𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, March 21, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Mon 22 Mar 02:39:44 GMT 2021 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmcSwMjzRJLVJJk1ktjRc1CEDJ92YWeVn9qVE8ATewiQty QmcR4sVbAs9c71Bh9t9M8xCk5YQJAHUKEK9hpNtc3ZUxnk Qmf4okseUL3sX9QU1gV324WnMKDmVEvoX2vboMhRWAVa9A QmW4WcUNmujGK5kcyYfeyVfYpji6GmKLMaxty6WdhcgNhU QmWJmmXoWSvDVv1GXCBeefymKQ4ous4fqKHL8U96jvMRWM QmZABDo4xMH4KexrW2Lkih6fAve7ujxsBUWpbp6uCF4KY7 QmVqgUwgy82Dv9wbRCHDf8Az5JAxCfFrTdgSmUg7JHckhG QmbwY85pQ1AiuwtWfdbNfv9gxDga5UyiXJrZ1QHd6hbsj7 QmWp121r1GXcbyqSwDPppCeSNezNLzAkSn1ouaS1a1jokb QmdoZcf4iwb2ztjbdiuYHAC9yqNAxqjJ7bLxyu4mWe3eir Qmeh8C9MD58oRRQTZMdxXzz1fPnkNNkZLDGMUBXUZtfYcA QmQwVB9CHJEF8FeK5qE4nVrEt3T4j18queqDGsX1tco7Hu QmbvjnjBPkV9NuX5KzgE4i1MMMvJAtyqXZsxGtid1PSaxN QmR4biofPhoiD3JC7c8mnGqxWSMBkqoxwCBZQ7dT7pthDc QmSA9tsJUQyqpRRdqkKF9RwzKJcTetjDtoCFf54WRpJzdT QmVcJzDwydxRsdrBEoE7ieprrcQgWHRfbAN6LkeYP2GLno QmeMCTKga6Gc9Jauun7YUupAZBj2asqir5j5Y383skr2HP QmUDkM7S8nKeCBcqjF1J1WqKQhBeUg6ckirMnvYYYSEhmL QmVNPxQExEpP4QSgXf39aZaHYfBr16sxUbpV5A8n6o6iuu QmeCsgPX6MV7CCyh4KFweWk65cHTCRdXoUejp7pgQtgiDm QmT3sD7E4z8nzK4tqDm2iAN9rdEQRN2TVetcsYVJtzXw35 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ The Anatomy of Means and Methods for Discrediting a Site (and How to Avoid Them) | Techrights ⦿ Almost 100 Pages of Self-Congratulatory Marketing Isn’t a Case of Informing the Administrative Council of the EPO But Misleading It Using Fluff and Buzzwords | Techrights ⦿ Hey, Hi, Welcome to the EPO | Techrights ⦿ So-called ’Coup’ Attempts and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) | Techrights ⦿ Trolling Community Developers of GNU/Linux Via Patent Trolls - Part IV: GPL Violators Apparently Use Patents to Bully People Aware of These Violations | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 20, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ Know Your Non-Profit... | Techrights ⦿ Open Source Initiative (OSI): A Boat Without a Captain | Techrights ⦿ Richard Stallmman: Unjust Computing Clamps Down | Techrights ⦿ Surfing Articles on the Internet With a GUI Client/Browser and Less Than One Megabyte of RAM | Techrights ⦿ A First Look at the Alpha of Moonlander, a Graphical Gemini Client/Browser | Techrights ⦿ Richard Stallman is Coming Back to the Board of the Free Software Foundation, Founded by Himself 35 Years Ago (Updatedx3) | Techrights ⦿ Twitter and Hacker News Are Sensitive (Updated) | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/discrediting-sites/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/epo-fluff/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/hey-hi-at-the-epo/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/internet-relay-chat/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/intimidation-with-patents/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/irc-log-200321/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/know-your-non-profit/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/leaderless-osi/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/linuxreviews-rms-talk/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/news-surfing-over-gemini/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/review-of-moonlander/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/richard-stallman-is-coming-back-to-the-board-of-the-free-software-foundation-founded-by-himself-35-years-ago/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/sensitive-control-media/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/peazip-7-8-released/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 83 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/discrediting-sites/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/discrediting-sites/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ The_Anatomy_of_Means_and_Methods_for_Discrediting_a_Site_(and_How_to_Avoid Them)⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 12:49 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/site-smearing.webm Summary: Some operational lessons learned from the mistakes of others and some of the weaknesses identified by us too (over the years/decades) THE LESSONS that can be learned from fellow activists and journalists, I think, is that centralised social control networks are better off avoided altogether. Audience appreciative of the work can follow the original site and comment directly, without having to rely on third parties that censor and induce self- censorship. “In sites like Reddit and even ‘Hacker’ [sic] ‘News’ [sic] there are still attempts to discredit the messenger rather than the message (when it’s not convenient to the corporate forces that dominate those sites).”Throughout the day today, while recording a record number of videos (and even losing one due to microphone on mute), there were some attacks on Tux Machines. DDOS attacks are possible to reduce by adopting a static page generator, which we definitely intend to (in the future; how long remains unknown at this point). But as hinted earlier today (or alluded to in the post about IRC), smears by association/connotation/affiliation are a very major problem — a problem which has become considerable to us. It’s important to weed out trolling and “concern trolling” whose sole purpose is to undermine sites. Some people have mastered this skill and they can de-platform channels/users, especially in faceless sites that are run by monopolies. We’re seen countless examples of sites losing their voice because of poor choices of platform/s. The video above discusses some of those points and gives examples. If properly prepared and responsive to the issue, one can avert disaster. Tomorrow we’ll publish some internal EPO documents and on Tuesday comes a finale. Then, we move on to the next EPO series. As noted in the video, generally producing videos helps avoid the false accusations that the sites are inauthentic, or bots, or foreign agents etc. (common smear tactics that we’ve seen weaponised against UPC complainants, even behind the scenes). Sometimes sites do not perish per se but lose control or fall into hands contrary to what they originally stood for. IP Kat is one good example of it; behind closed doors some strange things were happening half a decade ago, resulting in censorship of any sort of coverage of Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos scandals. When we started in 2006 we were very much focused on software_patents, so attempts to undermine us were limited to companies like Novell and then Microsoft. In sites like Reddit and even ‘Hacker’ [sic] ‘News’ [sic] there are still attempts to discredit the messenger rather than the message (when it’s not convenient to the corporate forces that dominate those sites). We’ve seen it done to Wikileaks countless times, e.g. the attempts to personify the site and then speak out against Julian Assange instead of what was shown by Wikileaks, the site/platform. █ “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” ― Frank Zappa ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 169 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/epo-fluff/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/epo-fluff/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Almost_100_Pages_of_Self-Congratulatory_Marketing_Isn’t_a_Case_of_Informing the_Administrative_Council_of_the_EPO_But_Misleading_It_Using_Fluff_and Buzzwords⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Europe, Marketing, Microsoft, Patents at 5:12 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz And pictures like the one below: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_IT_report⦈_ Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/epo-annual-report.webm Summary: The video above quickly runs through nearly 100 pages of self- promotional fluff; the Administrative Council of the EPO, which meets in a few days, is being misled or shamelessly lied to by the Office YESTERDAY we showed that it is notoriously_hard_to_find_documents associated with meetings of the Administrative Council of the EPO, so we’ve made available here a_recent_document and this_addendum (CA/40/20 and CA/40/20 Add. 5, respectively). “What’s worth noting (and seeing; it’s covered hurriedly in the video above) is how the Office exploits “diversity” (which it is patently lacking) and greenwashing tactics to paint itself as ethical, still pretending to have a real dialogue with the union (SUEPO), misleading about “quality”, and bragging about bribing the media for lots of puff pieces and TV ‘air time’…”They’re both PDF files, outlined as followed: CA/40/20 Munich, 12.06.2020 SUBJECT: Annual Review 2019 SUBMITTED BY: President of the European Patent Office ADDRESSEES: Administrative Council (for information) CA/40/20 Add. 5 Munich, 12.06.2020 SUBJECT: IT Report 2019 – Driving digital transformation SUBMITTED BY: President of the European Patent Office ADDRESSEES: Administrative Council (for information) One can find the original at https://www.epo.org/about-us/annual-reports- statistics/annual-report/2019/deeper-look/it.html but it takes some efforts to locate because the search facility at epo.org is mostly broken (we demonstrated this in a video one day ago). “Some other interesting EPO documents,” as a source noted to us, show just how little the Administrative Council of the EPO is being told about the real situation at the Office. “Two more interesting EPO documents which are publicly available are these ones which contain information about the ongoing “digital transformation” for the information of the Administrative Council…” Let’s take a look at the part about “IT” (a direct link to “Deeper_look_at:_IT –_driving_digital_transformation” (warning: epo.org link) is possible to reach through navigation menus). “These documents were submitted to the Administrative Council “for information” in June 2020 by the Office Administration,” a source said. “The “IT Report 2019 – Driving digital transformation” is full of buzzwords like “fasttrack digitalisation”, “IT delivery highway”, “Kubernetes” and “migrating to cloud- native architectures”.” In the video above (towards the end) we examine key pages. Page 3 of 19 says: Accelerating delivery via a new highway Based on a new reference architecture (Kubernetes), we launched a technical platform for streamlined continuous delivery (an IT delivery “highway”). After building cross-functional teams and improving co-operation with all areas of the EPO, we began to prepare several pilots and create product teams. These initiatives were designed to pave the way for fasttrack digitalisation and paperless solutions for the patent granting process (PGP). PGP would typically be associated with encryption, but not_at_the_EPO. Page 4 of 19 says: Migrating to cloud-native architectures One of our goals is to simplify our overly-complex application landscape, replacing it with a harmonised, open source IT architecture. We embarked upon this journey in 2019 by beginning to decommission obsolete hardware and software, and roll out state-of- the-art alternatives. Going forward, we intend to decouple from our legacy systems and migrate to cloud-native architectures. This will positively impact information security, lower operating costs and ensure that our key applications are future-ready. We’ve looked at nearly 100 pages and didn’t see Microsoft mentioned except in relation to Vista_10 and OOXML. The report is long and full of pictures/charts. “But there doesn’t seem to be anything about the issue of GDPR compliance or any attempt to address the potential risks in outsourcing data processing to US-based multinationals like Microsoft,” our source emphasised. “Also the annual audit reports from the Board of Auditors don’t appear to contain any meaningful analysis of these issues. So it seems that the Administrative Council is not being properly briefed about what is happening to the EPO’s infrastructure.” In the next part (tomorrow) we shall look at more internal documents. What’s worth noting (and seeing; it’s covered hurriedly in the video above) is how the Office exploits “diversity” (which it is patently lacking) and greenwashing tactics to paint itself as ethical, still pretending to have a real dialogue with the union (SUEPO), misleading about “quality”, and bragging about bribing the media for lots of puff pieces and TV ‘air time’… █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣴⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣶⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⢠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡁⠈⠋⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⠙⠃⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣻⣶⣄⠀⠈⠉⢉⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠙⠉⡁⠀⢀⣤⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⡄⢄⣸⣿⣿⢿⣿⣅⠀⢠⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⡿⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣹⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢀⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⢉⣿⣿⠀⢸⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⢇⣿⠇⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠈⠉⠉⠿⠏⠩⡏⠻⠛⢠⣄⠠⢀⣾⣿⣿⠀⠈⣷⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢜⣾⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⢠⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⡿⠁⣔⣾⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⢻⣿⠳⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⢸⣿⣿⡟⣠⣼⣿⠇⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠻⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⠏⢠⢾⣿⣿⡏⣿⣯⠁⠀⠘⣿⣤⡎⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⡟⣼⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⡟⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣖⠀⢙⣿⣿⣿⡟⣀⢳⢰⣿⣿⣧⢻⣿⠇⠀⠐⢹⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣷⣿⣿⡿⢼⣿⡗⠁⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢘⣌⣿⣿⣿⢧⡅⡆⣾⢻⣟⣿⡸⣿⣷⠀⠀⠡⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡏⠀⠘⣿⣿⣾⢻⡟⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣸⣿⣿⣿⠘⢠⡗⡇⢜⡿⠿⣇⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⢹⣿⠈⢁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣶⣾⡿⣿⢻⡿⢱⠃⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⠇⣼⢱⠱⠿⣀⠀⢺⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⡄⣿⡶⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡿⣹⣿⣿⣇⣴⡇⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⠹⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⢻⡏⢧⣿⡎⣾⣿⡏⣧⣾⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢩⣌⠛⣿⣮⡟⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⡇⣻⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⡿⡇⣿⣿⣿⠀⢹⣿⡿⠀⠀⠘⣷⢸⣿⠀⣿⣿⡇⢻⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠸⣿⠹⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣷⢻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣧⣷⣿⣿⣿⡤⢅⣻⡇⠀⠀⠀⢻⣾⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⣿⣆⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⠙⣧⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⢣⣀⣸⡀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣾⡿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣷⢸⣿⣧⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢼⡿⢩⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⡟⣸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⡀⡀⠀⠸⣿⣿⡨⠍⢸⣿⣿⠐⠀⢸⣂⣀⣀⣀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣥⠘⠛⠛⢄⣩⣳⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣶⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⠿⠉⠛⠉⠉⠋ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 340 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/hey-hi-at-the-epo/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/hey-hi-at-the-epo/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Hey,_Hi,_Welcome_to_the_EPO⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 5:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz “Judge Jacob once said that the “technical” excuse of the EPO was a restatement of the same problem. In other words, it’s a loophole to make software patentable anyway, despite the exclusion in the law.” –A_comment_made_days_ago 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇SORRY, WE DON'T DO SOFTWARE PATENTS HERE. HEY HI! Shit, the guidebook says grant 'AI'.