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Links 26/12/2022: TUXEDO Control Center and Ventoy 1.0.86



  • GNU/Linux

    • Kernel Space

      • 9to5LinuxLinus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.2 Release Candidate

        Linus Torvalds has officially kicked off the development cycle of the upcoming Linux 6.2 kernel series by announcing today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC).

        Even if it’s Christmas day, today marks two weeks from the moment the merge window for Linux kernel 6.2 opened, with the release of Linux kernel 6.1 on December 11th. Now, the merge window is officially closed and it’s time to get an early taste of the next major kernel release.

      • LWNKernel prepatch 6.2-rc1 [LWN.net]

        Linus has released 6.2-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. "So it's Christmas Day here, but it's also Sunday afternoon two weeks after the 6.2 merge window opened. So holidays or not, the kernel development show must go on."

    • Applications

      • NeowinVentoy 1.0.86

        Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can copy many files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported in the same way. Most type of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/Unix/Vmware/Xen...)

      • Trend OceansSnowfall on your Linux Desktop this Christmas and New Year

        This year, why not bring a little snow to your desktop? Xsnow allows you to enjoy the sights and sounds of winter, from snowflakes falling gently on your screen to the beautiful, white blanket that covers everything around it.

      • TecMint25 Outstanding Backup Utilities for Linux Systems in 2023

        Backup on personal computers or servers is always important to prevent permanent data loss. Therefore getting to know different backup tools is very important, especially for System Administrators who work with large amounts of enterprise-level data and even on personal computers.

        It is always a good practice to keep on backing up data on our computers, this can either be done manually or configured to work automatically. Many backup tools have different features that allow users to configure the type of backup, time of backup, what to backup, logging backup activities, and many more

    • Instructionals/Technical

      • Geeks For Geeks10 Tips for Improving Your Typing Speed and Accuracy

        In an advanced technology-driven world, pen-paper has taken a back seat which means most of the work is done on computers/laptops that require strong typing skills. Yes, you read that right, typing is a “skill” and today it is one of the important career skills. Most, if not all, careers involve some computer-based work that requires typing skills. Even if you are a Software Developer or a Programmer, you need to be an efficient typist in order to write codes for computers and software programs. Here, accuracy is as important as speed because a single typo may result in a system-wide error.

      • BSDlyThe Despicable, No Good, Blackmail Campaign Targeting ... Imaginary Friends?

        Over the years since the piece was originally written, I have added several updates — generally when some of this nonsense reaches a mailbox I read — and while I have seen the messages in several languages, no real development beyond some variations in wording has happened.

      • RachelUnintentionally BREAKing a serial console

        Imagine a datacenter with tens of thousands of Linux boxes running. Sometimes, they break and fall off the network. Fortunately, they have a "mini-me" type thing attached which then allows you access to a serial console. It's not quite the same as being there with a monitor and keyboard plugged into the box, but it's frequently enough to dig out of a real mess without getting in a car (or worse).

      • IT TavernGuide to Wireshark display filters

        This post is a quick reference for using the display filters in Wireshark. The display filter is used to filter a packet capture file or live traffic, and it is essential to know at least the basics if you want to use Wireshark for troubleshooting and other evaluations.

        In this post, I'll focus on the display filters for IPv4 only. Wireshark offers a wide range of tools that are out of this post's scope. IPv6 will be added at some point.

      • Linux CapableHow to Install OpenShot on Ubuntu 22.10/22.04/20.04

        OpenShot Video Editor is a powerful, easy-to-use video editor. The following tutorial will teach how to install OpenShot on Ubuntu 23.10 Kinetic Kuduo, Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, or Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux LTS using two different package manager methods with CLI commands: APT with the OpenShot nightly LaunchPAD PPA or the Flatpak with the Flathub repository.

      • Linux CapableHow to Install Avidemux on Ubuntu 22.10/22.04/20.04

        Avidemux is a free, open-source software program designed specifically for non-linear video editing and transcoding. The following tutorial will teach you how to install Avidemux on Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu, Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish LTS, or Ubuntu 22.04 Focal Fossa LTS Linux using the command line terminal the LaunchPAD PPA by the XtraDEB team.

      • Linux CapableHow to Install KDevelop on Ubuntu 22.10/22.04/20.04

        KDevelop is a free and open-source integrated development environment (IDE) that provides editing, navigation, and debugging features for several programming languages. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install KDevelop on Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kuduo, Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, or Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux with APT, Snap, or Flatpak method using the command line terminal and instructions on how to update and remove the software in the future if required.

      • ELinuxHow to install and configure DNS server in RHEL8 | Linux Webhosting blog

        A Domain Name System (DNS) server is a network service that translates domain names into IP addresses, allowing computers to communicate with one another. In this article, we will cover how to set up a DNS server on CentOS 8.

        Before starting, it is important to note that a DNS server typically consists of two components: a DNS server software, such as BIND, and a database that stores the DNS records. In this article, we will be using BIND as the DNS server software.

