Former_Twitter_executives:_Privacy
and_security_practices_deteriorated_under_Musk⠀⇛
Former employees say Elon Musk’s acquisition
of Twitter may have caused the company to
violate a consent order with the FTC.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Cars_Have_Terrible_Data_Privacy⠀⇛
A new Mozilla Foundation report concludes
that cars, all of them, have terrible data
privacy.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Tank_Museum_Has_300_Armored_Vehicles
and_Over_100_Million_YouTube_Views⠀⇛
Only a few hundred thousand people visit The Tank
Museum, in the English countryside, each year. But
on YouTube, it’s more popular than the Met and
MoMA.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Air,_artillery_strikes_have_killed_over_450_civilians
in_Myanmar_so_far_this_year⠀⇛
Observers say the strikes are part of a bid to
reduce risk to troops and hurt resistance morale.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Junta_airstrike_damages_school_in_Myanmar’s_Sagaing
region⠀⇛
The helicopter attack is one of a growing number
targeting educational facilities.
# ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ Michigan_false_electors_acted_‘at_the
direction’_of_Trump,_court_filing_says⠀⇛
The Trump supporters then submitted the false
certificate to Congress and the National Archives
in an attempt to challenge the results of the
election when federal lawmakers met on Jan. 6,
2021, to tally states’ votes.
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ Vladimir_Putin_Declares_His_Love_for_Elon_Musk⠀⇛
Though he didn’t mention it explicitly, the Russian
president’s comments come just days after Musk
revealed that he’d denied a Ukrainian request for
Starlink internet access on the front lines of its
war with Russia — a denial that essentially
sabotaged Ukraine’s military in its defense against
the invaders.
# ⚓ The Sunday Times UK ☛ Shoplifters_evade_TikTok_police_to
spread_tips_and_targets⠀⇛
Shoplifters are using TikTok to spread a playbook
of tactics on how to steal goods such as clothes,
jewellery and make-up from retailers.
Users on the video-sharing platform have rated
high-street stores on the basis of how easy it is
to get away with shoplifting and offered tips on
avoiding detection.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ TikTok_Officially_Launches_In-App_Shopping
Feature⠀⇛
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, first started
testing the Shop feature in November 2022 and has
added more vendors in recent months including
brands PacSun, Revolv, and Willow Boutique as well
as beauty brand KimChi Chic, according to a report
by Ad Age. TikTok Shop will add in-feed video and
Live Shopping to its For You feed while also
showcasing product reviews and connecting users
with sellers for marketing opportunities.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Iranian_Cyberspies_Deployed_New_Backdoor_to
34_Organizations⠀⇛
Iran-linked cyberespionage group Charming Kitten
has been observed infecting 34 victims with a new
backdoor, cybersecurity firm ESET reports.
Believed to be operating on behalf of Iran’s
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and also
tracked as APT42, Ballistic Bobcat, Mint Sandstorm
(formerly Phosphorus), and NewsBeef, Charming
Kitten has been targeting activists, government
organizations and journalists for more than a
decade.
# ⚓ Vox ☛ The_US-Iran_prisoner_swap,_briefly_explained⠀⇛
The agreement was negotiated by the US and the
Islamic Republic of Iran over a period of two
years, according to the New York Times, and was
facilitated by Oman, Qatar, and Switzerland. Though
the agreement does involve the eventual release of
prisoners by both parties, Iran’s primary
motivation for engaging in the negotiations is a
mechanism by which it can access billions of
dollars of its own assets to purchase humanitarian
goods like food and medicine.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Why_a_hard-kill_strategy_doesn’t_work
against_combat_drones⠀⇛
The reality is that the old-hat method of shooting
at anything that poses a threat is extremely
difficult when the target is a small object moving
at 100 kilometres an hour in often unpredictable
patterns. Many militaries have tried using small
arms, but it almost never works unless the drones
are extremely close and there are only a few of
them.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Iran_confirms_it_arrested_Swedish
citizen⠀⇛
Iran has repeatedly imprisoned foreigners and
charged them with espionage or other national
security violations. Several Western governments
have accused Iran of arresting foreign nationals in
order to obtain concessions.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ 50_Years_After_Coup_in_Chile:_Peter
Kornbluh_on_How_U.S._Continues_to_Hide_Role_of_Nixon_&
Kissinger⠀⇛
On the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military
coup in Chile that deposed democratically elected
socialist leader Salvador Allende, we discuss the
U.S. contribution to the coup and declassified
records obtained by the National Security Archive’s
Chile Documentation Project with Peter Kornbluh.
His book, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier
on Atrocity and Accountability, has been revised
and published in Chile for the first time.
“There’s a lot known about the U.S. role in
Chile, but there’s a lot to be reminded of, as
well, and then there are the secrets that remain,”
says Kornbluh, who says countries around the world
must learn from Chile’s history to counter growing
misinformation and authoritarianism today. “Very
authoritarian voices are rising to dangerous levels
that actually threaten our democracy.”
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Prigozhin’s_Death_Leaves_Cloud_of_Uncertainty_in
Africa⠀⇛
Yevgeny Prigozhin built a violent and profitable
mercenary network over the past five years in the
Central African Republic (CAR), Libya, Mali and
Sudan. His last days before his death in a plane
crash on August 23 were spent in Africa trying to
expand his reach.
# § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ North_Korea’s_leader_is_in
Russia_to_meet_Putin,_with_both_locked_in_standoffs
with_the_West⠀⇛
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un rolled into Russia
on an armored train to see President Vladimir
Putin. It’s a rare meeting between isolated
leaders driven together by their need for
support in escalating standoffs with the
West. Kim is expected to seek economic aid
and military technology for his impoverished
country. Kim’s train stopped in Khasan, a
station on the Russia-North Korea border,
where it was met by a military honor guard
and a brass band, according to video on
social media channels by a regional governor
and Russia’s natural resources minister. Kim
appears to have something Putin desperately
needs: munitions for Russia’s grueling war in
Ukraine.
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Armored_train_carrying_North
Korea’s_Kim_Jong_Un_crosses_into_Russia_ahead_of_Putin
meeting⠀⇛
CNN — Kim Jong Un’s heavily armored private
train has crossed into Russia and the North
Korean leader has met with officials, state
media reported Tuesday, ahead of an expected
and closely watched summit with Russian
President Vladimir Putin that the US has
warned could result in an arms deal. Kim
briefly left his to train at…
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_state_aircraft_company_to_start
manufacturing_drones_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_journalist_Arkady_Babchenko_says
Ukrainian_Security_Service_opened_criminal_case_against
him;_agency_denies_claim_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ US_expected_to_decide_soon_on
long-range_missiles_for_Ukraine⠀⇛
ATACMS missiles would greatly increase
Ukraine’s ability to strike the logistical
networks supporting Russia’s invasion and
would make it increasingly difficult for
Putin’s army to operate inside Ukraine,
writes Benton Coblentz.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Ukraine_says_it_may_contact_WTO
for_compensation_over_Poland’s_refusal_to_import
grain⠀⇛
Ukraine may take legal action, including
turning to the World Trade Organization to
obtain compensation, after Poland extended a
ban on importing its grain, Ukraine’s prime
minister said Tuesday. Russia’s Vladimir
Putin earlier on Tuesday dismissed Kyiv’s
claims that it will soon receive F-16 fighter
jets from the West, saying deliveries of the
aircraft to Ukraine will only prolong the war
with Moscow.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Train_carrying_North_Korea’s_Kim_enters
Russia_ahead_of_Putin_talks⠀⇛
A train carrying North Korean leader Kim
Jong-un has entered Russia, Russian state
news agency Ria Novosti said Tuesday, ahead
of a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Kim_Jong_Un’s_arrival_in_Russia_sets_stage_for
high-stakes_‘negotiations’_with_Putin⠀⇛
The summit could change the dynamics of
global security, experts say.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Court_Rejects_Request_By_Anti-Putin
Shaman_For_Transfer_To_Less_Restrictive_Psychiatric
Clinic⠀⇛
A court in Russia’s Far East has refused to
transfer to a less restrictive psychiatric
clinic a Yakut shaman who became known across
the country for his attempts to march to
Moscow to drive President Vladimir Putin out
of the Kremlin.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Nationalist_Putin_Critic_Girkin’s
Pretrial_Detention_Extended⠀⇛
A court in Moscow has extended the pretrial
detention of Igor Girkin, once a leader of
Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine’s east,
who was arrested in July and charged with
public calls for extremism after criticizing
President Vladimir Putin for “badly” handling
the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Suggests_Former_Top_Aide_Fled_Russia
Due_To_Financial_Irregularities_At_State_Company⠀⇛
President Vladimir Putin suggested that
Anatoly Chubais, a former top government
official who fled after Russia’s full-scale
invasion of Ukraine, may have left due to
financial irregularities at the state-run
corporation he oversaw.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Kim_Jong_Un_Meets_Russia’s_Natural
Resources_Minister⠀⇛
The North Korean leader is also expected to
meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Ukraine_Has_Lost_71,500_Soldiers_in
Counteroffensive:_Putin⠀⇛
He maintains that the U.S. plans to provide
F-16 fighters to Ukraine will only prolong
the conflict.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ North_Korea’s_leader_is_in
Russia_to_meet_Putin,_with_both_locked_in_standoffs
with_the_West⠀⇛
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un rolled into Russia
on an armored train to see President Vladimir
Putin. It’s a rare meeting between isolated
leaders driven together by their need for
support in escalating standoffs with the
West. Kim is expected to seek economic aid
and military technology for his impoverished
country. Kim’s train stopped in Khasan, a
station on the Russia-North Korea border,
where it was met by a military honor guard
and a brass band, according to video on
social media channels by a regional governor
and Russia’s natural resources minister. Kim
appears to have something Putin desperately
needs: munitions for Russia’s grueling war in
Ukraine.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea’s_Kim_says_his_visit
shows_‘strategic_importance’_of_Russia_relations⠀⇛
Mr Kim arrived in Russia by private train for
talks with President Vladimir Putin.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin,_Citing_Trump_‘Persecution,’
Wades_Back_Into_U.S._Politics⠀⇛
The Russian leader, whose government meddled
in the American presidential election won by
Donald J. Trump, also offered words of praise
for Elon Musk.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kim-Putin_Meeting_Nears,_but
Where?⠀⇛
Russian reports said the North Korean leader
had crossed into Russia by train on Tuesday
morning, but his destination was unclear.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_law_enforcement_and_economists_on
the_alert_for_sanctions_evaders⠀⇛
The latest trade data shows the continuation
of a trend that has been evident ever since
Russia started its war on Ukraine and the
West responded with swingeing trade sanctions
– while trade with aggressor countries Russia
and Belarus has quickly reduced, trade with
countries bordering Russia in central Asia
has markedly increased.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_West’s_Blueprint_for_Goading_China_Was
Laid_Out_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
The West is writing a script about its
relations with China as stuffed full of
misdirection as an Agatha Christie novel. In
recent months, US and European officials have
scurried to Beijing for so-called talks, as
if the year were 1972 and Richard Nixon were
in the White House.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia_seeks_to_legitimize
occupation_of_Ukraine_with_sham_elections⠀⇛
In early September, Russia staged sham
parliamentary elections in occupied regions
of southern and eastern Ukraine as Moscow
attempted to legitimize its earlier illegal
annexation of five Ukrainian provinces.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_says_Germany_‘wasting_time’_on
decision_to_send_Taurus_missiles⠀⇛
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on
Monday urged Berlin to supply Ukraine with
long-range Taurus missiles during a surprise
visit to Kyiv by German Foreign Minister
Annalena Baerbock.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_To_Cease_Sanctions_Against_Three_Russian
Businessmen_This_Week⠀⇛
The European Union will not renew sanctions
against three men targeted over Russia’s war
against Ukraine when the current punitive
measures expire later this week, three
diplomatic sources told Reuters on September
12.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Former_Ukrainian_Lawmaker_Who_Appeared_On
Russian_TV_Suspected_Of_High_Treason⠀⇛
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says
former lawmaker Serhiy Polishchuk, who is
currently out the country, is suspected of
high treason for his appearances on Russian
television where he “denied the existence of
Ukraine” while allegedly taking money from
Russian security authorities.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Poland_To_Extend_Ban_On_Ukrainian_Grain
Imports⠀⇛
The Polish government has agreed to extend a
ban on Ukrainian grain imports unilaterally
even if the current EU restrictions expire on
September 15.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Sweden_Considering_Sending_Fighter_Jets_To
Ukraine⠀⇛
The Swedish government is considering
donating Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine to
help it fight Russia, Swedish public radio
(SR) reported on September 12, citing unnamed
sources.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_North_Korea’s
Leader_Arrives_in_Russia_as_Nations_Seek_Closer
Military_Ties⠀⇛
North Korea has one of the world’s largest
arsenals, offering Russia access to munitions
that could help its forces fighting in
Ukraine.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Europe_Rushes_to_Build_Defenses_But
With_Little_Consensus_on_How⠀⇛
A push by more than 30 allied countries to
arm themselves, precipitated in part by
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has raised
concerns of disorganization and supply
shortages.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Russian-registered_cars_banned_from_entering
Latvia_and_EU_via_eastern_border⠀⇛
As of Tuesday, September 12, persons with
vehicles registered in the Russian Federation
are prohibited from entering the European
Union (EU) through the Latvian-Russian and
Latvian-Belarusian border crossing points,
according to information from the State
Revenue Service (VID) and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_says_seeks_deeper_ties
with_North_Korea_as_Kim_Jong-un_arrives_in_Russia⠀⇛
China said on Tuesday it was seeking to
deepen cooperation with North Korea in
“various fields,” as leader Kim Jong Un
arrived in Russia on his first trip overseas
in four years.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_to_ban_Russian_cars_following_EC
clarification⠀⇛
Following a clarification from the European
Commission, Lithuania will not let in any
cars with Russian license plates, unless they
are bound for Kaliningrad. Owners who defy
the ban may see their vehicles confiscated.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Supreme_Court_Of_Chechnya_Mitigates_Prison
Sentence_Of_Opposition_Bloggers’_Mother⠀⇛
The Supreme Court of Russia’s North Caucasus
region of Chechnya has mitigated the prison
sentence of Zarema Musayeva, the mother of
three self-exiled outspoken Chechen
opposition activists.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Humanitarian_Aid_Arrives_In_Nagorno-
Karabakh_After_Deal_On_Transport_Corridors⠀⇛
Officials in the breakaway region of Nagorno-
Karabakh said a Russian truck carrying
humanitarian aid arrived on September 12 in
the region via territory controlled by
Azerbaijan, the first time such a crossing
has been allowed in more than three decades.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz_Supreme_Court_Upholds_Court_Decision
To_Deport_Investigative_Journalist_To_Russia⠀⇛
Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court on September 12
rejected an appeal filed by prominent
investigative journalist Bolot Temirov
against a court decision to deport him to
Russia for “illegally obtaining a Kyrgyz
passport.”
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Russian_Embassy_warns_its_citizens:
Finland_may_seize_Russian_vehicles_and_personal_items⠀⇛
The ongoing geopolitical tensions between the
European Union (EU) and Russia have taken a
new turn. The Russian Embassy in Helsinki
recently warned its citizens to abstain from
using vehicles with Russian license plates
while visiting Finland. This advisory follows
the EU sanctions permitting Finnish
authorities and other EU member states to
seize vehicles with Russian registration.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ More_than_100_illegal_border_crossings
attempted_in_last_day⠀⇛
During the last 24 hours, large numbers of
attempts to illegally cross into Latvia from
Belarus continued.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I’m_wanted_by_Interpol’:_At_FSB’s_request,
Russian_court_remands_Igor_Strelkov_in_custody,_while
defendant_argues_he_couldn’t_flee_abroad_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_says_Soviet_Union_was_wrong_to_invade
Czechoslovakia_and_Hungary_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Austria’s_former_top_diplomat_Karin_Kneissl_
(who_danced_with_Putin)_moves_two_ponies_to_Russia_by
dedicated_Russian_military_airlifter_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kim_Jong-un_arrives_in_Russia_by_armored
train_What_we_know_so_far_about_the_North_Korean
leader’s_first_visit_to_Russia_since_2019_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_says_Anatoly_Chubais_has_fled,_and
that_‘he’s_no_longer_Anatoly_Borisovich,_but_some
Moisha_Israelievich’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_proposes_designating_September_30
holiday_commemorating_annexation_of_Ukrainian
territories_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_war_critics_abroad,_Ukraine’s
counteroffensive,_and_Moscow’s_next-gen_weapons
Excerpts_from_Putin’s_speech_at_the_2023_Eastern
Economic_Forum_—_Meduza⠀⇛
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ The_NYPD_Denied_Our_Request_for_Body_Camera
Footage_of_a_“Friendly_Fire”_Killing._Here’s_How_We_Got_It
Anyway.⠀⇛
In March 2021, I received a tip to look into the
police killing of a Bronx man who was shot dead in
2017 while in the throes of a mental health crisis.
