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Links 05/07/2022: TUXEDO Computers and KDE Slimbook With More Laptops



  • GNU/Linux

    • Desktop/Laptop

      • Its FOSSThe Next-Gen TUXEDO Pulse 15 is a Workstation Powerhouse
        TUXEDO Computers is a German manufacturer popular for offering a wide range of consumer Linux desktops and laptops.

        One of their latest notebook releases, the Pulse 15 – which was introduced two years ago has received a second revision and it sounds like a big upgrade.

        The notebook’s new 15.6-inch display takes the center stage here. A 2560 x 1440 pixels LED panel is definitely a huge enhancement compared to the 1080p display used in the previous model. So you can expect clearer and more detailed images, not to mention fluid movements thanks to the high 165Hz refresh rate!

    • Instructionals/Technical

      • Linux CapableHow to Install PlayOnLinux on Fedora 36 Linux - LinuxCapable

        Wine is popular software that allows many Windows applications to run on Linux. The problem with Wine, however, is some required configurations for each application you want to use can be extremely time-consuming and prone to errors while setting up. A great PlayOnLinux will make your life easier by providing easy-to-understand automated installation of many popular installations, which can benefit the average desktop users or new users of Linux.

        In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install PlayOnLinux on Fedora 36 Linux using the command line terminal using the default Fedora 36 repository or installing the Flatpak third-party package manager to get a newer version binary.

      • Linux CapableHow to Install Snap & Snap-Store on Fedora 36 Linux - LinuxCapable

        By default, Fedora does not come with Snap or Snap Store installed as this is a feature that was built by developed by Canonical as a faster and easier way to get the latest versions of software installed on Ubuntu systems, and Snap packages are installed from a central SNAP server operated by Canonical.

        Snap can be installed and, for the most part, work with most packages on Fedora-based systems that are currently actively supported. There are a few conflicts with specific packages. The issue with Snaps VS DNF package manager is that Snaps are self-contained, which results in an increased .snap due to having all its dependencies included along with various degrees of slight performance degradation compared to a natively installed application. In contrast, DNF is much lighter than its snap counterpart because it does not need to bundle dependencies.

        In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Snapd on Fedora 36 Linux with the terminal and GUI methods with basic tips on how to launch or install/remove packages with Snapcraft.

      • Linux HandbookUnderstanding the man pages in Linux

        In the *nix world, the manual pages, aka man pages, are considered the absolute reference for advanced users. There is also the occasional pedantry of RTFM rudely insisting its importance. The man command is even part of the POSIX specification – the basis for most modern implementations of *nix systems. So is this notion justifiable after all?

      • Linux CapableHow to Install qView on Fedora 36 Linux - LinuxCapable

        qView is a free, open-source image viewer designed to be minimal and space-efficient with super-fast opening images. The image viewer features no cluttered interface, just your image with a title bar containing features such as animated GIF controls for easy viewing on any device.

        For more information about what qView features and looks like before installing it, visit the qView website, which features some great examples of the image viewer in action.

        In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install qView on Fedora 36 Linux desktop using the command line terminal with tips about installing the alternative development version and removing the application if required in the future.

      • Linux Shell TipsHow to Install Latest Linux Kernel in AlmaLinux 8

        AlmaLinux needs no introduction as a free and open-source RHEL-based Linux operating system distribution. Its binary compatibility with RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) attributes it to a production-grade enterprise operating system with growing community support.

        A Kernel is a lifeline between hardware and software interaction within a computer system. Since the Kernel code always resides in memory, its presence is critical in how these key operating system components communicate with one another.

        This article is for the bleeding edge enthusiasts who want to install the latest Kernel version on their AlmaLinux 8 distribution.

      • Linux CapableHow to Install qBittorrent on Fedora 36 Linux - LinuxCapable

        qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client. qBittorrent is a native application written in C++ which uses Boost, Qt 5 toolkit, and libtorrent-rasterbar library and is extremely lightweight and fast. qBittorrent is very popular amongst torrent users as the main alternative to UTorrent.