      • Linux HintBash Declare Command

        Bash is a weakly-typed programming language that does not require to declare the data type of the variable at the time of declaration like other programming languages, such as C, C++, Java, C#, etc. But this feature can be implemented by using the declare command of the bash script. It is used to declare the shell variable and function. It has many options to declare different types of variables and functions with different attributes. The uses of this command in the bash script have been described in this tutorial.

      • Linux HintBash `set -x` command

        Bash set command is used for many purposes in bash and it has many options to enable or disable different types of features of the shell environment. The -x option is one of the options of the set command that is used to enable the debugging feature of the bash script for troubleshooting. The `set -x` command can be used from the terminal or inside any bash script. Different purposes for using the `set -x` command have been described in this tutorial.

      • Beginners Guide for Vipw and Vigr Commands in Linux

        In Linux, you use the useradd, passwd, usermod, and gpasswd commands to modify users or groups related information, like creating them, deleting them, assigning passwords, etc.

        Note that these commands only provide you an interface to modify the “/etc/passwd“, “/etc/shadow“, “/etc/group“, and “/etc/gshadow” files with safety measures.

        But some Linux users, like me, are total freaks and directly modify these files using a text editor instead of using the aforementioned commands, which keeps us safe from file corruption.

      • Beginners Guide for Rename Command in Linux

        In Linux, the rename command is an amazing utility that allows you to rename single or multiple files at once, based on a set of rules or regular expressions you specify.

        Most of the time, the mv command is used to rename files or folders. However, the rename command has more features, but can be harder for a beginner to use, because it requires knowledge of Perl expressions.

        In this article, you will learn how to use the rename command in real life with practical examples.

      • Linux NightlyHow to Create New File on Ubuntu - Linux Nightly

        Learn how to create new files on Ubuntu from the Linux command line, and by adding a new document option to the right-click context menu GUI.

      • Linux NightlyHow to Check File Content on Linux - Linux Nightly

        Learn how to view the contents of a file using Linux commands cat, grep, less, head, and tail.

      • How to Change History File Location in Linux

        The Linux shell (specifically, “Bash“) records all the commands you run in your terminal and stores them in the “.bash_history” file in your home directory.

        You can use tools like the history command, which provides you many features and functionality to work with this file, including viewing your command’s history.

        Of course, instead of using this, you can directly use the cat command to read the content of this file, as shown.

      • Djalel OukidLinux Apps Tour: TUXEDO Control Center, a tool to easily control TUXEDO computers!

        This article is the beginning of a new promising series through which I aim to shed light on Linux applications that offer distinctive and unique additions and features to Linux users. The start will be with the TUXEDO Control Center application (TCC), which provides many control options on TUXEDO computers, one of which we reviewed in the past few weeks. So what is TUXEDO Control Center? What are the options and features that it provides?

  • Distributions and Operating Systems

    • Arch Family

      • DebugPointManjaro Linux 22 "Sikaris" released with Kernel 6.1, GNOME 43 and Xfce 4.18

        Manjaro 22 "Sikaris" major release is coming up after more than a year since Manjaro 21.0 release with all the bug fixes and updates from rolling release packages.

        Major highlights of this release are the three major desktop offerings, i.e. GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce, getting their latest version with core modules and apps.

        Here's what's new.

    • Open Hardware/Modding

      • Old VCRMerry Old VCR Christmas with Dick Smith and his VZ200

        Video Technology designed the VZ200 as their own version of the Tandy TRS-80 Model I, which Dick Smith sold as the System-80 via the EACA Video Genie. While the Video Genie was a more or less straightforward clone of the TRS-80 Model I, the VZ200 uses the basic architecture but with a different memory map, BASIC and video chip (same as the Tandy Color Computer and others). The Z80 runs at 3.58MHz (versus the Model I's 1.774MHz) and some of the BASIC differences were caused by VTech intentionally crippling the BASIC which some extended BASICs partially reversed. VTech also produced a Laser 100 and 110, differing from the 200 primarily in built-in RAM, but Dick Smith never sold those.

      • Raspberry PiPlease forward this to anyone who got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas

        By the way, this is a mirage of a blog and we’re not really here today; this is one we made earlier to make sure you know how to get started with your new Raspberry Pi Christmas presents. In real life, we are watching people cook lots of things that we will put in our faces soon. See you in January!

        Here you will find lots of links to help you get started with your new Raspberry Pi, as well as ideas for what you can do with it.

      • Tom's HardwareOverpowered Ornament Contains Tiny Raspberry Pi Cluster

        In a Medium post about the project, Bensen writes, "what’s it do, that’s a good question. Right now it runs the same software I ran on the World’s Largest Raspberry Pi Cluster so watch the video and find out and comment what I should run on it."