The source suggested I request the investigative
files from the NYPD’s Force Investigation Division,
the internal unit that spent two years probing the
case.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Appeals_Court_Upholds_Public.Resource.Org’s_Right_to
Post_Public_Laws_and_Regulations_Online⠀⇛
Tuesday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit upholds the idea that our laws belong to
all of us, and we should be able to find, read, and
share them free of registration requirements, fees,
and other roadblocks. It’s a long-awaited victory
for Public.Resource.org, a nonprofit organization
founded in 2007 by open records advocate Carl
Malamud of Healdsburg, Calif., and represented in
this case by the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) with co-counsel Fenwick & West and David
Halperin.
“In a nation governed by the rule of law, private
parties have no business controlling who can read,
share, and speak the rules to which we are all
subject,” EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry said.
“We are pleased that the Court of Appeals upheld
what other U.S. courts, including the Supreme
Court, have said for almost 200 years: No one
should control access to the law.”
As part of its mission of promoting public access
to all kinds of government information, Public
Resource acquires and posts online a wide variety
of public documents, such as nonprofits’ tax
returns, government-produced videos, and standards
incorporated into law by reference. These standards
include electrical, fire safety, and consumer
safety codes that have been mandated by
governments. But without Public Resource’s work,
they are often difficult to access, much less share
with others, which means that areas of law that
profoundly affect our daily life are obscured from
our view. Even courts have had trouble accessing
the laws that they are supposed to apply.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Yet_Another_Court_Says_Yes_You_Can_Publish_The
Law⠀⇛
We’ve talked about this case – American Society for
Testing and Materials et al v. PublicResource.org –
a few times before. It was one of two cases brought
against Carl Malamud’s Public Resource organization
for posting the Code of Federal Regulations on its
website, and including with the CFR language the
standards promulgated by various standards
development organizations (like ASTM) that had been
incorporated by reference into the CFR as part of
that operative law. The standards development
organizations claimed that their standards were
copyrighted and that publishing them amounted to
infringement, whereas Public Resource argued that
since those codes had the force of law, it could
not be infringement to publish what the law is.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_World_Bank_is_talking_climate_but_funneling
billions_into_oil_and_gas_projects⠀⇛
In 2022, the World Bank supplied about $3.7 billion
in loans and capital to expedite imports and
exports—“trade finance”—that likely ended up
funding oil and gas developments, according to
Urgewald, a campaign group that tracks global
fossil fuel finance. The source of these funds was
the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the
arm of the Bank that works with the private sector,
Urgewald said.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Climate_Change_Is_Creating_Strange
‘Polygon_Fields’_In_the_Arctic,_and_Scientists_are_Worried⠀⇛
Weird polygonal landscapes are emerging in remote
reaches of the Canadian High Arctic, a discovery
that exposes the extreme changes that polar regions
are experiencing as a result of human-driven
climate change, reports a new study.
# ⚓ Vox ☛ Wildfires_are_coming…_for_New_Jersey?⠀⇛
Wildfire risk is modeled by combining the
likelihood and the intensity of a blaze with an
area’s exposure and susceptibility. Widely used
models include the US Forest Service’s Wildfire
Risk to Communities, the Federal Emergency
Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Risk Index, and
Risk Factor, a model created by the nonprofit First
Street Foundation that looks at fire and other
climate risks down to the neighborhood and address
level. Some models use the same data but parse risk
differently, looking at just housing units or also
factors like building values and population to
determine a final risk. Some models are searchable
by address or neighborhood, while others summarize
risk at a county or state level.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ The_United_States_and_Canada_Are_Among_the_World’s
Top_5_‘Planet_Wreckers,’_New_Fossil_Fuel_Report_Contends⠀⇛
United Nations chief António Guterres has called on
nations to arrive at September 20’s high-level
climate summit in New York City with firm
commitments for ending fossil fuel production.
So far, however, the world’s top 20 oil and gas
extractors have enough production planned to
generate 173 billion tons of carbon pollution by
2050 — more than enough to blow past their Paris
Agreement commitments and heat the world well
beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius above historical
temperatures. The greatest polluter among them will
be the United States.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ [Cryptocurrency]_market_saw_illicit
transactions_of_$70_billion_in_five_years:_report⠀⇛
The illicit [cryptocurrency] activity
includes transactions tied to stolen funds,
scams, ransomware, human trafficking,
terrorism financing, and dark net markets.
In 2017, the [cryptocurrency] space saw $4.9
billion worth of illicit transactions. After
falling to $4.6 billion a year later, this
figure nearly tripled and hit $12.3 billion
in 2019.
# ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ Apple_Watch_Series_9
Becomes_Apple’s_First-Ever_Carbon_Neutral_Product⠀⇛
Additionally, the Series 9 boasts a new 4-
core Neural Engine, which is fantastic for
handling machine learning tasks. Apple said
it is twice as fast as the one in the Apple
Watch Series 8. Even with all this power, the
S9 SiP is impressively energy-efficient,
allowing the Apple Watch Series 9 to keep
going for a full 18 hours on a single charge.
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Fake_cryptocurrency_OneCoin_co-
founder_Karl_Sebastian_Greenwood_sentenced_to_20_years
in_US_prison⠀⇛
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of at least
30 years for Greenwood, who they said was
OneCoin’s “primary promoter” who touted it as
the next Bitcoin. In reality, OneCoin was a
pyramid scheme that defrauded at least 3.5
million people, they said.
# ⚓ Earth Justice ☛ Cryptocurrency_Mining_in_Texas⠀⇛
Cryptocurrency mining companies in Texas
filed applications to connect new facilities
to the grid with a projected demand of nearly
42 GW of electricity in 2027, enough
electricity to power more than 8.3 million
Texas homes during periods of peak demand.
As cryptocurrency mining expands, it becomes
less lucrative for each of the participants,
more competitive, and more energy-intensive.
# ⚓ The University of Cambridge ☛ Bitcoin_electricity
consumption:_an_improved_assessment⠀⇛
We launched the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity
Consumption Index (CBECI) in response to this
growing demand for reliable data-driven
insights in July 2019. Reflecting the
increasing public interest in the topic, our
work has evolved, gradually expanding the
Index’s scope to provide the building blocks
necessary to form a more complete picture of
Bitcoin’s environmental footprint.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Heat_Pumps_Really_Bring_the_Heat_During
Those_Cold_Dark_Winter_Months,_Study_Says⠀⇛
In a recently published report in the energy
research journal Joule, a team of researchers
from Oxford University and the Regulatory
Assistance Project outline how incredibly
efficient heat pumps are at warming up homes,
even in the depths of the most bitterly cold
weather.
# ⚓ Cell Press ☛ Coming_in_from_the_cold:_Heat_pump
efficiency_at_low_temperatures⠀⇛
In extreme cold climates, such as where the
lowest temperatures approach −30°C,
performance data have shown that heat pumps
can provide heat at efficiencies up to double
that of resistive heating; however, more
analysis is required. Even though heat pump
efficiency declines during the extreme cold
and back-up heating may be required, air-
source heat pumps can still provide
significant energy system efficiency benefits
on an instantaneous and annual basis compared
with alternatives.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Building_A_Cargo_Bike_Dream⠀⇛
Cargo bikes can haul an impressive amount of
stuff and serve as a car replacement for many
folks around the world. While there are more
models every year from bike manufacturers,
the siren song of a custom build has led
[Phil Vandelay] to build his own dream cargo
bike.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Meet_the_Shadowy_Network_Vilifying_Climate
Protestors⠀⇛
By Amy Westervelt, Drilled, and Geoff
Dembicki, DeSmog, with additional reporting
by Julianna Merullo and Lyndal Rowlands
Earlier this year, news footage began making
the rounds on social media of young activists
from the German climate organization Letzte
Generation (Last Generation) being assaulted
by their fellow citizens as they obstructed
streets in an effort to draw attention to the
German government’s inaction on climate. A
young woman, with her hand glued to a road
was ripped off the road by her hair; a young
man was run over by a truck driver; a
passerby punched the protestors and was
cheered on. A few months later, German police
raided the homes of Last Generation activists
and seized their bank accounts. It all seemed
like a gross overreaction to a pretty tame
form of protest. Although Last Generation
stands out for its willingness to
inconvenience everyday people’s lives to draw
awareness to the severity of the climate
crisis, the tactic of road blockades is not a
new one — it was commonly used by
suffragettes, civil rights activists, and
anti-war activists in the pasts, and has been
used by cycling advocates for decades as
well. During the same year that Last
Generation was blocking roads in Germany,
farmers used the exact same tactic, blocking
roads with their tractors to protest a
renewable energy policy that they don’t feel
provides enough incentives for biogas. Not a
single farmer was punched in the face or
dragged off the road by their hair. What was
making everyone so irate about Last
Generation?
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Qantas_loses_High_Court_appeal_over_mass_sacking⠀⇛
Qantas has lost its High Court appeal over the
sacking of 1,700 workers during the COVID pandemic,
with the court ruling the airline illegally
outsourced the jobs.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ United_Auto_Workers_union_is_poised_to_strike.
Why_now?⠀⇛
About 146,000 U.S. auto workers are set to go on
strike this week against any automaker that hasn’t
reached an agreement with the United Auto Workers
union by the time contracts expire on Sept. 14. The
union is asking for 46% in raises, among other
demands.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Drew_Barrymore_Dropped_as_National_Book
Awards_Host_After_Strike_Backlash⠀⇛
The actor and TV host’s decision to return her talk
show to the air, bypassing striking writers, made
her a magnet for criticism, online and off.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ US_clears_way_for_prisoner_swap_with_Iran,
releases_$6_billion_in_frozen_funds⠀⇛
The Biden administration has cleared the way for
the release of five American citizens detained in
Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for international
banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian
money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of US
sanctions. In addition, as part of the deal, the
administration has agreed to release five Iranian
citizens held in the United States.
# ⚓ Wells_Fargo_CFO_Expects_More_Layoffs_in_Drive_for
Efficiency⠀⇛
Wells Fargo Chief Financial Officer Mike
Santomassimo reportedly said that the bank could
make further layoffs as it seeks to improve
efficiency.
Since the third quarter of 2020, Wells Fargo has
been trimming its workforce, already reducing its
employee base by nearly 40,000, Reuters reported
Tuesday (Sept. 12).
Santomassimo told the media outlet, “I do think
that there’s more to do, and you’ll see that
through the headcount number.”
At the end of the June quarter, Wells Fargo had
233,834 employees, compared to 243,674 in the
second quarter of the previous year, according to
the report. The bank has also made cuts in its
mortgage business, which has resulted in some
layoffs. Additionally, the commercial real estate
business faces pressure, particularly in office
loans, as employees working remotely have largely
vacated many buildings.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Capitalism_Is_an_Insecurity_Machine”:
Astra_Taylor_on_Student_Debt_&_Our_Radically_Unequal_World⠀⇛
As the COVID-19 era pause on federal student debt
payments comes to an end and some 40 million
Americans will resume payments next month, we speak
with Debt Collective organizer Astra Taylor about
Biden’s new Saving on a Valuable Education, or
SAVE, plan and her organization’s new tool that
helps people apply to the Department of Education
to cancel the borrower’s debt. Taylor also
discusses her new book, The Age of Insecurity:
Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, in which she
writes, “How we understand and respond to
insecurity is one of the most urgent questions of
our moment, for nothing less than the future
security of our species hangs in the balance.” She
notes organizing is about “the alchemy of turning
our vulnerabilities, turning our oppression,
turning our insecurities into solidarity so that we
can change the structures that are undermining our
self-esteem and well-being.”
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Government_By_Uncontrolled_Lunatic_Racists⠀⇛
As long term readers know, I often assist with
refugee and immigration cases, including
representing at immigration courts, and we have
occasionally over the years housed refugee families
in our home for a while.
# ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Destitution_Capitalism⠀⇛
I despair that there appears to be no discernible
political debate over economic policy in the UK at
all, outwith a few left websites and magazines with
tiny readerships.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Don’t_worry,_folks._Big_Tech_pinky_swears
it’ll_build_safe,_trustworthy_generative_AI⠀⇛
Eight big names in tech, including Nvidia,
Palantir, and Adobe, have agreed to red team their
AI applications before they’re released and
prioritize research that will make their systems
more more trustworthy, the White House tells us.
# ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Federal_Court_Approves_Consent_Order
Requiring_Minister_Steven_Guilbeault_to_Unblock_Ezra_Levant
on_Twitter⠀⇛
The case dragged along for a couple of years and
given the full agreement to stop blocking and pay
costs, it appears that the government and
Guilbeault recognized they were likely to lose.
Instead, they agreed to a consent order in an
effort to avoid establishing an adverse precedent.
Yet even the consent order sends a signal to
government ministers and others speaking on behalf
of the government that limiting public access to
Twitter or social media feeds may violate
Canadians’ Charter rights to access government
information.
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ Hacker_discovered_serious_vulnerabilities_in
Dutch_vote_counting_software⠀⇛
A Dutch hacker discovered serious vulnerabilities
in the Dutch vote counting software, the Election
Board revealed in a statement published on Tuesday.
The identified risks have since been rectified.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Is_Modi_Changing_India’s_Name_to_Bharat?
Jayati_Ghosh_on_What’s_Behind_the_Move⠀⇛
As the G20 met in India this weekend, invitations
to dinners during the G20 used the name Bharat
instead of India. Bharat is a Sanskrit term which
is already India’s second official name but is not
widely used internationally. Economics professor
Jayati Ghosh speculates Prime Minister Narendra
Modi appears to be moving toward the name Bharat as
a “knee-jerk reaction” to a coalition of 26
opposition political parties called the Indian
National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
(I.N.D.I.A.) ahead of 2024 elections. “It would be
funny if it weren’t also so expensively
ridiculous,” says Ghosh, who taught at Jawaharlal
Nehru University in New Delhi for 35 years. “The
immediate bringing in of this measure is really a
panicky response to the fact that the opposition
parties are coming together.”
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ The_World_Is_Undergoing_“Significant
Realignments”:_Economist_Jayati_Ghosh_on_G20,_India,_China_&
More⠀⇛
We get an update on the G20 summit, which welcomed
the African Union as a permanent member and took
place for the first time in India as the country
faces criticism for bulldozing slums near the site
of the meeting. “What we are seeing is a period of
significant realignments,” says economics professor
Jayati Ghosh, who critiques the meeting for a lack
of action and largely performative events such as a
negotiated joint statement which stopped short of
condemning Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. “This
G20 has done nothing for the major problems of our
time,” says Ghosh, who calls on the group of world
leaders to act on climate change and wealth
inequality. “The G20 is a collection of potentially
very powerful governments — that don’t necessarily
represent the interests of their own people, I
might add — but nonetheless, this collection has
not done very much over the last 12 to 13 years.”
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] Vice Media Group ☛ TikTok_Blocked_‘WGA’_Searches
Amid_Writer’s_Strike_Because_It_Thought_It_Was_a_Conspiracy⠀⇛
TikTok was blocking some searches relating to the
ongoing writers’ strike on Monday. The social media
network has been a central method for striking
workers to share updates and promote the strike,
which has been ongoing for months.
