 Elephant Robotics MechArm Pi 270 is a six-axis robotic arm with a 270mm working radius, support for up to 250 grams payload, and that runs Debian/Ubuntu + ROS on a Raspberry Pi 4 single board computer.
The robotic arm was introduced last year in two separate crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo organized by MechArm, which has now joined Elephant Robotics, and now supports myStudio software to upgrade the software, provide video tutorials on how to use the robot, as well as maintenance and repair information.
As Linux turns 30, Brian Exelbierd considers the reason for the open source standard-bearer's success
Last year saw the Linux kernel reach its 30th anniversary. It's been a crazy three decades for Linux, with it having moved from an enthusiast project to seizing a dominant share of the server and enterprise...
Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company site in May 2022, climbing up ten places on the leaderboard this month. Rackspace provides a variety of cloud, data, and security services, with data centres across the globe including in cities such as London, Sydney, Chicago, and Shanghai.
Krystal came in second, whilst New York Internet (NYI) secured third place, resulting in both companies moving up one spot compared to April 2022. UK-based Krystal offers a range of hosting solutions including dedicated servers, managed and application hosting, and Cloud VPS. NYI provides hybrid IT solutions ranging from cloud solutions to colocation services.
I'm announcing the release of the 5.18.2 kernel.
All users of the 5.18 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 5.18.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.18.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
New and updated drivers account for around 60% of the release Linus Torvalds has made the first release candidate (RC) for the upcoming Linux 5.19 kernel series available to the public.
In his 5.19-rc1 mailing list announcement, Torvalds noted that the development process for this version has been made difficult by many late pull requests, although he applauded the fact that most were properly signed.
"So the last two weeks were fairly normal, although I will gripe and moan a bit about how many late pull requests I got. The second week started out very calm, but that was sadly only because a lot of people left their final pull request pretty late," Torvalds said, with characteristic bluntness, before adding: "But what does make me pretty pleased is that pretty much all of the pull requests were signed tags. I still don't technically require signatures for pulls from kernel.org, but I've been (not very subtly) encouraging people to use them, and we're getting there. It's just good hygiene."
 The open source Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs now supports the new Valhall architecture with fully-conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali-G57, a Valhall GPU. The final Mesa patches are landing today, and the required kernel patches are queued for merge upstream.
Mali-G57 features in new MediaTek Chromebooks with the MT8192 and MT8195 system-on-chips. Collaborans AngeloGioacchino Del Regno and Nícolas F. R. A. Prado are spearheading the mainlining effort for these devices. With Mesa 22.2 and an appropriate kernel, accelerated graphics will work out of the box on Linux on these laptops.
In recent days I have been testing how modifying the default CPU and GPU frequencies on the rpi4 increases the performance of our reference Vulkan applications. By default Raspbian uses 1500MHz and 500MHz respectively. But with a good heat dissipation (a good fan, rpi400 heat spreader, etc) you can play a little with those values.
One of the tools we usually use to check performance changes are gfxreconstruct. This tools allows you to record all the Vulkan calls during a execution of an aplication, and then you can replay the captured file. So we have traces of several applications, and we use them to test any hypothetical performance improvement, or to verify that some change doesn’t cause a performance drop.
After you've downloaded the Speek AppImage, you need to make it executable. To do this, first, open the file manager on your system and navigate to the directory where you've downloaded the Speek AppImage.
Right-click on the AppImage and select Properties. In the Properties window, click on the Permissions tab. Here, check off the box beside Allow executing file as a program if you're using a Nautilus-based file manager.
 In a world that wants to track every move you make, we think it’s important to have alternatives that are free, open and respect your digital rights. Purism is a company dedicated to freedom, privacy, and security. At Purism, we make freedom-respecting hardware, software and online services.
Software is the life-blood of any hardware. If you are looking for programs available from the PureOS store, here is a comprehensive guide to help you choose.
 People who need to download bulk files often look for the best torrent client for Linux. Basically, torrents are an excellent source for downloading large documents like motion pictures, Movies, Games, and TV appearances. They transform your PC into part of a host where information is shared as it’s downloaded, so while you’re downloading something from other individuals, you’re likewise helping other people download the bits you’ve just got.
The outcome is an extremely reliable and frequently quick approach to getting your hands on galactic documents. Here come the questions about the best open source torrent client for Linux, which helps get the job done. This article will only discuss open source torrent clients for Linux, leaving some favorite closed source Torrent clients untouched.