      • Byte CellarHave a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2022 Edition)

        I got my first computer, a TI-99/4A, on Christmas morning in 1982. I was 10 years old and from that Christmas on, it was nothing but games and computer hardware that I wanted Santa to leave me under the tree. On through my teenage years, part of my ritual for getting into the Holiday spirit was downloading and watching Christmas demos on whatever system I had at the time. And, apparently I wasn’t alone in this, as Benj Edwards explains in his piece, “The Oddball, Nostalgia-Inducing Christmas Tech Art Of The 1980s And 1990s.”

      • Byte CellarIt’s a MIDI Christmas With the Atari ST for “Holiday Music Week X”

        Without further ado, for Holiday Music Week X I present the 1985 Audio Light holiday slideshow and music presentation, as played by my Atari 520ST and the Radio Shack MD-981 MIDI keyboard (which was likely produced for Radio Shack by Casio).

  • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

    • Kodi FoundationKodi "Matrix" 19.5 Release

      As this is a point release, there are no major changes since the previous version, and you should be fine to install this straight over the top of any existing Kodi 19.x installation - indeed, this will happen automatically on many platforms. However, as for all software installations, back up your userdata beforehand if you've any doubts or have anything you can't afford to lose (and definitely do this if you're going for a major version upgrade).

    • Programming/Development

      • R

        • Redesigning Dashboards with Shiny and Rhino: World Bank's Carbon Pricing

          The modern revolution of big data has led to a boom in business intelligence. But data is only as valuable as the insights it provides. That means the true value of data is in exposing hidden insights. But if the way you share your data is slow, unscalable, or poorly designed – it might be time to redesign your dashboard.

          Data scientists are insight seekers. They are modern-day explorers sifting through data to find meaningful connections. But their efforts would be in vain if not for sharing their work with those who might benefit.

        • europeanaR: Exploring A Digitized Art Database with Shiny - R programming

          Art provides insight into the experiences and values of a culture. We see parallels between Shiny and art. Both are canvases for sharing insight. They are used to transform information or ideas in a way that connects with people. In this spirit, our developers built EuropeanaR, a Shiny app for exploring Europe’s digitized collection of art and cultural works.

        • Linux FoundationLearning the Fundamentals of R, Workshop with€ R-Ladies Gaborone and Botswana R User Group - R Consortium

          Saturday morning on the 29th of October 2022, the Botswana R User Group, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Botswana, and R-ladies Gaborone collaborated to conduct an R workshop focusing on the fundamentals of R programming for R enthusiasts. Both organizations are the only R communities in Botswana and have had online events on R related topics from speakers around the world. The Department of Computer Science provided the venue and technical support. Altogether, the seven attendees were from different institutions around Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana. Half of the attendees had a basic knowledge of R programming and the other half had a background in Java and Python programming. The workshop was instructed by Botswana R User Group founder, Edson Kambeu, and R-Ladies Gaborone co-founder, Simisani Ndaba. Edson Kambeu, who is a Finance Lecturer, traveled all the way from Francistown, a city in the north of the country to help instruct the workshop. The instructors used google docs to share educational data science websites, R resources, communities, conferences, and workshops for the attendees.

        • FinnstatsCheck if the Column Contains a String or not - finnstats

          Check if the Column Contains a String or not, The methods listed below can be used to determine whether a column of a data frame in R contains a string.

        • 2022-03 Offsetting Lines and Polygons in 'grid' | Stat Tech

          This document describes new functions in the ‘gridGeometry’ package for R that generate offset regions and Minkowski Sums for lines and polygons.

        • Hierarchical clustering, cutting the tree and colouring the tree leaves based on sample classes
        • R packages for visualising spatial data | Nicola Rennie

          Throughout November I took part in the #30DayMapChallenge - a daily mapping, cartography, and data visualization challenge aimed at the spatial community. You can read my recap of the challenge in the blog I wrote last week, if you’re interested in finding out more about it. Throughout the challenge, I created most of my maps using R. This blog post details the R packages that I often find myself using the most often when I’m visualising spatial data - including some new ones I found out about during the #30DayMapChallenge!

      • Python

        • OpenSource.com10 resources for Python programmers

          One of my favorite things about Python is that it's an actual language that's also useful as a teaching language. As in past years, Opensource.com had great articles demonstrating this in 2022.

        • TecAdminHow to Define Global Variable in Python - TecAdmin

          In Python, a global variable is a variable that is defined outside of any function or class and can be accessed from anywhere within the code. Global variables are useful for storing values that need to be shared across different parts of the program, such as configuration options or flags.

  • Leftovers

    • Telex (Hungary)Why do Hungarians hang bonbons on their Christmas tree?
    • Counter PunchMoving Into the Present Moment

      Generally speaking, we do not like a sudden end to a thing but prefer a slower exit that allows us to wallow for awhile in the left-overs of what once was dear or important to us.

