In the thirty-fifth episode of the WordPress Briefing, Josepha Haden Chomphosy tackles questions about the true intentions of the Five for the Future initiative.
LTT did it: they made a guide on how to play your Switch games on your Steam Deck. And I'm LIVING for it. Nintendo doesn't have a leg to stand on if they try to take their video down.
 Coming one and a half months after fwupd 1.8.1, the fwupd 1.8.2 release is here to introduce support for the OptionROM, CPD, and FPT firmware formats, which will be used to update future hardware that support these formats on your GNU/Linux distribution.
Fwupd 1.8.2 also adds support for new devices, including Corsair HARPOON RGB wireless mouse, Genesys M27fd AIM101, U-Boot devices writing simple FIT images, System76 launch_2, more PixArt wireless devices, as well as more Steelseries HID, Sonic, and Fizz devices.
LibreNMS is a free, open-source, and powerful network monitoring tool for Linux-based operating systems. In this tutorial, we will show you step-by-step instructions on how to install LibreNMS on Ubuntu 22.04.
Today, Foxglove announced the release of the Foxglove Studio snap. Foxglove Studio helps you experience the world as a robot does, providing a rich set of features to visualise data. By diversifying its distribution with a snap, Foxglove Studio is now available to millions of Linux users that can install this open-source tool with a single terminal command.
An input device is any hardware component that allows a user to enter data and instructions into a computer. Examples of common input devices include keyboards, mice, touchpads, and trackballs. Selecting the right input device for your needs is important for getting the most out of your computer. Different devices offer different levels of convenience and flexibility, so be sure to choose one that will work best for your individual workflow.
Just because you're running a Linux operating system doesn't mean that you won't run into problems from time to time. It's always good to have a backup plan, just in case a problem strikes. Perhaps a rare Linux virus will attack; perhaps you'll be targeted by ransomware scammers. Maybe the hard disk drive (HDD) will fail.
By cloning your Linux hard disk drive, you create a disk image that can be restored later. But how do you clone your Linux hard drive?
More than 60 new app icons have been added to the Papirus icon theme for Linux desktops.
A flood of new glyphs help boost Papirus’ phenomenally broad coverage further. There are new icons for the no-frills, focused audio player Amberol; Linux Mint’s document tool Thingy; and advanced webcam utility Webcamoid which is included in the latest versions of Ubuntu MATE.
Budgie desktop users will benefit from icons for the new Budgie Control Center, and users of Ubuntu Budgie get icons for the QuickChar, Window Shuffler, WallStreet, and Previews controls.
Some tray-based tools get some attention too, including Thunderbird companion Bird Tray, and the decentralised messaging client Gajim, and Franz fork Ferdi.
 KDE Plasma 5.24.6 LTS is here two months after the KDE Plasma 5.24.5 LTS update to bring those sticking with the long-term supported (LTS) Plasma desktop more bug fixes and improvements for a more reliable and stable Plasma desktop experience.
Improved in KDE Plasma 5.24.6 LTS is the Plasma Wayland session to make the screen recording system tray icon appear in a visible area, as well as to address a crash in the KWin window and composite manager when hitting Alt+Tan while the context menu for a window titlebar is visible.
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.24.6.
Plasma 5.24 was released in February 2022 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds two months' worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
In today’s fast paced world IT departments are under increasing pressure to deliver tangible outcomes for the business. To achieve the agility and innovation they need, more and more companies are turning to an open-source software (OSS) in a bid to achieve their goals. OSS has seen explosive growth in deployment, with Linux distributions and Kubernetes, being amongst some of the most popular. In the race to get ahead or at least keep pace with the competition, finding skilled staff can prove difficult. To bridge this skills gap, many enterprises are turning to Managed Services Providers (MSPs) to deliver solutions using OSS, to help fast track them to deployment.
 An open-source project that aims to make a classic Nokia like (small form factor) Linux phone has come under fire, by Nokia.
The project’s name was originally “Notkia“, which Nokia finds similar while potentially affecting its brand reputation, and infringement of Nokia’s rights.
While it is okay to protect your business, what is it with these companies sending infringement notices to projects that aren’t even a threat to them at its current state?