        In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install qBittorrent on Fedora 36 Linux desktop GUI and qBittorrent-nox, which can be installed on a desktop or headless server using the command line terminal to access the WEB UI.

      • TecAdminHow To Create and Run a Flask Application Using Docker – TecAdmin

        In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a basic Flask app with Docker. You will set up your app with a Dockerfile, and manage the images with an automated build process.

        In this process, you’ll also learn how to use multiple Python virtual environments and keep your source code organized. If you’re new to Python or Flask, you may want to check out our beginner guide to Python as well as our beginner guide to Flask first. They cover the basics of these frameworks so that you can follow along better in this tutorial. Let’s get started!

      • ID RootHow To Install PostgreSQL on Fedora 36 - idroot

        In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PostgreSQL on Fedora 36. For those of you who didn’t know, PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system. PostgreSQL has been in active development for over 30 years and has earned a strong reputation in its reliability, robustness, and performance. It is available for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.

        This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of PostgreSQL 14 on a Fedora 36.

      • CitizixHow to run Grafana Loki with docker and docker-compose

        Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.

        In this guide, we will learn how to install Grafana Loki and Promtail with Docker and Docker Compose. For production systems, please consider installing Grafana Loki with Tanka or Helm.

        The configuration acquired with these installation instructions run Loki as a single binary.

      • Trend OceansHow to Combine Two Text Files in Linux

         In the course of work, I have received several redirected command output files from my colleague, and he asked me to combine all the files into one file and send it back. And I’m not in the mood to open all the files one by one to read the output and combine them into one file.

        So I have to find a way through which I can combine multiple text files into one, and then I can comfortably drink a cup of coffee.

      • DebugPointWebP Image: How to Create, Convert to JPEG, PNG & View in Ubuntu and Other Linux

        A comprehensive article which demonstrates how to view WebP image formats in Ubuntu and other Linux with example to encode & decode.

    • Games

      • HackadayThink You Know How Mario Kart Works?

        In what looks like the kickoff of a fun video series, [MrL314] takes us on a quick but deep tour of how the AI in Mario Kart works. (Video, embedded below.) Don’t play much Mario Kart anymore? Well, have a look anyway because some of the very simple tricks that make Bowser pass Princess Peach without running into her might be useful in any manner of pre-programmed navigation scenarios.

    • Desktop Environments/WMs

      • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

        • 9to5LinuxKDE Slimbook Gen4 Linux Laptop Is Available Now with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U CPU

           The biggest change in KDE Slimbook Gen4 is the new AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor capable of up to 4.3 GHz clock speeds, 8 cores, and 16 threads, giving you more raw power and better battery life.

          As usual, the Linux laptop is available in two variants, KDE Slimbook 14″ featuring a 14-inch Full HD IPS LED display with 1920×1080 resolution at 60Hz refresh rate and 100% sRGB, and KDE Slimbook 15.6” featuring a bigger 15.6-inch Full HD IPS LED display with 1920×1080 resolution at 60Hz refresh rate and 100% sRGB.

      • GNOME Desktop/GTK

        • The Register UKGtk 5 might drop X.11 support

          One of the GNOME developers has suggested that the next major release of Gtk could drop support for the X window system.

          Emmanuele Bassi opened a discussion last week on the GNOME project's Gitlab instance that asked whether the developers could drop X.11 support in the next release of Gtk.

          At this point, it is only a suggestion, but if it gets traction, this could significantly accelerate the move to the Wayland display server and the end of X.11.

  • Distributions and Operating Systems

    • Fedora Family / Red Hat / IBM

      • Red Hat OfficialHow to set user password expirations on Linux | Enable Sysadmin

        User accounts created on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers are by default assigned 99,999 days until their password expires. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) provides some advice on controls for hardening systems, and one of these is setting password expirations to 365 days or less. The security team usually enforces this setting, but system administrators must ensure this is done.