      But there are times when a sudden departure from a thing is the only way forward. Sometimes, whether it is ending an addiction that has been plaguing us, a love affair that is tearing at our souls or a system that is killing the spirit that drives us towards free, healthy and meaningful lives, sometimes, as it has been shown by those who have done it, that the sudden finality of the cold-turkey approach to what we are leaving behind is the surest and ultimately less painful and likewise most successful way to go.

    • Counter PunchChristmas Jottings from North Queensland

      Another matter that is equally ridiculous: a desert religion’s celebration in the conifer-covered land masses of northern Europe, where pagan spirits fight with dedicated stubbornness against clerics and monotheistic dogma.€  The single god head struggles there, as it does in the heat of northern Australia, where song lines chart themselves across the land in pantheistic richness.

      To have a forested backyard this part of the world is to preside over a merry bazaar of activities.€  Not far is an army base that is one of Australia’s largest and bound to be immolated in acts of stupidity bound to be committed by the Commonwealth government.€  The country is becoming a garrison state, soon to be occupied by an even greater number of US military personnel.

    • TruthOutTidings of Discomfort and Joy: Christmas as Resistance
    • HackadayEncoding NTSC With Your Hands Tied

      Generally, when trying to implement some protocol, you are constrained by your hardware and time. But for someone like [EMMIR], that’s not enough. For example, NTSC-CRT is a video signal encoding/decoding simulator with no hardware acceleration, floating point math, or third-party libraries. Just basic C.

    • HackadayVirtualizing IPhoneOS 1.0

      Virtualizing computers is nothing new. However, Apple devices always present challenges. Just ask anyone who has built a Hackintosh. At least computer hardware is usually exposed, but on phones, the challenge is even harder due to mysterious devices. [Martijn] managed to reverse engineer the iPod Touch 1G enough to run iPhoneOS 1.0 on it and has several blog posts explaining how he did it.

    • Counter PunchRoaming Charges: Hotrails to Hell, the Year in Climate

      +€ All it took was a downed powerline, or perhaps a spark from the shed at the compound of a Christian cult, to ignite a wildfire on the Rocky Mountain Front on the afternoon of December 30th, – a fire that race across 6000 acres, burning 1,084 homes and 30 commercial buildings in less than a day. Propelled by hurricane-force winds, the only thing that slowed the fire’s spread was the much-belated arrival of the first major snowfall of the season on the high plains of Colorado. The Marshall fire, one of the most destructive in the state’s history, erupted only a couple of weeks after 80-mph winds powered a 250-mile-long dust storm that swept across the eastern half the state and into Kansas, an event that the National Weather Service labeled a “never-before-seen storm.” Never isn’t what it once was.

      + Iraq’s agricultural production has fallen by 40% in € 4 years. Much of the decline is due to drought and heat. Over the next few decades, the UN projects temperatures in Iraq will rise by another 2 degrees. Livestock numbers have crashed.

    • TruthOutAs Temperature Drops, Incarcerated People Brace for Dangerously Cold Conditions
    • Counter PunchA Brave New World

      The letter came from a Long Island resident, a member of the generation of baby boomers, who expressed her shock at the appearance of many limousines in her neighborhood at the time of high school spring dances. She wrote that just over a decade earlier, she and her friends arrived at school dances either in their own cars, a rarity then, or were driven by a parent or a friend. She lamented at the glitz those limos represented compared to the more responsible and less well-to-do days of the 1960s, although those years had at its base a solid working class and middle class.

      Over forty years later, I live in a rural area of the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts that is one repository of wealth that was heightened and magnified by the Covid-19 pandemic. Many with economic and social means could either relocate to the area, or purchase a second home here, thus driving up the cost of rents and housing prices through the roof. I could not even have guessed at the level of wealth I see when that€ Times€ letter was published during the early epoch of Reaganism.

    • Science

      • Counter PunchThe Curse of the Algorithm

        The existence of algorithms might be a sign of civilization, but it might also be a sign of what French philosopher Foucault calls madness. As human decision-making is handed over to machines, these machines can make rather irrational, discriminatory, and outright mad decisions.

        Long gone is the time when algorithms were only used in mathematics, IT, software, and computer science. Historically, the word “algorithm” is an Arabic term meaning a decimal notation of numbers, while in Greek, arithmos is simply a number. Our modern-day arithmos or algorithm came to us via Latin’s algorismus.

    • Hardware

      • University of TorontoSorting out PC chassis power switches for ATX power supplies

        Famously, ATX power supplies are really controlled by the motherboard, not by any front panel case switches (although better PSUs will have a hard power switch so you don't have to yank the cord). The front panel case power switch is a soft switch that communicates with the BIOS or triggers power on, and your motherboard can have the PSU 'turn off' (which still leaves standby power flowing to the motherboard), which is what enabled modern PC Unixes to have commands like 'poweroff' and 'halt -p'. Physically, an ATX chassis power switch (the front panel switch) is normally a momentary-contact switch. It is normally off (no current flowing), but when pushed it connects the circuit for as long as you keep it pressed. Since the circuit is normally open, not having a chassis power switch connected is the same as not pressing it, so your system can still power up in this state under the appropriate conditions.