Though the world of music is dominated by streaming services, it has not discouraged developers from creating music players for desktop computers.
Recently, I came across a beautiful looking new music player for the Linux desktop. It’s called Amberol and I was awestruck by its beauty.
Microsoft’s stance for decades was that community creation and sharing of communal code (later to be known as free and open source software) represented a direct attack on their business. Their battle with Linux stretches back many years. Back in 2001, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously tarnished Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches”. Microsoft also initiated its “Get the Facts” marketing campaign from mid-2003, which specifically criticized Linux server usage, total cost of ownership, security, indemnification and reliability. The campaign was widely criticized for spreading misinformation.
However, in recent years, there has been a partial shift by Microsoft to embrace the open source software paradigm. For example, some of their code is open sourced. Examples include Visual Studio Code, .NET Framework, Atom, and PowerShell. They have also made investments in Linux development, server technology and organizations including the Linux Foundation and Open Source Initiative. They have made acquisitions such as Xamarin to help mobile app development, and GitHub a hugely popular code repository for open source developers. And they have partnered with Canonical, the developers of the popular Ubuntu distro. But many developers remain hugely sceptical about Microsoft and their apparent shift to embrace open source.
This series looks at the best free and open source alternatives to products and services offered by Microsoft.
Today, I'm pleased to announce that I released GTL v1.0.0€¹!
GTL you say?
For the people who doesn't know, GTL (Gemini TinyLogs) is a simple CLI/TUI tool to read tinylogs entries in a "timeline" way.
Jynx mentioned experimenting with "living" in Emacs. As somebody who made the shift from "using" Emacs (an on/off ~20yr state) to living in emacs a few years ago, I just want to say: welcome! It's a cozy place to live, and you're always in complete control of your environment.
This includes the entire application catalog, SDK, developer information, documentation, and a lot more. Impressive effort, and a great resource for people still using and/or playing with their webOS devices.
While using your cell phone to connect to your Linux system might not seem like much of a priority, it is possible and you might have a good reason to do this from time to time. If you have an Android cell phone, you can install a tool that will allow you to connect, open a terminal session on your Linux box and run commands just like you would if you were sitting in front of the system. Well, almost.
The tool that I recommend is called JuiceSSH. It installs easily and leaves an icon with an image of a lemon with its name below it on your screen. Click on that icon and select Quick Connect to set up your connection.
In this video, I am going to show how to install AlmaLinux OS 9.0.
In this brief guide, we will learn how to configure or set static IP address and DNS on a FreeBSD system from commandline. The steps provided below are tested on FreeBSd 12 and FreeBSD 13.1 versions.
First, let us set static IP address in FreeBSD.
If you owe an old iPod and are running Linux on your computer, you can use Rockbox to breathe life to your old music player. It enables you to use your iPod without iTunes while also improving on the default sound quality of the iPod. Rockbox is also customizable and really easy to install. Here we will show you how to use Rockbox in Linux.
AngularJS is a JavaScript-based open-source front-end web application framework that assists with running single-page applications. It allows developers to use HTML as their template language and lets them create robust, interactive websites without having to reload the browser for every new page view.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Angular CLI and create an AngularJS application on AlmaLinux OS.
The Linux Crash Course is a tutorial series that goes over all of the core concepts regarding Linux that you'll need to know, one video at a time. In this episode, the wget command is covered.
ONLYOFFICE Docs is an open-source office suite distributed under the AGPLv3 license. It allows working with office documents, spreadsheets,and presentations, as well as with fillable forms, which you can save as PDF files. The suite uses DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX as core formats which guarantees high compatibility with MS Office files.
One of the strong points of ONLYOFFICE Docs is collaborative work on documents. The suite is equipped with real-time and paragraph-locking co-editing modes, review and track changes, comments, and built-in chat. There is also a possibility to add the Jitsi plugin for making audio and video calls inside the editors.
ONLYOFFICE Docs can be integrated with various cloud services such as WordPress, Nextcloud, Strapi, Redmine, Jira, Moodle, etc., and embedded into your solution.
This article explains how to install ONLYOFFICE Docs on Ubuntu 20.04.
Pentaho is a business intelligence software that provides data integration, OLAP services, reporting, information dashboards, data mining and extract, transform, load capabilities. Next I’ll show how to install Pentaho CE (Community Edition) on Centos 8.
You can get an installation guide for Pentaho CE on Ubuntu here: https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/white-paper/pentaho-ce-installation-guide-on-linux-operating-system-whitepaper.pdf . Notice this guide is not for the server, and also a registration is needed.