      • VideoWhy Fedora is the NEW default Linux desktop - Invidious

        Been a while...but has Fedora become the new default Linux distro for the desktop? The best all-round Linux desktop distro in 2022?

      • Enterprisers Project5 Harvard Business Review articles CIOs should read this month

        Each month, through our partnership with Harvard Business Review, we refresh our resource library with five new HBR articles we believe CIOs and IT leaders will value highly. Check out the curated pieces below, available to readers through the end of the month.

      • Enterprisers ProjectIT talent: 5 ways to better leverage remote teams

        Remote work is on the rise, and recent studies suggest that a quarter of all professionals in the U.S. will be working remotely by the end of 2022. This trend is enabling many CIOs and CTOs to find talent outside of technology hubs, and companies of all sizes are taking advantage of this by hiring based on time zone as opposed to geographic location.

        However, managers are struggling to come up with ways to enable their remote teams to work together and finish their tasks in an organized and timely fashion.

        With team members spread across three continents, I’ve had to think creatively about how to enable effective collaboration across 10 time zones. Here are five tips to enable any organization to operate smoothly despite the distance between employees.

      • Fedora ProjectNest with Fedora 2022 registration now open!

        We are excited to announce that registration for this year’s Nest with Fedora 2022 is now open. Sign up to join us for the virtual version of Flock to Fedora with a three day event hosted on the Hopin platform. Nest will kick off on Thursday August 4th and run through Saturday August 6th. Our virtual contributor conference will feature Fedora content, workshops, and social hours—but most importantly, our wonderful community!

    • Devices/Embedded

      • CNX SoftwareTexas Instruments AM6254 powered industrial SBC features dual GbE, CAN Bus, RS485, optional 4G/5G cellular networking

         Texas Instruments Sitara AM623 and AM625 Arm Cortex-A53 AIoT processors were just introduced last month, but Forlinx has already introduced the OK6254-C SBC powered by the Sitara AM6254 quad-core processor with up to 2GB DDR4, and an 8GB eMMC flash.

        The board features two Gigabit Ethernet ports, CAN FD and RS485 interfaces, plus plenty of I/O headers, support for up to three displays via LVDS and parallel RGB interfaces, as well as optional support for 4G/5G cellular connectivity that makes it suitable for all sorts of industrial applications.

    • Open Hardware/Modding

      • CNX SoftwareLILYGO T-QT V1.1 – A cute little board with ESP32-S3 and a 0.85-inch color display

        LILYGO must be churning out at least one new “ESP32” board every month, but I don’t think they’ve ever made one with ESP32-S3. LILYGO T-QT V1.1 board changes that and combines the dual-core WiFi 4 and Bluetooth LE 5.0 AI microcontroller with a 0.85-inch color display.

        The board also happens to be rather small and cute with a 33 x 18 mm form factor, offers some I/O via headers and a 4-pin connector, and can be powered via its USB Type-C port or a battery, but lacks a charging circuit.

      • HackadayUART Can’t? Arduino CANSerial Can!

        [Jacob Geigle] had a problem. A GPS unit and a Bluetooth-to-serial were tying up all the hardware UARTs on an AVR Arduino project. “Software serial”, I hear you say. But what if I told you [Jacob] already had the board in question sending out data over CAN bus?

  • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

    • Web Browsers

      • Mozilla

        • MozillaMozilla Privacy Blog: Mozilla statement as EU Parliament adopts new pro-competition rulebook for Big Tech

          The EU Parliament today adopted the ‘Digital Markets Act’, new rules that will empower consumers to easily choose and enjoy independent web browsers. We welcome the new pro-competition approach and call for a comprehensive designation of the full range of Big Tech gatekeepers to ensure the legislation contributes to a fairer and more competitive European digital market.