      • HackadayNot Can It Run DOOM, But Can DOOM Run It?

        It’s the standard test for a hardware hack, half serious half in jest, “Can it run DOOM?”. The iconic early-90s shooter from id software has made an appearance on everything from toothbrushes to LEGO bricks, but nobody has yet posed the opposite question: Can DOOM run it?“. It’s one answered by [Danny Spencer], who has proved that it’s possible to perform computational tasks in the game by producing a working adding machine in a DOOM level.

      • Linux GizmosLenovo reveals Mini PC equipped with Intel’s 13th Gen Intel Core processors

        This week, Lenovo released details about their upcoming consumer products including their newest IdeaCentre Mini PC. The Lenovo’s 01IRH8 will integrate Intel’s latest 13th Gen Processors, support for Gen4 SSD storage, Wi-Fi6 and other peripherals.

      • HackadaySelf-Propelled Chainsaw Reduces Injuries

        [Advoko] is an expert at milling logs into various sizes of boards. He typically uses nothing but a chainsaw to enable him to mill on-site without needing to bring any large or expensive equipment. The only problem is that sometimes he gets a little carried away running his mill non-stop until he has enough lumber for whatever project he is building, which has led to some repetitive strain injuries. To enable him to continue to run his mill, he’s created this self-propelled chainsaw jig.

      • HackadayReverse Engineering Saves Weller With A Wonky LCD From The Trash Pile

        There’s nothing more satisfying than finding a broken piece of gear in the trash and bringing it back to life. Satisfying, but also potentially more time-consuming — someone tossed it for a reason, after all. Figuring out what that reason is and finding a way to back it better is where the fun — and the peril — are.

      • HackadayLaser Cut Clips Save A Lamp From The Trash

        Ikea have been known for years as a purveyor of inexpensive€  yet stylish homewares, but it’s fair to say that sometimes their affordability is reflected in their insubstantial construction. Such is the case with the Sjöpenna lamp, whose construction relies on rubber bands. On [Tony]’s lamp these bands degraded with age, causing it to fall apart. The solution? A set of cleverly-designed laser-cut clips to replace them.

    • Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

      • Digital Music NewsMultiple Universities Begin Banning TikTok After ByteDance Admits Employees Improperly Accessed User Data

        In brief, after years of far-reaching criticism of TikTok in the U.S. and abroad, states including but not limited to South Dakota, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia have since late November barred employees from using the service, citing data concerns.

      • New York TimesYoung TikTok Users Quickly Encounter Problematic Posts, Researchers Say

        TikTok appears to be pushing videos about eating disorders and self-harm to 13-year-old users at a rapid clip, researchers said on Wednesday, raising new concerns about the service’s influence on young people.

      • Fast CompanyFor teen girls, TikTok is the ‘social media equivalent of razor blades in candy,’ new report claims

        Researchers set up a duo of standard and vulnerable accounts in four English-speaking countries: the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia. They scrolled each account’s For You feed, which provides an inexhaustible supply of videos when a user opens the app. According to TikTok, For You is “central to the TikTok experience” because it’s “where most of our users spend their time.” Every time a video relating to body image, mental health, eating disorders, or self-harm played, CCDH’s team liked it, then paused for 10 seconds. Everything else got skipped.

      • Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)Deadly by Design

        For our study, Center for Countering Digital Hate researchers set up new accounts in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia at the minimum age TikTok allows, 13 years old. These accounts paused briefly on videos about body image and mental health, and liked them. What we found was deeply disturbing. Within 2.6 minutes, TikTok recommended suicide content. Within 8 minutes, TikTok served content related to eating disorders. Every 39 seconds, TikTok recommended videos about body image and mental health to teens.

      • Counter PunchWhy Christians Should Support Cultivated Meat

        Cultivated meat will allow us to relegate battery cages, gestation crates and livestock trucks to a less compassionate past. Since animals are removed from the process, our pandemic risk will be greatly reduced. Meanwhile, the greenhouse-gas emissions are a fraction of those needed to raise livestock.

        Despite the FDA’s approval, more public funding for cultivated-meat research is necessary for this revolutionary protein to compete with the price of slaughtered meat, once it’s introduced to the American market. I believe Christians should pressure their legislators to support such funding.

    • Proprietary

    • Defence/Aggression

    • Environment

    • Finance

    • AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

      • New York TimesShe Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk.

        With that, Ms. Solomon had become part of a small number of media industry employees who lost their jobs this year after using Twitter to take on the institutions where they worked. In Ms. Solomon’s case, she directly challenged her boss in a series of tweets. She said she is not sure whether those tweets caused her to lose her job, or if she was just one of the roughly 3,700 Twitter employees who got the ax in layoffs that began soon after Mr. Musk took ownership of the company in October.