Ubuntu 22.04 misses coturn TURN and STUN server package in its system repository. Here’s how to install it via PPA.
Coturn is a free open source implementation of TURN and STUN Server, which can be used as either a VoIP media traffic NAT traversal server and gateway, or general-purpose network traffic TURN server and gateway.
The software package is available in all current Ubuntu releases, exclude Ubuntu 22.04! The reason that the new LTS exclude the package might be a compile issue due to OpenSSL 3.0 does no longer has FIPS 140 mode.
When you try installing the package in terminal, it will output that “E: Package ‘coturn’ has no installation candidate“.
Accurate timekeeping is one of the most important configurations required for reliable communication between network-based computers. It is also needed to ensure system components, including systemd timers and cronjobs, run at the correct time. Computers can utilize the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize their time to an upstream time server or a pool of servers to maintain accurate time.
Making a set of merged objects in Inkscape can be done easily, but there are many methods to achieve that goal, and in this article, we will explore various methods and techniques to merge objects in Inkscape.
We will list these methods according to the output of them, from an easy-to-edit output (I call it non-destructive), to a hard-to-edit output (destructive), don’t worry you can always press Ctrl+Z or go to Edit>Undo History.
Consider a painting! It has many characteristics, but you should focus on two things: the big picture and the fine details. Objects are like the big picture; which is often laid out first, and any tweaks to the overall look should happen at this stage, then comes the finer details.
Objects are similar to the big picture, and paths are the finer details, or better said paths open a door to edit finer details within your vector drawing.
In this article, we will learn how to convert objects to paths in Inkscape.
Best PHP-FPM Configuration – Easy and Simple Calculation. PHP-FPM is a FastCGI Process Manager an alternative for PHP. PHP-FPM is highly configurable by adjusting the pool settings easily for different users using different PHP versions and many more.
In this guide you are going to learn the best PHP-FPM configuration method using some simple calculation to prevent some errors listed below.
In Linux, links to files are created in the same way that references to files are created in most common programming languages. These links are divided into two categories: hard and soft links.
A hard link is effectively an identical replica of the file, therefore the hard link and the actual file will both have the same inode.
A soft link, also known as a symbolic link, functions similarly to a shortcut or pointer to a file. It is not an exact replica of the file, but rather a pointer to the original.
The inode values of a soft link to a file and the real file will differ. Furthermore, you will not be able to access the contents of the soft link if you remove the actual file. In this article, we will learn more about soft links and hard links.
Also: Multiple Librem 5 usage reports/impressions/reviews, a glimpse at Sailfish OS on the Sony XPERIA 10 III, booting Linux on older iOS devices, and I'm sick with COVID19.
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Six weeks ago, we featured a brief note about public funding for GNOME Shell Mobile. Back then, I thought that this was likely about the ecosystem or Phosh, and did not click the Code link on the funding page - time is scarce, and thus I missed that this actually was about GNOME Shell. As the blog post and Calebccff's videos (1, 2 show, this is already quite smooth and impressive. Sure, there's a lot of work to be done, e.g. regarding the virtual keyboard.
Now what does this mean for Phosh? According to Purism Developer Sebastian Krzyszkowiak, it does not change anything in the short term, as e.g. Calls UI for accepting can be reused with Phosh easily, while it would require more work with GNOME Shell, since that does not use GTK, but a custom, Clutter-based toolkit. Sounds like GNOME Shell Mobile is going to be more for tablets or PDAs in the short term – which is great, too! If this saddens you, because you're longing for gestures or a different app drawer: Phosh is getting some gestures with 0.20, and more might land soon if open Merge Requests can be taken as an indicator.
Having already spoiled that stacks are too different to transfer improvements (beyond design work) from Mutter/Shell to wlroots-based Phosh/Phoc or vice versa, and assuming you're afraid of duplicate efforts (as a user): Don't worry about it. Duplicate efforts happen all the time in FOSS land, intentionally or unintentionally. Looking at Qt land and the shells of Plasma Mobile, Maui Shell, CutiePi Shell, Nemo Mobile, Lomiri, CuboCore's shell and whatever the thing JingOS shipped was called again - duplicated effort does not hurt, as long as the people driving the efforts have enough dedication and continued motivation to make them great. So let's be supportive and be glad to have yet another great FOSS option on smaller and larger touch screens!
There have been lots of little changes and fixes, mostly scripts in /usr/local/sfsget and /usr/local/easy_containers.