          The DMA will grant consumers more freedom to choose what software they wish to use, while creating the conditions for independent developers to compete fairly with Big Tech. In particular, we see immense benefit in empowering consumer choice through prohibitions that tackle manipulative software designs and introduce safeguards that allow consumers to simply and easily try new apps, delete unwanted apps, switch between apps, change app defaults, and to expect similar functionality and use.

        • MozillaListen to the trailer: Season 6 of Mozilla’s podcast, IRL, is around the corner

          The newest season of Mozilla’s award winning podcast, IRL, is packed with people who are asking these questions and — more importantly — offering answers and solutions. It’s a collaboration with Mozilla’s annual Internet Health Report, a collective storytelling project that highlights people fighting for a healthier internet.

    • FSFE

      • FSFESustainability podcast +++ Job opportunity +++ Partial Router Freedom in Greece

        In this issue we share an uplifting podcast episode on the progress of the Upcycling Android campaign. We have a work position in the FSFE staff. Greece is about to secure Router Freedom except for fiber connections. Community news comes from Aarhus, Barcelona, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Zurich, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Translators, and Women.

  • Leftovers

    • HackadayPhotovoltaic Cells In LTSpice

      We like to build things using real parts. But we do think the more you can model using tools like LTSpice, the less time you can spend going down dead ends. If you need to model a common component like a resistor or even an active device, most simulators have great models and you can tweak them to have realistic parasitic effects. But what if the component you want isn’t in the library or doesn’t have the fidelity you want? [FesZ] wanted to model photovoltaic cells and had to build his own model. The resulting two videos are well worth watching.

    • ScheerpostJuly 4, 2022
    • HackadayDithering Makes Everything Cooler: Now Even Animated

      [dukope] was writing a game, Return of the Obra Dinn, with a fantastic visual style. One of the choices was to make everything in glorious one-bit color, otherwise known as black and white, and then dither it back to monochrome. You know, like they used to do on the Mac Plus.

    • HackadayFighting All That Can Go Wrong With Resin

      [Jan Mrázek] is on a quest to make your resin 3D prints more accurate, more functional, and less failure prone. Let’s start off with his recent post on combating resin shrinkage.

    • Counter PunchSonnet for Independence Day
    • Counter PunchGrowing Up

      Bye bye, church on Sunday. My mother was devastated, but we slowly came to terms with one another. On a family vacation that summer, as we were driving on the Chicago Skyway, the radio announced a tornado warning. Mom later wrote a published essay that ended thus: “Three Christians and one agnostic prayed.”

      In other words, we found a space beyond life’s cultural certainties to reconnect. We loved each other; that’s what mattered. This transcended all the proclaimed certainties of religion. I’ve been exploring this realm — the Great Beyond, you might say — ever since. The final paper I wrote in high school, my “senior paper,” was titled “Is a Man’s Mind His Own?” My primary references were George Orwell’s€ Nineteen Eighty-Four€ and Aldous Huxley’s€ Brave New World. Yes, I decided, staring directly into the flabbergasted eyes of Big Brother, I am the final determiner of what I believe, what I value.

    • Hardware

      • HackadayA 3D Printer Big Enough To Print A Kayak

        When one of your design goals for a 3D printer is “fits through standard doors,” you know you’re going to be able to print some pretty big stuff. And given that the TAUT ONE printer by [Nathan Brüchner] could easily be mistaken for a phone booth, we’d say it’ll be turning out some interesting prints.

    • Proprietary

    • Security

      • Privacy/Surveillance

        • AccessNowImmediately no: TikTok’s new personalised ads will jeopardise rights in Europe - Access Now

          TikTok’s plan to force personalised ads on all users over 18 years old will risk the privacy of millions of people in EEA, UK, and Switzerland who use the popular social media platform. Access Now is calling on TikTok to immediately halt these invasive changes, and is urging the European Data Protection Board and its members to use its powers to intervene.