The block was first reported by Media Matters for
America. Screenshots shared by MMFA show that the
app does not return searches for “WGA,” the acronym
used for the Writers’ Guild of America, the union
currently on strike against Hollywood studios for
better wages and AI regulation. Instead, users are
told that no results were found, and that the
phrase “may be associated with behavior or content
that violates our guidelines.”
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Masked_men_savagely_beat_activist_who_called_out
Cambodian_minister⠀⇛
The attack is the latest by helmet-wearing, baton-
wielding motorbike drivers on dozens of outspoken
activists in Cambodia. Most of the incidents have
targeted members of the opposition, who say they
are politically motivated, and none of the
attackers have been brought to justice.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Writer’s_Assets_Seized_By_Tehran_After
Media_Interviews_Abroad⠀⇛
An Iranian court has ordered the confiscation of an
apartment belonging to writer Soroush Mozaffar
Moghadam, who is currently in Germany, citing his
“propaganda activities against the system” as part
of recent nationwide protests, in a move
underscoring the Islamic republic’s clampdown on
dissent.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Georgia’s_RICO_Law_Is_in_the_News—but_Its_Use_to
Silence_Protesters_Gets_a_Pass⠀⇛
But when a new example arose of RICO being used to
punish the powerless rather than the
powerful—coming from not only the same state but
from the very same grand jury—such cautiousness was
hard to find in corporate media.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Masculine_Policy:_The_GOP’s_Plan_To_Outlaw
‘Porn’_And_Suspend_The_First_Amendment⠀⇛
Does watching porn threaten your masculinity?
Science says it doesn’t.
# ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ As_censors_challenge_more_books,_authors
bring_a_new_crop_of_Kansas_literature_to_annual_festival⠀⇛
Those who seek to dictate what we and our children
can read are a well-organized minority who attempt
to ban books from lists compiled by national
groups. The American Library Association reports
that in 2022, more books were targeted by would-be
censors than at any time in the 20 years the
association has tracked challenges.
# ⚓ Al Jazeera ☛ Meta_deletes_Al_Jazeera_presenter’s_profile
after_show_criticising_Israel_|_Israel-Palestine_conflict
News_|_Al_Jazeera⠀⇛
Tip of the Iceberg episode investigated how
Facebook targets Palestinian content related to
Israel.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Israel’s_Supreme_Court_hears_petitions_against
divisive_judicial_reform⠀⇛
Israel’s Supreme Court began a hearing Tuesday on
petitions to strike down a major element of the
hard-right government’s controversial judicial
overhaul which has triggered mass protests and
divided the nation.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel’s_Supreme_Court_Weighs_Law_That
Limits_Its_Own_Power⠀⇛
Israel’s government passed a bill in July limiting
judicial influence. The Supreme Court began meeting
on Tuesday to decide whether to strike down the
bill, potentially setting up a constitutional
crisis.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Los_Angeles_Names_Intersection
in_Memory_of_Woman_Who_Sparked_Iran_Protests⠀⇛
Los Angeles, the second most populous U.S. city, is
home to an Iranian community of nearly 138,000
people, of the 400,000-620,000 people of Iranian
ancestry in the United States, according to the
University of California, Los Angeles.
The intersection of Westwood Boulevard and
Rochester Avenue- in an area home to Persian
businesses- will be renamed Women Life Freedom
Square in Amini’s memory, according to a record of
the City Council vote on its website.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Amazon_Is_Forcing_Employees_to_Sign_NDAs
That_Prevent_Union_Organizing,_NLRB_Says⠀⇛
The provision defines confidential information as:
“proprietary or confidential information of Amazon
in whatever form, tangible or intangible, whether
or not marked or otherwise designated as
confidential, that is not otherwise generally known
to the public,” such as Amazon’s “business,
projects, products, customers, suppliers,
inventions, or trade secrets.” Some examples listed
in the provision include “published and unpublished
know-how…Amazon pricing policies…and future plans
relating to any aspect of Amazon’s present or
anticipated business.” Confidential information,
the provision states, does not include the terms
and conditions of the signer’s employment.
The Board alleges in the complaint that because the
nature of the confidential information policy was
so broad, it restricted workers’ rights to
unionize.
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ NBC_Nightly_News_Is_Spreading_Anti-Union
Propaganda⠀⇛
From the outset, the viewer is oriented to see only
how a strike can hurt them and their personal
bottom line — and how fault for that lies with the
potential strike, not the corporations refusing to
negotiate with United Auto Workers (UAW) in good
faith. It’s established right away that the strike
is coming after the September 14 contract deadline,
it’s bad, and it’s bad because it’s going to cost
you, the viewer, money.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Taliban_Denies_Aid_Interference_While_Arresting
and_Threatening_Female_Aid_Workers⠀⇛
Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan
in August 2021, the United Nations and
international aid organizations have reported
numerous incidents in which Taliban authorities
have interfered in the distribution of humanitarian
aid in the country.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Activist_Says_She_Was_Assaulted_By_Prison
Guards_Over_Hijab⠀⇛
An Instagram account linked to Mohammadi on
September 11 detailed the incident, saying that
following the second suicide attempt in three days
by one of her cellmates, Mohammadi went to the
prison infirmary where she encountered what was
described as the “deliberate and brutal” behavior
of a nurse.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ UN’s_Cybercrime_Convention_Draft:_A_Slippery_Slope
for_LGBTQ+_and_Gender_Rights⠀⇛
EFF has consistently voiced concerns over the
misuse of cybercrime laws across the globe, and
particularly their impact on marginalized and
vulnerable communities—notably LGBTQ+ individuals.
These laws, often marked by their broad scope and
vague wording, have also been weaponized against
security researchers, artists, journalists, and
human rights defenders.
And as nations continue to engage in negotiations
regarding the polarizing UN Cybercrime Convention
draft, they bear a significant responsibility to
ensure that the misuse of these expanded
surveillance powers isn’t legitimized under the
UN’s watch. The draft Convention has mostly turned
into a surveillance treaty. It could redefine
surveillance laws across the world. Without
changes, it could potentially legitimize sweeping
investigative and prosecutorial powers to
investigate crimes that fundamentally violate human
rights (both domestically and internationally).
So far, it’s looking bleak for human rights. A
proposed amendment championed by Uruguay and backed
by 50 nations aimed at bolstering human rights in
Article 5 with gender mainstreaming (see minutes
01:15) met strong opposition. Nations like
Malaysia, Russia, Syria, Nigeria, and Senegal
directly opposed it. Meanwhile, countries like
China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq chose to back
Article 5 as written in the zero draft, which fails
to recognize gender mainstreaming.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 48_Years_Is_Long_Enough⠀⇛
Drumming and chanting, hundreds of activists and
Indigenous leaders rallied in D.C. Tuesday to mark
the 79th birthday of Native American activist
Leonard Peltier, and to demand Biden free America’s
longest incarcerated political prisoner. Convicted
48 years ago of a killing many say he didn’t
commit, Peltier’s conviction is turning into what
supporters call “a de-facto death sentence” that
“stands as a grim symbol of this country’s long
history of stealing life and legacy from Indigenous
communities.”
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Water_cannons_to_neighboring_countries:_Germany
leads_cross-border_support_against_mass_protests⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ The_Columbia_OB-GYN_Who_Sexually_Assaulted
Patients_for_More_Than_20_Years⠀⇛
Laurie Kanyok was 38, a professional dancer on the
cusp of retirement, when she learned she was
pregnant. She had already suffered one miscarriage
and had recently undergone a spinal treatment that
she feared would increase the risk of birth
defects. Kanyok booked an appointment with an
obstetrician, Robert Hadden of Columbia University.
She felt grateful to be in the care of someone who
had spent his entire career at such a distinguished
institution.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ With_HR_3557,_Broadband_Monopolies_Are_Pushing_A
Bill_That_Would_Crush_Your_Town’s_Ability_To_Stand_Up_To
Them⠀⇛
For thirty-plus years, giant telecom monopolies
have worked tirelessly to crush all broadband
competition. At the same time, they’ve lobbied
state and federal governments so extensively, that
the vast majority of politicians are feckless
cardboard cutouts with little real interest in
market or consumer health.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Palo_Alto_Embraces_A_Community-Owned_Multi-
Gigabit_Broadband_Network_After_Decades_Of_Talk⠀⇛
For all of the hype Silicon Valley gets as the
birthplace of American technological innovation,
the broadband networks in cities like Palo Alto
have never kept pace. Like most towns and cities
across the U.S., Palo Alto residents have long
complained about the slow speeds, high prices, and
comically terrible customer service they get from
their regional broadband monopolies: Comcast and
AT&T.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Watch_APNIC’s_30th_Anniversary_video⠀⇛
Celebrating 30 years of contributions to a global,
open, stable, and secure Internet
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Network_Fees_Could_Splinter_The_Internet:
Stanford_Law_Professor_Barbara_Van_Schewick_Responds_To
TRAI’s_Consultation_On_OTT_Regulation⠀⇛
Van Schewick is a professor of law at Stanford Law
School. Her submission to TRAI focused on pointing
out how network usage fees violate the principles
of net neutrality.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Google’s_“Web_Environment_Integrity”_is_an
attack_on_the_open_Internet_and_user_freedom⠀⇛
That is, Google will get to decide whether your
browser configuration is “worthy” of accessing a
site. If it isn’t, the site will simply refuse to
send you pages. Of course, Google dresses this up
as being good for the digital world in all sorts of
ways, including the following: [...]
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ BMW_Backs_Off_Heated_Seats_As_A_Subscription
Service_Because_It_Was_Stupid_And_Unpopular⠀⇛
We’ve noted several times now how automakers have
started taking basic car functions and trying to
make them subscription services in a bid to please
Wall Street. Mercedes, for example, has started
hiding better engine performance behind
subscription paywalls. BMW last year decided it was
going to make heated seats an $18 per month
subscription option.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Trial_Begins:_DOJ_Sues_Google_Over_Search
Engine_Dominance⠀⇛
Plus: FDA approves new COVID-19 vaccine, Elizabeth
Warren goes after Elon Musk, and more…
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Google_accused_of_paying_more_than_US$10b_to
dominate_search⠀⇛
US Government lawyers have claimed Google pays out
more than US$10 billion (A$15.6 billion) each year
to ensure it is the default search engine on mobile
phones and PCs, as the biggest anti-trust trial
against the company kicked off in Washington on
Tuesday.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ US_says_Google_cheated_and_tried_to_hide_its
efforts_to_dominate_search⠀⇛
The United States argued on Tuesday that Google did
not play by the rules in its efforts to keep its
dominance in online search, paying $10 billion to
ensure that smaller rivals never got traction.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ First_Of_Potentially_Many_Google_Antitrust
Claims_Goes_To_Trial⠀⇛
There have been a whole bunch of antitrust lawsuits
filed against Google over the last few years (in
fact, one just settled last week though we don’t
yet know the details, though when that case was
first filed, we noted some problems with it).
# ⚓ India Times ☛ EU_antitrust_regulators_seeking_views_on
Microsoft’s_remedies_to_UK_watchdog⠀⇛
The European Commission had cleared the deal in May
after Microsoft agreed to license popular
Activision games such as “Call of Duty” to rival
game streaming platforms. The EU offer did not
include the Ubisoft deal.
# ⚓ NDTV ☛ Google_Pays_$10_Billion_A_Year_To_Maintain_Monopoly
Over_Online_Search:_US⠀⇛
The Google case centers on the government’s
contention that the tech titan unfairly gained its
domination of online search by forging exclusivity
contracts with device makers, mobile operators and
other companies that left rivals no chance to
compete.
Dintzer told Judge Mehta that Google pays out $10
billion every year to Apple and others to secure
its search engine default status on phones and web
browsers, thereby burying upstarts before they have
a chance to grow.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ In_antitrust_case,_Google_insists_its
dominance_of_internet_search_is_lawful⠀⇛
The U.S. Justice Department has accused the
Alphabet Inc.-owned company of paying more than $10
billion in annual fees to ensure that device makers
such as Apple Inc., browser makers such as the
Mozilla Foundation and wireless operators such as
AT&T Inc. select Google Search as their default
search engine. This is how Google has been able to
maintain a market share of more than 90%, the
Justice Department says.
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_argues_quality_kept_its_search_on_top,
defends_billions_paid⠀⇛
The Justice Department has accused Alphabet’s
Google (GOOGL.O) of paying $10 billion annually to
device makers like Apple (AAPL.O), wireless
companies like AT&T (T.N), and browser makers like
Mozilla to keep its search engine’s market share at
around 90%.
Google’s search engine is a key part of its
business, driving advertising sales and other areas
of profit for the world’s fourth most valuable
company.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘A_Monopolist_Flexing’:_U.S._Blasts
Google’s_Tactics_as_Antitrust_Trial_Opens⠀⇛
The Justice Department and 38 states and
territories on Tuesday laid out how Google had
systematically wielded its power in online search
to cow competitors, as the internet giant fiercely
parried back, in the opening of the most
consequential trial over tech power in the modern
internet era.
In a packed courtroom at the E. Barrett Prettyman
U.S. Courthouse in Washington, the Justice
Department and states painted a picture of how
Google had used its deep pockets and dominant
position, paying $10 billion a year to Apple and
others to be the default search provider on
smartphones. Google viewed those agreements as a
“powerful strategic weapon” to cut out rivals and
entrench its search engine, the government said.
“This feedback loop, this wheel, has been turning
for more than 12 years,” said Kenneth Dintzer, the
Justice Department’s lead courtroom lawyer. “And it
always turns to Google’s advantage.”
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_Edge_still_forcing_itself_on
users_in_Europe⠀⇛
This was supposed to happen in Windows 11 Insider
Preview Build 23531, and subsequent versions of
Windows in the European Economic Area were expected
to inherit that behavior.
The change was made to comply with Europe’s Digital
Services Act and the Digital Markets Act (DMA),
which require that companies designated as
“gatekeepers” like Microsoft from self-
preferencing.
So far, there’s no sign anything has changed,
though Microsoft has until March 6, 2024 to comply.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ A_Point_of_View_vs_The
Point_of_View:_Federal_Circuit’s_Subtle_Claim
Construction⠀⇛
The patent at issue, U.S. Patent No.
10,225,479 (‘479 patent), relates to using
dual-aperture camera systems in smartphones
to create aesthetically pleasing “portrait
photos.” Specifically, the patent discloses
combining images from a wide-angle “Wide”
lens and a telephoto “Tele” lens to produce a
fused image showing a sharp subject in front
of a blurred background. Portrait mode is
incredibly popular on Apple and Android
phones and so the industry is eager to
invalidate the patent held by Tel Aviv based
Corephotonics.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Which_of_These_Section_2(d)
Refusals_Was/Were_Reversed?⠀⇛
Here are three recent appeals from Section 2
(d) refusals. At least one of the refusals
was reversed. How do you think these came
out? Answers will be found in the first
comment.
In_re_Belgravia_Wood_Limited, Serial No.
90640925 (September 8, 2023) [not
precedential] (Opinion by Judge George C.
Pologeorgis). [Section 2(d) refusal of
HOLIDAZZLE for “Electric lights for Christmas
trees; Christmas lighting, namely, electric
holiday lights; electric holiday lights,” in
view of the registered mark DAZZLE for “LED
(light emitting diode) lighting fixtures; LED
(light emitting diodes) lighting fixtures for
use in display, commercial, industrial,
residential, and architectural accent
lighting applications; LED and HID light
fixtures; LED light strips for decorative
purposes.”]