I mentioned in a recent post, that Easy Bookworm need not be released as a standalone build. It could be released as an SFS file, able to be run in a container in Easy Dunfell. Following this train of thought, I have made available Easy Pyro and Easy Buster German and French SFSs, as well as English. Previously, I have only made English SFSs available, though for application SFSs have endeavoured to include all the locale files. New SFSs not yet uploaded.
I was talking with a friend of mine about Linux distributions, and he asked me if I had ever heard of Titan Linux, to which I replied I had not. He told me he had recently read an article about it, praising it for being a great customized version of Debian Stable...so, I had to try it out for myself!
When I got to the homepage for the site, I found it pleasant to look at and well organized, with the various download options easily noticeable. Getting my hands on the ISO was easy. I also loved the inclusion of their GitHub and GitLab linked right on the front page.
So, in a matter of minutes, I had my handy USB drive ready to go, and I was set to boot into the live environment.
The SpiralLinux project is pleased to announce the initial 11.220606 release with 7 editions specifically tailored to each of the major Linux desktop environments available in the Debian repositories...
Another month, another chance to look at the distro stats on ProtonDB. I don’t typically cover them that often, but this time there’s definitely a new trend to focus on: Fedora usage is seriously on the way up.
Please join us at the next regular Open NeuroFedora team meeting on Monday 9 May at 1300 UTC The meeting is a public meeting, and open for everyone to attend.
May was a month full of exciting news, from open-source GPU modules and alternatives to the Jetson to a new Matter-ready hub for smart home appliances.
Before diving straight in, let’s cover noteworthy news not included in the recap below.
A few tech companies announced interesting partnerships this month.
The Orange Pi 800 Keyboard PC has a similar design to the Raspberry Pi 400, although Rockchip RK3399 power it.
Shenzhen Xunlong Software CO, the company behind Orange Pi devices, has been developing products that are direct competitors to the popular Raspberry Pi devices for years. This time, in response to the Raspberry Pi 400, a PC fitted inside a compact keyboard, the company will offer consumers its similar product, Orange Pi 800.
Orange Pi 800 is a new product released by Xunlong Software. It fully embeds the Orange Pi motherboard inside the keyboard, so it only has to be paired with a mouse and monitor to function as a computer.
Orange Pi has been making single-board computers to compete with the Raspberry Pi for years, but now it's going after the Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard computer.
As Liliputing reports(Opens in a new window), Orange Pi announced the Orange Pi 800(Opens in a new window) keyboard computer, which just like the Raspberry Pi 400, offers a complete personal computer squeezed inside a keyboard housing. All you need to do is add a display and power.
We’ve just written about the Notkia phone repurposing Nokia 168x phones with a new PCB featuring an Ingenic X1000E MIPS processor running mainline Linux, but it turns out the developer (Reimu NotMoe, CTO of SudoMaker) has also designed the X1501 Pico SoM, a tiny 16Ãâ16 system-on-module equipped with Ingenic X1501 MIPS system-in-package (SiP).
The module can be that small because the single-core 1GHz Ingenic 1501 SiP embeds 8MB LPDDR, as well as apparently a 16Mbit NOR flash that stores stripped-down versions of U-boot and the Linux kernel, plus a minimal, busybox-based rootfs.
For this year’s Embedded Vision Summit, Hackster.io’s Alex Glow created a companion robot successor to her previous Archimedes bot called Nikola. This time, the goal was to embed a privacy-focused camera and microphone system as well as several other components that would increase its adorability.
The vision system uses a Nicla Vision board to read a QR code within the current frame thanks to the OpenMV IDE and the code Glow wrote. After it detects a code containing the correct URL, it activates Nikola’s red LED to signify that it’s taking a photo and storing it automatically.
This new release of Arduino CLI delivers more than the usual bug fixes and performance enhancements. Today we’re delighted to bring you Build Profiles. These have been long in the works and we kept it a bit hush-hush despite releasing a public RFC a bit shy of a year ago.
There are some universal truths about open source software (OSS). It has revolutionized our world and become the foundation of our digital society, the backbone of our digital economy, and the basis of our digital existence. Every household and enterprise brand name in technology is built upon it, whether that name is Alexa or Android, Azure, or AWS.
Daily Pill is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
Internxt is an open-source encrypted cloud service with a native Linux client. Our older article explaining its cloud storage service can be an interesting read if you did not know about it.