          “TikTok wants to strip away the rights of people who use the platform to bump its ad revenue. To that, Access Now says ‘immediately no,’” said Estelle Massé, Europe Legislative Manager and Global Data Protection Lead at Access Now. “The way social media platforms like TikTok implement consent mechanisms is far from perfect — or legal — as it is often bundled into lengthy terms of services. Yet, TikTok is taking a step further in limiting our rights and effectively suggesting that we should not have a say in deciding how our information is used. ”

    • Defence/Aggression

      • ScheerpostThe American Right Is Scarier Than Putin

        Andrea Mazzarino ponders to how deal with Donald Trump's occupation of all too many American hearts and minds.

      • ScheerpostConscientious Objection to Military Taxation
      • TruthOutProtesters in Ohio Are Met With Riot Police Following Killing of Jayland Walker
      • Counter PunchThe Mass Ethnic Cleansing of Syrian Kurds is Collateral Damage From the War in Ukraine

        Hundreds of thousands of Kurds have already been forced by Turkish-led forces to flee from their enclaves on the Syrian side of the Turkish-Syrian border. “There is no place for the [Kurdish fighters] in Syria‘s future,” said Erdogan. “We hope that… we will rid the region of separatist terror.” In practice, the Turkish policy during previous incursions into Syria has been to drive out all Syrian Kurds, civilians as well as fighters, separatists and terrorists.

        After Turkey lifted its veto on Sweden and Finland joining Nato, the Nato powers are less likely than before to deter Erdogan from a fresh invasion of Northern Syria. In the longer term, they want to recruit Turkey as an ally against Russia.

      • Common DreamsOpinion | NATO's Expansion and New Strategic Concept Broaden the Prospect of Armageddon

        The 2022 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit, which was held in Madrid, Spain, from June 28-30, has produced a new strategic concept for an alliance which only a few years ago was declared "brain-dead" by French President Emmanuel Macron that will define its future for the next ten years.

      • Common DreamsHundreds March in Akron Enraged by Police Killing of Jayland Walker

        Hundreds of people in€ Akron, Ohio gathered outside the police department's headquarters and marched through the city late Sunday, demanding justice for Jayland Walker after police footage was released showing that the 25-year-old Black man had been€ fatally€ shot€ from behind€ at least 60 times by officers as he tried to flee from a traffic stop on€ June 27.

        Demonstrators chanted Walker's name and "No justice, no peace!" outside the police department and the Harold K. Stubbs Justice Center, where they were confronted by officers in riot gear as the protest continued into the evening.

      • Counter PunchEvoking the Unspeakable

        In 1971 Rafferty was assigned to a remote firebase along the Laotian border. His unit experienced a daily artillery duel with the enemy’s 152 mm guns that blew huge holes in their defenses and inflicted heavy casualties. Every battle was begun with the gut certainty of death. Their perimeter was constantly probed and resupply convoys were constantly ambushed. There is one episode of a literal wrestling match in a perimeter bunker between two NVA and American soldiers over a fifty caliber machine gun that had just been mounted there.

        Along the Laotian border and in the DMZ US troops had to endure being pummeled by much larger weapons than further south, and the enemy had tanks. The medical results of this fighting were not pretty. There was one medic for a unit of eighty men and Rafferty finds himself often “helping doc.” Rafferty writes with a searing anger and devastating attention to detail. He recounts a Boschian scene during which someone’s pet dog runs by carrying a human arm in its teeth. He kills the dog in a rage. The next day the men get online to “police the area” which amounts to picking up pieces of people in empty sandbags.

      • TruthOutHere’s Why Arab Americans Like Me Are Supporting Efforts to Defund the Police
    • Environment

      • Common DreamsDeadly Glacier Collapse in Italy 'Linked Directly to Climate Change'

        Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi joined scientists in pointing to the climate emergency as the cause of a deadly glacier collapse in the Italian Alps on Sunday afternoon, saying policymakers must act to ensure avalanches don't become a more regular occurrence.