      • SecurepairsAll Eyes on NY Governor as Clock Ticks Down on Right to Repair Legislation – Week in Repair

        The Digital Fair Repair Act, a bill approved in June of this year has reached a critical moment. Kathy Hochul, Governor of the 4th most populous state in the US, is either procrastinating or purposely trying to kill this electronics right to repair bill. Of the 1,000 bills that were voted through in the legislature, 256 have yet to get Hochul’s signature.

        If the bill in question takes effect, it would require electronics manufacturers to make parts available for independent repair shops and keeps manufacturers from using software locks to stop repair. After letting the bill sit for more than six months, the Governor requested that the legislature deliver the bill to her last Friday. Hochul now has 10 days to either sign- or veto it. Failing to do one of those two things will result in the Digital Fair Repair Act becoming law at the end of the day on December 28th.

      • Scoop News GroupSoftware bills of material face long road to adoption

        Despite the groundswell behind SBOMs, key entities within the federal government are moving slowly to require their use. Rather than mandate their inclusion in software purchased by the federal government, the Office of Management and Budget only made it optional as part of a September memo for agencies to require SBOMs in federal IT contracts. And in the rush to pass the end-of-year National Defense Authorization Act, a provision that would have required DHS to mandate the use of SBOMs in its contracts was dropped amid industry opposition.

      • Counter PunchIsrael's New "Government of Darkness": the Most Underreported Story in the Middle East

        The explanation for the neglect is domination of the news agenda by the war in Ukraine and, more culpably, fear by part of the media that any criticism of Israel will be attacked as anti-Semitic. This attitude is more common today in Britain than the US, while the reverse used to be the case.

        The latest grim episode in this extremist shift in Israel came this week when prime minister designate Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded in forming a governing coalition in which many senior posts will be filled by religious and ethno-nationalist zealots.

      • Common DreamsRelatives Mourn First Christmas Without Slain Palestinian Reporter Shireen Abu Akleh
      • Common DreamsAbbott Blasted for 'Cruel Stunt' as Migrants Bussed to Kamala Harris' Home on Christmas Eve
      • Counter PunchLions’ Den is Not a Fleeting Phenomenon: On Palestine’s Looming Armed Revolt

        Unlike the group’s first appearance on September 2, the number of fighters who took part in the rally in the Old City of Nablus on December 9 was significantly larger, better equipped, with unified military fatigues and greater security precautions.

        “The Den belongs to all of Palestine and believes in the unity of blood, struggle and rifles”, a reference to the kind of collective Resistance that surpasses factional interests.

    • Civil Rights/Policing

    • Monopolies

      • Copyrights

        • uni DukeJanuary 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all!

          On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1  They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream. Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.

          Here are just a few of the works that will be in the US public domain in 2023. 2  They were supposed to go into the public domain in 2003, after being copyrighted for 75 years. But before this could happen, Congress hit a 20-year pause button and extended their copyright term to 95 years. Now the wait is over. (To find more material from 1927, you can visit the Catalogue of Copyright Entries.)

        • CoryDoctorowPluralistic: 2023's public domain is a banger (20 Dec 2022)

          40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was copyright term extension (making copyrights last longer), including retrospective copyright term extensions that took works out of the public domain and put them back into copyright for decades. Vast swathes of culture became off-limits, pseudo-property with absentee landlords, with much of it crumbling into dust.

          After 55-75 years, only 2% of works have any commercial value. After 75 years, it declines further. No wonder that so much of our cultural heritage is now orphaned, with no known proprietor. Extending copyright on all works – not just those whose proprietors sought out extensions – incinerated whole libraries full of works, permanently.

          But on January 1, 2019, the bonfire was extinguished. That was the day that items created in 1923 entered the US public domain: DeMille's Ten Commandments, Chaplain's Pilgrim, Burroughs' Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Woolf's Jacob's Room, Coward's "London Calling" and 1,000+ more works: [...]

        • Torrent FreakAn AI's Christmas Reflection on Piracy's Role in Today's Society

          Artificial intelligence will undoubtedly trigger many copyright debates and legal battles in the years to come. Since it can still be used freely today, we took the opportunity to ask for its thoughts on online piracy and its role in today's society. Merry Christmas.

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Recent Techrights' Posts

Big Blue's Quiet Axe - Poem Regarding IBM "RAs"
No idea who posted this, but it is profound
Growing Proportion of Linux Commits Being Made by LLMs Not a Sign of LLMs Working, It's a Sign of Linux Development Being Shifted From Community to GAFAM and Other Slop Pushers
antagonist became apologist
Worse Than "Taking Your Job", the Slop Pyramid Scheme Will "Take Your Pension"
This will not end well
Rumours of Further IBM Shutdowns
IBM is going out of existence
Many Anniversaries
Many anniversaries in quick succession
 