Initially, we focused on their cloud storage offering. And, it seems like we missed out on another product “Photos” that was unveiled by them last month in a tweet.
The CloudNativePG Community has released a new update for the supported 1.15.x version of the CloudNativePG Operator.
We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.17.0. GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.
This is a new major release. It breaks protocol compatibility with the 0.15.x versions. Please be aware that Git master is thus henceforth (and has been for a while) INCOMPATIBLE with the 0.15.x GNUnet network, and interactions between old and new peers will result in issues. 0.15.x peers will be able to communicate with Git master or 0.17.x peers, but some services - in particular the DHT - will not be compatible. In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still a number of known open issues in particular with respect to ease of use, but also some critical privacy issues especially for mobile users. Also, the nascent network is tiny and thus unlikely to provide good anonymity or extensive amounts of interesting information. As a result, the 0.17.0 release is still only suitable for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance .
TLGS'[1] crawler has had a crashing issue from the very beginning. The crawler tries to open too many sockets at the same time with the error message "sockets::createNonblockingOrDie: too many open sockets". The crawl dispatcher already limited how many concurrent craws can happen at any time. First I thought it was because I make the dispatcher lock free and I screwed up, but no edge cases were discovered after days of simulation and testing. So I made a compermise, the crawler would count open sockets periondically and wait for some to close before continuing asynchronously. Just so I can still claim everything is still lock free. That solves the crawler crashing, but in return the crawler hangs after some time. It's apparent this is due to some sockets not closing, thus it never drop below the threshold to continue crawling. It's much less often so I took it and just restart the crawler every time it hangs.
Justin DeVuyst has released the next Rakudo Compiler release: 2022.06, which is in fact a delayed May release. Kudos to Justin for making it happen! Most visible changes are a :real named argument to DateTime.posix, and a .Failure coercer on exceptions and Cool values.
On Friday, June 3rd, the Rust Compiler team had a planning meeting for the June 2022 steering cycle.
A long time ago I wrote something about characters. That isn't important now, but I would like to say something that I have recently learnt about myself. What I do want to talk about is how I consider these things as being categorically different from other things that they are basically permanently described as, and why.
There are really only two things preventing me from using my Gemini PDA as a daily driver computer. The first is that the Google Earth, the only Google product I enjoy using, has not been ported to the device. The second is that neither CIFS nor NFS modules have been compiled into the kernel, which means I can't mount my NAS in Debian--a major hangup, as my NAS is where I store essentially all of my files.
To forgive others, you must first forgive yourself.
Back in the early 90's the workings of the Wintel cabal became clear. Intel sells shiny new CPUs that are twice as fast as the last generation; Gates comes up with a new version of Windows that is twice as big and slow as molasses, requiring the new CPU. But the pointer has dropshadows! Woo-hoo!
I tried my best to get off the Windows train, but let me tell you, the Apple train was even more expensive. At one point I was spending tens of thousands of dollars every year on new machines and developer memberships, because, you know, I was a professional coder. Heh.
When Linux became a reality I jumped ship. Amazingly, it worked well on leftover equipment I had neglected to give away; even on ancient boxes it was perfectly tolerable for many applications.
This month I accepted 288 and rejected 45 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 290.
Welcome to the May 2022 report from the Reproducible Builds project. In our reports we outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As ever, if you are interested in contributing to the project, please visit our Contribute page on our website.
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The paper (PDF, 3.5MB) uses the Debian mylvmbackup package as an example to show how RepFix can automatically generate patches to make software build reproducibly. As it happens, Reiner Herrmann submitted a patch for the mylvmbackup package which has remained unapplied by the Debian package maintainer for over seven years, thus this paper inadvertently underscores that achieving reproducible builds will require both technical and social solutions.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (clamav, firefox-esr, pidgin, and thunderbird), Fedora (dotnet3.1, firefox, kernel, vim, and webkit2gtk3), Mageia (firefox/nss/nspr, gimp, logrotate, mariadb, thunderbird, trojita, webkit2, and webmin), Oracle (thunderbird), Red Hat (compat-openssl11, postgresql:10, postgresql:12, and thunderbird), Slackware (pidgin), and SUSE (openvpn).
Vulnerability management involves discovering, analyzing, and handling new or reported security vulnerabilities in information systems. The services provided by vulnerability management systems are essential to both computer and network security. This blog posting evaluates the pros and cons of the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), which is a data-driven model designed to estimate the probability that software vulnerabilities will be exploited in practice.