        The collapse of the glacier in the Marmolada mountain range in the Dolomites "certainly depends on the deterioration of the environment and the climate situation," Draghi said at a press conference following the disaster, which was confirmed Monday to have killed at least seven people.

      • Wildlife/Nature

        • Scheerpost‘Tipping Point of No Return’ Feared as Amazon Rainforest Fires Surge

          “Up to now, the Biden administration has only legitimized the Brazilian government’s anti-Indigenous and anti-environmental agenda,” said Greenpeace USA.

        • The NationThe Tricky Politics of Ecological Restoration

          In her new book, Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration, environmental historian Laura J. Martin charts the history of a practice devoted to mending damaged ecosystems, which she argues is currently the most important mode of environmental management in the world. Martin, an assistant professor of environmental studies at Williams College, defines ecological restoration as “a mode of reconciliation with the human past.” Her definition encapsulates the way restorationists have had to approach the blurry line between protecting and interfering with the natural environment in response to human action, which has, for the better part of human history, been interchangeable with human harm. Martin offers a timeline of the origin of ecological restoration as a practice and its development into a professional field, in addition to tracing the sometimes surprising choices—some ethical, some aesthetic, and some political—that have determined which species and ecosystems were restored in the United States and why.

        • Counter PunchNew Legal Settlement Protects Coyotes, Wolves in Idaho

          “We’re pleased to have added restrictions to the wildlife-killing activities that USDA Wildlife Services is pursuing across Idaho,” said Erik Molvar, Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project. “This new agreement blocks wildlife killing on protected public lands across Idaho, and blocks the use of certain lethal methods employed against native carnivores throughout the state.”

          The settlement gives Wildlife Services until the end of 2024 to complete a new environmental review of its activities on federal lands, and mandates that the agency will consider an alternative restricting predator killing on certain public lands, blocking “preventative” killing of wolves and coyotes, and placing a long-term moratorium on M-44 “cyanide bomb” use.

        • Counter PunchThe Key Impacts of Livestock Production Upon the Land

          Remember that all ecological science is based on statistical averages, not absolutes. Therefore, not all livestock operations have the following impacts, which will vary from operation to operation, region to region.

          Nevertheless, most livestock operations statistically have at least some of the following ecological impacts on the landscape.

    • Finance

      • TruthOutSecond-Richest Man Jeff Bezos Defends Oil Industry Price-Gouging
      • Common Dreams'The Problem is Corporate Greed, Boss': Bezos Blasted for Defense of Big Oil Price-Gouging

        Progressives ripped billionaire Jeff Bezos for his latest defense of corporate profiteering over the weekend in which the Amazon founder and world's second-richest person criticized a call by President Joe Biden for oil companies to lower the price of gasoline.

        On Saturday, Bezos accused President Joe Biden of "misdirection" and ignorance "of basic market dynamic" in response to a tweet from the president which called on companies setting gasoline prices to "bring down the price you are charging."

      • Counter PunchPeople Are Not Spending Down Their Savings, Revisited

        The issue here is straightforward. Saving is defined as the portion of disposable income that is not consumed. Savings can fall either because either consumption has increased, or disposable income has fallen.

        We are not seeing especially rapid consumption growth in 2022 (real consumption actually fell in May), rather we are seeing weak growth in disposable income, which is defined as personal income, minus tax payments. The story here is not that personal income growth has been weak, but rather that tax payments have soared.

      • Counter PunchTax the Rich, House the Homeless
    • AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

      • ScheerpostWhat Would a Real Opposition Party of the People Do?
      • Counter PunchHow Can Dictators Control So Many Millions of People?

        Political scientists have written about the various “pillars” sustaining autocratic regimes. Professor Christoph H. Stefes (University of Colorado Denver) focuses on the “pillars” legitimation, repression and co-optation – about which more later.