Links 04/08/2026: GAFAM Expressing Concerns About Dangerous Disinformation by Slop, Bill Epsteingate-Connected Litigation Firm Salivating Over Europe
Links for the day
Gemini Links 04/08/2026: Root Shell and "Duty of Care"
Links for the day
Alternate Data (Not IBM's Headcount) to Show Mass Layoffs' Effect at IBM (Despite Many Acquired Workers Via M&A)
mass layoffs at Hashicorp and at Confluent this year (media did not cover either).
Abundance of Fake (Sometimes Paid-for) 'News' About IBM Will Discredit the Media as a Whole
In 'the news' today
Microsoft is Trying Vapourware Again (to Keep Developers and Gamers From Fleeing)
For XBox, the main thing over the horizon is additional layoffs
statCounter Reckons 12.33% of Web Traffic in Gambia Can be Attributed to GNU/Linux, Even 15% If Adding ChromeOS
Will this be sustainable?
Reminder: The Pedophilia Problem Comes From the Accusers
Attacks on Richard Stallman are a distraction; his accusers are themselves the culprits
SLAPP Censorship - Part 139 Out of 200: Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Needs More Public Scrutiny (New Management Changed Nothing, It's Costing a Lot of Taxpayers' Money)
millions or maybe billions of pounds wasted
Brigading Against Women - Part II - Threatening Women Using the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) and Then False Threats Miscarrying the Name of a Court
In this series we intend to show the threats, the outcomes of those threats, the response to those threats
Collapse of MElon Companies a Taste of What's to Come for Slop Bubble and GAFAM (Trillions in Debt, Justified as Slop "Investments")
One good example of this was SpaceX
The 'Hyperinflation' in Hardware Dooms Video Hosting (Very Large Files)
a terabyte of video files would be expensive
Rumours of Silent Layoffs in Microsoft This Month (August 2026), PIPs and Global Voluntary Separation Agreement (GVSA), aka "Buyouts"
Will any investigative journalism follow or just shallow puff pieces and LLM trash from slopfarms?
Links 04/08/2026: "Framework for Musician Burnout" and Alexa+ "is a Buggy Embarrassment"
Links for the day
Signs That XBox as a Console is Coming to an End, Windows Gaming Will be Called "XBox"
"XBox" is the next "Surface"
Microsoft's Share in Search Falls Sharply in Europe
The layoffs at Microsoft's Bing will carry on
Romania: GNU/Linux Reaches 4% (Less Than EU Average)
We expect this same upward trend to carry on
Microsoft Sites or Sites Sponsored by Microsoft Angry That GNU/Linux is Gaining
The Microsofters cannot easily dismiss reports of GNU/Linux growth as "bots" or just allege that statCounter alone is wrong
Ableism in the Free Software Movement Typically Comes From GAFAM Operatives and Proprietary Software Apologists
And their hired guns
Afghanistan: GNU/Linux Steadily Rises to 9%
Windows is steadily declining
IBM Innovation: It Has Invented New Methods of Silent Layoffs or Secret RAs
How IBM disguises mass layoffs now
LLM Slop Won't Replace People and Jobs (in the Long Run)
At the end of the day, people who know their job offer more useful information, whereas LLMs waste people's time (typically an 'externality' to the entity deploying chatbots)
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 03, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, August 03, 2026
Over 3,500 Known Gemini Capsules Accessible and Active According to Lupa
It finally happened this morning
Gemini Links 04/08/2026: Library Cards, Dead Ends in Software Development, and DOS on USB Key
Links for the day
IBM Has Embraced and Rewarded Liars
The IBM culture vanished
statCounter Estimates GNU/Linux at 5.32% in Kuwait, Years Ago It Was Near 0%
Kuwait rose to fame in the 1990s because of a war
Swatting People Who Write About Corruption, Misogyny, Criminal Misuse of Funds
we've given ourselves a decade to cover all those stories
GNU/Linux Rises Above 6% in Colombia
In Colombia, which is a large south American country, GNU/Linux has risen steadily in recent years
SLAPP Censorship - Part 138 Out of 200: Garrett Has Basically "Lost" and It is "Embarrassing" to Them
they just wound up costing hundreds of thousands of pounds
Gemini Links 03/08/2026: Great Exodus, xkcd as Text, and Dead Ends
Links for the day
GNU/Linux Has Surged to 6.3% in Madagascar
Madagascar's adoption of Free software is a subject we covered a lot in past years
Microsoft's Slop Bet is Killing the XBox Even Faster
LLMs destroy almost anything they touch
The Cyber Show on "Weaponised Antisocial Technology"
by Andy
Alexandre Oliva on Slippery Slop (LLMs)
By Alexandre Oliva
RMS Won the Argument and Now GNU Wins Over Computer Users
He can look back at nearly 43 years of GNU and say, "I was right..."
statCounter Corrects GNU/Linux Estimates, Now Measured at 9% Worldwide
Windows has sunk like a rock