The EPSS model was initiated in 2019 in parallel to our criticisms of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) in 2018. EPSS was developed in parallel to our own attempt at improving CVSSS, the Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC); 2019 also saw version 1 of SSVC. This post will focus on EPSS version 2, released in February 2022, and when it is and not appropriate to use the model. This latest release has created a lot of excitement around EPSS, especially since improvements to CVSS (version 4) are still being developed. Unfortunately, the applicability of EPSS is much narrower than people might expect, so it is not yet a useful tool for most vulnerability managers.
Nestled west of Washington, D.C., amid the bland northern Virginia suburbs, are generic-looking office parks that hide secret government installations in plain sight. Employees in civilian dress get out of their cars, clutching their Starbucks, and disappear into the buildings. To the casual observer, they resemble anonymous corporate drones. In fact, they hold Top Secret clearances and work in defense and intelligence. One of these buildings, at an address that is itself a secret, houses the cyberintelligence division of the Central Intelligence Agency. The facility is surrounded by a high fence and monitored by guards armed with military-grade weapons. When employees enter the building, they must badge in and pass through a full-body turnstile. Inside, on the ninth floor, through another door that requires badge access, is a C.I.A. office with an ostentatiously bland name: the Operations Support Branch. It is the agency’s secret hacker unit, in which a cadre of élite engineers create cyberweapons.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two unpatched security vulnerabilities in the open-source U-Boot boot loader.
The issues, which were uncovered in the IP defragmentation algorithm implemented in U-Boot by NCC Group, could be abused to achieve arbitrary out-of-bounds write and denial-of-service (DoS).
RightsCon 2022, the 11th edition of the summit on human rights in the digital age is taking place from June 6 to June 12, 2022. It brings together civil society organisations, business leaders, human rights advocates, government representatives, technologists, and journalists from around the world to discuss pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology.
Nasreddine Benmadi had watched so many TikTok videos of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, between North Africa and Europe’s coast, that he had a good idea what the journey would look like.
At midnight, a small boat would leave from Algiers for the coast of Spain. It would take about six hours for Djamaa El Kebir, the Great Mosque of Algiers, to fade into the distance — a marker that they had crossed the European maritime border. He knew to take some clothes, 100 euros in cash, and flares to shoot into the sky in case they got in trouble at sea.
Nineteen-year-old Benmadi had clicked through countless TikTok videos and Instagram accounts, scrutinizing videos of boats, mostly filled with young men, drifting upon calm, glassy water. On accounts that aggregated these videos, footage of sea journeys would be cut alongside images of the same migrants walking along well-groomed European streets and posing in front of monuments like the Eiffel Tower. The journey was tagged as harka or haraga, a colloquial name in North Africa for the Mediterranean crossing.
Though he was aware of the risks, all Benmadi could think about was getting out of Algeria. Europe was his vision. “I was waking up and going to bed with that in mind,” he told Rest of World.
He departed from the Algerian coast at midnight with 14 others. When he had a strong enough phone signal, Benmadi paused to post on TikTok. The filter-enhanced water and sky were vivid blue; wearing an orange life vest, he smiled into the camera and filmed a video. After two days, the boat would come ashore in Spain, where Benmadi would push on toward Paris.
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However, the company also said it does not want to limit conversations around migration, especially for those fleeing violence and seeking asylum. TikTok did not respond to requests for comment.
Cloudflare offers a range of services to improve the performance and security of your website/web application.
You can protect your networks, secure websites, APIs, applications, or deploy code that runs on the network edge using Cloudflare. Overall, you get access to a Content Delivery Network (CDN), and a Web Application Firewall (WAF) as a part of its offering.
Cloudflare offers a free tier with many essential features, making it one of the most popular choices for webmasters and developers
First, a fact that is not obvious to everyone: Images are not necessarily art. I'm not primarily thinking of those images that clearly serve other purposes than being art, including photos in news reporting, scientific diagrams, or the cover of a fashion magazine. No, I refer to images that may have an artistic appeal, that are debatable candidates for being art, those images that depend on the art world's embrace for being recognised as art.
For the sake of the argument, I'll take the perspective of the institutional theory of art, according to which something is art only insofar as the art world recognises it as such. Usually, that involves getting your work of art exhibited in a gallery or a museum. There are problems of circularity with the institutional theory, that's for sure, but it can be useful to remind ourselves of the fact that there is an art world with a certain set of quality criteria, or ways of distinguishing those works that are deemed worthy of circulating in the system from those that are not.