        But just what are the mechanics flowing from the dictator’s throne that produce overwhelming compliance to the dictator’s demands? Starting with his “palace guards,” cooks, doctors, all the way down an intricate matrix of obedience to the cities/towns/villages level, the absence of any breaks in the links of the chains of oppression is remarkable. Even major suicidal sabotage at critical points in a regime’s iron grip rarely occurs.

      • Counter PunchBiden's Meeting With MBS Risks Becoming a Gift to an Autocrat

        But the decision to meet MBS, as he is often called, risks being profoundly counterproductive.

        Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is about more than the territorial integrity of a sovereign state. It also reflects an attack by Russia’s autocratic president, Vladimir Putin, on the democratic aspirations of the Ukrainian people, which cast a harsh light on Putin’s increasingly repressive rule.

      • Counter PunchThe Prankster Stops Laughing

        Political dirty-tricks specialists typically try to stay in the background as they make mischief, but Stone, like Trump, is a credit-grabber and a show-off. When Danish documentary makers Christoffer Guldbrandsen and Frederik Marbell asked to follow him about in 2019, the ego boost outweighed the legal risk and Stone gave them access. And so his machinations will be exposed in detail when their film, “A Storm Foretold,” comes to the small screen this summer.

        Stone doesn’t look like a sharp fixer –his affect is blank– but his track record is impressive. He€ was born in 1952 in Connecticut. He describes his family as “middle-class, Catholic.” His mother ran the PTA and wrote for the town newspaper. Roger Sr. ran a well-drilling business and the volunteer fire department. (Their dinner table conversation must have been politics at the nitty-grittiest level.) Roger Jr. became fascinated by electoral politics. At age 12 he volunteered to help out in the Goldwater campaign.

    • Censorship/Free Speech

      • Internet Freedom FoundationAn Indian Code of Conduct is not a solution for “de-platforming”

        On June 06, 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MEITY”) proposed amendments to Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021” (hereinafter, “IT Rules, 2021”) and invited comments on the draft. In our comments on the “Proposed draft amendment to the IT Rules, 2021” (hereinafter, “Draft Amendment”) we reiterated our demand to recall the IT Rules, 2021 and also this Draft Amendment. We highlighted how the draft amendments will deepen an injury to the digital rights of every Indian social media user. For instance they propose the establishment of a government censorship body for social media (the, "Grievance Appellate Committee) that will make bureaucrats arbiters of our online free speech!

    • Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

    • Civil Rights/Policing

      • ScheerpostThere Is Only One Thing Left to Do With the Supreme Court

        Farrah Hassen reminds readers that the Supreme Court may have the power to interpret the Constitution, but it is not above it.

      • TruthOutThe Supreme Court's Assault Is Far From Over. July 4 Is No Celebration.
      • Counter PunchHappy July Farce: An American Revolution Would be a Good Idea

        – New Left historian Carl Parrini to a generation of students at Northern Illinois University

        “Fuck your fireworks, fuck your Court, fuck its decisions, and fuck your Fourth.”

      • Common DreamsOn This July 4th, Abortion Rights Movement Says 'We're Not in the Mood for Fireworks'

        Under the banner "When women are not free, no one is free," reproductive rights defenders took to the streets of cities and towns across the United States on Monday for Independence Day abortion rights rallies in the wake of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade.

        "We don't feel free and we don't want to celebrate a country that is taking away rights."

      • Common DreamsOpinion | A 50-Year Attack by Right-Wing Corporate Forces Is Leading U.S. Back Towards Civil War

        The June 24th Supreme Court ruling nullifying Roe v Wade should not be viewed as an isolated event in America's cultural wars but instead as the result of a fifty-year conservative strategy to supplant US democracy with plutocracy. Although culture wars are an important aspect of this strategy, conservative SCOTUS cultural rulings are not the final objective but merely a stepping-stone to the ultimate goal: weakening the Federal system to the point where the US becomes, in effect, a confederacy. Conservatives are refighting the 1861 Civil War. And they're winning.