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ US_Copyright_Office_Rejects_Yet
Another_AI-Generated_Image⠀⇛
The US Copyright Office has rejected
copyright protection for yet another image
created using artificial intelligence. An
award-winning image created by artist Jason
M. Allen with the generative AI platform
Midjourney is the latest to be denied
copyright protection by the US Copyright
Office.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ACE_Takes_Aim_at_Zoro.to_Successor
Aniwatch.to⠀⇛
Earlier this year, the Alliance for
Creativity and Entertainment shut down one of
the largest piracy sites, Zoro.to. The anti-
piracy group struck a deal with its
Vietnamese operator, who also ran the popular
2Embed service. Shortly before shutting down,
Zoro.to was ‘acquired’ by Aniwatch.to, which
now finds itself at the center of a new ACE
investigation.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Fred_Saunderson_—_Open_Culture
VOICES,_Season_2_Episode_24⠀⇛
Open Culture VOICES is a series of short
videos that highlight the benefits and
barriers of open culture as well as
inspiration and advice on the subject of
opening up cultural heritage. Fred is the
Rights and Information Manager at the Library
of Scotland where he works to make the vast
collections of Scotland accessible to the
world.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_365:_Link_Taxes
Are_(Still)_Bad⠀⇛
Earlier this year, we had an episode looking
at Canada’s proposed social media link tax
and the many ways it would be terrible. Since
then, that link tax has become law (though
not yet come into effect), and unsurprisingly
proven that the dire predictions were
correct. Also since then, the Cato
Institute’s Paul Matzko published an
excellent paper on link taxes in general, and
Paul joins us on this week’s episode to
discuss the many reasons that a link tax
won’t save the newspaper industry.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Kernel_Space
o Servers
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Programming/Development
# R
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Education
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Security/Uptime
o Defence/Aggression
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Tuxedo_Aura_Linux_laptops_now_available_with_12th-
gen_Intel_Core_chips_and_optional_4G_LTE⠀⇛
The latest Aura laptops from German Linux PC maker Tuxedo
Computers feature Intel Core i5-1235U processors, 49 Wh
batteries, support for up to 64GB of RAM, and support for
WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.
Available with a choice of screen sizes, the Tuxedo Aura
14 Gen 3 and Tuxedo Aura 15 Gen 3 are both available for
pre-order with prices starting at 839 Euros. And while
two laptops are similar in most respects, it’s not just a
larger screen that the 15 inch model offers: customers
can also configure that version with an optional 4G LTE
modem.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_6.6′s_in-kernel_SMB_networking
server_graduates_•_The_Register⠀⇛
The next release of the Linux kernel, 6.6, has hit
release candidate status. As usual, it contains a
number of new features, but we think one has more
potential ramifications than all the others put
together.
Linus Torvalds announced kernel 6.6-rc1 last night,
and it includes the KSMBD in-kernel server for the
SMB networking protocol, developed by Samsung’s
Namjae Jeon. We’ve covered his work a few times on
The Reg, including as a possible stand-in
maintainer for NTFS3 as well as maintaining support
for Microsoft’s exFAT disk format.
o § Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Medium ☛ Starting_Your_Linux_Sysadmin_Journey:_A_Step-by-
Step_Guide⠀⇛
Embarking on a journey as a Linux system
administrator (sysadmin) can be a challenging yet
rewarding endeavor. With a multitude of tutorials
and advice available, it’s crucial to find a
structured path to kickstart your Linux sysadmin
journey. In this guide, we will provide you with a
clear roadmap to begin your adventure.
# ⚓ Globe Newswire ☛ PingCAP_Achieves_AWS_Data_and_Analytics
Competency_Status,_AWS_Service_Ready_Designations_for_AWS
PrivateLink_and_Amazon_Linux_2 [Ed: This is proprietary; more
about memorisation and paperwork, not skills or control]⠀⇛
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Windows Central ☛ Unity_has_introduced_new_fees_that_could
have_dire_effects_on_the_entire_game_industry,_from_indies_to
Xbox_Game_Pass_(UPDATE) [Ed: When you rely on Microsofters
and Mono pushers for stacks -- upon which to develop your
programs/games]⠀⇛
Unity joins Unreal Engine with a per-install fee.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Why_I_became_a_Software_Heritage_Ambassador⠀⇛
Recently, I decided to join the Software
Heritage (SwH) Ambassador program. This is an
effort to build a group of volunteers that
supports both the SwH organization and its
community in different areas like awareness,
communication, community growth, ecosystem
development, technical excellence, etc.
# ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ QtWayland_Robustness_through_compositor
handoffs⠀⇛
This is a video demonstration of a new
feature in Qt 6.6 to handle clients surviving
a compositor restart.
# ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Checkpoint_Restore_For_Graphical
Applications_using_QtWayland_compositor_handoffs⠀⇛
Checkpoint restore allows you to safe the
state of an application to disk at any given
pooint during its execution, and then recover
it at that exact point.
# ⚓ On_the_Road_to_Plasma_6,_Vol._Ⅲ⠀⇛
Another month, another Plasma 6 update. I’ve
been pretty busy during the past weeks,
mostly further improving the Wayland session,
fractional scaling, and dealing with Qt bugs.
Working under the hood like this is
tremendously important albeit somewhat
ungrateful when there aren’t any pretty
pictures to show.
A key reason for being able to work so
efficiently on kwin_wayland nowadays is that
our apps can survive a restart of the Wayland
compositor. I can just recompile KWin and
restart it like I could on X11. Check out
David’s blog post to learn more, including
some spectacular video demos, and things we
could do with that capability in the future!
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Announcing_Istio_1.18.3⠀⇛
This release contains bug fixes to improve
robustness.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ LMDE_6_(Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition)_Beta_is
Available_to_Download⠀⇛
The next major update in the LMDE series (LMDE
stands for ‘Linux Mint Debian Edition’) is based on
Debian 12 Bookworm, which offers a significantly
fresher stack of software than available to users
of LMDE 5 (meaning as upgrades go this is a
compelling one).
LMDE endeavours to offer an experience that’s as
close to Linux Mint as possible but without relying
on Ubuntu infrastructure. Maintaining LMDE also
enables Mint to ensure its homegrown software is
compatible with Linux distros outside of the
Ubuntusphere.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition_6_hits_beta
with_reassuringly_little_drama⠀⇛
The next version of Linux Mint’s alternative
flavor, its Debian 12-based edition, is looming,
and it’s reassuringly unexciting.
Specifically, Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6,
codenamed Faye – or LMDE 6 for short – is nearly
ready for release: the beta version is now
available for download. This version is based on
Debian 12 Bookworm, and unlike the more mainstream
Linux Mint itself, the only available desktop
environment in LMDE is Mint’s own Cinnamon. One of
the only visible differences between Mint and LMDE
is that LMDE still has a 32-bit edition, whereas
Mint is 64-bit only.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition_6_‘Faye’_enters
Beta⠀⇛
For those of you who want a stable Linux
distribution with the Cinnamon desktop, Linux Mint
Debian Edition seems like a nice choice and the
latest release is now in Beta. It should be much
the same as the normal Linux Mint distribution, but
directly based on Debian instead of Ubuntu.
Their goal with it is to ensure Linux Mint could
carry on, in the event of something problematic
happening with Ubuntu, they say it’s “also one of
our development targets, to guarantee the software
we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu”.
# ⚓ Beta News ☛ Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition_(LMDE)_6_‘Faye’_Beta
now_available_for_download⠀⇛
Today marks the highly anticipated Beta release of
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6. Codenamed “Faye,” LMDE
6 derives its lineage from Debian 12 Bookworm.
Linux enthusiasts are always eager for fresh Mint
releases, and this one promises a host of new
features and fixes. Keep in mind, as with most beta
release, there are several known issues.
For heightened security, LMDE has opted to lock the
root account by default. Those needing to access
the recovery console or wish to log in as root will
need to set a new password for root using the sudo
passwd root command.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Ubuntu_Linux_Will_Add_TPM-Backed_Full-Disk
Encryption⠀⇛
Many people know TPM modules as the main
requirement for Windows 11, which was also one of
the main reasons why several older computers were
not supported (at least officially) by Microsoft’s
new operating system. But TPM is actually a hugely
useful security feature in our computers. It’s a
module that basically enhances the security and the
privacy of your PC, something hugely useful given
how online security seems to be more important than
ever these days. If you use Ubuntu, though, you’re
about to get another perk if you actually care
about TPM — enhanced full-disk encryption.
Full-disk encryption has been present on Ubuntu for
a long time, but up until this point it relied on
passphrases for authenticated users. Those on
Ubuntu Core, however, take a slightly different
approach to full-disk encryption, with keys used to
decrypt the encrypted data being protected by the
TPM, thus not needing to rely on these passphrases.
Since this approach has actually been fairly solid
for Ubuntu Core, Canonical has been working towards
bringing TPM-backed full disk encryption to regular
Ubuntu Desktop systems as well. Now, this change is
finally soon to land on customers — starting on
Ubuntu 23.10, TPM-backed full disk encryption will
be available as an experimental feature for those
who want to try out, with the aim of bringing it to
everyone sooner or later.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Looks_Like_Ubuntu_23.10_Will_Bring_Back_ZFS_on
Root_Installation_Option⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.04’s new installer is written in Google’s
Flutter SDK and it’s based on Ubuntu’s Subiquity
server installer, which, unfortunately, does not
have ZFS support yet. Those who wanted to install
Ubuntu 23.04 on an encrypted ZFS root would have to
use the Legacy ISO images.
But the good news is that the upcoming Ubuntu 23.10
(Mantic Minotaur) release, due out on October 12th,
2023, will bring back ZFS support in the main ISO
image that uses the new Flutter-based installer.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackster ☛ Orange_Pi_Launches_Its_Zero_2W_Single-Board
Computer,_Offering_Faster_Clocks_and_Eight_Times_the_RAM⠀⇛
Orange Pi has launched its second-generation
alternative to the popular Raspberry Pi Zero
family, offering boosted performance and up to
eight times the memory of its competition: the
Orange Pi Zero 2W.
“[The] Orange Pi Zero 2W is powered by [an]
Allwinner H618 high-performance quad-core Cortex-
A53 processor,” the company writes of its latest
board design. “[The] Orange Pi Zero 2W adheres to
the compact and exquisite design concept of the
Zero series, with a PCB size of 30×65×1.2mm [around
1.18×2.56×0.05"], and can be widely used in TV
boxes, smart screen casting devices, smart home,
smart gateway, IoT [Internet of Things], and other
fields.”
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Purism_Librem_11_Is_a_Linux_Tablet_Powered_by
Intel_N5100⠀⇛
Purism is a well-known name among open-source
enthusiasts, producing Librem computing devices
focusing on software freedom, computer security,
and Internet privacy.
At the same time, the demand for versatile and
Linux-powered tablets continues to rise, so the
company steps onto the stage with its new offering,
the Librem 11 tablet powered by PureOS – a Debian-
based Linux distribution developed and maintained
by Purism.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Old_school_meets_new_energy_in_Project_Hub’s
latest_highlights!⠀⇛
It’s back to school! Whether you are a student or
not, Arduino’s Project Hub is a great place to
never stop learning, thanks to the wealth of
knowledge, experiments, and plain cool ideas our
community so generously shares.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Nothin’_but_(neural)_net:_Track_your_basketball
score_with_a_Nano_33_BLE_Sense⠀⇛
When playing a short game of basketball, few people
enjoy having to consciously track their number of
successful throws. Yet when it comes to automation,
nearly all systems rely on infrared or visual
proximity detection as a way to determine when a
shot has gone through the basket versus missed.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ 7_little-known_tech_solutions_to_take_your_garden
to_the_next_level⠀⇛
A well-maintained garden is a beautiful thing. The
envy of your friends and neighbors, and a lifelong
project you can truly take pride in, especially in
the summer months. Gardening itself, though, can be
a chore.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ Google_adds_Prime_Video_and_bunch_of_other
stuff_to_cars_with_native_Android_software_–_The_Verge⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_wants_to_turn_your_car_into_an
Android_tablet_with_wheels⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ The_Android_14_QPR1_Beta_is_coming_next_week⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Android_Auto_now_lets_drivers_take_Zoom_and
Cisco_conference_calls_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛
# ⚓ 5_Sweet_New_Features_Coming_to_Google’s_Android_Auto
Products⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ 5_things_Android_fans_need_to_know_from
the_iPhone_15_launch⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_loophole_exposes_credit_card_details
via_NFC⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers
2023-09-13_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ iPhone_15_vs_Android_phones:_Samsung_Galaxy_and
Google_Pixel_–_The_Verge⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Enable_and_Disable_Autofill_on_Android_–_Guiding
Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Enable_Call_Forwarding_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_owners_receive_free_phone
upgrade_that_protects_users_from_dangerous_apps_|_The_US
Sun⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Soylent News ☛ NCSA_Mosaic_Launched_30_Years_Ago⠀⇛
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ Ora2Pg_24.1_have_been_released⠀⇛
Antananarivo, Madagascar – September 8th, 2023
§ Ora2Pg
Version 24.1 of Ora2Pg, a free and reliable tool
used to migrate an Oracle database to PostgreSQL,
has been officially released and is publicly
available for download.
This release fix several issues reported since last
release and adds some new features and
improvements.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ Datasentinel_2023.07_Released⠀⇛
We’re pleased to announce that the latest edition
of Datasentinel for PostgreSQL is now available
§ Refreshed Documentation for Effortless Navigation
and Search
Our documentation has been completely rewritten.
The new structure not only allows for easier
navigation but also integrates an AI-powered search
engine to help you find answers to your questions
more efficiently than ever. Experience_Our_Enhanced
Documentation
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pg_hint_plan_v1.6.0_Released⠀⇛
The pg_hint_plan development team is pleased to
announce pg_hint_plan 1.6.0. This release of
pg_hint_plan adds compatibility with PostgreSQL 16,
and includes various improvements and bug fixes.
For more details, see the release_notes.
pg_hint_plan is a PostgreSQL extension that offers
the possibility to tweak PostgreSQL execution plans
using so-called “hints” in SQL comments. For more
information, see the_project_page.
The documentation of the project is now published
at this_page, and is synced up automatically from
the source repository.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pg_tle_1.1.1_released⠀⇛
Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle)
is an open source project that lets developers
extend and deploy new PostgreSQL functionality with
lower administrative and technical overhead.
Developers can use pg_tle to create and install
extensions without filesystem access and work with
PostgreSQL internals through a SQL API.
The pg_tle development team is proud to announce
the release of version 1.1.1 !
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § R⠀➾
# ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RcppInt64
0.0.2_on_CRAN:_Small_Update⠀⇛
The still very new package RcppInt64
(announced a week ago in_this_post) arrived
on CRAN earlier today in its first update,
now at 0.0.2. RcppInt64 in R and C++, and
regroups them in a single package by
providing a single header. It offers two
interfaces: both a more standard as<>()
converter from R values along with its
companions wrap() to return to R, as well as
more dedicated functions ‘from’ and ‘to’.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Thunderbolt_5_to_deliver_up_to_120_Gbps
bandwidth,_support_multiple_8K_monitors⠀⇛
Intel has just announced Thunderbolt 5 and
demonstrated it with a prototype laptop and dock
(see the video embedded at the end of this post)
with up to 120 Gbps bandwidth when using “Bandwidth
Boost”. Thunderbolt 5 will deliver 80 gigabits per
second (Gbps) of bi-directional bandwidth and the
top 120 Gbps bandwidth is achieved through
“Bandwidth Boost” to support multiple 8K monitors,
which means three times the bandwidth of
Thunderbolt 4 topping at 40 Gbps.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Apple_Unveils_iPhone_15_With_Changes_to
Its_USB-C_Charger⠀⇛
European regulators passed a rule requiring USB-
C charging across electronic devices, forcing the
change in Apple’s newest iPhones.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_to_impose_hefty_fines,_penalties
for_illegal_education_tutors⠀⇛
Unlicensed tutoring services in China could face
penalties of up to 100,000 yuan (S$18,683).
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ France_orders_Apple_to_halt_iPhone_12_sales_due
to_high_radiation_levels⠀⇛
French regulators on Tuesday ordered Apple to halt
sales of the iPhone 12 for emitting too much
electromagnetic radiation, and to fix existing
handsets.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Microsoft_fixes_two_zero-days,_59_other_flaws_on
Patch_Tuesday⠀⇛
The flaw was discovered by the Microsoft Threat
Intelligence team.