⦈ Summary: The EPO keeps granting European_software_patents to fake so-called ‘production’ and examiners are compelled to obey corrupt management instead of following the EPC (which this management violates) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⢶⣦⣠⣶⣶⣄⣶⣶⣶⡄⣶⣶⣦⢲⣶⣶⡖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⣿⣿⣿⠘⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣽⣿⢻⣿⣿⡟⣿⣗⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⢠⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⡿⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⢀⣴⡟⢷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠉⠉⢀⣉⠁⠉⠁⠉⠁⠉⠀⠈⠁⠘⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠉⡉⣂⣌⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⢸⡿⢿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⣿⣧⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⡟⠃⠀⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣼⣿⢿⠟⣿⣿⠃⠀⣿⡟⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⢰⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢸⣧⣼⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣯⣷⣶⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⢀⣀⣤⣴⣶⣿⡿⠿⠛⠁⠀⠸⠃⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣩⣶⣤⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠁⠀⠐⠚⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠚⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠁⠀⠙⠛⠛⠛⠉⠚⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠒⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 431 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/internet-relay-chat/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/internet-relay-chat/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ So-called_‘Coup’_Attempts_and_Internet_Relay_Chat_(IRC)⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 9:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/irc-speech.webm Summary: In order to keep our Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels on topic and reasonably troll-free we’re temporarily changing the channel mods somewhat; this video explains how and why THE connection or the link between Free software and free speech is very strong. But free speech maximalism can also be leveraged or exploited against Free software advocacy, mostly by interjecting stuff into it to falsely associate it with dangerous cults, such as those who think that all women should be presumed spies and provocateurs. Several sites connected to Microsoft recently attempted to publicly shame Free software by associating it with radical, racist people. We’ve decided to omit links to that. “We never delete (censor) anything, we didn’t kickban anyone, but to keep focused on our goals we need to change the way the channels work.”Techrights has used Freenode for its community for a very long time (since 2008) and the FSF uses it too. So does the GNU Project. It’s not really a threat to Freedom as long as the protocol itself isn’t proprietary. When I first used IRC I was about 13 or 14 and back then DALNet was ‘all the rage’. For Free software projects Freenode is like a de facto standard or default, even if the current owners might be somewhat dodgy (we do not exchange passwords or anything over IRC, we use SSH and PGP for critical operations). Some might ask, why use Freenode at all and not self-host? Well, given the number of people parking in channels (including unknown people), even if we did not publish IRC logs, everyone else would be able to. We’ve already seen those looking to maintain private chats (e.g. Wikileaks) having FBI moles among them, in effect leaking out internal communications. So that approach is inherently deficient, especially for open chats that welcome strangers. When anyone can just enter and spew out garbage — maybe even deliberately — there’s growing risk of discreditisation by association. We’ve seen that too in the distant past. Recently we’ve come under more and more of those attacks (assuming they’re attack vectors), so just as we limited who can speak when Freenode itself was under attack (spam and defamation attacks, network-wide) we’re temporarily back to it while we work on an important series. IRC is here to stay, but we need to be careful not to allow it to be hijacked by rogue elements. We never delete (censor) anything, we didn’t kickban anyone, but to keep focused on our goals we need to change the way the channels work. At least for now, at least temporarily. █ Side note/afterthought: An hour later and 600MB of video later I came to realise that I had muted the microphone (by accident, wrong press on the keyboard) and basically ruined a very long recording. Upon having a second go, I made is a lot more concise. This happened in the past and will probably happen again some time in the future (without professional recording equipment it’s hard to have visible indicator of microphone status). ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 503 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/intimidation-with-patents/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/intimidation-with-patents/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Trolling_Community_Developers_of_GNU/Linux_Via_Patent_Trolls_—_Part_IV:_GPL Violators_Apparently_Use_Patents_to_Bully_People_Aware_of_These_Violations⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Europe, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, GPL, Patents at 6: 51 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Dog eat dog barks⦈ Summary: Software patents and other ludicrous patents are being used as tools of extortion and blackmail not just for financial gain but also coercive power, including (apparently) efforts to silence critics and exposers THIS is the final part of a series that we started early in the month (see Part I, Part_II, and Part_III). Some more background information was published here last year [1, 2]. In a nutshell, the real Free software community (not monopolies) is under attack from software patents and monopolies like IBM and Google couldn’t care any less. They want us to keep thinking that OIN miraculously tackles the threat, along with LOT, which is closely_connected_to OIN. They’re both proponents of software patents and even Microsoft_apologists (no matter if Microsoft still blackmails Linux with patents). “They want us to keep thinking that OIN miraculously tackles the threat, along with LOT, which is closely connected to OIN.”Today we deal with one example where software patents are being leveraged to attack a GNU/Linux distribution and people aren’t supposed to know about it (threats aren’t always aired or broadcast out in the open). “I’ve managed to clean room reverse engineer Dolby Vision (at least the LLDV specification),” one developer told us, “with only an HDMI analyser and can get it to work without any additional hardware — proving that it’s a true software implementation and not patentable in our territories. But I’m not sure I want to support their proprietary format and would rather see it die a slow death. With that said — open sourcing the implementation may be a way to achieve this.” “As we also noted before, there are GPL violations committed by the companies that bully Free software developers.”By “territories” the developer means Europe. As the EPO grants European_software_patents (Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos basically violate the EPC) software developers based in Europe are under constant threat. Even if the patents are easy to invalidate in court, it won’t be cheap. Especially if those patents are to be challenged en masse or in bulk. As a previous part noted, Dolby is shaking down developers using proxies (as is typical these days). “I’m hopeful that VIA / Dolby have moved on with their shakedowns,” the developer told us, “but recognise that this behaviour isn’t acceptable.” As we also noted before, there are GPL violations committed by the companies that bully Free software developers. What hypocrites… 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Dog eat dog pees⦈ “AMLogic definitely introduced that Dolby Vision binary in to their U-Boots sources,” we’ve been told, “but I can’t see any linking / building against it from a quick grep of the sources. The kernel module is handed out to Dolby certified customers and shipped to those that purchase boxes from those customers. The module is loaded on boot and is marked as GPL but no source is provided. I think this is a clear-cut GPL violation.” “Seems big,” a Techrights Associate said. “A lot of companies avoid acknowledging that the actual goal of the license is to get the source out in the hands of the public.” “About the rough outline, it’s not just about the GPL violation, it is that the code has not been published, that is (part of) what is involved in the GPL violation. 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Know_Your_Non-Profit…⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, FSF, OSI at 1:33 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/osi-fsf.webm Summary: Incredulous observers, disbelieving in the message of organisations removed from their founder/s (e.g. Linux_Foundation and ‘Mother Jones’), need to better understand the underlying facts and who stands to benefit from shift of power THE situation at_the_FSF and at_the_OSI was described here over the past 18 hours or so, albeit only in written form. The video examines the recent events and what they tell us about the direction taken by the forefront authorities in “Free software” and “Open Source”, respectively. We look at some of the relevant Web pages and what they teach us about the strategy and motivation, e.g. awarding the person who worked to remove the FSF’s founder from the FSF and mentioning that an OSI election had been compromised… only to be mentioned days after the election was over. “The video examines the recent events and what they tell us about the direction taken by the forefront authorities in “Free software” and “Open Source”, respectively.”While we generally support “Free software” and “Open Source” (the latter has become more about openwashing and reputation laundering for monopolies in recent years) we need to understand what the bodies that govern those things are up to. The FSF lost some credibility when it mistreated its founder (Alex Oliva too decided to leave a few months back) and the OSI lost both co-founders; one of them was even banned from the mailing lists (of the organisation he had co-founded). Either it’s just an incredible coincidence that all of this is happening (Linus Torvalds 2018, Richard Stallman 2019, both OSI co-founders 2020) or some forces work to engineer phony ‘scandals’ which in turn leave a leadership vacuum, soon to be exploited by non-engineers that are easy for corporate power (sometimes monopolies) to manipulate, usually disguised as politeness, mannerism, and tolerance (equating_companies_that_bomb people_with_tolerance_is_quite_an_incredibly_stretch/slant). █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 813 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/leaderless-osi/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/leaderless-osi/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Open_Source_Initiative_(OSI):_A_Boat_Without_a_Captain⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, OSI at 6:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Hong_Phuc_Dang_announces_victory_on_LinkedIn⦈_ Summary: A leaderless Open Source Initiative (OSI) isn’t functioning anymore; it can barely even conduct a process by which to decide who its leaders will be THE two founders of the OSI stepped aside last year. Simon Phipps is almost no longer involved either, right? The General Manager of the OSI (their sole full- time member of staff)? He left abruptly months ago. So who actually runs the OSI? Why is the majority of its budget (half_or_more_than_half_of_it) funneled to help Microsoft monopolise “Open Source”? Why would any individual people (“members” or “supporters”) give them a portion of their salaries? It’s not even clear who runs the OSI anymore… “Why would any individual people (“members” or “supporters”) give them a portion of their salaries? It’s not even clear who runs the OSI anymore…”The OSI itself would probably not hesitate to admit a state of disarray. As we noted_(briefly,_in_passing)_last_night, the OSI had suffered a compromised election, maybe even a security breach (hard to tell; no real transparency). Hong Phuc Dang, shown above, thought she had won, but dang! Not so fast… “OSI election vulnerability in process,” one reader told us, led to the OSI “asking users to “vote again” March 23 – April 2 – after… Hong Phuc Dang announces victory on LinkedIn.” (Microsoft) “Apparently,” the reader told us, “there was a “vulnerability” in the election process as announced by Deb Nicholson. Looks like the_edit_was_made_on_the 19th… [i.e.] 3 days after… election closed.” “So what is this vague vulnerability,” our reader asked aloud, “can we get details?” Here’s where_to_look. Our reader told us she had checked this and the original election was “running from March 5 through March 16.” “Hong Phuc Dang, shown above, thought she had won, but dang! Not so fast…”This can be confirmed in the official sources/site. “On March 18, Hong Phuc Dang announced she won…” (image above) “Today, I saw this: “Because of a vulnerability in our voting process, we are re-running our 2021 Board Election. We sincerely hope you will take a minute to vote again. New election starts: March 23rd, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. PDT New election closes: April 2nd, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. PDT” “Perens mentioned something about a system problem in one of his mailing list posts just before he jumped ship,” our reader recalled. “I wonder if this is what he was referring to. At any rate, these pebbles leftover after the implosion and demise are not even holding on well. How do you botch up yearly voting? That takes some effort!” “Either way, the OSI is in a bad and sad state. Its most major demise/collapse happened last year.”“Also,” she added, as a side note, “what’s with the %20s in the first wiki link… that seems like something from back when people used spaces, right?” She was referring to URLs with “OSI%20Board%20of%20Directors”, “Board%20Member%20Elections” and “2021%20Individual%20″… or “%20Affiliate%20Elections” (maybe they don’t know how to use the wiki software properly; maybe they even use Windows). Either way, the OSI is in a bad and sad state. Its most major demise/collapse happened_last_year. Some of its leadership is nowadays openwashing professionals, not Free software (or Open Source) champions and some are using operating systems that are proprietary, which says where they stand on the real (core) issues. █ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣯⢈⢉⣍⠉⣇⣠⣍⣉⣉⡇⣈⢉⣉⠉⣿⣹⣢⣉⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣏⠛⠛⠛⠋⠛⣻⠋⢻⡉⠝⠉⠙⠙⠹⠋⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣰⣿⡛⠋⡟⡟⠟⠙⡛⢛⡟⣿⠉⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣿⣷⣶⣿⣶⣷⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⣿⣿⡇⡌⠉⡇⣍⢝⡍⠉⢩⢙⠅⡇⠩⣻⠍⠉⢸⣯⠉⡋⠁⡋⡫⠨⠉⠁⡇⠭⢹⠨⡝⢙⡏⢈⠉⠉⠉⣿⢘⠉⠉⢩⠩⠉⡇⢉⢈⠁⠉⡉⢈⢉⢙⡇⠡⡁⠀⢌⡇⠉⠙⠙⡍⢸⠩⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⣿⣿⡟⡻⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⢿⣟⡋⠿⠿⠿⠾⢿⠻⠿⡿⢿⢹⠟⠛⠛⢻⡿⠻⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠾⠿⠛⠿⠿⠿⢿⠻⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡟⠿⡿⠟⢿⡗⠿⠿⠿⢿⡿⢿⠿⠿⢿⠿⢻⠿⢿⡟⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⣿⣿⡷⣾⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣷⣶⣶⣷⣶⣾⣶⣶⣷⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣧⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣿⣴⣶⣶⣾⣷⣾⣶⣶⣶⣷⣿⣶⣶⣾⣷⣾⣶⣮⣾⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⣿⣿⣇⣲⣅⣸⣀⢀⣐⣀⣀⣆⣷⡁⢸⢠⣀⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠃ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠴⠄⠤⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣧⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 932 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/linuxreviews-rms-talk/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/linuxreviews-rms-talk/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Richard_Stallmman:_Unjust_Computing_Clamps_Down⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Videos at 7:27 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link https://yoona.everdot.org/v/Unjust_computing_clamps_down.vp8.webm Credit: LinuxReviews ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 958 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/news-surfing-over-gemini/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/news-surfing-over-gemini/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Surfing_Articles_on_the_Internet_With_a_GUI_Client/Browser_and_Less_Than_One Megabyte_of_RAM⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 8:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/gemini-simplynews.webm Summary: We take a quick look at SimplyNews in Moonlander and explain why more people may wish to consider Gemini for their news surfing/reading FOLLOWING this morning’s review_of_Moonlander we’re explaining why people might want to use Gemini, e.g. for reading news without all the surveillance and clutter/noise/propaganda. Some weeks ago SimplyNews_was_announced; it converts some mainstream news sites and tabloids into Gemini pages, which are indexed in gemini://simplynews.metalune.xyz (I show this in the video above). We’ve already explained how_to_set_up_a_Gemini_server_of_your_own_with_agate (Free software). It’s easier than setting up a Web site and it’s so simple/light that it can be self-hosted. Therefore also cheaper… █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇RAM usage of Moonlander⦈ RAM usage of Moonlander ⡟⠉⠉⣿⡟⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠻⠻⠛⢻⠟⠟⡛⠛⠟⠛⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣟⢿⡿⠛⠛⣿⣟⣭⣻⡇ ⠁⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠈⠋⠈⠁⠀⠀⠉⠉⠛⠁⠁ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡶⠶⠶⡆⣿⣶⠶⠶⣶⡶⠶⡶⠶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢸⡇⣿⡿⠿⢿⠿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢸⣷⣴⣔⣥⣤⣦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣀⡇⣿⣿⣀⣉⣿⣠⣀⣧⣴⣠⣠⣐⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣾⢸⡇⣿⣇⣀⣸⣧⣇⣤⣠⣄⣿⣿⣦⣾⡇ ⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣮⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣵⣿⣬⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣼⣧⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⡅ ⣶⢶⢶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⣶⣶⡶⡶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⣶⣶⠶⠶⢶⢶⠶⢶⣶⡆⣶⢶⢶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⣶⣶⠶⠆ ⣿⣠⣀⣀⣰⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣇⣡⣨⣀⣠⣆⣀⣠⣄⣀⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣘⣠⣄⣸⣆⣈⣿⡇⣿⣈⣠⣠⣀⣠⣢⡠⣰⣧⣮⡇⣿⣿⣊⡀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⣌⣊⣉⣱⣟⣈⣱⣑⣈⣉⣞⣌⢑⣕⣁⣷⣉⣁⡕⢉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣈⡠⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣨⣀⣀⣿⣔⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⡭⠭⠭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢩⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⠭⣭⢭⢭⡭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⡅ ⣇⠀⢀⣟⣀⢐⡁⣀⣔⣀⣰⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣢⢳⣰⣠⣀⣇⣔⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1012 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/review-of-moonlander/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/review-of-moonlander/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ A_First_Look_at_the_Alpha_of_Moonlander,_a_Graphical_Gemini_Client/Browser⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Review at 4:09 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/gemini-with-moonlander.webm Summary: There’s now yet another option for browsing Gemini space (with Gemini protocol, gemini://) and it’s called Moonlander, a GTK3-based application BROWSING Gemini capsules isn’t easy because getting software for Gemini is not yet easy; in most GNU/Linux distributions there’s nothing in software repositories for this purpose, so people must download binaries or compile from source, at least for now. “Amfora has a lot more features, but the downside is that it doesn’t work with a mouse and textual elements are always of the same size, even headings.”Last night in_the_Gemini_mailing_list the first alpha of Moonlander was announced and then received some_feedback_regarding_accessibility. The software is now available for_download_(AppImage) and I’ve taken it for a spin to demonstrate its simplicity. So far I’ve seen no crashes and bugs. Maybe it’s considered alpha because of the lack of features. Amfora has a lot more features, but the downside is that it doesn’t work with a mouse and textual elements are always of the same size, even headings. Both are developed in Rust. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1056 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/richard-stallman-is-coming-back-to-the-board-of-the-free-software-foundation-founded-by-himself-35-years-ago/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/richard-stallman-is-coming-back-to-the-board-of-the-free-software-foundation-founded-by-himself-35-years-ago/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Richard_Stallman_is_Coming_Back_to_the_Board_of_the_Free_Software_Foundation, Founded_by_Himself_35_Years_Ago_(Updatedx3)⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, FSF, GNU/Linux at 3:17 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Richard Stallman is back⦈ Summary: Richard Stallman says he’s coming back to the FSF and he will hopefully lead the FSF again Richard Stallman is “awaiting his reelection as President,” told us someone in IRC, based on LibrePlanet (streaming_now). According to this person, “the FSF is ready to go public with him in the lead [and] he’s talking on LibrePlanet, I’m listening to the stream [...] he announced his return to the board of the directors…” “When we have the video we’ll share it here.”Mr. Oliva speaks there this weekend, with help from RMS. They_recommend_Gemini, too. The person we heard from moreover added (later): “my information source confirms that RMS is returning to the board, but that a recording of the stream will only be available after the talk is over” (soon). When we have the video we’ll share it here. █ Update: Early_reaction_from_Leah_Rowe_(@n4of7): “I’m very happy to see Richard Stallman re-instated at the @fsf board of directors. It was announced today in the LibrePlanet streams. He’s not president but he’s on the board. FSF is not the same without him. They need his strength, and his passion.” Update #2: RMS is back in the FSF Board, according to Mr. Oliva. “He’s announced it in his LP speech,” he told us, “and there was huge cheering in the IRC channels. At last I can talk about it, and say I kept my commitments ;-)” Some old rants were brought back, and I posted: “false information was published, opportunists leveraged it for political reasons, lots of people were misled. I’m glad injustice has now been reduced, and that so many people kept on supporting both rms and the fsf” “You may wish to use this quote ;-)” Mr. Oliva, to his credit, took a lot of abuse and perservered. Update #3: Here is the video where RMS makes the announcement: There is now a WebM version as well: Video_download_link https://yoona.everdot.org/v/Unjust_computing_clamps_down.vp8.webm ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⢀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⢰⣿⣿⣿⡿⠏⣁⣴⠶⠞⣛⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠉⠒⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄ ⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⡖⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠿⣿⣷⡀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢠⣿⣿⢿⣿⣷⣹⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣴⣄⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷ ⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠘⣻⣶⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⡇⠂⢀⢸⣿⣿⣀⣿⣿⠇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡐⢸⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⢡⣶⣶⣶⢶⡖⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠲⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⢿⣿⡇⢤⡂⢸⣿⣿⠿⣿⣷⡄⣼⣿⡇⣿⣿⡏⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣞⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠐⢸⣿⣿⣀⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢸⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣏⢟⣛⣒⣒⣒⣒⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠿⠿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣯⣿⣿⠇⣆⠀⠸⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠡⠿⠿⠇⠸⠿⢿⣿⣻⣿⣿⢿⣻⣾⡿⠿⢿⡸⠿⠿⡼⢿⣿⠿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠰⣼⣿⡻⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⡠⠔⠲⣶⣶⠓⠒⠒⠒⠁⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⡿⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⡀⠀⠀⠀⠻⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠉⠉⠙⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢇⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⢸⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠹⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⠛⠀⢀⠀⢰⣿⣿⡟⠋⠀⠀⠀⣀⠎⠀⠈⠉⠛⢿⣿⠿⠋⠀⠀⡠⣖⣵⣄⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠂⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⢻⣿⣋⣿⡇⠀⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢶⣾⣯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣄⢩⣿⠀⠀⠀⣼⣶⡯⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢲⣿⣿⣯⢻⡆⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛ ⡇⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢓⡠⣩⣥⣿⣿⠿⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢂⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣈⠛⠇⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢇⣿⠀⢀⣬⣻⡟⠈⢰⠄⠀⡐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠪⠜⡟⠉⠃⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⠛⠈⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠛⣿⠏⠁⠋⠀⠀⠘⠋⠁⣀⣤⣶⡇⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣝⠏⠙⠂⢸⣦⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣷⣦⠠⢼⣷⣄⢀⡀⠀⠙⣯⡿⠛⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢺⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⠄⠀⠀⠛⠀⠀⠀⣤⣴⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠄⠀⡅⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡿⢦⣄⠀⠀⠙⢦⢺⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣀⠉⠛⠇⢀⠉⣙⣆⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠴⠆⠾⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡙⠄⠀⠀⠈⠜⠉⣛⣉⣉⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⠀⣤⣽⣽⣓⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠿⣇⣫⣨⣿⣿⣿⣷⣵⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⣻⣿⡿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠸⡀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⡷⠋⣉⣭⣁⣀⡀⠀⢶⣶⣾⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⢉⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠁⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠃⠁⢀⣤⠂⣠⣶⣿⡗⠀⠀⠀⠇⠀⠀⢸⢿⡟⢁⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠉⢿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣦⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣼⣇⣰⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⡼⠀⠀⠀⢆⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⢉⠉⠋⠀⢰⡾⣿⡿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠙ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠀⠠⣤⡶⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢠⣿⠟⠀⣵⢇⠀⠀⠘⠻⡿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠋⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠐⣄⢸⣷⢆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡚⠻⣬⣠⡈⠆⠀⡀⢢⣀⠀⠀⠀ ⡟⠉⢀⣤⣄⣐⣉⠀⠈⣹⣛⡛⣿⣟⣿⣀⠟⠁⠀⠀⠚⠘⠀⠀⡠⠄⠒⠂⠀⠀⠒⠠⡙⢶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠚⠿⠔⠚⠓⠒⠒⠒⢶⡤⣄⢐⡠⢨⢭⠹⡴⣹⠵⠐⠔⡄⠁⢿⣶⣂⣀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1159 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/sensitive-control-media/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/21/sensitive-control-media/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.21.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Twitter_and_Hacker_News_Are_Sensitive_(Updated)⠀✐ Posted in Deception, IBM, Red_Hat at 2:47 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Sensitive Twitter⦈ “The following media includes potentially sensitive content.” Et tu, Twitter? Summary: The very same day we urge people not to rely on social control media and discourage dependence on third parties Hacker News hands us a timely gift, removing a factual story about IBM because IBM workers scream and shout (for censorship on behalf of their paymaster) JUST over an hour ago Techrights was at the front page of Hacker News (“IBM is Destroying Red Hat and Red Hatters Are Leaving”). We’ve omitted the links due to ad hominem attacks from IBM employees. Not even factual attacks, just allusions and nastiness. “So the story most popular and very recent too (that’s a factor in the story’s favour) was just spiked.”We saw it at #6 (from the top), then it suddenly fell down to 10th and minutes later it was gone. We don’t know who submitted the story to that site, the story was already two days old, but we decided to observe the usual spiking by Hacker News as it keeps happening and it’s easier to analyse in ‘slow motion’, so to speak. When the story was ranked #6 we could see several stories with far fewer points and fewer comments (in more time) ranked much higher. Why is that? As I put it at the time (we discussed this in IRC), “something ain’t right” and there’s “some human moderation”. Moments later it was gone from the front page. So the story most popular and very recent too (that’s a factor in the story’s favour) was just spiked. So then we looked at the comments, mostly to find that this whole thread was a Red Hat employee responding to Red Hat employee, citing Red Hat employee… (some IBM employees too in the mix, some with disclosure, some without). “Speaking of corporate masters, hours ago Patently-O openly admitted it is now sponsored by patent maximalists who profit from software patents litigation and patents on life/nature. No pretence anymore.”What we’ve generally found was some spectacular ad hominem just less than an hour after we had done a video about this very same subject (naming_Hacker_News_as_a_casual_culprit). One might say that’s amazing trolling in the comments, ganging up against the messenger and not even denying the salary coming from the company that article was about. They managed a little ‘bury brigade’ and Hacker News fell for it, marking the submission as “flagged” (without reason specified). This keeps happening. Those whose message is not convenient to affluent/powerful people are silenced; what awful sites those are if they move to the whims of corporate masters… Speaking of corporate masters, hours ago Patently-O openly admitted it is now sponsored by patent maximalists who profit from software patents litigation and patents on life/nature. No pretence anymore. Neither scholarly nor objective. Just marketing. “They proved my point on the very same day that I spoke a lot about it (several videos earlier in the same day).”The tweet shown at the top relates to something we_wrote_about_earlier_this_year. In summary, so-called ‘Hacker’ ‘News’ basically flagged my story for no reason other than IBM employees (it’s a story about IBM) shouting at the messenger. Those IBM workers had gone totally ad hominem, not disproving anything in the story, whereupon social control media (centralised censorship) obeyed the demands. Maybe there will be some big advertising contract from IBM some time soon. Don’t become dependent on those so-called ‘social’ sites. Those sites aren’t actually driven and powered by users but by corporations and people with massive salaries. Many comments from IBM employees (salaried aplenty) buried a link to my story, which was factual, just because it was damaging to IBM’s financial agenda. They proved my point on the very same day that I spoke a lot about it (several videos earlier in the same day). █ Update: Twitter seems to have truly gone crazy with censorship. 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Here’s a quick recap of the happenings from the open-source world on the applications, distributions, and various updates. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s_Time_for_The_Linux_Foundation_to_Stop_Ignoring_Desktop Linux⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation is the sort of official organization behind the Linux kernel project. Linux creator Linus Torvalds draws a salary from the foundation and devotes his entire time managing the awesome Linux kernel project. The Linux Foundation spends its time and resources for standardizing and supporting the growth and commercial adoption of Linux. Started in 2000, Linux Foundation has been successful into bringing major technology groups like Intel, AT&T, Google, IBM, Samsung, Huawei, Microsoft, VMWare for the development of Linux kernel. These companies also pay a hefty sum to Linux Foundation for their membership. In the last few years, The Linux Foundation has also focused on developing or growing various open source projects under its umbrella, just like the Linux kernel project. These projects include Kubernetes, Automotive Grade Linux, Hyperledger, Cloud Native, Let’s Encrypt, Cloud Foundry and a lot more. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla_&_Firefox’s_Slow_And_Painful_Death_–_YouTube⠀⇛ In the past Mozilla was an internet giant but since 2010 there web browser marketshare has been dwindling almost to the point of irrelevance and I don’t want to see this happens because once Firefox falls there will be nothing stopping Google just doing whatever they want to web standards. # ⚓ Reminder_(Libreplanet_2021)⠀⇛ Reminder: tomorrow, I’ll be speaking at the online #LibrePlanet 2021 software freedom conference about the problem of fan arts. It will be epic, check it out! # ⚓ Linux_doesn’t_need_marketing,_it_needs_HARDWARE⠀⇛ Linux, as in the whole of GNU/Linux, including all distributions, is amazing, but it’s still stagnating at around one to 2 percent of market share on the desktop. While I don’t think Linux needs to reach more than 5 to 10% market share to start seeing important contributions in terms of third party applications, and AAA developer support, I also think most people have it backwards when they try to imagine what we could do to promote Linux as a whole. They mostly tend to try and promote it through marketing, and I did as well, but in my opinion, what Linux needs to grow, is hardware # ⚓ Want_DT’s_Desktop?_Deploy_My_Dotfiles!_–_DT_LIVE⠀⇛ This morning’s live event will feature an important topic that I receive a lot of questions about. And that question is how you can deploy my dotfiles and have your desktop look exactly like mine. It’s not difficult; anyone can do it. # ⚓ Minimal:_Saner_Web_Browsing_For_A_Better_World⠀⇛ Minimal is an interesting project it aims to strip out a lot of the predatory web design practices you’ll see in modern web design, while this project will need a lot of maintenance to continue being useful I think it’s still a really interesting project. # ⚓ GNU_World_Order_398⠀⇛ **addr2line** , **ar** , **as** , **ld** from the **binutils** package. # ⚓ This_Week_in_Linux_143:_Audacity_3.0,_Ubuntu_Touch, PinePhone_Beta,_GNOME_40,_Java,_Brave_Browser_|_This_Week_in Linux⠀⇛ On this episode of This Week in Linux, we’ve got some App News from Audacity, ONLYOFFICE and a new update to the Java programming language. XWayland has been branched out of X.org into a standalone release, we’ll talk about what this means and why it matters. We’ll check out a preview of GNOME 40 since it is only a few days away. In the Linux Mobile News, UBports announces the latest release of Ubuntu Touch with OTA-16 and Pine64 announced the Pre-Orders of the PinePhone Beta Edition are about to open. We’ve also got a really interesting kickstarter to check out, an LED cube kit for Raspberry Pi called “LumiCube”. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_5.11.8⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 5.11.8 kernel. All users of the 5.11 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.11.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.11.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ Linux_5.10.25⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_5.4.107⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_4.19.182⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_5.13_To_Address_Some_Networking_Overhead_Caused_By Retpolines⠀⇛ It’s been three years that Retpolines (return trampolines) have been around as part of the Spectre defenses on Linux and kernel developers in particular are still working to better optimize different areas of their code to deal with the performance overhead incurred. With the current Linux 5.12 cycle there is an important change to the AES-NI crypto code to overcome the overhead introduced by enabling Retpolines on older Intel systems and old through current AMD hardware where this is needed as part of Spectre V2 mitigations. Those AES-NI code changes in Linux 5.12 for avoiding indirect calls makes a big performance improvement for cryptsetup on Retpolines-enabled hardware. Now with Linux 5.13, the networking subsystem is seeing some tuning to also avoid Retpoline costs. # ⚓ Months_After_Being_Deprecated,_Linux_Ready_To_Say_Goodbye To_WiMAX⠀⇛ In addition to the legacy IDE driver code ready to go from the mainline Linux kernel, receiving its final death sentence now is also the WiMAX support. With Linux 5.11 the kernel demoted the WiMAX networking code down to the “staging” area of the kernel with a plan to remove it should no one step up to maintain the code. Well, no one cares enough about WiMAX support to maintain it, so the kernel support is set to be removed with Linux 5.13. # ⚓ The_Long_Journey_Ahead_For_Linux_On_Apple_Silicon_| Hackaday⠀⇛ An old joke from the Linux community about its prevalence in computing quips that Linux will run on anything, including some animals. While the joke is a little dated, it is true that Linux can run on just about any computing platform with a certain amount of elbow grease. The current exception is the new Apple M1 silicon, although one group called Asahi Linux is currently working to get Linux running on this novel hardware as well. While the Apple M1 is specifically built to run macOS, there’s no technical reason why Linux couldn’t run on it once all of the kinks are ironed out. This progress report from last month outlines some of the current areas of focus, especially around booting non-Mac kernels. The new Apple silicon runs on an ARM processor and because of this it functions more like an embedded device than a PC with standardized BIOS or UEFI. This means a lot of workarounds to the proprietary boot process have to be created to get a Linux kernel to boot. Luckily there are already versions of Linux that run on ARM so a lot of work has already been done, but there’s still much ahead. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Mesa_Graphics_Library_Developers_Are_Considering Dropping_Android_AOSP_Support_–_LinuxReviews⠀⇛ The developers of the Mesa graphics library, mainly used to provide OpenGL and Vulkan API support on Linux desktop systems, are considering if they should drop Mesas support for the Android ASOP operating system. It would still be possible to build Mesa using the Android NDK toolchain. [...] Both methods are currently documented at docs.mesa3d.org/android.html. Several prominent Mesa developers are currently discussing if they should rid Mesa of all support for the Android.mk build system. Intel-employed Mesa developer Jason Ekstrand has opened a Mesa issue proposing a total eradication of the Android.mk build system. Android.mk is currently used by the Android Open Source Project (ASOP) so the change would affect community-maintained Android builds as well as the Androix-x86 project. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ PeaZip_7.8_Released_with_Interactive_Extraction,_New Portable_Qt5_Build_on_Linux⠀⇛ The biggest new feature in PeaZip 7.8 is a new interactive extraction option that asks users if they want to skip, update or overwrite existing files and folders when extracting archives. On Linux, the option is not enabled by default, so you’ll have to enable it in the ‘Extract’ dialog. The new interactive extraction option comes as an alternative to the classic, single-step policy- based extraction method, which is still available in the new release. It provides users with a two- step extraction method across all archive types supported through 7z/p7zip. # ⚓ PeaZip_7.8.0⠀⇛ PeaZip is an open source file and archive manager. It’s freeware and free of charge for any use. PeaZip can extract most of archive formats both from Windows and Unix worlds, ranging from mainstream 7Z, RAR, TAR and ZIP to experimental ones like PAQ/LPAQ family, currently the most powerful compressor available. Open and extract 180+ archive formats: 001, 7Z, ACE (*), ARC, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, DMG, GZ, ISO, LHA, PAQ, PEA, RAR, TAR, UDF, WIM, XZ, ZIP ZIPX – view full list of supported archive file formats for archiving and for extraction. PeaZip provides fast, high compression ratio multi- format archiving – view file compression and decompression benchmarks for more information. # ⚓ Audacity_3.0_is_Released_With_A_New_Project_File_Format_and 160_Bugfixes⠀⇛ Audacity 3.0 brings several significant improvements to the popular free multi-platform audio editor for Linux, Windows and macOS. The latest version brings a new and improved project file format using SQLite3, a new “Label Sounds” sound analyzer and fixes for a whopping 160 different bugs. The severe lack of any user- interface scaling on GNU/Linux is not addressed so Audacity remains a border-line useless joke on Linux machines with high resolution monitors dispute all the other improvements. Audacity 3.0.0 recording a att.mod, a module sound file about carding from the early 1990s. Zoomers won’t be able to relate because they don’t know what “carding” was or why you had to do it if you wanted to call BBSes in foreign countries regularly. Audacity is a great audio tool for audio recording and editing as long as you’re stuck with 720p 15″ laptop sized panel or a very large 1080p screen. It lets you combine multiple audio files, convert audio files between different formats and sample rates, cut, copy and paste sections of audio files with unlimited undo and redo in case you get something wrong and much more. It supports plugins, and there are many available for it. # ⚓ Kid3_Audio_Tagger_3.8.6_Released_with_Qt_6_Support_[PPA]⠀⇛ Kid3 audio tag editor 3.8.6 was released a few days ago with new features and important bug-fixes. PPA has updated for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 20.10. Kid3 3.8.6 adds support for building with Qt 6. And it now provides a nicer default style for Windows users. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_To_Install_PlayOnLinux_on_CentOS_8_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PlayOnLinux on CentOS 8. For those of you who didn’t know, PlayOnLinux is an implementation of Wine which makes it easy to install Windows software on Wine. The purpose of this software is to simplify and automates the process of installing and running Windows applications on Linux platforms. It has a list of applications where you can automate each installation process as much as you can. 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 through the step-by- step install of the PlayOnLinux on CentOS 8. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Thunderbird_on_Ubuntu_20.04_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ Thunderbird is a flexible, functional email client available for Linux. It is a multiple-platform, free framework for managing email, news feeds, chat, and calendaring clients. Thunderbird is also easy to set up and customize. One of the key principles of Thunderbird is to promote open standards. This article shows you how to install Thunderbird on Ubuntu 20.04. # ⚓ Install_ONLYOFFICE_Docs_for_Online_Document_Editing?_– Linux_Hint⠀⇛ ONLYOFFICE Docs is a self-hosted office suite distributed in terms of the AGPLv3 license. It allows editing text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in a browser. # ⚓ Kill_Linux_Processes_the_Easy_Way_with_Fkill⠀⇛ While Linux distributions don’t suffer the ignominy of a blue screen of death, running processes (aka programs) do become unresponsive sometimes. If you run a web browser, media player, ebook reader, etc. on your Linux distribution, each of these is a different process, with a unique process ID and, traditionally, you need to issue a couple of different commands to find this ID and stop it. Released under the MIT License, fkill is a cross- platform utility that can be used to interactively kill processes with ease. With fkill, we can scroll through a list of running processes and kill any of them by pressing the Enter key. We can also search through the processes by typing the name of commands / processes into the terminal and the output will be filtered to show any matching entries. This is a world away from how commands such as top are used to list processes via grep and a separate command is then used to kill the process using its PID. # ⚓ How_to_run_Ubuntu_from_USB⠀⇛ If you’re looking to run Ubuntu from a USB flash drive, you’ll be happy to know that there are many ways to run Ubuntu from USB. You can take traditional Ubuntu and install it to a USB flash drive, though the OS isn’t built for that and will probably be slow. You can also take a distribution that uses Ubuntu as a core but is designed for a USB flash drive. In this guide, we’ll focus on Puppy Linux’s Ubuntu release. The reason for this is that Puppy is specifically designed to run off of a USB flash drive and already has persistent storage set up. It’s much easier to figure out for the average user. [...] To get your hands on the Ubuntu version of Puppy Linux, head over to the Puppy Linux website. Once on the website, click on the “Download” icon. After clicking on the “Download” icon, locate “Ubuntu Focal 64”. This is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but specially designed to run on your USB flash drive. Original download link for “Ubuntu Focal 64” not working? Try clicking on “Mirror.” It provides an alternative download link to the primary download option. Want to download Puppy Linux to your computer through the terminal? Open up a terminal window by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard and execute the command below. # ⚓ Install_a_Multi-Master_Kubernetes_Cluster_with_Ansible⠀⇛ We are going to build a highly available Kubernetes homelab cluster with three control plane nodes and three worker nodes using Ansible. # ⚓ Using_the_ps_Command_in_Linux_to_List_Processes⠀⇛ The ps command in Linux is our best asset for listing running processes on a system. But do you know how to use it effectively? ps comes with a small learning curve, thanks to its varying syntax and plethora of (overlapping) options. In this guide, we’ll go over the most useful ps commands that Linux users should know. Command syntax for ps can be confusing because it accepts UNIX, BSD, and GNU formatted options. These various syntaxes also produce differing output. As long as you know some of the most common and useful options to supply with your ps command, then you don’t need to worry about the tool’s extensive and intertwined past. We’ll just show you what you need to know. # ⚓ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_Guest_Additions_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ VirtualBox Guest Additions will help you get the most out of your Ubuntu virtual machine. It gives you automatic resolution scaling, a shared clipboard between the host and VM, and drag and drop ability. The step by step instructions below will explain how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Ubuntu. # ⚓ How_to_Disable_(or_Enable)_SELinux_in_AlmaLinux_–_Linux Nightly⠀⇛ Just like RHEL and the rest of its derivatives, AlmaLinux comes with SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) installed and enabled by default. In this guide, we’ll see how to disable SELinux temporarily or permanently. You’ll also learn how to re-enable it later in case you need to turn it back on. # ⚓ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_Guest_Additions_on_openSUSE_– Linux_Nightly⠀⇛ VirtualBox Guest Additions will help you get the most out of your openSUSE virtual machine. It gives you automatic resolution scaling, a shared clipboard between the host and VM, and drag and drop ability. The step by step instructions below will explain how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on openSUSE Linux. # ⚓ Updating_config.sub_in_a_bitbake_recipe_|_Adam_Young’s_Web Log⠀⇛ config.sub is used to determine, among other things, the architecture of the machine. This is used in the configure script for an autotools based make file. Older config.sub files don’t know how to handle aarch64, the generic name used for ARM64 servers in the build process. We have a recipe that pulls in code using an older config.sub file and I need to update. # ⚓ How_to_Customize_the_Grub_Boot_Menu_With_a_Background Image⠀⇛ Want to change the background image for the Grub bootloader? Maybe you got bored of the solid black background and now you want to add an attractive image to your boot menu. Here’s how you can easily change the Grub background on your Linux machine. # ⚓ How_to_Set_Up_WireGuard_VPN_on_Debian_10⠀⇛ WireGuard is a general-purpose VPN (Virtual Private Network) that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. Compared to other popular VPN solutions, such as IPsec and OpenVPN , WireGuard is generally faster, easier to configure, and has a smaller footprint. It is cross-platform and can run almost anywhere, including Linux, Windows, Android, and macOS. Wireguard is a peer-to-peer VPN; it does not use the client-server model. Depending on the configuration, a peer can act as a traditional server or client. It works by creating a network interface on each peer device that acts as a tunnel. Peers authenticate each other by exchanging and validating public keys, mimicking the SSH model. Public keys are mapped with a list of IP addresses that are allowed in the tunnel. The VPN traffic is encapsulated in UDP. # ⚓ Install_Volumio_on_Raspberry_PI_to_get_a_Smart_Radio⠀⇛ Smart things came in our lives as internet entered everyone home. But not all people know that with Volumio on Raspberry PI you can get a smart Radio, also transforming you old radio in an advanced music box In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to install Voumio on Raspberry PI. Basically, Volumio is a music player focused on giving users an high fidelity output. It is free and open source, so you can install and use Volumio without paying a license. It can play a wide number of media formats, as well as it can get media from your UPNP\DLNA device, Airplay, Spotify and Web-Radios. Volumio people like defining it as an “audiophile sound system tailored to offer uncompromised Audio Quality”. # ⚓ How_to_update_your_Linux_repositories⠀⇛ When it comes to installing applications and programs on Linux there are several ways to do it. More advanced users can choose to download the source code from the developer’s website and compile it directly on their computer. Something very slow and impractical actually. More inexperienced users tend to take the easy way: find and download the binary (e.g. deb) and install it, from the package manager, by double clicking, much like in Windows. Intermediate users who are looking for convenience and ease, make use of the Linux repositories to download, install and update their programs. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Web_Editor_PWA,_easier_HTML_customizations,_and_faster_load times!⠀⇛ Howdy Godotters! Quite a lot happened since my last update. Beside working on the custom HTML shell improvements, and the long awaited fixes for HiDPI/ fullscreen, I took some time to make the Web Editor a Progressive Web App as requested by many users. While I was there, I took some more time to rework the loading process of the engine and make it load faster on the Web. Web Editor PWA If you are not familiar with what a PWA (Progressive Web App) is, you can think about it as a way to “install” a web page on your device. In this context, “install” usually means adding a shortcut to the web page in the device desktop or application list, and allow running it while offline. This is great for Chromebook-like devices. Note that for offline support to work, you will need to start the project manager at least once before it can actually work offline. In the future, offline support will also be extended to projects exported to HTML5, allowing your players to run your HTML5 projects even under unreliable network conditions. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Maui_Weekly_Report_9⠀⇛ Today, we bring you a new report on the Maui Project’s progress. Only a few weeks away from the next stable release of MauiKit and the Maui apps, we want to share some of the new features, bug fixes and changes coming to the next stable release. To follow more closely the development of the Maui Project or to say hi you can join us on Telegram: https://t.me/mauiproject. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ FreeBSD_13.0-RC3_Released_With_The_WireGuard_Driver Removed⠀⇛ A third and final release candidate of FreeBSD 13.0 was warranted ahead of its formal 13.0-RELEASE later this month. FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 is out this weekend as what was an “as-needed” milestone ahead of the FreeBSD 13.0 release set to take place around 30 March. Notable with this weeks FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 is the removal of the WireGuard kernel driver “if_wg” due to the change in WireGuard implementations amid concerns over code quality for this original WireGuard driver that was set to be introduced in FreeBSD 13.0. Now the existing WireGuard kernel code was removed but this new implementation won’t land until at least FreeBSD 13.1 due to the timing of this significant change. # § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾ # ⚓ Manjaro_21.0_RC1_Run_Through⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at Manjaro 21.0 RC1. # ⚓ Manjaro_21.0_RC1_KDE⠀⇛ Today we are looking at It comes with Manjaro 21.0 RC1 (KDE Edition, KDE Plasma 5.21, and uses about 1.2GB of ram when idling. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSUSE_Tumbleweed’s_Very_Busy_Week_With_An_Entire Rebuild,_Latest_KDE_Packages⠀⇛ For users of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution, it’s been a very active past week. First up was an entire rebuild of the distribution, which seldom occurs among distributions especially rolling-release distributions where it can then mean multi- gigabyte updates. This latest openSUSE Tumbleweed rebuild of all packages is as a result of picking up the latest GNU C Library (glibc) patches. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Pinephone_and_Fedora⠀⇛ First, let me talk about scaling. One of the problems putting a desktop OS into a small screen on a phone is scaling. Phosh (a librem started gnome-shell replacement for small screens) and Phoc (a mutter/window manager replacement that works with Phosh do there best with this issue. There’s a setting to try and resize all windows from all applications, and a way to do it on a case by case basis, however many applications are just not friendly to small screens. They refuse to shrink below a point, or they cut off valuable parts. I guess this might be something thats best solved upstream at the toolkit level, but it’s a hard problem. By default Phosh sets 200% scaling on the pinephone as well. It all depends on how small a screen/type you can handle, but lowering that gets more applications usable. You can do so via: ‘wlr-randr –output DSI- 1 –scale 1.25’ for 125% for example. This also makes it harder to press buttons, so beware. [...] First, let me talk about scaling. One of the problems putting a desktop OS into a small screen on a phone is scaling. Phosh (a librem started gnome-shell replacement for small screens) and Phoc (a mutter/window manager replacement that works with Phosh do there best with this issue. There’s a setting to try and resize all windows from all applications, and a way to do it on a case by case basis, however many applications are just not friendly to small screens. They refuse to shrink below a point, or they cut off valuable parts. I guess this might be something thats best solved upstream at the toolkit level, but it’s a hard problem. By default Phosh sets 200% scaling on the pinephone as well. It all depends on how small a screen/type you can handle, but lowering that gets more applications usable. You can do so via: ‘wlr-randr –output DSI- 1 –scale 1.25’ for 125% for example. This also makes it harder to press buttons, so beware. # ⚓ IBM’s_CEO_and_outgoing_exec_chairman_take_home_$38m in_total_for_2020_despite_revenue_shrinking_by billions⠀⇛ # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ First_Look_at_Ubuntu_Budgie_21.04_on_Raspberry_Pi_4⠀⇛ Ubuntu Budgie is an official flavor of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system, and the team behind it announced today the availability of their first Raspberry Pi port, optimized for Raspberry Pi 4 models with 4GB or 8GB RAM and featuring the Budgie desktop environment, of course. As you might know, Canonical announced last year in October a Raspberry Pi port of Ubuntu Desktop with the Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) release, giving green light to other official (or unofficial) Ubuntu derivatives to port their flavor to the Raspberry Pi. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Most_Powerful_Alternatives_to_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Raspberry Pi’s foundation in the SBC (Single Board Computer) industry is rock-solid. It remains undisputed, with a massive 30+ million boards released since its launch in 2012. Its small size, affordable price, and PC-level performance make it an ideal choice for programming beginners and DIY project makers. Because of the popularity of Raspberry Pi, many manufacturers have joined the bandwagon, and many other similar SBCs have emerged over the years. If you are looking for boards that are similar to Raspberry Pi but have different specs, such as better performance or lower cost, this article provides a list of the six best alternatives. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Dual-Screen_Pinebook_Pro⠀⇛ In this post, I’ll share how I turned my Pinebook Pro into a dual-screen Linux laptop. It’s a rather inexpensive upgrade, and what parts I didn’t personally have on hand I was able to manufacture myself. This post is not meant to be an exhaustive guide. I simply want to put the bug in your ear and show you how I did it, confirming that a dual-screen setup for the Pinebook Pro is not only possible, but entirely functional (and looks slick too). It’d be nice to have a portable multi-monitor workstation. And that’s where this project comes in. # ⚓ IEEE_1588_Precision_Time_Protocol_(PTP)_is implemented_for_the_industrial_grade_Open_Source Hardware_Linux_computer_STMP1-OLinuXino-LIME2⠀⇛ The Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) is for real-time communication with hard, non- negotiable time boundaries for end-to-end transmission latencies. The main use of TSN is for industrial machine controllers, robots etc. # ⚓ Quad_Core_64bit_Open_Source_Hardware_Linux_computer A64-OLinuXino_now_have_version_with_external_antenna⠀⇛ New revision of A64-OLinuXino board now supports both internal PCB antenna and U.FL externally attached 2.4Ghz antenna. So A64-OLinuXino can be put inside the metal box and have the antenna outside: [...] # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ A_big_Google_Pixel_6_upgrade_just_got_leaked_by Android_12_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_DP2:_Accessibility_menu_receives_layout tweaks_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ OPPO_ColorOS_11_update_(Android_11)_tracker⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_11_is_arriving_on_some_Chromebooks_in_Beta Channel_with_big_fixes_on_board⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_is_going_to_try_to_make_app_installs_feel faster_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_has_a_plan_to_make_app_updates_feel_faster_on Android_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_is_fixing_one_of_the_worst_things_about Android_—_here’s_how_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_has_a_neat_new_trick_to_improve_your_phone’s battery_life_and_make_your_apps_run_faster_|_T3⠀⇛ # ⚓ Planning_on_doing_yoga?_Download_these_six_apps_ (Android_users)_|_NewsBytes⠀⇛ # ⚓ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this_week!_– Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Free_Fire_sensitivity_settings_to_decrease recoil_on_Android_devices:_Step-by-step_guide_for beginners⠀⇛ # ⚓ AAWireless_for_Android_Auto_price_increased_for_CPU swap_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ After_all_these_years,_Barnes_&_Noble_is_selling_yet another_10″_Nook_Android_tablet⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reliance_Industries_Likely_To_Launch_A_Lost_Cost_5G- Ready_Android_Smartphone_And_A_JioBook_Laptop_Device_In Upcoming_AGM⠀⇛ # ⚓ 17_new_(and_1_WTF)_Android_games_from_the_last_week: The_best,_worst,_and_everything_in_between_(3/15/21_– 3/21/21)⠀⇛ # ⚓ LG_V60_one_year_later:_Is_it_still_worth_buying?_– Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ [Update:_Mar._20]_Android_11_update_bugs,_issues_& problems_tracker_–_PiunikaWeb⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Brings_Beta_Android_11_Features_To Chromebooks⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lenovo_new_tablet_launch:_Lenovo_working_on Snapdragon_870-powered_Android_tablet_–_Latest_News_| Gadgets_Now⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lenovo_to_release_a_Snapdragon_870-powered_android tablet⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_add_app_shortcuts_to_the_Android_Auto_launch screen_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ KingPad_K10_Pro_review:_all-in-one_Android_10_tablet, and_more⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_first_Android_12_preview_lands_today_with_more changes_than_we_expected⠀⇛ # ⚓ ASUS_ROG_Phone_II_receives_Android_11_unofficially via_OmniROM⠀⇛ # ⚓ Motorola_rolls-out_Android_11_update_for_its_Edge model |_MENAFN.COM⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Wants_To_Make_Installing_Android_Apps_Feel Speedier_|_PCMag⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Maps_dark_theme_for_Android_app_is_FINALLY_out |_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ What_Was_HTC_Sense,_and_How_Did_It_Change_Android?⠀⇛ # ⚓ setup_a_Google_account_on_Android_phone:_Need_give phone-verification_number?_–_Cell_Phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ 3_Ways_to_Protect_Your_Android_Phone_from Overcharging_–_Gadgets_To_Use⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ Ingestum:_A_libre_NLP_document_ingestion_library⠀⇛ Many NLP projects that depend upon the analysis of documents are impaired by the difficulty of transforming source material into a computer-readable format. For example, PDF files are designed for human consumption but can look like a bag full of words to a computer. To address this problem engineers at Sorcero developed Ingestum, a library that is used to “devour” content sources, outputting a format that can be used for additional processing. # ⚓ Remote_education:_My_children’s_freedom_and_privacy at_stake⠀⇛ “During COVID-19 confinement, I saw how all teachers were choosing proprietary video conferencing programs over free software for the continuation of online lessons. I had two options: do nothing about it and let proprietary video conferencing tools spread among my children and their classmates, or try to fight back against this injustice.” # ⚓ Here’s_how_you_can_get_all_your_day-to-day_computing done_with_free_software⠀⇛ “Alice, 11, has given multiple talks at technical conferences and will go over more than 10 programs that will replace proprietary with free software.” This great 40 minute talk from LibrePlanet 2021 is absolutely worth watching and sharing. # ⚓ SecureDrop_Workstation:_Handling_unsafe_documents safely⠀⇛ SecureDrop is a whistleblowing platform originally created in 2012 for journalists to accept leaked documents safely from anonymous sources. It’s used by dozens of news organizations including The Guardian, The Washington Post and The New York Times. This talk (at LibrePlanet 2021) introduces the SecureDrop Workstation, the next-generation platform aimed at helping journalists communicate with sources in a high-security environment. # ⚓ Free_Software_Awards_winners_announced:_CiviCRM, Bradley_Kuhn,_and_Alyssa_Rosenzweig⠀⇛ The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the recipients of the 2020 Free Software Awards, which are given annually at the FSF’s LibrePlanet conference to groups and individuals in the free software community who have made significant contributions to the cause for software freedom. This year’s recipients of the awards are CiviCRM, Alyssa Rosenzweig, and Bradley Kuhn. As the ceremony was conducted virtually this year, each winner selected the person they wished to present them the award. The awards are presented in three categories, each recognizing exemplary achievements in the field of free software. The 2020 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor went to Alyssa Rosenzweig, a young developer who was previously a keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2020. This is the second time this award has been given, after Clarissa Lima Borges won the first annual Outstanding New Free Software Contributor Award at LibrePlanet 2020. # ⚓ Mali_GPU_free_driver_project_leader_gets_top_FSF award⠀⇛ Alyssa Rosenzweig, leader of the Panfrost project that aims to reverse engineer and create a free driver for the Mali series of graphics processing units, has received the Free Software Foundation’s 2021 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor. The award was presented at the 2021 LibrePlanet conference, an annual event staged by the FSF. Held on Saturday, it featured 63 speakers whose talks were streamed using free software. FSF founder Richard Stallman, who presented the award in virtual ceremony, said: “For decades I’ve told people that the most important free program to write is something that we can’t do with free software. [..] “This year’s award for a New Outstanding Free Software Contributor goes to somebody who went straight for the most important possible project: reverse-engineering the specs of the Mali GPU.” Rosenzweig said, “I believe free software is key to environmental sustainability and protecting civil liberties in a digital world. # ⚓ 2021_Free_Software_Awards_announced⠀⇛ The Free Software Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2021 Free Software Awards. Alyssa Rosenzweig received the award for outstanding new free-software contributor, the CiviCRM project won the award for social benefit, and Bradley Kuhn received the award for the advancement of free software. # ⚓ LibrePlanet_2021_day_one:_Taking_action_to_empower users⠀⇛ As you may be aware, this isn’t the first LibrePlanet conference that has taken place entirely online: in 2020, the timing could hardly have been worse, with coronavirus shutdowns in Massachusetts starting the very week that the conference was scheduled. With only a week to scrap plans we had spent most of a year making, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) still managed to pull off a full, vibrant schedule, and livestreamed using only free software thanks to our wildly talented and dedicated tech team, but we knew that with a bit more time to plan, we could do even more. So when it became clear, last fall, that an in-person conference in Boston was still not going to be feasible for spring 2021, we sprang into action trying to find extra ways to make this conference special and memorable. An all-online conference had a few advantages and a few disadvantages: on the one hand, scrapping the need to travel meant that many talented voices from all over the globe could submit talks without worrying about plane fare or accommodations. Even better: while the FSF has always made an effort to make LibrePlanet activities available from afar, a fully-online conference could welcome attendees from absolutely everywhere with an Internet connection. Which meant that this conference featured speakers from everywhere from the United States to India, France, Spain, Turkey, and more, with the first count in the morning showing attendees from thirty- two different countries! It also meant that registration for the event has been sky-high, with over 1,100 registrants by this morning (the most ever). # § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU_poke_1.1_has_been_released⠀⇛ I am happy to announce a new release of GNU poke, version 1.1. This is a bug fix release in the poke 1.x series, and is the result of all the user feedback we have received since we did the first public release. Our big thanks to everyone who provided feedback :) See the file NEWS in the released tarball for a detailed list of changes in this release. The tarball poke-1.1.tar.gz is now available at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke- 1.1.tar.gz. GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/ poke) is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them. This release is the product of a month of work resulting in 70 commits, made by 10 contributors. Thanks to the people who contributed with code and/or documentation to this release. In certain but no significant order they are: Bruno Haible Egeyar Bagcioglu Luca Saiu Sergei Trofimovich Kostas Chasialis Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor Morten Linderud Sergio Durigan Junior Thomas Weißschuh My gratitude to you all! It is a real pleasure to hack with you. And this is all for now. Happy poking! # ⚓ Patches_Proposed_So_Microsoft_Debuggers_Can Deal_With_GCC-Built_MinGW_Executables⠀⇛ Patches have been proposed for the GCC compiler to ultimately allow MinGW Windows executables to be debugged with Microsoft’s debuggers. The set of two dozen patches is for allowing the GNU Compiler Collection to emit debugging information in the PE- specific CodeView format used by Microsoft’s debuggers. This PE-specific CodeView format is partially documented by Microsoft and understood via header files open-sourced by Microsoft as part of their PDB (Program Database) symbol file format. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Sebastian_Pölsterl:_scikit-survival_0.15_Released⠀⇛ I am proud to announce the release if version 0.15.0 of scikit-survival, which brings support for scikit-learn 0.24 and Python 3.9. Moreover, if you fit a gradient boosting model with loss=’coxph’, you can now predict the survival and cumulative hazard function using the predict_cumulative_hazard_function and predict_survival_function methods. The other enhancement is that cumulative_dynamic_auc now supports evaluating time-dependent predictions. For instance, you can now evaluate the predicted time-dependent risk of a RandomSurvivalForest rather than just evaluating the predicted total number of events per instance, which is what RandomSurvivalForest.predict returns. # ⚓ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_An_Ode_to_Stable_Interfaces:_R_and R_Core_Deserve_So_Much_Praise⠀⇛ A few days ago, a friend and I were riffing about the wonderful stability of R and (subsets of) R packages. The rigorous ASAN/ UBSAN/Valgrind/… checks, while at times frustrating for us package maintainers when we do not have easily replicable setups [1], really help in ensuring code quality. As do of course all other layers of quality control at CRAN, and for R. In passing, I mentioned there was an older blog post demonstrating a little power-law-alike behaviour between the most frequent R Core committer and everybody else. # ⚓ Russ_Allbery:_pam-krb5_4.10⠀⇛ pam-krb5 is a relatively simple Kerberos PAM module with no dependencies on larger infrastructure such as sssd. # ⚓ Russ_Allbery:_rra-c-util_9.0⠀⇛ rra-c-util is my collection of support functions, Autoconf macros, test programs, and other infrastructure that I use to build other packages. This release includes lots of portability work to support the INN 2.6.4 release, much of it by Julien ÉLIE. There are some incompatibilities in the Autoconf macros compared to previous versions, hence the version bump. # ⚓ Thinking_in_Questions_with_SQL⠀⇛ I love SQL, despite its many flaws. Much is argued about functional programming vs object oriented. Different ways of instructing computers. SQL is different. SQL is a language where I can ask the computer a question and it will figure out how to answer it for me. Fluency in SQL is a very practical skill. It will make your life easier day to day. It’s not perfect, it has many flaws (like null) but it is in widespread use (unlike, say, prolog or D). # ⚓ Qt_6.1_Beta_2_Released,_Qt-Project.org_Called_For Revival⠀⇛ This week marked the arrival of Qt 6.1 Beta 2 for providing the latest bug fixes for this cross-platform toolkit ahead of the planned release next month. Qt 6.1 beta launched just at the start of March while now the second beta has arrived while at least three more betas are expected over the coming weeks. [...] Proposed this week was reviving Qt- Project.org and using it as the “face” of the open-source Qt project. In particular, Qt- Project.org will emphasize how open-source developers can contribute to the open-source project and not to duplicate the content from Qt.io. The proposed initial look and early data for the project site can be found on this page. So far it seems the Qt community is excited about seeing Qt-Project.org restored with a focus on encouraging contributor. # ⚓ Not_on_the_same_page⠀⇛ One of the things you hear often in the Linux world goes like “you don’t need to be a developer to contribute to open source, you can also report bugs”. It turns out that having people reporting “bugs” while there no one to fix them creates more noise than it helps the project. Especially when users start treating the bug tracker like it’s their Amazon wish list. It ends up in a Hellraiser-like situation where your project is pulled apart by hooks in every possible direction… Because I care about the project and because there is a widening gap between where I want to drive the project and the feedback I receive from it, I have chosen to distance myself from certain aspects until a better solution can be found. I had given myself the goal of keeping the issue count on the Lutris bug tracker low. Because handling a higher number of tickets is just harder when development resources are so low and dilutes the real direction of the project into a huge blob of tickets. Being it’s own special kind of project, the client bug tracker also became a bug tracker for games that don’t work under Linux, broken Lutris installers and a help desk for those who have a hard time installing graphics drivers or wine. By simply unsubscribing from the Lutris bug tracker, I simply don’t get notified of new issues created. It avoids this problem of going through my email while still waking up and freaking out because some issue make me go What The Hell!? I like being able to read my email without having to freak out… # ⚓ Let_it_snow:_Android_12_Developer_Preview_2_lands, bringing_UI_and_security_API_tweaks⠀⇛ Google has rolled out the second Android 12 developer preview, with the pre-release version of the mobile OS largely focusing on security and UI tweaks. This is by design it seems, with Google saying it has prioritised developer-facing changes first in order to simplify the work needed to upgrade existing apps. On the security front, Android now has a new API to determine the integrity of an installed app by contrasting its checksum against one held by the OS or the Google Play Store. The documentation promises support for several hashing algorithms, including SHA256, SHA512, and Merkle Root, and is ostensibly intended for developers wary of unapproved modifications (such as those working on banking apps, or building software with built-in DRM.) # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Randal_L._Schwartz:_“My_half-life_with_Perl” from_OSCON_2013_live_encore_performance⠀⇛ I’ve been asked by a couple of Perl groups to give a virtual presentation. Writing new material that would only have been shown once is a lot of work for a small reward. But, I just happened to be cleaning out my virtual junk drawer, and stumbled across my “half my life with Perl” slide deck that I had presented at OSCON 2013. Most of the stuff is timeless, as it describes Perl’s first 25 years, and my second 25 years and how I influenced Perl, and Perl influenced me, and how my company (Stonehenge) was changed by all of this, and in some ways even changed all of this as well. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ What_is_Django_ORM?_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ In the world of today, technology has become an integral part of our lives as everything around us has become digitized. This is also true even in the business sector. Businesses that fail to employ the right infrastructure and are not able to equip the right technological architecture end up falling behind their competitors. This is mainly because, nowadays, the amount of data that businesses and organizations rely on for their analysis has grown exponentially and as a result, for them to be able to process and interpret it in an efficient manner, they need to have the right set of tools and infrastructure to support them. Databases are one of the most popular technologies being used for the collection and organization of data as it allows the data to be easily accessible, manageable, and updated as well. However, these databases require a management system for them to perform these tasks. Mostly, the language SQL is used to perform operations in a database, however, as your application grows and become more complex, it becomes extremely difficult to have an idea as to what exactly each operation is doing. This is where the technique Object Relational Mapping (ORM) comes into the picture. This allows query and manipulation of the data using an object-oriented programming language of your choice. ORMs reduce the complexity of your code and make it more understandable, which, in turn, makes it easier to update, maintain, and reuse the code. In this article, we will be taking a look at the Django ORM, which is a Python-based ORM and therefore, one of the most popular technologies being used these days. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Java_Version_16_Released:_All_The_Major Features_&_Updates⠀⇛ Oracle rolls out Java updates every six months to deliver continued performance, stability and security improvements for developers. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Vote_for_Bonnie_Prince_Bob_in_Edinburgh_Central⠀⇛ What would Craig Murray be like if he had charisma, good looks, style and a huge slug of street cred? I came across this video last night. In fact virtually every single point made by Bob is a point I have made on this blog, but it sounds so much more radical coming from him. o ⚓ Peter’s_Prayer_Poem_Shout_at_the_Vernal_Equinox⠀⇛ o ⚓ On_loss_of_languages⠀⇛ Digital Language Extinction has been a a problem since the invention of computers, and the World Wide Web greatly accelerates the phenomenon. Today, “Only digitally thriving languages can take care of themselves!” o ⚓ U.S._National_Security_Commission_on_Artificial_Intelligence Report:_Patent_Eligible_Subject_Matter_Reform_on_the_Horizon [Ed: Nowadays everything digital is being branded "Hey Hi"]⠀⇛ Chapter 12 is dedicated to intellectual property policy. Some hot button issues for reform include: patent eligible subject matter, IP protection for data and the standard essential patent process. Trade secrets may not do the job–especially with weak cybersecurity. The Report also notes: “Lastly, as further evidence that China views IP as essential in its domestic economic development, China continues to pervasively steal American IP- protected technological advances through varied means like cyber hacking of businesses and research institutes, technological espionage, blackmail, and illicit technology transfer.” The report also points to the need for cybersecurity improvements. o ⚓ Around_the_IP_Blogs⠀⇛ The U.S. National Security Commission, chaired by Eric Schmidt, has released its final report, over 750 pages, titled, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The report outlines how the United States may be falling behind on certain artificial intelligence research, particularly compared to China. IP Finance reported on the report. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ When_you_have_too_much_memory_for_SheepShaver⠀⇛ SheepShaver is a desperate pun and an unusual emulator: much like Classic on PowerPC Mac OS X, on big-endian PowerPC most of the MacOS and its applications run natively on the processor, in a form analogous to KVM-PR. In fact, SheepShaver on Leopard is pretty much the best way to run Classic applications on Power Macs that must run Leopard, though it also runs on Tiger and presents certain advantages there as well. It existed first on BeOS as a paid product before becoming open source, though multiple later forks fix various problems on modern platforms. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Some_of_the_Wealthiest_Counties_in_the_US_Have_Seen_the Biggest_Rise_in_Hunger⠀⇛ # ⚓ Animal_Testing_Is_Useless_for_Determining_COVID_Vaccine Effectiveness_in_Humans⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_All_Health_Is_Public_Health⠀⇛ The pandemic has blown up the myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. # ⚓ Will_the_NFL_Survive_the_New_Science_of_Brain_Damage?⠀⇛ The most important breaking story in sports is not something you’ll see on ESPN or the assorted copycat networks. It is a story that affects multiple sports, but most primarily football. The NFL is in the midst of a free-agent frenzy, signing players to $100 million deals to the breathless panting of sports media carnival barkers—but new developments in the science of diagnosing brain damage threatens not only those nine-figure contracts but the entire multibillion-dollar football industry as well. Until now, diagnosing the remorseless brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) could only be done after death. Former NFL players have died (many by shooting themselves in the chest or hanging themselves, to preserve their skulls) and their families have donated their brains to science so CTE could be diagnosed postmortem. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Rusted⠀➾ # ⚓ This_Week_in_Programming:_Rust_ (Likely)_Headed_for_Linux_Kernel’s Development_Branch⠀⇛ Rustaceans’ dreams of Rust’s inclusion in the Linux kernel are one tiny, ever so slight step closer to becoming a reality, with this week’s “intentionally bare-bones” inclusion in Linux-next, the development branch of the Linux kernel. When last we looked, Rust was yet a mere twinkle in the eyes of those hoping to use the language in Linux kernel development, with Linux creator Linus Torvalds signaling his approval, and now that twinkle has brightened up just a bit more. Curb your enthusiasm, however, as this remains a rather tentative first step of many necessary steps before Rust fully lands in the Linux kernel. # ⚓ Rust_Takes_‘Tentative_First_Step’ Toward_Linux_Kernel⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Acer_reportedly_hit_with_$50_million_ransomware demand [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ A [cracking] group is demanding $50 million from Acer, Bleeping Computer reported, in what appears to be one of the biggest ransomware demands to date. According to Bleeping Computer, the attackers may have gained access to the Taiwanese computer manufacturer’s network via a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability. The REvil group that carried out a ransomware attack on Travelex last year is believed to be behind the Acer breach as well. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_research:_EU_Commission_to_fund technology_to_decrypt_5G_connections⠀⇛ European police authorities are invited to submit proposals for the development of an interception platform. Authorities from third countries can also participate in the research project. Several German initiatives, including those of the domestic secret service, served as door openers. # ⚓ Antenna_Up:_How_Subscription_Data_Decodes Streamers’_Success⠀⇛ Instead of measuring interest in or viewership of individual shows, Antenna focuses on the relationship between a streamer and its subscribers. It works with budgeting and email apps to pull anonymous customer transaction data, allowing it to see when a person signs up for, say, HBO Max and how long they pay for it before canceling. With access to more than 5 million accounts, Antenna can extrapolate trends from those individual transactions — like when it noticed that signups to the Premium Plus plan of NBCUniversal’s Peacock jumped by 9 percentage points in the two weeks after The Office debuted on the service. There are some limits to Antenna’s data, though. It doesn’t yet provide the absolute number of subscribers a streamer attracts on a given day — because it can’t measure all avenues through which a person might sign up — but it can use an indexed figure that shows relative trends. Co-founder and CEO Rameez Tase says the goal is to provide insights that “unlock healthier, more sustainable businesses” as companies transition to direct- to-consumer relationships with audiences. # ⚓ Elon_Musk_denies_cars_were_used_to_spy_in China:_Tesla_would_be_‘shut_down’⠀⇛ Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk denied claims from the Chinese government that Tesla vehicles could be tied to espionage efforts in the country, arguing such a move would force the electric car manufacturer to “shut down.” Musk, while speaking at the virtual China Development Forum on Saturday, responded to new Chinese government restrictions on Tesla products that were revealed publicly this week. The billionaire pushed back on the ban, saying he would have nothing to gain from participating in espionage. # ⚓ Elon_Musk_denies_Tesla_cars_are_used_for spying_in_China⠀⇛ His comments came in response to reports that China’s military had banned Tesla cars from its facilities. The military had raised security concerns about the data collected by cameras installed in the cars. China is Tesla’s largest market after the US, accounting for about a quarter of the firm’s global sales in 2020. # ⚓ Revealed!_Here’s_why_WhatsApp_stopped working_in_India_on_Friday_evening⠀⇛ WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook suffered a major global outage on Friday evening that affected users globally. Over 1 lakh users reported issues with Instagram on online outage tracker DownDetector, and over 25,000 users reported issues with WhatsApp. Facebook messenger users also experienced issues. # ⚓ New_WhatsApp_policy_violates_IT_rules: MeitY_to_HC⠀⇛ The government has asked the Delhi High Court to restrain WhatsApp from implementing its new privacy policy in the country, saying it violates India’s IT rules on five counts, such as collecting the sensitive personal information of users and sharing of data with its parent Facebook and other third parties. The ministry of electronics & information technology (MeitY), in an affidavit, said WhatsApp’s new policy is in breach of Information Technology Rules, 2011. Any “body corporate” such as WhatsApp must comply with the requirements specified in the Act, it said. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_What_the_‘Atlanta_Spa_Worker_Killings’_Tell_Us About_America_Today⠀⇛ “These hate crime murders did not happen in isolation. They happened because good people did not rise up to take back our country from right- wing extremists and demagogues.” o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ We’re_Hurtling_Toward_Global_Suicide⠀⇛ Those 17 scientists did not want you to despair. “Ours is not a call to surrender,” they wrote. It was meant as a kick in the ass—a reminder that our only chance is a thoroughgoing transformation. Specifically: “fundamental changes to global capitalism, education, and equality, which include inter alia the abolition of perpetual economic growth.” Radical as this call may seem, it was hardly an outlier demand from a few oddball pinko Ph.Ds. In 2019, 11,258 scientists from 153 countries signed a “Warning of a Climate Emergency” that called for “bold and drastic” changes to the economy, including a shift away “from GDP growth and the pursuit of affluence toward sustaining ecosystems and improving human well-being.” Two years before that, the Alliance of World Scientists made a similar call in a “Warning to Humanity” that garnered 15,364 signatures. We are supposed to listen to science now. This is what the scientists are saying: Everything must change. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Rivian_planning_to_install_10,000_EV_chargers_across the_US_and_Canada_by_2023⠀⇛ Amazon-backed electric vehicle startup Rivian will install more than 10,000 fast chargers across the US and Canada by 2023, the company announced. The Rivian Adventure Network is designed to allow quick recharges along highways and also includes Level 2 charges at more remote locations near parks and other destinations. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Monster_Storms_Can_Spell_Disaster_for_Farm Animals⠀⇛ Before a severe weather event, producers must provide extra feed and adequate shelter to their animals, Life Before the Pandemic https://xkcd.com/2391/monitor water and heat sources, and develop an evacuation plan. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Garment_Workers_Win_$22_Billion_in_Historic_Victory_Against Wage_Theft⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tax_Justice_Demonstration_in_Syracuse_NY⠀⇛ Today the movement for tax fairness is much stronger than when I campaigned against Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2010 on the slogan of Tax the Rich for a Green New Deal. When I debated Cuomo on TV in 2010 arguing for progressive tax reforms instead of Cuomo’s proposed austerity budget, Democratic politicians said it was politically impossible and Republican politicians said I was crazy. Today progressive tax reforms are on the table in Albany as it considers its 2022 fiscal year budget thanks to the efforts of a broad statewide coalition ranging from progressives oriented to working inside the Democratic Party like the Working Families Party and Democratic Socialists of America to those of us like the Green Party who are independent. We are united behind a program called Invest In Our New York, embodied in six pieces of legislation, that will institute more progressive state tax structures for income, capital gains, inheritances, wealth, corporate profits, and financial transactions. We know where the money is. The rich have it. New York has the highest income inequality of any state in the nation. The rich can easily afford to pay more. In 1980, the top 1% took in 12% of all income in New York. By 2015, the top 1% took in 32.4% of all income. That’s like ordering 10 pizzas for the 100 or so people at the rally and letting one person take three of the pizzas all for themselves. They can’t eat that much. The rich don’t need that much money when our schools are underfunded, Medicaid has been cut, state revenue-sharing with cities has been cut, when the homeless need homes, and the jobless need jobs. The inequality got even worse during the covid pandemic. US billionaires’ wealth grew by over $1 trillion dollars last year while most people lost income. With a national GDP of $21 trillion, that like all of us paying 5% of every purchase to the billionaires. Meanwhile, as income inequality grew in New York, the tax structure became more regressive. Since 1980, the state has flattened its tax income structure, cutting in half the top marginal tax rate and doubling the tax on the lowest marginal income bracket. In 1981, it started rebating 100% of the stock transfer tax. This tax was instituted in 1906, but since 1981 the state has collected the revenue, now worth about $15 billion a year, and rebated it right back to Wall Street. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Parties_Charge_A_Lot_for_Committee_and_Leadership_Roles. Corporations_Benefit.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Turning_2020’s_Down_Ballot_Losses_into_Down Payments_on_Future_Wins⠀⇛ Building a strong progressive candidate pipeline is a long-term and multi-cycle effort, and allies must be committed for the long haul. # ⚓ Opinion_|_Neoliberalism_Doesn’t_Care⠀⇛ ‘Neoliberalism is a relentless and shameless assault on the commons: the planet, public health, community, public spaces, rich conversation, trust, love, history, clean air and clean water. ‘ # ⚓ Lindsey_Graham_Vows_to_Filibuster_Voting_Rights_Bill_Until He_Collapses⠀⇛ # ⚓ Chomsky:_Biden’s_Early_Agenda_Gives_Hope,_But_Activist Pressure_Must_Not_Cease⠀⇛ # ⚓ Biden_Pushes_Colombia_to_Restart_Glyphosate_Spraying Program⠀⇛ Experts: “The recently announced decision sends an unfortunate message to the Colombian people that your administration is not committed to abandoning the ineffective and damaging war on drugs internationally.” # ⚓ Large_Pro-Democracy,_Anti-Netanyahu_Pre-Election_Protest_in Jerusalem⠀⇛ Over 50,000 demand Benjamin Netanyahu resign for his indictments for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. # ⚓ Fmr._Ambassador_Robert_Ford_on_the_US_role_in_Syria’s_10- year_war⠀⇛ # ⚓ TikTok_banning_some_accounts_in_Myanmar_in_attempt_to_stop the_spread_of_violent_videos⠀⇛ TikTok says it has “aggressively banned” numerous accounts and devices in Myanmar, in an attempt to curb misinformation and the spread of violent videos on its platform. Rest of World reported that government soldiers in Myanmar have posted hundreds of videos to TikTok since its military seized power in February. The videos ranges from traditional pro-government propaganda, to misinformation meant to confuse protesters, to threats from soldiers with weapons. # ⚓ Evangelicals_are_teaching_false_doctrine._Who_says_so? Jesus_Christ⠀⇛ The truth then, and even more so now, is that we cannot separate Republicans, and now the Trumpists, from the evangelicals. I have seen my fellow “Christian left” types attempting to reform the God vote — in fact, I’ve done it myself — but I feel we have been too timid in our approach. Stronger language and a pure rejection of evangelical theology is needed. From a purely Christian point of view, the evangelical leadership are false teachers teaching a false doctrine. Trumpism cannot be defeated without first facing down evangelicalism. Jesus Christ, who these people claim as their savior, himself provided a warning against these religious hypocrites in Matthew 23: [...] o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Twitter_says_it_will_appoint_rep_in_Turkey_to_comply_with social_media_law⠀⇛ Twitter on Friday announced that it plans to establish a legal representative in Turkey, making it the latest social media company to do so to ensure compliance with a new [Internet] law in the country. Twitter said in a statement that upon reviewing the new law, which requires representatives for social media platforms to review content flagged for privacy violations, it had decided to “establish a legal entity” in order to “ensure that Twitter remains available for all who use it in Turkey.” # ⚓ Twitter_will_set_up_a_legal_entity_in_Turkey_to_comply_with controversial_social_media_law⠀⇛ Twitter is planning to establish a legal entity in Turkey to continue operating there under the country’s controversial [Internet] law that took effect last year, the company announced late Friday. Under the law, social media companies that have more than 1 million users must store Turkish users’ data in the country. Such companies also are required to designate an official representative in Turkey, who must answer requests to take down content that violates privacy within 48 hours. If the companies refuse to comply, they could face fines, advertising bans, and eventually bandwidth reductions that could make the platforms unusable. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Dissenter_Weekly:_Biden_Accused_Of_Using_Trump_Rules_To Fire_Whistleblower⠀⇛ In this edition of “Dissenter Weekly,” host and Shadowproof editor Kevin Gosztola cover a development involving a whistleblower with the Bureau of Land Management, who is being forced out of the agency with a rule adopted under President Donald Trump that was supposed to be revoked. Walter Loewen, an environmental analyst, reportedly raised concerns about the devastating impact a Wyoming oil and gas project, would have on birds and other wildlife. Later, Kevin highlights whistleblowing against Shell’s Falcon pipeline in Pennsylvania and celebrates the whistleblowing of Allan McDonald, who helped expose what happened in the Challenger shuttle disaster in 1986. McDonald died on March 6. We conclude with an update on the global campaign to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and an overtime discussion with Shadowproof publishing editor Brian Sonenstein on two ridiculous police proposals in Chicago and New York. # ⚓ Australian_Members_of_Parliament_call_for_Assange’s release⠀⇛ Senator Peter Whish-Wilson sent a message to supporters and people to make a stand against the extradition of Julian Assange: # ⚓ Bill_Maher_blasts_removal_of_journalist_at_Teen_Vogue⠀⇛ “I don’t want to talk about cancel culture every week but I don’t think people understand how much this is a tsunami and how fast the goalposts change, almost on a weekly basis,” Maher said during a segment with guests Nick Gillespie, the editor-at-large of “Reason,” and former Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.). o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ US_Teen_Who_[Cracked]_Twitter_And_Ran_Bitcoin_Scam_Gets_3 Years_In_Prison⠀⇛ Turns out, the 18-year-old “mastermind” behind the attack has been sentenced to three years in prison as part of his plea deal, The Tampa Bay Times reported. He will additionally serve three years probation on several cracking] and fraud-related charges. # ⚓ Four_more_Hindu_girls_abducted,_forcibly_converted_in Pakistan;_police_remains_complacent,_authorities_oblivious⠀⇛ No amount of whistle blowing by International or Indian media seems to have had an impact on the forced conversions in Pakistan. While the dust over kidnapping, abduction and forced conversion of 12- year-old Christian girl Farah is yet to settle down, the incident of abduction of four Hindu girls from the Sindh province comes to light. Yet again. So frequent and repetitive are the incidents of minor girls being kidnapped and forcibly converted that it becomes difficult to segregate the month or even the year. # ⚓ Why_I_stand_by_the_presumption_of_innocence⠀⇛ The presumption of innocence is an important principle. Both men are innocent until proven guilty. A trial by social media doesn’t change that. When accusations of harassment and abuse are used for political purposes, as speculated by Die Zeit, it makes it even harder for genuine victims to come forward. # ⚓ Schools_keep_using_algorithms_they_don’t_understand⠀⇛ Major universities are using advising software that uses students’ race, among other variables, to predict how likely they are to drop out of school, says The Markup. The practical consequence is higher probability that college advisors tell Black and other minority students not to aim for certain majors, perpetuating and increasing “educational steering”. How higher? The article says that there is a university in the USA where “Black women are 2.8 times as likely to be labeled high risk as White women, and Black men are 3.9 times as likely to be labeled high risk as White men”. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet,_a_Network_of_Networks⠀⇛ Exchanging traffic is the underlying fabric which makes the internet tick. No one provider can reach every single device connected to the internet through its own network. Network switch needs to happen somewhere from requester’s network to provider’s network. That’s why it’s decentralized. Smaller (Tier 2 and Tier 3) network pay bigger, carrier grade (Tier 1) networks for transport or transit as it is called, of their network traffic to reach far off networks on the internet. Carrier grade networks have optical fiber networks for selling and company usage. These are often called internet backbones as they carry the bulk of international internet traffic. On the other hand, peering is a settlement free arrangement with no money exchanging hands between networks which have equal benefits from the arrangement, like Tier 1 networks can exchange traffic with other Tier 1 networks in either direction or between ISPs which need content for their user and content providers which want their content to reach end user. Peering generally happens in Internet exchanges (or internet exchange point). More peering, through internet exchange help ISPs to take data directly from content providers leading to less reliance on transit providers leading to significant cost saving, reduced latency and at times improved redundancy. Internet exchanges provide a net positive impact to the internet connectivity in the region. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Apple’s_Cook,_Other_Executives_to_Testify_in_Fortnite Trial⠀⇛ Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and software chief Craig Federighi are among the technology giant’s top executives who may testify in its trial versus Epic Games. In addition to Cook and Federighi, App Store Vice President Matt Fischer, Apple’s former marketing chief and current Apple Fellow Phil Schiller may also testify, the company said. Other executives who may also take the stand include those in charge of combating fraud on the App Store, facilitating payments, game development, marketing, and developer relations, according to a tentative list of Apple’s witnesses submitted to the court. # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Central_issue_in_upcoming_Epic_Games_v._Apple trial:_Apple’s_refusal_to_allow_Epic_Games_Store_and_other alternative_app_stores_on_iOS⠀⇛ When Epic Games filed its complaints against Apple and Google in August, many people thought this was just about bringing down Apple’s 30% App Store commission and requiring Apple to allow Fortnite to return to the App Store despite its alternative in- app payment system. In response to Epic’s activation of the latter, Apple not only removed Fortnite from the App Store but even announced the termination of another Epic developer account: the one used for the development of Unreal Engine. A temporary restraining order (TRO), which Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers later converted into a preliminary injunction (PI), barred Apple from terminating the Unreal Engine account. It’s a common misbelief that Epic just wants to get Apple to reduce the 30% commission. Epic’s original complaint raised some more fundamental issues, and Epic wants to open up iOS more generally for developers and consumers. The most important part here is that Epic–and others–could provide alternative app stores and thereby act as a competitive constraint on Apple in the iOS app distribution market. [...] While multi-platform app stores, multi-platform in app-payment systems, or cross-platform streaming platforms could help, “Apple imposes a set of technical and contractual restrictions that block critical categories of middleware, interfering with the competitive process and maintaining the market power of the iOS Platform.” Another Epic expert witness, Michael Cragg, a summary of whose opinions I’ve uploaded to Scribd (PDF), says Apple’s experts focus “on the wrong product and not Epic’s role as a would-be direct competitor to the App Store.” Apple would like the court to consider the entire game distribution market (across all platforms) as the relevant antitrust market, but Epic’s expert says those Apple experts “do not focus on the right market definition question.” Both Michael Cragg and another Epic expert, Nancy Mathiowetz (summary of opinions (PDF)), emphasize in this context that the mere access to, or even the regular use of, alternative devices by iOS users doesn’t really mean much for the purposes of this case. As Michael Cragg notes, “by [Apple's experts'] logic, refrigerators and TVs (let alone stereos and TVs) are in the same market because users ‘have access’ to or ‘regularly use’ both.” But in order for the distribution of games on other platforms to be part of the same relevant antitrust market, there would have to be evidence that “a small but meaningful change in the price or quality of app distribution on either device” would make “users switch from using one distribution channel to another” to an extent that it would be a competitive constraint on Apple’s own decisions. # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Harvard_and_Georgia_Tech_professors_debunk Apple’s_security_pretext_for_App_Store_monopolism:_Epic_Games v._Apple⠀⇛ Apple would have us–and especially competition authorities and courts–believe that there cannot be security without tyranny: in the world according to Apple, there’s either a monopolistic App Store with all its unfair rules and their arbitrary application, or malware will take over our phones. To software developers like me, this is transparent fearmongering. But Apple has to say something to defend the indefensible. It can afford more easily than any other company in the world to get some people to say things that independent experts couldn’t possibly say with a straight face. And it may just hope that judges or the decision-makers in competition authorities could be gaslighted when a topic is technical and uneasiness may just be enough to let Apple sustain a harmful monopoly in app distribution. Come May, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California will hear what Apple has been telling antitrust authorities around the globe for a while. Fortunately, the other side–Epic–will also be heard. Based on the summaries of the opinions of Epic’s experts on security that were filed on Friday, renowned experts will help the court see through what is just a smokescreen. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Teleworking_is_there_to_stay_at_the_European_Patent Office⠀⇛ The use of videoconferencing, although not uncontroversial, “will play a key role” in the new normal, according to the EPO. “Over 2 600 oral proceedings were held by ViCo in 2020, compared to less than 900 in 2019. The experience gained not only served as a basis for further improvements, but is also helping the Office to prepare for the projected rise in oral proceedings by ViCo in examination. This year already – as of 8 March – 614 oral proceedings by ViCo for examination have already been held. In May 2020, a pilot for ViCo proceedings for opposition was also launched. However, by the end of 2020 a slow uptake of the scheme led to a backlog of around 2 000 more opposition cases than in 2019. Following an extensive assessment published in November 2020, the Office decided to extend the pilot until 15 September 2021. It was also decided that opposition by ViCo would take place as the default from 11 January 2021. As of 8 March, 684 oral proceedings by ViCo for opposition have already taken place.” The EPO document also outlines plans for digital training, data protection, online events and communication and other elements of the ‘new normal’: “existing EPO staff are being given new skills to help them face the unique range of challenges posed by teleworking. Similarly, managers are being trained specifically to lead remote and hybrid teams.” [...] The covid pandemic is also influencing the EPO’s building policy: “In developing a new building investment programme the Office faces two challenges; firstly, the way buildings will be used by staff in a post- pandemic situation cannot be predicted with any certainty, and the occupancy rate can only be estimated at around 50% on any given day; secondly, the roll out of a more extensive teleworking policy could also have a profound impact on the use of EPO buildings. The details of the teleworking scheme are still in development and its full impact on building use is also currently unknown.” In the annex on the final pages of the document, findings are summarized of the surveys carried out by Willis Towers Watson (WTW) among staff. # ⚓ EPO_releases_Patent_Index_2020:_Applications_stable despite_pandemic,_healthcare_innovation_soars_and_the US_tops_geographic_origin_of_applications_outside_of Europe [Ed: These numbers would be vastly lower had the EPO followed the law and actually granted European Patents that aren’t fake and doomed_to_be_thrown_out_by courts]⠀⇛ As a result of the current global situation, it comes as no surprise that the largest increases in the number of patent applications from last year were in medical technology (2.6%), biotechnology (6.3%) and pharmaceuticals (10.2%). The total number of applications in 2020 was 180,250, missing last year’s total by a nominal 1,282 applications. Other technical fields that saw increases include electrical engineering, with audio- visual technology up 4.6% and semiconductors up 7.1%. # ⚓ Oral_proceedings_by_video_conference [Ed: Completely and entirely failing to note that this practice is outright illegal and corrupt EPO management now stacks panels_to_pretend_otherwise]⠀⇛ There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has altered the approach that the European Patent Office (EPO) has taken with respect to oral proceedings being held by video conferencing. Prior to 2020, whilst oral proceedings by video conferencing before an Examining Division was possible, this was not an option for Opposition or Appeal proceedings. A pilot project to allow such proceedings began in April 2020 for Oppositions and later in the year for Appeals. For proceedings before the Boards of Appeal, consent was required from all parties to the proceedings in order for them to be held via video conferencing. A communication “EPO – Oral proceedings before the Boards of Appeal – continuation of the measures adopted due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and revised practice on oral proceedings by VICO” dated 15 December 2020, outlined that as from 1 January 2021, oral proceedings before the Boards of Appeal may be conducted by video conference even without the agreement of the parties concerned as made clear in the new Article 15a RPBA. The entry into force of the new Article 15a RPBA is still subject to approval by the Administrative council, however, the communication also outlined that since the new provision clarifies an existing possibility, Boards may adapt their practice as regards to dispensing with the need to obtain agreement of the parties even before the date of entry into force. However, the legality of holding oral proceedings without the consent of all parties has been formally questioned, with an Interlocutory Decision from an Appeal Board dated 12 March 2021 (Appeal number T1807/15- 3.5.02) referring the following question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal: # ⚓ Hymmen_digital_embossing_patent_remains_in_effect [Ed: It's 2021 and some people apply for patent monopolies on surfaces, chewing gum, and]⠀⇛ Hymmen has announced that one of the patents from the Hymmen patent portfolio dealing with digital embossing was maintained by the decision of the Opposition Division from the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich, dated March 10, 2021. In this decision the EPO had to decide on the oppositions filed by Barbéran, Cefla and Giorgio Macor against one of the Hymmen patents, in this case the patent DLE Digital Lacquer Embossing with the patent number EP 3 109 056. This patent has been in force since February 14, 2018. The subject matter of the patent covers a process for producing a structure on a surface of a flat workpiece as well as a device for implementing this process. # ⚓ ABB_Number_One_Swiss_Company_for_Patent_Applications in_2020 [Ed: This just says a lot about company size and nothing about quality of patents or actual worth]⠀⇛ ABB has again secured the first place among Swiss companies in the European Patent Office’s (EPO) list of patent applicants in 2020. ABB already topped the list of Swiss patent holders in 2019 and 2014. The annual list of patent applications is published by the EPO (epo.org) in Munich, Germany, and highlights the companies and countries with the highest number of patents across the globe. In 2020, Switzerland remained the world’s innovation champion with 966 patent applications per 1 million inhabitants followed by Sweden which recorded 434 patent applications per 1 million people. With 8,112 patents, the overall number of applications registered in Switzerland was slightly lower than in 2019 while Sweden registered an increase to 4,423. # ⚓ Webinar_on_Patent_Drafting_in_Europe [Ed: "Maximise your probability of securing robust patent protection in Europe" even if the patents are not valid, basically by fooling/tricking/cheating examiners, then bullying or taxing others based on bogus monopolies]⠀⇛ Mathys & Squire will be offering a webinar entitled “Patent Drafting for Success in Europe” on March 25, 2021 at 2:00 pm (ET). Martin MacLean and David Hobson of Mathys & Squire LLP will discuss tips and tricks to build into your drafting practice to safeguard against common pitfalls and maximise your probability of securing robust patent protection in Europe. # ⚓ Sunday_Surprises [Ed: Well, the thing called "the Community Plant Variety Office" isn't about community at all but about privatisation and monopolies; they ought to rename]⠀⇛ Several internship positions are available at the Community Plant Variety Office, including positions in the field of legal advice, communication, or international cooperation. The deadline for the submission of documents is April 30, 2021. # ⚓ Exclusive:_You_keep_using_that_word;_I_don’t_think you_know_what_it_means.⠀⇛ There are two different statutes regarding Federal Court exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases. One giving US district courts exclusive original jurisdiction over US patent cases and the second giving the Federal Circuit exclusive appellate jurisdiction over appeals in patent cases. 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) provides Federal district courts with “original jurisdiction of any civil action arising under any Act of Congress relating to patents.” The provision goes on to make clear state courts do not have jurisdiction: “No State court shall have jurisdiction over any claim for relief arising under any Act of Congress relating to patents.” Id. The second provision relates to appellate courts: The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shall have exclusive jurisdiction over final decisions from US district courts “in any civil action arising under . . . any Act of Congress relating to patents” or where a “compulsory counterclaim” has been asserted “arising under, any Act of Congress relating to patents.” 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a). [...] Sasso licensed his patents to Warsaw (Medtronic). The parties had a dispute over which products were covered under the license, and Sasso sued in Indiana state court for breach of contract (seeking money damages). The outcome of the contract claim (apparently) largely depends upon whether the products are “covered by a valid claim” of one of Sasso’s patents. So, there probably should have been some detailed patent analysis in the case. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ The_eye_of_the_“Tiger”_–_the_Polish_boxer’s_win [Ed: Tigers have eyes. Do humans own them? The eyes? The tigers? Both? ]⠀⇛ The Supreme Court largely upheld this. In its reasoning, the Supreme Court stressed that FoodCare had committed acts of unfair competition by violating good practice and the terms of the licence agreement. In addition, the Supreme Court ruled that Dariusz “Tiger” Michalczewski had independently obtained a right to a well- known mark in the energy drinks market. The right to a well-known mark cannot arise for an entity whose use is dependent and based on someone else’s license rights. FoodCare thus could not obtain any rights to the “TIGER” mark and, moreover, may not use other marks containing this element. Also FoodCare could not invoke the “Black Tiger” trademark it acquired in 2013 against Dariusz Michalczewski. The judgment, which concludes a long-standing dispute, confirms that cumulative protection of intangible property rights in the intellectual property system, both under trade mark law, unfair competition and protection of personal rights, is justified and expedient. At the same time, this reasoning is part of an EU trend that the personal reputation of the trademark holder is important for the recognition of the trademark and building a brand. Famous people are generally better known to the public and, therefore, their names may have added distinctiveness with respect to certain goods. The problem of taking notoriety for granted is that fame changes over time, and it might be difficult for courts to recall whether a person was famous at some point in the past. On the side, in an earlier Supreme Court judgment of 23 October 2020, Dariusz Michalczewski lost his fight to protect the nickname “Tiger” as an exclusive personal good. [...] The judgment, which concludes a long-standing dispute, confirms that cumulative protection of intangible property rights in the intellectual property system, both under trade mark law, unfair competition and protection of personal rights, is justified and expedient. At the same time, this reasoning is part of an EU trend that the personal reputation of the trademark holder is important for the recognition of the trademark and building a brand. Famous people are generally better known to the public and, therefore, their names may have added distinctiveness with respect to certain goods. The problem of taking notoriety for granted is that fame changes over time, and it might be difficult for courts to recall whether a person was famous at some point in the past. On the side, in an earlier Supreme Court judgment of 23 October 2020, Dariusz Michalczewski lost his fight to protect the nickname “Tiger” as an exclusive personal good. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ What_happens_if_an_employee_writes_code_in_his “personal_time”_–_Penhallurick_v_MD5 [Ed: Corporations raiding their staff's work (done in personal time outside work)]⠀⇛ The IPEC has held than an employee produced software in the course of his employment, despite his claims he did most of his work in his own time, at home, and on a personal computer. In the decision, Penhallurick v MD5 Limited [2021] EWHC 293 (IPEC), Hacon J suggested that such factors did not make a difference when the nature of the work in question falls within the scope of duties for which the employee is paid. This post focuses on Hacon J’s interpretation of the meaning of “course of employment” for the purposes of first ownership of copyright in works created by employees. [...] Perhaps the most interesting part of the decision was Hacon J’s approach to interpreting “in the course of his employment”. Hacon J was keen to look at the purpose for which Mr Penhallurick was employed and what his duties were and was apparently not at all affected by the amount of work carried out on the software that Mr Penhallurick did outside of office hours, at home, and with his personal computer. Although the dispute was not in the context of the recently imposed home working, it seems to be somewhat forward-looking in its approach that work for an employer can absolutely be performed at home. In other words, the feeling many may have had over the past year seems to be reflected in the context of first ownership of copyright: the line dividing home/personal activity and work is getting harder to draw. Going forward, when considering whether work is performed in the course of employment or not, one is better served looking at the duties of the employee to the employer, and not where, when or on what the work is performed. # ⚓ A_whole_new_world:_the_evolving_interaction_between EU_copyright_law_and_the_Internet’s_normativity⠀⇛ Our daily life is studded with hints unveiling how the Internet is becoming a society within our society. From the terms and conditions we subscribe to in order to use it, to consolidated practices in the online world, the Internet mostly functions according to its own rules, which either abide by or clash with legal norms, and at times emulate them. The coexistence of these two normative orders – the legal and the technological – is a long-standing, ever- enchanting, and still highly useful research topic. However, studies on the Internet’s normativity – i.e. the capacity of the online world to self-regulate – tend to culminate in a static picture of legal pluralism (not without masterful exceptions): there is legislation on one side, and the Internet sitting on the other side of the room. In my latest book chapter entitled “From harmonization to interlegality: the protection of the end-user in EU copyright law”[1], I explore how the Internet and the law not only coexist, but are increasingly intertwined, reflecting the dynamic reality of digital copyright markets. Intrigued by its ongoing lively reform season, I focus on EU copyright law and, in particular, on its core normative trade-off between incentive and access. # ⚓ US_Government_Works_on_Consumer_Awareness_Campaign_to Combat_Piracy⠀⇛ The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is working on a public awareness campaign to combat online piracy and counterfeiting. This plan is welcomed by copyright holders, who offer several suggestions for its implementation. According to the Copyright Alliance, online services should play a key role in educating and warning users about the costs and risks of piracy. # ⚓ ‘Pirate’_IPTV_Provider_and_Reseller_Hit_With_$31m Copyright_Lawsuit⠀⇛ A ‘pirate’ IPTV provider and reseller are being targeted in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by DISH Network in the United States. The broadcaster claims that ChitramTV, which says it is located in Germany, the UK and US, obtains and distributes its channels online via a network of resellers, managed by a Canadian resident. DISH wants more than $31m in damages. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4443 ➮ Generation completed at 02:41, i.e. 129 seconds to (re)generate ⟲