      • Common DreamsOpinion | This Right-Wing U.S. Supreme Court Is the New King George III

        The Declaration of Independence begins with the famous words, crafted by Thomas Jefferson...

      • Democracy Now“The Hill We Climb, If Only We Dare It”: Watch Amanda Gorman, Youngest Inaugural Poet in U.S. History

        Amanda Gorman became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history last year when she spoke at the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. She was 22 years old when she read “The Hill We Climb,” a poem she finished right after the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. We continue our July Fourth special broadcast with Gorman’s remarkable address.

      • Democracy Now“I Was Raped by My Father. Abortion Saved My Life”: Prof. Michele Goodwin on SCOTUS & the New Jane Crow

        As the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, we speak with law professor Michele Goodwin, who has written extensively about how the criminalization of abortion polices motherhood. She discusses how on the eve of the court’s oral arguments in the Dobbs case in November, she wrote about how an abortion saved her life. She describes how the U.S. has historically endangered and denied essential health services to Black and Brown women, and calls new abortion restrictions “the new Jane Crow,” warning that they will further criminalize reproductive health and encourage medical professionals to breach their patients’ confidentiality and report self-administered abortions to law enforcement.

      • Democracy Now“A Devastating Ruling”: Law Prof. Michele Goodwin & SCOTUS Attorney Kitty Kolbert on Overturning Roe

        As protests continue across the country in response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, we speak with two leading legal scholars. Kathryn “Kitty” Kolbert is co-founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights and argued the landmark case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1992, which upheld Roe v. Wade. She is the co-author of “Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom.” Michele Goodwin is chancellor’s professor at University of California, Irvine School of Law and author of “Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood.” Her new piece for The New York Times is headlined “No, Justice Alito, Reproductive Justice Is in the Constitution.”

  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal

      • Gonna Get Yours

        There is a lot of awesome audio content on Gemini and I realised I never wrote about what I do music-wise, time to change that! I play the bass in Gonna Get Yours, we play Oi! music since 2005. Looking as some backup I stubled upon some lyrics I wrote for our latest album. We had this song for a little while with a late 80s hardcore vibe but it had no lyrics. The singer asked me to write some the day before the recording and this is what I got. Funny how social networks was already a problem for me. Those are not great lyrics by any mean but I thought it would be fun to share.

      • Screen Magic, a Lantashi-short



        It was early morning in the Platinum Duckling. The inn's servants were moving about, cleaning up the tremedous mess left from the party of the night before. It had been something! With a raging Orc starting an incredible row, many of the servants were doing their best to piece together broken chairs and tables, while others swept up the glass and various liquids and fluids on the floor.

        Some customers had already wandered in, travelers staying at the inn who were looking for a bite to eat. They were limited to the side of the dining area that was already mopped and patched up. A few of the early-risers that lived in the area were also there grabbing food or information. There were some houses that surrounded the inn, which was located at a cross-roads between the western forests and the cities of the east.

        Sitting at one of the intact tables was a strange collection of adventurers - a Sylvan, a Horned-One, a Catfolk, a Minotaur, and a Pact.

    • Technical

      • Sysadmining: E-Mail

        E-mail is one of the oldest user applications on the Internet, only slightly younger than news and in this day and age most people leave it up to either Microsoft or Google to provide them with an e-mail address. There are real privacy concerns about giving up what has become a core of your online identity to a company like Google but that's not in scope for this article. One of the lesser known facts about e-mail is how important it is when taking care of UNIX-y infrastructure at any scale.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • Extending gopher protocol handling

          Playing around with my gemini to gopher bridge, I realised it would be advantageous if you could call some other protocol from gopher. My solution was to implement a "P" (for "Protocol") item type in gophermaps. To connect to Gemini, you'd use something like...


* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.



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