{loadposition sam08}”Exploitation of this
vulnerability is not just limited to a potential
target opening a malicious Word document, as simply
previewing the file can cause the exploit to
trigger,” Narang said.
“Exploitation would allow for the disclosure of New
Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) hashes.
“This is the second zero-day vulnerability in
Microsoft products in 2023 that has resulted in the
disclosure of NTLM hashes.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ W3LL_phishing_kit_hijacks_thousands_of
Microsoft_365_accounts,_bypasses_MFA⠀⇛
A threat actor known as W3LL developed a phishing
kit that can bypass multi-factor authentication
along with other tools that compromised more than
8,000 Microsoft 365 corporate accounts.
# ⚓ BGR ☛ Microsoft_is_killing_the_Surface_Duo_after_just_3
years⠀⇛
It’s been three years since the original Microsoft
Surface Duo was released, giving us the first taste
of a Microsoft-made foldable tablet.
o § Security/Uptime⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(e2guardian), Fedora (libeconf), Red Hat
(dmidecode, kernel, kernel-rt, keylime, kpatch-
patch, libcap, librsvg2, linux-firmware, and qemu-
kvm), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (chromium and
shadow), and Ubuntu (cups, dotnet6, dotnet7, file,
flac, and ruby-redcloth).
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Free_Download_Manager_site_redirected
Linux_users_to_malware_for_years [Ed: With Windows, the
supply chain is always compromised, even_by_design_and_by
intention]⠀⇛
A reported Free Download Manager supply chain
attack redirected Linux users to a malicious Debian
package repository that installed information-
stealing malware.
The malware used in this campaign establishes a
reverse shell to a C2 server and installs a Bash
stealer that collects user data and account
credentials.
# ⚓ Kapersky ☛ Free_Download_Manager_backdoored_–_a_possible
supply_chain_attack_on_Linux_machines⠀⇛
Over the last few years, Linux machines have become
a more and more prominent target for all sorts of
threat actors. According to our telemetry, 260,000
unique Linux samples appeared in the first half of
2023. As we will demonstrate in this article,
campaigns targeting Linux can operate for years
without being noticed by the cybersecurity
community.
# ⚓ Kaspersky_reveals_three-year_long_suspected_supply_chain
attack_targeting_Linux⠀⇛
Kaspersky unveiled a malicious campaign in which an
installer of the Free Download Manager software had
been employed to disseminate a Linux backdoor for a
minimum of three years. Researchers discovered that
victims were infected when they downloaded the
software from the official website, indicating that
this is a possible supply chain attack. Variants of
the malware used in this campaign were first
identified in 2013. Victims are based in various
countries, including Brazil, China, Saudi Arabia,
and Russia.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Password-stealing_Linux_malware_served_for_3_years
and_no_one_noticed⠀⇛
Ars Technica reports on a credential-stealing
Trojan horse that would infect only some of those
who installed the “Free Download Manager”. The
article is based on a Kaspersky report that details
the malicious payload offered up at that site from
2020 to 2022.
# ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Password-stealing_Linux_malware_served_for_3
years_and_no_one_noticed⠀⇛
The site, freedownloadmanager[.]org, offered a
benign version of a Linux offering known as the
Free Download Manager. Starting in 2020, the same
domain at times redirected users to the domain
deb.fdmpkg[.]org, which served a malicious version
of the app. The version available on the malicious
domain contained a script that downloaded two
executable files to the /var/tmp/crond and /var/
tmp/bs file paths. The script then used the cron
job scheduler to cause the file at /var/tmp/crond
to launch every 10 minutes. With that, devices that
had installed the booby-trapped version of Free
Download Manager were permanently backdoored.
# ⚓ MITRE_ATT&CK_in_2023:_Focus_on_Mobile,_Linux_and_ICS⠀⇛
Cyberattacks are a constant fact of life today. The
increasing volume and sophistication of cybercrime
means that managed security services providers
(MSSPs) should strongly consider taking advantage
of resources such as MITRE’s Adversarial Tactics,
Techniques & Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) framework.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_Teams_down:_Ongoing_outage
behind_message_failures,_delays⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ A_GCC_-fstack-protector_vulnerability_on_arm64⠀⇛
The GCC stack-protector feature detects stack-based
buffer overruns by putting a canary value on the
stack and noticing if that value is changed. It
turns out, though, that dynamically allocated local
variables (such as variable-length arrays and space
obtained with alloca()) are placed beyond the
canary, so overflows of those variables will not be
detected. As a result, arm64 binaries built with
vulnerable versions of GCC are not as protected as
they should be and need to be rebuilt.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Texas_Medical_Liability_Trust_updates_its
data_breach_notification;_now_provides_notification_on_behalf
of_almost_60,000_individuals⠀⇛
In March, Texas Medical Liability Trust on behalf
of itself and its affiliates, Texas Medical
Insurance Company, Physicians Insurance Company,
and Lone Star Alliance, Inc., a Risk Retention
Group (collectively “TMLT”) filed a breach
notification with the Maine Attorney General’s
Office. That submission indicated that 625
individuals had been affected by a breach that
occurred between October 2, 2022 and October 13,
2022.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Facebook_Messenger_phishing_wave
targets_100K_business_accounts_per_week⠀⇛
Hackers use a massive network of fake and
compromised Facebook accounts to send out millions
of Messenger phishing messages to target Facebook
business accounts with password-stealing malware.
The attackers trick the targets into downloading a
RAR/ZIP archive containing a downloader for an
evasive Python-based stealer that grabs cookies and
passwords stored in the victim’s browser.
# ⚓ ICOUK ☛ Rachel_Anderton⠀⇛
A former family intervention officer at St Helens
Borough Council has been sentenced for unlawfully
accessing social services records.
Rachel Anderton was prosecuted for viewing records
on the council’s case management system between 17
January 2019 and 17 October 2019 without having a
business need to do so.
An internal council audit found the defendant
unlawfully looked at the records of 145 people
whilst employed in the social services department.
Anderton resigned from the council before
disciplinary proceedings commenced.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Conti_member_indicted_for_role_in_2021
Scripps_Health_ransomware_attack⠀⇛
On September 7, the U.S. Department of the
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC),
in coordination with the United Kingdom, sanctioned
11 individuals who are alleged to be part of the
Russia-based Trickbot cybercrime group. At the same
time, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed
indictments against nine individuals in connection
with the Trickbot malware and Conti ransomware
schemes, including seven of the 11 individuals
designated that day.
# ⚓ Cyberattack_causes_multiple_court_systems_to_shut_down_some
public_safety_computer_servers⠀⇛
A cyberattack caused St. Louis County to shut down
some computer systems used to look up court cases,
issue charges and process people in custody at the
jail, County Executive Sam Page said Tuesday.
Police officers, jail officials, the county
counselor, municipal court officials and the
prosecuting attorney’s office all use the Regional
Justice Information System, or REJIS. The county
was alerted to the problem Monday afternoon, said
Doug Moore, a spokesman for Page.
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Come_Clean_About_Data_Breaches_And_Get_Lower
Fines,_Says_UK’s_ICO⠀⇛
British businesses could face lower fines if they
proactively report data breaches, thanks to an
agreement between the UK’s data protection
regulator and cybersecurity agency.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and
National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) say they plan
to encourage engagement with the NCSC in the event
of a breach, and allow meaningful engagement with
the NCSC to lead to reduced regulatory penalties.
“We already work closely with the NCSC to offer the
right tools, advice and support to businesses and
organisations on how to improve their cyber
security and stay secure,” says information
commissioner John Edwards.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ County_Experiences_Security_Breach_With
Jail_Employee_Email⠀⇛
A cyber event last month may have affected the
security of some information maintained by Butler
County.
County officials say they found out August 8th that
an email account related to the County jail was
sending unauthorized spam emails.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ MGM_Resorts_incident:_social_engineering
strikes_again?⠀⇛
All ALPHV ransomware group did to compromise MGM
Resorts was hop on LinkedIn, find an employee, then
call the Help Desk. A company valued at
$33,900,000,000 was defeated by a 10-minute
conversation.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Chambersburg_Area_School_District_answers
some_questions_about_ransomware_attack,_won’t_say_if_they
paid_hackers⠀⇛
Did CASD pay ransom?
On the advice of our counsel, in order to protect
the integrity of the various ongoing
investigations, we are not answering this question
at this time. We assure you that, CASD is working
closely with counsel and law enforcement and taking
appropriate action in response to this event.
# ⚓ Netcraft_Acquires_FraudWatch_to_Cement_Leadership_in
Cybercrime_Detection_&_Takedown;_Delivers_Online_Brand
Protection_at_Scale_Supported_by_24/7_Security_Operations
Center⠀⇛
Netcraft, global leader in cybercrime detection,
disruption, and takedowns, announced today the
acquisition of FraudWatch, a leading Australian
online brand protection provider focused on
phishing, social media, brand infringement, and
fake mobile apps.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Netcraft_acquires_Australian_online_brand
protection_provider_FraudWatch⠀⇛
Cybercrime detection company Netcraft Ltd. today
announced that it has acquired Australian online
brand protection provider FraudWatch International
Pty. Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2003,
FraudWatch offers an always-available security
operations center or SOC that protects businesses
from brand threats such as financial loss, brand
damage and online abuse.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Thousands_of_Code_Packages_Vulnerable_to
Repojacking_Attacks⠀⇛
Despite GitHub’s efforts to prevent repository
hijacking, cybersecurity researchers continue
finding new attack methods, and thousands of code
packages and millions of users could be at risk.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Adobe_Says_Critical_PDF_Reader_Zero-Day
Being_Exploited⠀⇛
Adobe raises an alarm for new in-the-wild zero-day
attacks hitting users of its widely deployed Adobe
Acrobat and Reader product.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ China-Linked_‘Redfly’_Group_Targeted_Power
Grid⠀⇛
Symantec warns that the Redfly APT appears to be
focusing exclusively on targeting critical national
infrastructure organizations.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ No_draft_for_women_before_universal_male_conscription
–_Lithuanian_president’s_adviser⠀⇛
Lithuania could introduce mandatory military
service for women only when it has a universal male
conscription in place, according to President
Gitanas Nausėda’s chief national security advisor.
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Niger_Coup_Hampers_Sahel_Security,_Development⠀⇛
When Niger overthrew its civilian government in
July, it joined a growing tally of West African
nations that had done so, further complicating
regional economic and security cooperation at a
time when it is needed most. /blockquote>
# ⚓ RFA ☛ ‘Washington_and_Wall_Street_are_two_different
countries’⠀⇛
US companies investing in China need more guidance
on human rights and national security, Congress
told.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ China’s_‘full-time_children’_move_back_in_with_parents,
take_on_chores_as_good_jobs_grow_scarce⠀⇛
When she first moved to the Chinese tech hub of
Shenzhen after graduating from college, Marguerite
Wang imagined she would spend her career working
hard in a big city. Instead, she’s living with her
parents in her hometown in northeastern China.
A record of more than one in five young Chinese are
out of work, their career ambitions at least
temporarily derailed by a depressed job market as
the economy struggles to regain momentum after its
long bout with COVID-19.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ India’s_Industrial_Production_Grows_5.7_Pct_in
July⠀⇛
Meanwhile, the retail inflation in India fell to
6.83 percent in August from 7.44 percent in July.
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Binance.US_Cuts_100_Employees⠀⇛
Cryptocurrency giant Binance.US let go roughly 100
employees this week, around one-third of its
workforce, marking the latest in a series of large
corporate layoffs over the past year as employers
continue to restructure their teams amid lingering
recession fears (see Forbes’ layoff tracker from
the first quarter here).
# ⚓ Wells_Fargo_anticipates_more_layoffs_amid_commercial_real
estate_woes⠀⇛
Wells Fargo expects further layoffs as it attempts
to improve efficiency amid a commercial real estate
slump.
The prominent U.S.-based financial institution has
been cutting jobs since the third quarter of 2020.
Since that time, Wells Fargo has laid off nearly
40,000 employees.
Chief Financial Officer Mike Santomassimo told
Reuters on Sept. 12 that, “I do think that there’s
more to do, and you’ll see that through the
headcount number.”
Wells Fargo has previously made large cuts to its
mortgage business. The bank’s commercial real
estate business is also facing pressure, as many
buildings remain empty because of the popularity of
remote work.
# ⚓ Barclays_laying_off_450_in_U.K.,_possibly_5%_of_global
trading_division⠀⇛
Barclays will cut 450 employees from its domestic
retail business in the U.K. this week, according to
Bloomberg.
The move is part of a two-pronged plan that could
also see 5% of the bank’s client-facing employees
in its global trading division let go.
People familiar with the layoffs tell news outlets
that the cuts are part of Barclays’ annual campaign
to fire underperforming employees.
“We always continually modulate and modify that
workforce,” Barclays CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan told
CNBC on Monday.
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ US_Army_orders_more_Microsoft_AR_headsets_now
that_they_no_longer_make_soldiers_want_to_barf [Ed: Another
attempt at bailout by the US government; the Army does not
need this, it's just an excuse to throw taxpayers' money at
Bill Gates et al]⠀⇛
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_House_Speaker_McCarthy_announces_Biden
impeachment_inquiry⠀⇛
US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday
that he has directed House committees to open a
formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe
Biden. “Over the past several months, House
Republicans have uncovered serious and credible
allegations into President Biden’s conduct — a
culture of corruption,”
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Venezuela’s_Maduro_arrives_in
Beijing_ahead_of_Xi_Jinping_meeting⠀⇛
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in
Beijing on Tuesday ahead of a meeting with China’s
Xi Jinping, state media reported, the final stint
of a tour that began last week.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Morocco:_Overseas_Chinese_in_Quake-Hit_Raise
Donation⠀⇛
Nasser Bouchiba, president of the Africa-China
Cooperation Association for Development, thanked
overseas Chinese across the kingdom for extending
help.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China,_Airbus_among_potential_losers
from_boosted_US-Vietnam_ties⠀⇛
The United States and Vietnam agreed on Sunday to
upgrade their diplomatic relations in a historic
step for the two former foes, paving the way for
business deals and possible new investment. But for
every winner there is often a loser.
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Speculative_Tech_Nonsense_in
California_Paid_for_My_Cat’s_Surgery._Thoughts_About_Joe
Biden_and_Vietnam,_and_What_Kind_of_Country_Americans_Have.⠀⇛
Speculative Tech Nonsense in California Paid for My
Cat’s Surgery.
My cat had her surgery yesterday, and they removed
two masses and did a dental cleaning and extracted
one bad tooth while she was under a general
anesthetic anyway.
Recently, I had a bunch of class action settlements
come in from various ways tech companies in
California violated the law, usually the Illinois
Biometric Information Privacy Act, victimizing me
and stealing my facial imagery data.
These settlements keep going out for years after
you’ve actually used a thing, because you weren’t
considering at the time how the thing used you.
Lemonade insurance had an app that required me to
use a video statement during a renter’s insurance
loss claim.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Father_Of_Mahsa_Amini_Summoned_By_Iranian
Authorities,_Warned_Not_To_Commemorate_Anniversary⠀⇛
Amjad Amini, the father of Mahsa Amini, the female
student whose death in Iranian morality-police
custody nearly a year ago sparked massive protests,
was summoned by intelligence officials on September
11 and interrogated for an hour, RFE/RL’s Radio
Farda has learned.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Maria_Ressa,_Philippine_Journalist,_Is
Acquitted_of_Last_Tax_Charge⠀⇛
It was the latest legal victory for the veteran
journalist and her news site, Rappler, who have
faced a barrage of charges from the Philippine
government.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_police_question_relatives_of_exiled
lawmaker_Ted_Hui⠀⇛
Mainland student jailed for 6 months for possessing
Tiananmen massacre posters.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Self-exiled_Hong_Kong_democrat_Ted
Hui’s_in-laws_questioned_by_national_security_police_–
reports⠀⇛
Hong Kong national security police have taken away
self-exiled democrat Ted Hui’s in-laws for
questioning, according to several local media
outlets citing sources.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Workers_unhappy_with_new_labour_rights
policy,_contradictory_non-EU_student_fee-hike_and_surge_in
cyber_AI_security:_Finland_in_world_press⠀⇛
Here is a selection of what the international press
has published about Finland in the last week:
Workers under attack in Finland
The proposed changes to employment and welfare
rights in Finland by the new right-wing government
was covered in an article byMorning Star on
September 10.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ OPINION:_Finding_ourselves_in_the_digital
age⠀⇛
At the end of the day, I’m a regular girl with an
internet connection and a spending problem. My
algorithm bombards me with content that is designed
to make me “trendier.”