GNU/Linux-Centric Blogs Belatedly Pick Up News About GNU/Linux Gains: 4-8% Depending on the Surveyor
more people will get curious and give it a go
Links 03/08/2026: Strike By Flight Attendants (WestJet) and Greedflation
Links for the day
Links 03/08/2026: EU Curtailed Slop, Frank Zappa Recalled
Links for the day
Daniel Pocock on Sky News This Morning
No harm done
Morten Linderud Has Helped Microsoft Put Locks (and Kill Switches) on the PCs of Arch Linux Users
"the first rule of "secure boot" is to disable "secure boot"
In Poor Peru, GNU/Linux Surges From 1% to 5% in a Few Years
Windows is dying
All Social Control Media is a Weapon (Against Its Users, Serving the Real Owners)
That social control networks are weaponised isn't a new concept
Fanning the Flames of Journalism
This week we have several surprises coming
Forcing the Slop Bubble to Implode Fully to Save the Economy From an Even Greater Collapse and Societal Harm
Let's blow up the bubble. The sooner, the better
GNU/Linux at 8% in Croatia
somewhat of a GNU/Linux adoption hotbed
It's Easy to Predict Microsoft Layoffs for October 2026 Because of the Financial 'Results' That Month (More Faking, More Secret Debt and Buzzwords to Perfume This Debt as "Investment")
From what we've read, Microsoft is silently laying off people this month based on LITE, which leads to PIPs
Not Hard to Guess Who Will Pay for IBM's Collapse (Due to False Statements Made to Shareholders), Red Hat May Disappear
IBM's leadership is never being punished for its failures
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 02, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, August 02, 2026
Gemini Links 03/08/2026: Collectibles, Cities of the Red Night, and Lali Lambda
Links for the day
IBM's August 2026 Promotions (Annual Ritual) Can Turn Into a "Bloodbath" (RAs, Layoffs)
IBM Common Stock is set to open in the red (minus) on Monday
Microsoft Culture Explained by People Who Work at Microsoft
"Be ready for politicking and working over time and weekends."
Codes of Conduct Attract Hoarders and Sociopaths, They Are Intolerant Towards Good People
Codes of Conduct (CoCs) are also promoted using violence
XBox is in Trouble, Sunday News Shows How Serious a Problem It Now Faces
it seems impossible to resuscitate at this point
statCounter Observes GNU/Linux at 10% in Libya
this month statCounter finally sees GNU/Linux approaching "double-figures" there
Thailand: GNU/Linux Approaching 15%, Windows in a Freefall
It makes perfect sense for Thailand to adopt GNU/Linux for technical reasons, not just political reasons
GNU/Linux in Bulgaria Back Up
part of a trend in Europe
Cuba Sees Leap in GNU/Linux Usage, as Reported by statCounter
For the ordinary Cuban it makes sense to reduce a dependence on GAFAM
Gemini Links 02/08/2026: Drift, Crawlers in Gopher Space, Purpose, and Python
Links for the day
Links 02/08/2026: Some Large Slop Investors "Crumbling", Russia Intensifies Bombing of Kiev
Links for the day
IBMers Discuss Who Killed IBM (It Impacts Red Hat)
Fedora is fast becoming like another CentOS
GNU/Linux Rises to 6% in Mexico
Did the soccer (football) matches have some impact or just the "unknowns" being deciphered (or omitted) by statCounter?
GNU/Linux Leaps to 8% in Asia
In Asia, is it a bit higher because of GAFAM distrust? Maybe some other factor/s?
Clownflare Web Usage Survey: About 10% in North America Use GNU/Linux, Worldwide 6.7%
surveyors that showed GNU/Linux growth
SLAPP Censorship - Part 137 Out of 200: Discovering That Spending a Million British Pounds (1,348,250.01 United States Dollars) on Lawyers Cannot Take Down One's Critics
just outright bullying and criminality
Steam Survey, analytics.usa.gov, and statCounter All Point to GNU/Linux Gains (Again)
This must be very annoying to Microsoft
GNU/Linux Exceeds 6% in Spain
In recent years the "market share" steadily grew from 3% to over 6%
Brazil: GNU/Linux Record High, 5%
On average, GNU/Linux has evidence of growth in many countries this summer
Amid 2026 Bing Layoffs Microsoft Share in Search Collapses
How much longer before Microsoft throws in the towel or rebrands again?
United Kingdom: GNU/Linux up to 7%, ChromeOS Another 5% (Total 12%)
further significant gains for GNU/Linux this month
Links 02/08/2026: Cheeto "Blurted Out Vile Plot to Censor ABC"; New York Times Fights 'Intimidation'
Links for the day
Why Techrights Will Still be Active a Decade From Now
Techrights will carry on for many years to come
We Are Witnessing the End of IBM
IBM cannot find growth by moving downwards, by lowering standards
The Slop Presumption Rule
Tainting oneself can take one day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 01, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, August 01, 2026
Gemini Links 02/08/2026: Older Books, Esperanto Music History, and Slop Making Things Worse
Links for the day