Here at Hackaday, we are big proponents of using the best tool for the job (or making your own tool if required). But when all you know how to use is Java, everything looks object-oriented. Bad jokes aside, it is important to have many tools at your disposal to allow you to choose wisely. Why not spend a few minutes with [No Boilerplate] and understand the basics of Rust?
The shots followed quickly: pat, pat, pat, pat! Seconds before it was a scene of jubilation: the crowd gathered at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles was celebrating Robert Kennedy’s victory in the California primary elections shouting: We want Bobby, we want Bobby! What had been an atmosphere of elation became suddenly a tragedy. It was exactly 10 minutes after midnight on June 5, 1968.
On the floor, holding a rosary of black beads with one hand while his other hand was held by Juan Romero, a hotel kitchen helper, lay the American Senator Robert Kennedy. He was the unquestionable star of the Democratic Party, with great chances of being next President of the United States. Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian with a gun still warm in his hand, was immediately arrested and charged with having shot Kennedy, killing him 25 hours later.
Although for many the introduction of color television would have seemed to be the pinnacle of analog broadcast television, the 1970s saw the development of stereo audio systems to go with TV broadcasts, including the all-digital NICAM. With NICAM broadcasts having ceased for about a decade now, the studio equipment for encoding and modulating NICAM can now be picked up for cheap. This led [Matthew€ Millman] to not only buy a stack of Philips NICAM studio gear, but also tear them down and set up a fully working NICAM encoding/decoding system with an Arcam Delta 150 as receiver and Philips PM5687 encoder.
But at the 2022 Wimbledon tennis championships on the grass courts of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Church Road, London, a young Tunisian woman gave a demonstration that deserves to be highlighted, more so even than the presence of the former champions who were re-united on the fabled Centre Court during its 100th anniversary celebration. Ons Jabeur gave an example of generosity that showed how win-win can be possible even in the most competitive of situations.
To set the stage: Wimbledon is The major tennis tournament of the year. Its uniqueness and prestige – it is the only one of the four Grand Slam tournaments on grass, the only tournament requiring the players to wear white, the only Grand Slam event that has not changed venue – make it the tournament players’ dream of winning. Just playing on Centre Court is the fantasy of every club player. Winning the Championship is beyond Nirvana. Victors have been known to celebrate by eating grass from the Centre Court. (Full disclosure: I have prepared my winning speech every year for over 60 years, and I have never been invited to play there. Far from it. A manipulated picture of me victoriously kissing the winner’s trophy hangs over my bed.)
[shoobs] relocated from Australia to Luxembourg, and was really missing the whole outdoor cooking scene that is apparently very common in those parts. Now living in a modest apartment building in the city, he had no easy way to recreate some of his favorite cooking methods — specifically that of Wok Hei (breath of a wok)€ — the art of Cantonese stir-frying which uses searing heat and a lot of flinging around of the food to mix it up with the burning oil. This results in a complex set of reactions utilizing smoking, caramelization, and Maillard reactions to produce the classic Cantonese smoky flavor. Not wanting an off-the-shelf solution [shoobs] took it on himself to build a balcony cooking station capable of the temperatures needed for Wok Hei, and documented it for our viewing pleasure.
[Mr Innovative] decided to make his version of a small pen plotter (video after the break) to make labels on masking tape. The result is an impressive compact machine that is remotely controlled using your smartphone. The plotter is constructed using several different techniques, a piece of plywood as the base, a 3D printed bracket for the motors and pen carriage, and a routed acrylic plate that holds the lead screw and linear rail assembly. The whole thing is controlled by an Arduino Nano mounted on a custom motor driver carrier board.
Her union president, Donna Christy, agreed. “We’ve submitted more than 100 proposals,” she told Our Schools, “and [district leaders] haven’t given much acknowledgment to most of our points.”
In June, PGCEA announced that negotiations with district administration over the current labor contract, which expired on June 30, had reached an€ “impasse,”€ WTOP reported, and the union took “the next step” to request mediation from the state’s Public School Labor Relations Board.
It started with [CHORL] making a promise to himself regarding constructing a new combat robot: no spending of money on the new robot.
As the power requirements of CPUs and GPUs in modern gaming machines continue to rise, they are quickly becoming more and more of a space heater that happens to play games. If you’re using your PC in a tight space with a door shut, you might find the temperature in your office rising relatively rapidly. Some solutions to this include fans, window AC units, or moving the computer somewhere else and routing cables back to the office. The fine folks at [Linus Tech Tips] tried something a little out of the box by putting the whole computer in a box.