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Right to Repair ☛ Apple’s_‘Wanderlust’_Event:_A_Journey_to
‘Wonder-Lost’?⠀⇛
If Apple’s “repairable” devices still end up in
landfills due to built-in obsolescence or repair
restrictions, the environmental problem remains
unresolved.
# ⚓ Right to Repair ☛ Groups_Leading_“Right_to_Repair”_Movement
Urge_Biden_Administration_to_Reject_Any_Attempts_to_Derail
their_Gains_Via_“Trade”_Agreement_as_Latest_Round_of_Indo-
Pacific_Trade_Negotiations_Start⠀⇛
In a letter sent today, a broad coalition urged the
Biden administration to safeguard progress being
made in states and nationally to give consumers and
businesses a “right to repair” their electronics-
enabled equipment and devices, by ensuring that a
digital trade agreement being negotiated as part of
the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) does not
include a special corporate secrecy shield that
could block the right to repair. Signatories
include American Economic Liberties Project, Center
for Democracy & Technology, Consumer Reports, Farm
Action, iFixit, National Farmers Union, The Repair
Association, Public Knowledge, and U.S. PIRG.
The Biden administration’s battle against
monopolies has spotlighted how consumers, farmers,
and small businesses get abused by large
manufacturers that unduly restrict access to
necessary tools, parts, and information to repair
their electronics-enabled equipment and devices. A
burgeoning “Right to Repair” movement is making
real progress at the state and federal level with
five states passing legislation, and the Federal
Trade Commission active in enforcing protections
for users’ repair choice.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Are_10%_of_Spotify_Streams_Really
‘Fake’?_—_New_Report_Prompts_Fresh_Industry_Conjecture⠀⇛
Are 10% of Spotify streams really ‘fake’? The
latest report from the Financial Times prompts more
industry conjecture in a time of AI uncertainty.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Google_Says_It’s_No._1_Search_Tool_Because
Users_Prefer_It_to_Rivals⠀⇛
Companies choose Alphabet Inc.’s Google as the
default search engine for their browsers and
smartphones because it is the best one, and not
because of a lack of competition, a Google lawyer
said Tuesday at the start of a high-stakes
antitrust trial in Washington.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Google_exploited_exclusive_search
engine_deals_to_maintain_its_advantage_over_rivals,_DOJ
argues⠀⇛
Google is confronting a threat to its dominant
search engine as federal regulators launch an
attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the
biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century.
Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state
attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged
the market in its favor by locking its search
engine in as the default choice in a plethora of
places and devices. On Tuesday, prosecutors opened
their case by saying it’s about the future of the
internet and whether Google’s search engine will
ever face meaningful competition. Google is arguing
that competition from Microsoft’s Bing, Amazon and
Yelp keep the marketplace fair.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Google_faces_antitrust_showdown_with_US
regulators_over_search_engine_dominance⠀⇛
Google will confront a threat to its dominant
search engine beginning Tuesday when federal
regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its
internet empire in the biggest US antitrust trial
in a quarter century.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Is_the_‘king_of_search’_too_dominant?_Inside
US_lawsuit_against_Google.⠀⇛
Is Google using its clout to maintain a monopoly
over internet search? An antitrust lawsuit has big
implications for competition in the tech industry.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Google_is_laying_off_hundreds_in_its_recruitment
division⠀⇛
The latest cuts come after Google parent Alphabet
in January eliminated 12,000 jobs, or about 6% of
its workforce, across the company as it grappled
with economic uncertainty that hit the company’s
bottom line last year, especially its core
advertising business.
# ⚓ Alphabet_lays_off_hundreds_from_global_recruitment_team⠀⇛
Google parent Alphabet is laying off employees from
its global recruiting team as the tech giant
continues to slow hiring, it said on Wednesday.
The company’s decision to let go of a few hundred
employees is not part of a wide-scale layoff and
will retain a significant majority of the team for
hiring critical roles. It will also help the
workers search for roles within the company and
elsewhere.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Google_Sheds_Hundreds_of_Recruiters_in
Another_Round_of_Layoffs⠀⇛
The tech giant has sought to trim expenses to pay
for artificial intelligence investments; it had
earlier cut 12,000 jobs in January.
# ⚓ 4Square Media Pty Ltd ☛ Google_Lays_Off_100s_of_Workers
Amidst_Antitrust_Trial_–_channelnews⠀⇛
Google is laying off hundreds of workers as a U.S.
inquiry has begun to probe into the business
practices of the big tech company, after it moved
on major mobile carriers in an effort to keep
Microsoft out of their search engine results.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ George_Washington_Williams’
History_of_the_Negro_Race_in_America_(1882–83)⠀⇛
A work of millennial scope by a self-taught
African-American historian.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Technology_and_Free_Software
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ 🎵_Obsession⠀⇛
Back in the early ‘90s my friends and I were on
constant lookout for quiet places to have a toke,
talk shite, and listen to music. Often times this
meant a secluded parking spot, preferably with a
view, that wasn’t going to be interrupted by dog
walkers or the f’ing police.
We found a perfect place, for a while, sometime in
early ’94. A quiet side-road with two empty
bungalows at the end, surrounded by trees, between
the motorway and a spur road leading back into
town. We parked there regularly, and when the sun
was out, occasionally wandered through the trees to
see what we could find.
# ⚓ Free_Range_Prose⠀⇛
On the topic of factory farmed versus free range
chicken eggs, Herodotus is reputed to have talked
about “wool from trees”, where the people in a
strange and faraway land obtained their wool from a
plant. Tree wool usually goes by the name of
cotton. So we have the same thing described in two
different ways, as opposed to two different chicken
products that perhaps incorrectly share the same
name, that maybe should be different. Some egg
producers would doubtless bristle at having to
label their product “orbs from savagely brutalized
chickens”. Think of what that would do to the
sales!
# ⚓ Dear_Walmart_…_seriously?_That’s_what_you_keep_under_lock
and_key?⠀⇛
You keep *alcohol wipes* under lock and key?
Are they *that* valuable?
You do realize that we repealed the 18^th Amendment
[1], right?
# ⚓ A_boardgame_example_of_STAR_voting⠀⇛
Here’s how to select a boardgame using scoring,
then instant runoff.
Give everyone a paper list of the games on offer.
Everyone anonymously scores each game from zero to
five stars, zero means don’t wanna play today and
five means really wanna play today.
It’s OK to mark a bunch of zeroes and just one
five, it’s OK to give all kinds of scores, it’s OK
to have several fives or several threes or
whatever. It works anyway.
# ⚓ Rewilding_Music:_6_Months_Into…Something⠀⇛
Hey there, pub-goers! Six months ago I gave up
recorded music as part of what may be the dumbest
personal experiment ever (reclusib brilliantly
called it being a ‘musical anchorite’), and I
figure I should give an update.
It’s been…weird. Not living without recorded
sound–that was honestly pretty easy–but letting it
back into my life has been a bit strange.
A great deal of music now sounds frantic and overly
complex to my ear. Busy. Crowded. “Too many notes,”
as Joseph II supposedly told Mozart. When I feel
compelled to listen to music, I seem to gravitate
toward very simple percussion and human voices.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Oracle_Cloud_Always_Free_“Idle”_Threshold_Change⠀⇛
Back in March, I wrote about Oracle Cloud’s stupid
definition of “idle” compute resources and the
potential impact on capsules hosted using the
“Always Free” service. This is a quick update/
warning to say that the thresholds for what is
considered idle have changed from 10% to 20%. I
don’t recall seeing any notification of this until
yesterday when I received an email saying that my
server (where this capsule is hosted) had failed to
meet the threshold over the last 7 days (and so
would be shut down after a further 7 days).
# ⚓ SEOSAW_growth_rates_workshop⠀⇛
Recently, with help from colleagues, I ran an
online workshop for the SEOSAW network[1] on
estimating tree growth rates, rates of recruitment
and mortality, and rates of biomass productivity
and loss from repeat measurements of tree stem
diameter in fixed area plots.
# ⚓ Story_Time:_The_Hackiest_Feature_of_Them_All⠀⇛
This is the story of the hackiest, coolest, most
absurd, and most pointless feature I’ve ever been
part of developing. It’s probably the one I’m most
proud of, despite it being entirely unused.
The year was 2014, or maybe 2015. Grooveshark was a
small but popular music streaming service where I
had been working for several years. At the time I
was working closely with my friend Mike Cugini on
Grooveshark’s backend systems, and together we were
given the task of developing Mobile Broadcasts.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Kernel_Space
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o EasyOS
o BSD
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o FSF
o GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
# Python
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Stop_Turning_Success_Into_Failure_With_Microservices⠀⇛
MIcroservices can help you avoid business failure
because of huge, monolithic application
architecture.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] The University of Helsinki ☛ Linux:_a_Portable
Operating_System [PDF]⠀⇛
We explore the hardware portability issues in Linux
that were uncovered when porting the operating
system to multiple CPU and bus architectures. We
also discuss software interface portability issues,
especially with regard to binary compatibility with
other operating systems that can share the same
hardware platform. The approach taken in Linux is
described, with a few example architectures covered
in some more detail.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.4_Reaches_End_of_Life,_Upgrade
to_Linux_Kernel_6.5_Now⠀⇛
Renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman
announced today the release of Linux 6.4.16 as what
appears to be the last maintenance update in the
Linux 6.4 kernel series, which was released on June
25th, 2023.
Linux kernel 6.4.16 is a hefty update that comes
with no less than 873 changed files, consisting of
10654 insertions and 7653 deletions. All users
using Linux 6.4 are recommended to update their
installations to this version as soon as it hits
the stable software repositories of their
distributions.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.5.3⠀⇛
I'm announcing the release of the 6.5.3 kernel.
All users of the 6.5 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.5.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/
git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.5.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web
browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/
linux-s...
thanks,
greg k-h
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.4.16⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.53⠀⇛
# ⚓ Syscall_latency…_and_some_uses_of_speculative_execution⠀⇛
Moving from UEK5 to UEK6 brought about an unwelcome
surprise: an increase in syscall latency on some
x86 systems. The root cause, as we will see, was
slightly slower evaluation of audit rules, which,
given that they are evaluated for every syscall, is
not great.
In this post we start off by exploring the root
cause which turns out to not be UEK specific, it
also impacts upstream kernels as well. Then we
detail the fixes and how they take advantage of the
speculative out-of-order nature of the CPU
pipeline.
The changes, even though they target low-level
optimizations, are quite straight-forward, almost
trivial.
# ⚓ Stéphane_Graber:_Two_months_in⠀⇛
It’s now been two months since I left my position
at Canonical and went freelance! A lot of things
have now all fallen into place to the point where
it almost feels like having a normal work routine
again
§ Kernel and ZFS builds
As mentioned in an earlier_post, after over a year
of rolling my own kernels and manually installing
them on all my systems, I’ve decided to spend a bit
of time automating the whole process and putting in
place a proper build and publishing pipeline.
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ John Goerzen ☛ John_Goerzen:_A_Maze_of_Twisty_Little
Pixels,_All_Tiny⠀⇛
Two years ago, I wrote Managing_an_External_Display
on_Linux_Shouldn’t_Be_This_Hard. Happily, since I
wrote that post, most of those issues have been
resolved.
But then you throw HiDPI into the mix and it all
goes wonky.
If you’re running X11, basically the story is that
you can change the scale factor, but it only takes
effect on newly-launched applications (which means
a logout/in because some of your applications you
can’t really re-launch). That is a problem if, like
me, you sometimes connect an external display that
is HiDPI, sometimes not, or your internal display
is HiDPI but others aren’t. Wayland is far better,
supporting on-the-fly resizes quite nicely.
I’ve had two devices with HiDPI displays: a Surface
Go 2, and a work-issued Thinkpad. The Surface Go 2
is my_ultraportable_Linux_tablet. I use it
sparingly at home, and rarely with an external
display. I just put Gnome on it, in part because
Gnome had better on-screen keyboard support at the
time, and left it at that.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_Speech_Note⠀⇛
Speech Note is a GUI frontend for various
processing engines. For Speech to Text it uses
Coqui STT, Vosk, and Whisper. Whisper is our
highest rated speech recognition tool and features
in our award-winning Top 100 CLI apps study. It’s
that good. Coqui STT is also highly recommended
although it’s no longer actively maintained.
For Text to Speech, Speech Note uses espeak-ng,
MBROLA, Piper, RHVoice, and Coqui TTS. And the
machine translation is handled by Bergamot
Translator.
This is free and open source software written in
C++.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_uname⠀⇛
This article spotlights alternative tools to uname,
a command-line utility that prints system
information.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 13_Great_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Foreign
Language_Tools⠀⇛
We have identified the best of breed free and open
source Linux foreign language tools. Learn a new
language.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 22_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Stacking_Window
Managers⠀⇛
Stacking window managers (also known as floating
window managers) draw all windows in a specific
order, allowing them to overlap.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_who⠀⇛
This article spotlights alternative tools to who, a
command that shows who is logged on to the system.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ Ranger_File_Manager_Keyboard_Shortcuts⠀⇛
Ranger is a simple yet powerful terminal file
manager for Linux. It works by using the ncurses
library and a custom file launcher script to create
a beautiful and seamless interface that you can use
to access any file on your machine.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Best_Clipboard_Managers_for_Linux⠀⇛
Many times you get frustrated after copying
something to your clipboard and then end up
clearing it due to distraction from something else
or someone. It can be annoying when this actually
happens.
In this article, we’ll explore clipboard managers
that help manage and track your clipboard contents,
addressing the frustration of unintentionally
clearing it.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Best_PDF_Document_Viewers_for_Linux_Systems⠀⇛
This article is the continuation of our ongoing
series about Linux Top Tools, In this series, we
will introduce you most famous open source tools
for Linux systems.
With the increase in the use of portable document
format (PDF) files on the Internet for online books
and other related documents, having a PDF viewer/
reader is very important on desktop Linux
distributions.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ Setting_Up_NVIDIA_CUDA_Toolkit_in_a_Docker
Container_on_Debian/Ubuntu⠀⇛
# ⚓ Installing_and_Running_Fortran_Program_on_Linux⠀⇛
Fortran, which stands for “Formula Translation“,
was initially created by IBM in the 1950s to serve
as a high-level programming language for scientific
and engineering calculations.
# ⚓ Kiwix_–_Access_Wikipedia_Content_Offline_Without_Internet⠀⇛
The internet is by far a well-rounded source to get
information on just about anything you might need
info on.
# ⚓ Jo_Shields:_Building_a_NAS⠀⇛
Bringing it all together is the OS. I wanted an
“appliance” NAS OS rather than self-administering a
Linux distribution, and after looking into the
surrounding ecosystems, decided on TrueNAS_Scale
(the beta of the 2023 release, based on Debian 12).
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_fix_“Gnome_terminal_command_not_found”
on_Debian_12⠀⇛
Debian 12 by default comes with Gnome desktop
environment installed. And if you try to launch
gnome-terminal it launches perfectly because gnome
terminal is the default terminal of Gnome Desktop
environment.
# § idroot⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Nessus_Scanner_on_Debian
12⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to
install Nessus Scanner on Debian 12. In the
ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity,
ensuring the safety and integrity of your
systems is paramount. Vulnerability scanning
tools like Nessus Scanner play a pivotal role
in identifying potential weaknesses in your
network and applications.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ Differences_Between_Vi_And_Vim_Text
Editors⠀⇛
Text editors are essential tools in the world
of Linux and software development. They
provide a platform for creating, editing, and
managing code and text files. Among the
plethora of text editors available, two of
the most iconic choices are Vi and Vim.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Nmap_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to
install Nmap on AlmaLinux 9. Nmap, short for
Network Mapper, is a versatile and powerful
open-source tool used for network
exploration, security auditing, and
vulnerability assessment.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_to_Use_Which_Command_on_Linux⠀⇛
In the intricate realm of Linux command-line
operations, efficient navigation is the key
to unlocking the full potential of your
system. Among the arsenal of commands at your
disposal, the unassuming ‘which‘ command
stands as a stalwart guide, aiding you in
locating executable files with finesse and
precision.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_VirtualBox_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to
install VirtualBox on Debian 12.
Virtualization technology has revolutionized
the way we manage and deploy systems,
allowing us to run multiple operating systems
on a single physical machine. Among the
plethora of virtualization software
available, Oracle VirtualBox stands out as a
versatile and powerful tool.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Unpacking_and_installing_.tar.xz_and_.tar.gz
files_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
In the vast and diverse world of Linux, file
installation sometimes comes in the form of
compressed packages, often denoted as .tar.xz and
.tar.gz files. These file formats contain bundled
files and directories that need to be extracted and
installed manually, offering a method to distribute
various software packages efficiently. For
newcomers and even seasoned users, navigating the
installation of these file formats can sometimes
pose a bit of a challenge.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Access_USB_from_Virtual_Machine_in_VirtualBox
on_Linux⠀⇛
You can totally access the USB storage from inside
the virtual machine. Here’s how to do that if you
are using VirtualBox on Linux.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ “Talking_about_Linux_Tycoon_3_for_Android_&
Gameboy”⠀⇛
Listen now (18 mins) | Lunduke Journal Podcast
Special Announcement
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Linux_Tycoon_3_comes_to_Android_&_Gameboy_
(seriously)⠀⇛
Because who doesn’t want a Linux distro simulator
in their pocket?
# ⚓ Unix Sheikh ☛ Bethesda’s_Starfield_is_a_disgrace_to_game
development_and_a_slap_in_the_face_to_gamers⠀⇛
Nowadays PC gamers are used as guinea pigs when big
gaming titles are released with major bugs, major
performance issues, and other similar problems.
Even though PC gamers are used as guinea pigs, they
still often have to pay full price for the games as
well. Game development has turned into a cirkus and
Bertheda’s latest title Starfield is a disgrace,
not only to game development itself, but also to
the gaming community.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Embracer’s_troubles_continue_as_they_may
sell_off_Borderlands_dev_Gearbox⠀⇛
Embracer Group got a little too big it seems, and
there’s no such thing as too big to fail. After
shutting down Volition, it appears Embracer may be
about to sell off Borderlands developer Gearbox.
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Alterium_Shift_is_out_in_Early_Access_with
a_Linux_Client⠀⇛
There is an enormous chance that things I write
here will change by the release date, some bugs
were fixed since I started this review and many
improvements to the story happened. The best that
can be done is to share a snapshot of the current
state of the game.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Your_Arduino_Nano_ESP32_can_run_Doom⠀⇛
“But can it run Doom?” is more than just a joke in
the tech world. It is also a decent litmus test for
the computing power of hardware.
# ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Age_of_Empires_II:_Definitive_Edition_works
under_Steam_Proton⠀⇛
‘Tis the season to be jolly. Behold, a tutorial
showing how to install and run Age of Empires II:
Definitive Edition in Linux using Steam Proton
compatibility layer, covering playback and
performance, Enhanced Graphics Pack DLC setup, game
save import from Windows, and more. Have fun!
[...]
So far, ever since I got the Slimbook Titan, I’ve
been on a happy streak of success with Linux
gaming. My goal is to be able to achieve functional
parity with Windows come 2025, which is when
Windows 10, the last okay version of this operating
system, goes EOL. At the current pace, I’m almost
there, two plus years early! The only thing missing
is the Office compatibility. But the games be
breezin’. One title after another. Well, time to
play some classic RTS, with a bigass smile on me
face. See you soon.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ ZX_Spectrum_Gets_A_3D_FPS_Engine⠀⇛
The Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 are well-known
for bringing 3D gaming into the mainstream in a way
that preceding consoles just couldn’t. The ZX
Spectrum, on the other hand, is known for text
adventures and barebones graphics. However, it now
has a rudimentary version of a Quake-like engine,
as demonstrated by [Modern ZX-Retro Gaming].
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_goes_green_as_Valve_celebrate_20
years⠀⇛
While we already marked the anniversary of Steam
turning 20 in a previous article, Valve has now
done their own announcement along with turning a
bit green.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Happy_Birthday_to_Steam_as_it_turned_20
today⠀⇛
Where has all that time gone? It’s pretty hard to
believe that it was 20 years ago that Steam
arrived, and with it that glorious green interface.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_open_source_Godot_Engine_has_a_new
Godot_Development_Fund⠀⇛
The same day that Unity confused all their
developers with a new pay per user install revenue
model, the team behind the open source Godot Engine
just announced their new Godot Development Fund.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Unity_introduces_new_fees_for_game_devs
based_on_revenue_and_game_installs⠀⇛
Unity Technologies have announced an overhaul to
their fees for game developers, which now includes
tracking game installs and revenue.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_and_Steam_Deck_stable_client_update
adds_Indonesian_support⠀⇛
Valve has released a fresh stable client update for
Steam desktop and Steam Deck, that amongst other
improvements adds in Indonesian language support.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Stellaris_3.9_‘Caelum’_free_update_is_out
now⠀⇛
Paradox have released the latest free update to
Stellaris with 3.9 “Caelum”. It’s a pretty big one
too, with a rather long list of changes. Easily one
of my favourite space strategy games.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fanatical_have_great_bundles_live_with
Deathloop,_Skyrim,_Metro_Exodus_and_more⠀⇛
Fanatical have launched their Bundle Fest again so
there will be a new bundle launching regularly for
a few days, and there’s a few already live that are
worth looking into if you need some new games.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Using_compositor_handoff_to_switch
between_desktops⠀⇛
In the video we can see applications
seamlessly move between Plasma, Gnome,
Weston, Hyprland and Sway as part of the
wayland robustness project.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_Activity_&_Contract_Report,_August_2023⠀⇛
This report covers hrev57184 through hrev57256.
It’s worth noting: the main Haiku CI is currently offline
as the developer who was hosting the build machine moved
to a location with much slower internet. A new build
machine and home for the CI has already been selected,
but isn’t fully online yet, so the nightly builds are a
bit behind at the moment.
Zardshard contributed some changes to refactor parts of
Debugger’s CLI event handling, especially the
WaitForThreadOrUser routine and also the message-passing
facilities.
o ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ Dual_Boot_Zorin_OS_and_Windows:_A_Step-by-Step
Guide⠀⇛
Zorin OS is a user-friendly Linux distribution that is
designed to be a great alternative to Windows. It is easy
to use, has a modern look and feel, and comes with a
variety of pre-installed software. If you are looking to
try Zorin OS, but you don’t want to give up Windows
completely, you can install Zorin OS alongside Windows
operating system. This means that you will be able to
choose which operating system you want to use when you
start your computer. This tutorial will walk you through
the steps of dual booting Zorin OS and Windows.
o § EasyOS⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_version_5.5
released⠀⇛
Version 5.4.10 was released on August 8, 2023, see
announcement:
If you are new to EasyOS, read the 5.4 release
announcement as it has getting-started links: [...]
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Duplicate_container_icons_created_on
desktop⠀⇛
The usr-merge collateral damage is continuing. I
posted about some issues when updated easy 5.4.10
installed on my Lenovo PC to 5.5: [...]
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Final_usr-merge_fixes_for_Kirkstone_5.5⠀⇛
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Which_BSD_did_you_start_on?⠀⇛
This post is dedicated to Benedict Reuschling, who
encouraged me to write about this again! Danke :).
I saw this question floating around the socials
recently, and it got me thinking where I started.
It was tricker to answer than I thought, though I
was able to trawl through the archives to find some
info.
My first BSD was Red Hat Linux. You read that
right: practically every Linux distribution has
BSD-licenced code, and they depend on tooling like
OpenSSH from the OpenBSD project for secured
administration. I like to point out examples like
this whenever a GPL advocate claims their licences
are necessary to ensure freedom. Pity that
importing into a GPL’d project is a one-way
transaction.
# ⚓ Undeadly ☛ p2k23_Hackathon_Report:_Landry_Breuil_(landry@)
on_chasing_memory_corruptions⠀⇛
Next up in the series of p2k23 hackathon reports is
this from Landry Breuil (landry@), who writes,
[...]
# ⚓ Klara ☛ Unlocking_Infrastructure_Sovereignty:_Harnessing
the_Power_of_Open_Source_Solutions_for_Business_Flexibility
and_Cost-Effectiveness⠀⇛
The growing dependence on Software as a Service
(SaaS) solutions has raised concerns about vendor
lock-in and its consequences for businesses. In a
recent discussion hosted by experts from Klara Inc.
and Bell Technology Solutions, the focus was on
infrastructure sovereignty and the advantages of
adopting open source solutions.
[...]
Software as a Service (SaaS) and recurring revenue
models have become prevalent, often leading to
vendor lock-in. This constrains businesses from
seamlessly transitioning to alternative solutions,
trapping them and keeping them reliant on their
vendors. Regaining (or simply maintaining)
infrastructure sovereignty protects freedom of
choice, which in turn eliminates the restrictions
of vendor lock-in.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Slowroll:_openSUSE’s_New_Take_on_the
Rolling_Release_Model⠀⇛
Currently an experimental project, Slowroll is a
hybrid distro that seeks to meld the stability of a
fixed release distro like openSUSE Leap with the
advantages of a rolling release like openSUSE
Tumbleweed.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ A_Node.js_success_story_at_the_electrical
training_ALLIANCE⠀⇛
Red Hat and customers often work together as
partners to help get an application across the
finish line. In this article, Stephen (electrical
training ALLIANCE) and Michael (Red Hat) share the
story of one such collaboration that led to success
with Node.js in production.
The electrical_training_ALLIANCE (ETA) has the
mission to develop educational materials for
electrical workers. They do this by developing
national standards for the education and training
of electrical workers, creating standardized
training curricula, and assisting in establishing
local educational programs. A key part of this work
is to develop and provide an application for the
275 training programs that will assist in the day-
to-day operations supporting apprentices within the
program from application through to graduation.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_automate_AWS_network_using_Ansible
Automation⠀⇛
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape,
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers a
powerful solution for managing network
configurations in Amazon Web Services (AWS). In
this article, we will explore how you can leverage
the capabilities of Ansible Automation Platform to
simplify and automate your network configuration
tasks in AWS.
We will guide you through the process of setting up
the necessary credentials for your AWS account
within the Ansible Automation Platform. We will
then dive into playbook execution, demonstrating
how you can execute playbooks to define and
automate your network configurations in AWS. By the
end of this article, you will have the knowledge
and confidence to use Ansible Automation Platform
to manage your network configurations in AWS
effectively.
# ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Blog:_User_Namespaces:_Now_Supports
Running_Stateful_Pods_in_Alpha! [Ed: Red Hat is working with
Microsoft. Not good. They also use Microsoft proprietary
prisonware, GitHub. Red Hat values your freedom to pay
Microsoft and IBM for malicious software.]⠀⇛
Kubernetes v1.25 introduced support for user
namespaces for only stateless pods. Kubernetes 1.28
lifted that restriction, after some design changes
were done in 1.27.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_Red_Hat_enhances_the_developer_experience⠀⇛
Hybrid and multicloud approaches offer developers
more access to powerful computing resources than
ever. However, this increasing complexity can make
it challenging to manage all your development
tasks, hindering productivity.
Red Hat’s cloud-first approach simplifies modern
cloud environments. Our versatile toolbox maintains
flexibility and limits cloud vendor lock-in by
letting you work with a wide range of cloud tools
and vendors. Let’s explore how Red Hat reduces
friction by designing tools with developers in
mind.
§ Red Hat reduces friction for developers
Red Hat’s primary goal is to make it easier for you
to create and deploy cloud-first applications. Our
hybrid_cloud_approach builds on an open_source
foundation, enabling you to design software once
and deploy it to any (or every) cloud platform.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Mint ☛ LMDE_6_“Faye”_–_BETA_Release⠀⇛
This is the BETA release for LMDE 6 “Faye”.
LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for
“Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Its goal is to ensure
Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the
same user experience, and how much work would be
involved, if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE is
also one of our development targets, to guarantee
the software we develop is compatible outside of
Ubuntu.
LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux
Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is
provided by Debian instead.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Free_Download_Manager_Debian_Package_Infected
with_Malware⠀⇛
In an alarming disclosure by Securelist.com for
Linux users, a Debian package associated with the
popular ‘Free Download Manager’ has been found to
be infected by malware. This malicious software,
lurking in the deb package, poses a significant
security threat to unsuspecting users.
The root of this issue lies in a Debian repository
linked to the domain ‘deb.fdmpkg[.]org.’ On
visiting this domain in a web browser, users
encounter a seemingly harmless webpage. However,
beneath this façade, trouble brews. This subdomain
claims to host a Debian repository for ‘Free
Download Manager,’ a well-known software used by
many.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ An_Overview_of_New_Features_in_Ubuntu
23.10⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.10, code-name “Mantic Minotaur”, has
reached UI freeze stage. See what’s new in the
upcoming release of the popular Linux Distribution.
Ubuntu 23.10 will use Linux Kernel 6.5, though it’s
still sticking to Kernel 6.3 at the moment in the
daily build.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Deploy_fully_configured_VMs_in_minutes_on_Google
Cloud,_using_gcloud_CLI_and_cloud-init⠀⇛
Make reusable deployment templates for Landscape
and other applications
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_Pro_22.04_LTS_with_real-time_kernel_now_on
AWS_Marketplace⠀⇛
Canonical has released Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS with
real-time kernel on the AWS Marketplace. This comes
several months after the real-time version was
released back in February this year.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Real-time_Ubuntu_is_available_in_AWS_Marketplace
now,_and_it’s_ideal_for_rapid_prototyping⠀⇛
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS with a real-time kernel is now
available to use in the AWS Marketplace.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Real-time_Ubuntu_is_now_available_in_AWS
Marketplace⠀⇛
Canonical is thrilled to announce the listing of
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS with real-time kernel in AWS
Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of
software listings from independent software vendors
that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy
software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_updates,_releases_and_repositories
explained⠀⇛
Since we launched Ubuntu Pro’s Expanded Security
Maintenance for additional packages, and we now
integrate more closely with public cloud update
management tools, more people have been asking us
about the Ubuntu archive and how this is divided
and security patched.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Faster_AI_application_development_with_Canonical
and_NVIDIA_AI_Enterprise⠀⇛
Ubuntu KVM support comes to NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Canonical continues to expand its collaboration
with NVIDIA by providing Ubuntu KVM Hypervisor
support with NVIDIA AI Enterprise 4.0 — which is
generally available starting today. Organisations
using GPU virtualisation on Ubuntu can look forward
to a seamless migration to the new NVIDIA AI
Enterprise licence.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Waveshare_presents_low-cost_RP2040_Pi-Zero
board⠀⇛
# ⚓ Adafruit ☛ CircuitPython_8.2.6_Released!_@circuitpython⠀⇛
CircuitPython has a number of “ports” that are the
core implementations for different microcontroller
families. Stability varies on a per-port basis. As
of this release, these ports are consider stable
(but see Known Issues below): [...]
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Purism_Launches_New_Secure_Librem_11_Tablet_PC
Powered_by_Linux⠀⇛
Like most of Purism’s devices, the Librem 11 tablet
PC promises users the best security, privacy, and
freedom-respecting features including a secure boot
with Purism’s PureBoot cutting-edge secure boot
process based on the Coreboot and Heads projects.