Despite this résumé, in late June Biden was rebuked by former Senate colleagues on both sides of the aisle. They came together, unexpectedly,€ to block his nominations to a€ presidential commission that the White House and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) assumed would be un-controversial.
The Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission was created by the VA MISSION Act of 2018 to help shape veterans’ health care delivery. Rather than breaking with Donald Trump’s agenda of downsizing VA hospitals and clinics and privatizing their services, Biden has€ generally taken the same approach.
Conservative MP Steve Baker is reviving a Thatcherite pressure group with financial support from the chair of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, raising fears the organisation will serve as a new hub of opposition to green policies.€
Baker, a staunch critic of Britain’s net-zero measures, is due to relaunch Conservative Way Forward, which faced scrutiny in 2015 following the suicide of one of its employees, at an event in Westminster on Monday.
Kali Linux, the popular open source Linux distribution specialized for penetration testing, ethical hacking and security auditing, can now be used by Linode customers.
“Let’s eliminate these weapons before they eliminate us,” he said pointing out that nuclear weapons are a deadly reminder of countries’ inability to solve problems through dialogue and collaboration.
“These weapons offer false promises of security and deterrence—while guaranteeing only destruction, death, and endless brinksmanship,” he declared, in a video message to the conference, which concluded on June 23 in the Austrian capital.
What’s interesting to me is how the defenders got the threat model wrong. That attack isn’t normally associated with a prison break; it sounds more like a military action in a civil war...
Congressman Jamie Raskin said Sunday that more explosive testimony before Congress in the week ahead will help the American public better understand that what former President Donald Trump perpetrated on and before January 6, 2021 was a series of offensive actions and decisions unprecedented in all of American history.
Asked on "Face the Nation" by host Robert Acosta whether the scheduled hearing on Tuesday would "blow the roof of the house," something Raskin had previously said, the Democrat from Maryland responded: "Well, not literally, certainly. But I think what I meant is that when you add all of this up together, it is the greatest political offense against the union and by a president of the United States in our history, nothing comes close to it."
In late June, as I€ arrived at my weekly union stewards training, I€ stumbled upon a€ group of fellow delegates talking about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. While these labor activists primarily discussed revelations that Trump allegedly approved of rioters’ call to ââ¬â¹“hang Mike Pence,” their political conversation flew in the face of the idea that working people are indifferent about the congressional hearings on last year’s near-coup. Don’t just take my anecdote as evidenceââ¬â°—ââ¬â°look at the nearly 20 million people who watched the first€ hearing and the 13 million who tuned in on June 28 to catch Cassidy Hutchinson’s surprise daytime testimony. CNN reports that almost six out of ten people in the United States are following the hearings, and CBS finds that nearly 70 percent believe it’s important to find out the truth about January€ 6.€
The latest developments, including: – Analysis of Russian military losses – Why NATO membership for Finland and Sweden is bad news – Belarus threatens Poland – The risks of spillover conflicts expanding the war
Cuba, rather than exporting weapons around the world, has a long history of medical internationalism with Cuban doctors and medicines being a familiar sight from Pakistan to Peru. In fact, there is an international campaign for Cuban doctors to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Why would a country that floods the world with health care be targeted as a state sponsor of terrorism?
Washington’s Vindictiveness
A Washington Post headline read “Robert Crimo III, ‘Awake the Rapper,’ arrested in Highland Park shooting.” A Vice Newsheadline read “Police Arrest Local Rapper in Connection to Highland Park Mass Shooting.”
When the concept of bodycams was introduced, a lot of people thought it would be panacea, leading either to the end of police brutality or the easy weeding-out of bad actors. One might remember Barack Obama€ asking for $263 million€ for bodycams in the wake of Ferguson, saying police shootings were a “national problem” and he was committed to rolling back a “militarized culture.”
In spite of Biden’s reiteration afterwards of US adherence to the “one China” policy, his apparent gaffe – the third in nine months – would seem to signal a burgeoning US policy of “strategic clarity”, a shift from its decades-old policy of “strategic ambiguity”.
Do rich people owe their success to luck? The iconic business magazine Fortune has just put the spotlight on a new book with a new take on how much good fortune contributes to grand fortunes.