Librem 11 also promises real convergence with
Purism’s PureOS security-focused operating system
based on Debian GNU/Linux, so you can turn the
tablet into a full-featured computer when connected
to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Purism_Announce_New_11-Inch_Linux_Tablet⠀⇛
Purism has announced its first foray into tablet
computing with the Librem 11 tablet.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $999_Librem_11_Linux_tablet_features_Celeron
N5100_processor,_1TB_NVMe_SSD,_2.5K_AMOLED_display⠀⇛
Purism Librem 11 is an 11.5-inch Linux tablet
running the secure PureBoot bootloader and PureOS
Linux distribution with a focus on privacy and
respect for personal freedom.
The tablet comes with what looks to be a decent
11.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen display with a
2560×1600 resolution, 8GB RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD,
but the Intel Celeron N5100 quad-core Jasper Lake
processor would be considered entry-level in 2023.
The tablet also comes with a keyboard and stylus
making a 2-in1 hybrid device.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Librem_11:_Purism_Unveils_a_Privacy-Focused
Linux_Tablet⠀⇛
Purism is an increasingly popular manufacturer of
computer hardware products that specializes in
providing laptops, desktops, and mobile devices
equipped with a privacy-focused open-source Linux
distro.
With a recent announcement, they have unveiled a
new product, Librem 11 tablet equipped with some
pretty neat hardware.
Let’s look at what it has to offer!
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Pimoroni’s_Pi-Powered_‘Pico_Vision’_Nears
Completion⠀⇛
Pimoroni’s Pico Vision is a retro gaming
development and digital video experimentation board
for game developers and audio / visual artists
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ This_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Clock_Project
Features_a_Custom_PCB⠀⇛
The project relies on a DS3231 module to keep track
of the time. However, there is no onboard battery,
meaning it must be plugged into power to maintain
accurate time. Envious Design explains that you
could easily remedy this by permanently adding a
battery module to the unit.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Globetrotting_Polaroid_camera_magically
fills_Grandma’s_photo_frame⠀⇛
Both the camera and the frame use Raspberry Pi, so
Max gets double points from us. A Raspberry Pi
Camera Module hides behind the lens of the old
Polaroid, capturing Max’s travels. A Raspberry Pi
board sits inside the body of the camera,
processing the images and sending them to the frame
via Wi-Fi.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Logic_Analyzers:_Capabilities_And_Limitations⠀⇛
Last time, we’ve used a logic analyzer to
investigate the ID_SD and ID_SC pins on a Raspberry
Pi, which turned out to be regular I2C, and then we
hacked hotplug into the Raspberry Pi camera code
with an external MCU. Such an exercise makes logic
analyzers look easy, and that’s because they are!
If you have a logic analyzer, you’ll find that a
whole bunch of hacks become available to you.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Experience_AI:_Teach_about_AI,_chatbots,_and
biology⠀⇛
Updates and new Experience AI Lessons for teachers
looking for high-quality AI education
materials. Developed in partnership with Google
DeepMind.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Computer World ☛ Google’s_increasingly_prickly_Android
perception_problem_|_Computerworld⠀⇛
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Threads_by_Instagram_gets_themed_icon_support
for_Android_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ OnePlus_11_gets_Android_14-based_OxygenOS_14
Open_Beta_1_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_14_Open_Beta_Arrives_for_OnePlus_11⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Find_My_Device_3.0_rolling_out_with_new
Android_app_icon⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_TV_and_Finance_widgets_are_now_on
Android_phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Apple_unveils_iPhone_with_USB-C_charger_in
line_with_EU_law⠀⇛
In June 2022, the European Union passed a law
requiring all devices to be compatible with a USB
Type-C charging port by late 2024, arguing that it
will reduce electronic waste and save money for
consumers.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ EDB_Open_Sources_Powerful_Tool_to_Automate_and
Manage_Postgres_Deployments⠀⇛
EnterpriseDB (EDB) announces that Trusted Postgres
Architect (TPA) is now available as a new open source
tool, accessible to all PostgreSQL users. This deployment
automation and configuration management tool streamlines
the setup of High Availability (HA) Postgres clusters,
helping organizations effortlessly deploy robust,
production-ready clusters while saving time and reducing
the chance of errors.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] The University of Illinois ☛ NCSA_Mosaic™⠀⇛
“To be sure, Mosaic deserves credit for tackling
two problems. First, earlier browsers were
troublesome to get up and running, while Mosaic was
a lot easier, thanks largely to [NCSA developer
Eric] Bina’s programming skill. Second, Mosaic was
the first published browser that automatically
displayed pictures along with text, as in the pages
of a magazine layout or an illustrated book. That
was important because later on it would be the
proliferation of pretty pictures that transformed
that Web from the domain of scientists and hackers
to a cultural phenomenon that captured the interest
of the masses.”
# ⚓ [Old] History Computer ☛ NCSA_Mosaic_Internet_Web_Browser:
The_Complete_History⠀⇛
The very first web browser was the WorldWideWeb of
Berners-Lee, but the first popularized web browser
was the NCSA Mosaic Internet Web Browser. Previous
web browsers were not user friendly; they lacked an
intuitive and inviting way to allow people to
navigate the then-new World Wide Web.In 1992 two
developers at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the
University of Illinois (Marc Andreessen and Eric
Brina) began working on a graphical, user friendly
web browser they would later call “Mosaic”. The
most notable features this computer program had
that other browsers lacked were the ability to view
pictures directly on the page, its ease of
navigation, and the way this browser handled
hyperlinks. Previous browsers only showed pictures
as separate files available for download that were
linked to the page, so no pictures were directly
visible from any main web page. Other browsers also
lacked a smooth graphical interface to help
navigate through the page, to include scrolling and
the now-standard “back”, “forward”, and “refresh”
buttons. Finally, the Mosaic browser was the first
browser to incorporate clickable hyperlinks.
Previous browsers gave reference numbers so users
could manually type in the new URL, whereas this
new browser allowed users to simply click the link
directly to get to the desired page.
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ I_think_I_kind_of_hate_lazy_loading⠀⇛
Yesterday I was on a train. I clicked on a link and
my browser loaded a long article for me to read.
Halfway through reading it, the train went into a
tunnel and I lost signal.
That meant I couldn’t see the images on the other
half of the page for the rest of the journey. I had
a sea of broken images.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ How_to_easily_switch_from_Chrome_to
Firefox⠀⇛
There’s never been a better time to switch
from Chrome to Firefox, if we do say so
ourselves.
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Dani_Chehak,_Mozilla’s_new_chief_people
officer⠀⇛
After having met with many different
candidates over the past several months to
fill the role of chief people officer — a
significant role that contributes greatly to
Mozilla’s culture and future — I am pleased
to announce that Dani Chehak has joined
Mozilla as chief people officer on a
permanent basis.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ New_Podcast:_Path_To_Citus_Con_for_developers
who_love_Postgres⠀⇛
Path To Citus Con is a new monthly podcast for
developers who love Postgres, available via most
podcast_apps and on_YouTube. Guests join to discuss
the human side of PostgreSQL, open source,
databases, and the many PG extensions—along with
co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia.
Recorded as a live show on Discord, the shows
usually happen on the first (or second) Wednesday
of the month. You can join the live recordings to
participate in the parallel live text chat, which
can be quite fun. Podcast episodes are usually
published 2 days after recording.
o § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:
Friday,_September_15,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, September 15,
from 12:00
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ GNU ☛ unifont_@_Savannah:_Unifont_15.1.01_Released⠀⇛
12 September 2023 Unifont 15.1.01 is now available.
This is a major release. This release no longer
builds TrueType fonts by default, as announced over
the past year. They have been replaced with their
OpenType equivalents. TrueType fonts can still be
built manually by typing “make truetype” in the
font directory.
This release also includes a new Hangul Syllables
Johab 6/3/1 encoding proposed by Ho-Seok Ee. New
Hangul supporting software for this encoding allows
formation of all double-width Hangul syllables,
including those with ancient letters that are
outside the Unicode Hangul Syllables range.
Details are in the ChangeLog file.
# ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Guix:_A_new_Quality_Assurance_tool_for_Guix⠀⇛
Maintaining and expanding Guix’s collection of
packages can be complicated. As a distribution with
around 22,000 packages, spanning across around 7
architectures and with support for cross-
compilation, it’s quite common for problems to
occur when making changes.
Quality Assurance (QA) is a general term to
describe the approach taken to try and ensure
something meets expectations. When applied to
software, the term testing is normally used. While
Guix is software, and has tests, much more than
those tests are needed to maintain Guix as a
distribution.
So what might quality relate to in the context of
Guix as a distribution? This will differ from
person to person, but these are some common
concerns: [...]
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Earthly ☛ We_built_the_fastest_CI_in_the_world._It_failed.
Here’s_what_we_learned⠀⇛
What was particularly appealing about this plan was
that Earthly, the build system, targets one
problem: build consistency, while the final
version, Earthly CI, targets another problem: build
speed. This meant that Earthly, which is free,
would not cannibalize in any way the monetization
of Earthly CI. We wouldn’t be giving away too much
for free – as Jenkins did – and instead, it would
serve as a sustainable and scalable business model.
It made sense to use the build system as a way to
then create bottom-up adoption for Earthly CI – and
the fact that we were building it first allowed us
to build traction that one day will magically just
convert over to Earthly CI users.
# ⚓ Johan Halse ☛ The_best_laid_plans⠀⇛
Look, I’m known for executing really well. I’m your
guy when you need someone with honed instincts, who
can strike a good balance between speed,
completeness, robustness, and performance. I’m also
very creative, which helps with debugging and data
modeling. I like to think I’m good at what I do,
but I’m definitely in camp yee-haw when it comes to
looking ahead and deciding what to do, and how to
do it. In my experience it’s better to have a
nebulous outline of where you want to end up, agree
which part to bite off first, and then start
fucking chewing. The next step will be obvious, and
then the next step will be obvious from there, and
so on.
# ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_Inevitability_of_Scope_Creep⠀⇛
Scope creep is inevitable. A project starts with a
small mandate and ends with an enormous,
uncontrolled scope. What was a small change is now
a complete rewrite. It’s easier to visualize scope
creep with software projects — you can easily see
the number of services or areas of code that a
change touches. And it’s sometimes easier to
measure (which changes aren’t in the critical path
of the goal feature or product?). But it happens in
almost every project. I don’t think it can be
eliminated entirely, but understanding the sources
and the consequences might help limit its reach.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ GNU_Emacs,_use-package,_and_key
binding_for_mode_specific_keymaps⠀⇛
Many GNU Emacs modes, such as MH-E, define mode
specific keyboard mappings (keymaps), instead of
putting their special keyboard commands into the
global keymap that’s normally used in every file
(okay, buffer). This is especially common in Emacs
modes that are basically implementing an
application inside Emacs, like MH-E and magit, but
they also appear for other things like lsp-mode and
backward-forward. Often you may want to modify
those mode-specific keymaps, like mh-folder-mode-
map, backward-forward-mode-map, company-active-map,
and lsp-ui-mode-map.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ R_User_Group_Philippines_Turns_10⠀⇛
The R User Group-Philippines (RUG–PH) celebrated
its 10th anniversary on the 16th of August. The
group marked the occasion with its first physical
event since the pandemic, and it highlighted the
group’s progress over the past decade.
The RUG-PH hosted 115 events in the past decade,
making it one of the most persistent RUGs. During
the pandemic, many RUGs struggled to remain active;
however, RUG-PH continued with online events.
# ⚓ Valhalla’s_Things:_How_I_Keep_my_Life_in_Git⠀⇛
After watching My_life_in_git,_after_subversion,
after_CVS. from DebConf, I’ve realized it’s been a
while since I talked about the way I keep
everything1 I do in git, and I don’t think I’ve
ever done it online, so it looked like a good time
for a blog post.
# ⚓ KDAB ☛ Intro_to_C++_Coroutines:_Concept⠀⇛
The time has come, fellow devs. We are on our way
to uncover the newest concept of C++ language –
Coroutines.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ How_Open_Source_(R_and_Shiny)_Is_Transforming
Processes_in_the_Pharmaceutical_Industry⠀⇛
At the 2023 R/Basel event, we noticed a number of
speakers and participants who were keen to share or
gather knowledge about the use of R and Shiny
technologies in many diverse processes of the
pharmaceutical industry.
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Rakulang ☛ A_Complete_Course_of_the_Raku
programming_language⠀⇛
The course is divided into five parts, each
of which includes several sections, which in
turn include a number of topics (or, merely
saying, different pages with their unique
URL).
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ IEEE ☛ The_Top_Programming_Languages_2023:_Python_and
SQL_are_on_top,_but_old_languages_shouldn’t_be
forgotten⠀⇛
This year, Python doesn’t just remain No. 1
in our general “Spectrum” ranking—which is
weighted to reflect the interests of the
typical IEEE member—but it widens its lead.
Python’s increased dominance appears to be
largely at the expense of smaller, more
specialized, languages. It has become the
jack-of-all-trades language—and the master of
some, such as AI, where powerful and
extensive libraries make it ubiquitous. And
although Moore’s Law is winding down for
high-end computing, low-end microcontrollers
are still benefiting from performance gains,
which means there’s now enough computing
power available on a US $0.70 CPU to make
Python a contender in embedded development,
despite the overhead of an interpreter.
Python also looks to be solidifying its
position for the long term: Many children and
teens now program their first game or blink
their first LED using Python. They can then
move seamlessly into more advanced domains,
and even get a job, with the same language.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Glob_Recursive⠀⇛
The “glob.glob()” method in Python is
utilized to determine all the path names by
taking the specified pattern and complete
path as an argument.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Display_All_Columns⠀⇛
To display all the columns in Python, the
“pandas.set_option()” function takes the
“display.max_columns” option and its value as
an argument.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Simplify_Fractions⠀⇛
The “Fraction()” method of the “fractions”
module, a custom function with the “gcd()”
method, is used to simplify the specified
fraction into the simplest form.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Hashlib_SHA256⠀⇛
In Python, the sha256 algorithm is
implemented to strings, a list of strings,
files, and Pandas DataFrame columns using the
hashlib.sha256() constructor method.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Print_All_Columns⠀⇛
The “df.columns.values” or “df.keys
().values.tolist()”, “pandas.set_option()”
and “df.dtypes” method prints all columns
names, values, and types of DataFrame.
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* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ LiveFromFrance_S1E02⠀⇛
In this second post in the series, I’m going to
talk about relations between West Africa and
France. It’s one of the hot topics of September,
since the putsch/coup in Niger. To understand the
significance of this, you have to remember that
there was a a coup d’état in Mali in 2021 and in
Burkina Faso in 2022, two countries neighbouring
Niger. And now it’s in Gabon, another strategic
country for France. Gabon suppplies Total (french
national oil company) with oil, as well as
manganese (interesting for batteries), uranium and
gold. Niger is a supplier of uranium for French
nuclear power plants. Burkina Faso is known for
gold, as is Mali. These 4 countries were part of
what we call «Françafrique» (French Africa). If
French colonialism is officially dead, most
countries still have a link with France, through
dictatorships or authoritarian powers more or less
installed by France.
# ⚓ VCFMW_18⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-09-12:_Consoom?⠀⇛
Tim starts his bit with an Apple Watch Ultra. I
think his forearms are bigger than mine, and he’s
got less fat on him, too.
# ⚓ Zine_fest⠀⇛
On the other hand, Tor’s zine selling went great
and they ended up selling like 40 copies of zines
which might not sound like a lot but is pretty good
for just a few hours in a parking lot in a town of
50k people total.
# ⚓ Ageing⠀⇛
In a few months, I will have lived half a century
in my life. Like everyone else in the world, i’m
getting older. But I’m not aware of having this
age. For me, there are different ages.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ASCEIMB_Wordo:_IMAGO⠀⇛
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Teaching_for_a_few_weeks_now⠀⇛
A student came to class straight up wearing a
hoodie that said “I AM HOMOPHOBIC” on it. I just
ignored it and called the principal and he got got.
I would have handled it myself but I was all but
certain he was hoping I would cause a scene and
he’d earn Triggered Tranny Points ™.
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