The danger that extreme wealth poses to democracy is ever-present, and the idea that it must be restrained is almost as old as democracy itself. In 1792, Thomas Paine wrote that the freedom of elections was "violated by the overbearing influence" of inherited wealth, and proposed an extremely aggressive wealth tax that would have put a hard ceiling on how much wealth a person could accumulate. Nearly a century ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously observed: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Over 124,000 internal corporate files and documents, including private communications between top executives, are the basis of new reporting published Sunday dubbed "The Uber Files"—a detailed look at the ride-hailing juggernaut that aggressively lobbied governments around the world to ease regulations and pass legislation friendly to the company's bottom line but often harmful to traditional taxi rivals and its own drivers.
First obtained by The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. and subsequently shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the trove of documents offers a damning picture of the U.S.-based tech company that revolutionized ride-hailing with a smartphone app that allowed independent drivers to become instant taxi cab drivers.
China's new economy is going through a critical transition period, and in the past two years, as VCs, our perceptions of industries, companies, technologies and investment logic have undergone a dramatic shift.
The Family Research Council’s multimillion-dollar headquarters sit on G Street in Washington, D.C., just steps from the U.S. Capitol and the White House, a spot ideally situated for its work as a right-wing policy think tank and political pressure group.
From its perch at the heart of the nation’s capital, the FRC has pushed for legislation banning gender-affirming surgery; filed amicus briefs supporting the overturning of Roe v. Wade; and advocated for religious exemptions to civil rights laws. Its longtime head, a former state lawmaker and ordained minister named Tony Perkins, claims credit for pushing the Republican platform rightward over the past two decades.
No chronology on this would be sufficient.€ But the recent turn of events has been something verging on spectacular.€ There was partygate, which demonstrated the fullness of contempt shown by the Prime Minister and his staff to their constituents.€ In April, he was fined for breaking his government’s own lockdown rules, having attended a gathering for his birthday in June 2020.€ He also apologised for attending a “bring your own booze” party held in the Downing Street garden held during the first lockdown.€ Despite showing some contrition, he believed, for the most part, that he had been following the rules and operating within them.
The occasion led to fines aplenty, though even the Police, at some point, drew a line underneath the sad and sorry saga.€ Sue Gray, the senior civil servant tasked with investigating a series of social events held by political staff, came up with a grave conclusion.€ “The senior leadership at the centre, both political and official, must bear responsibility for this culture.”
In conjunction with America’s recent annual July 4th celebration of independence from the British monarchy as declared in 1776, it seems worth noting that our former rulers seem to have long outdone us when it comes to claims of “representative democracy.”
For one thing, the British get more democratic representation than Americans. A LOT more.
Article 1 of the UN Charter says that one of the purposes of the UN is “to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.” However, what “self-determination” means in specific international legal cases is far from a settled debate. Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute explains that
Away from the Tory Babel over who will be the top “world-leading” sociopath, I spent the last two evenings in the company of decent people. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, were in Glasgow and Edinburgh for the screening of “Ithaka”, the documentary that follows the fight by Julian Assange’s family to have him freed. I was moderating the Q & A.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaves many among the more than 215,600 women on parole and probation in states that ban abortion to face a technical violation that might lead to reincarceration if they travel across state lines for the medical procedure.€
Comments by White House communications director Kate Bedingfield over the weekend have touched a fresh nerve among progressives already frustrated by the Biden administration's tepid response to the right-wing attack on abortion rights including the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade last month.
"The right rampages and the leadership of the Dems wage war on the left."
A related blog post describes the idiocy of requiring an app to do anything these days.
But the situation is even worse!
Not long ago you could get a cup of coffee with some change in your pocket. Never mind inflation, and the fact that a fancy latte with nut milk pricing is approaching $10.00. Many places won't even take a $10.00 bill, US legal tender.
Now why would someone not take cash? We've reached a new level of idiocy.
A family member with an MBA pitched in: "Processing cash is really expensive. We recommend that businesses avoid cash". Huh? I thought the purpose of owning a brick and mortar business was to take cash in exchange for goods and services. Credit cards are expensive with 3-5% surcharges...
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I outright boycott places that don't take cash, after letting the poor employees know that they are participating in a terrible racist plot. Not that they need to hear it, but perhaps a few nearby customers will change their mind. But in reality I mostly stay quiet.
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