𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Wednesday, May 19, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Thu 20 May 02:40:18 BST 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/2021/05/19/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmQzNpWJQMoFCuyskw5nkucHrWaXPe418yjdFXQCtD7zDD QmZGwB2dwoXTCA8Y8CWe2HqGrE5YtaUwPz4gUmyf4oWnxU QmUMo7d8dgF7XmqoeEHu1xfKy8iTPL8RkLquhWVGyB4HRH Qma8WdxzNkr8wRWABL5YE3twryLeQmmYM1S2TZp8zaGjj4 QmW6jLQ2hv6Ar6tpZ2qZPAdRcM8FyWxbwros9pg8VRRi28 QmeC8jyP7ZWx5xqD2hUk59hxM7v5THa1wiFpeBFivmefoq QmZgMbdiExWxP7c57aLX2a9Ec5vgUmky4974qEhynvmfEp QmbA6BEDcLemCzV7fkGoG9SSgTMvpcDqcLtzr5Uvr3JzGx QmfJWKCSvnWiHsJUAJCjg36Kyfvj1byG19GxA3Eb5x9bWZ Qmd6hgQN6gsko5DWsxdXwkXX5VmBZjqgdwFNSeyRk8iEo8 QmQ18yUNqfXiMeHu1h8nZAKdHmDvLPQs6mLzvyuXvVgrDo Qme2zET7nsqftCZUhomdrJ2TcwdGxMXqHcFY9wq5d5xR6R QmVbFEyoei5EfBno6mfaV8Lg5vnzQcZXDoQmXzwLWXGUbD QmY1nEtvC6N6tNSxkwj8Tw653B51CPx3PDFFgdZ8WdY6uP QmWt3x2H4WRfgnXv4HyfLQiisS4rXUEFpzdGzbh1TRQ4oA Qmew4966U9C7FCWNj1HCAmZKk1jbzmXQndWRmDvMJrTEND QmcFVWPzMD3JnP4diPmMmw19yYB5ErxCrdPuguDUU6hAiL QmbnCShJZXXJukDvCagKTsgnyzFdQuxMqLAVLXGSbRVGT5 QmXcnXM8Zj4s5QxjD6VU5NMLXSvvM2fu7d1QmVLUzJgjke QmQw6BAgq355t94abDxdrxYaCXEPvBc2D3k4wiprvLkSKt QmRqXfi8o36Gsg6i8zzuNCDXg4gqBZGkxMpdQt9ANsPww4 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Brodie Robertson: Stallman ISN’T OUT OF TOUCH With Technology! | Techrights ⦿ The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law - Part 13: Internal Members: Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka | Techrights ⦿ Say Hey Hi to Inventions and Patents | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ Linux Foundation as a Farce | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/brodie-robertson-on-rms-2021/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/gunnar-eliasson-and-andrea-ritzka/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/hey-hi-inventions/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/irc-log-180521/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/the-corporate-linux-foundation/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/susecon-digital/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/windows-10x-is-dead/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 60 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/brodie-robertson-on-rms-2021/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/05/19/brodie-robertson-on-rms-2021/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Brodie_Robertson:_Stallman_ISN’T_OUT_OF_TOUCH_With_Technology!⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Videos at 5:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: “In some previous videos about Stallman I said something that I would like to take back and that is that Stallman is out of touch with technology, while he does have some funky solutions for some modern problems he certainly understands what the problems actually are.” ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 83 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/gunnar-eliasson-and-andrea-ritzka/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/05/19/gunnar-eliasson-and-andrea-ritzka/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_13:_Internal_Members: Gunnar_Eliasson_and_Andrea_Ritzka⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 6:02 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Previously in this series: * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_1:_Rumours_of_a Kangaroo_Court_at_EPOnia * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_2:_Just_Another Pro_Forma_Rubber-Stamping_Exercise? * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_3:_The_Current Line-up * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_4:_The_President of_the_Boards_of_Appeal * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_5:_Battistelli’s “Swedish_Chef” * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_6:_The_Habermasian Who_Warned_About_“Legal_Anarchy” * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_7:_Calle’s_Strange Metamorphosis * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_8:_The_Radical Student_“Brotherhood” * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_9:_Squeezing_Out the_Lifeblood_of_Democracy? * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_10:_A_Faustian Pact? * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_11:_The_Rapporteur Who_Once_Was_Vice-President * The_EPO’s_War_on_Justice_and_Assault_on_the_Law_—_Part_12:_Internal Members:_Ingo_Beckedorf * You are here ☞ Internal Members: Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka⦈ The enigmatic Eliasson and the elusive Ritzka. Summary: The EPO of Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos has backed abstract patents because of some camera-shy folks; they may soon decide that the EPO can make it compulsory for parties to outsource their legal hearings to American software_companies In this part we turn our attention to the remaining internal members of the panel entrusted with case no. G 1/21, namely Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka. Both Eliasson and Ritzka are notoriously publicity-shy and there is not a lot of information available about them. Eliasson is of Swedish nationality and he is the Chair of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.4.03 which is reputed to take a relatively “soft” and “applicant- friendly” line on software and business method patenting. He also acted as ad interim Chairman of the Enlarged Board during the interregnum period between December 2016, when Wim van der Eijk’s tenure as Vice-President of DG3 ended, and March 2017 when Carl Josefsson assumed office as the newly appointed “President of the Boards of Appeal”. It may be assumed that Eliasson liaised closely with Josefsson during the handover period and he is reputed to enjoy a cordial working relationship with his Swedish compatriot. “Eliasson is of Swedish nationality and he is the Chair of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.4.03 which is reputed to take a relatively “soft” and “applicant- friendly” line on software and business method patenting.”Ritzka, who is of German nationality, grew up in Brussels where she attended the elite European School whose alumni include Ursula_"Flinten-Uschi"_von_der_Leyen, and Boris "Bojo"_Johnson. She is a familiar figure in the Boards of Appeal and easily recognisable due to her trademark “French_braid” hairstyle. Ritzka is the Chair of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.05 which, like Eliasson’s Board, is reputed to take a relatively “soft” and “applicant- friendly” line on software and business method patenting. It is known that, prior to joining the EPO in 2008, Ritzka worked in the Intellectual Property Department of Siemens a German multinational which achieved notoriety over a decade ago for its corrupt_business_practices camouflaged by an impressive but phony “anti-corruption compliance program” which in reality only_existed_on_paper. As might be expected for somebody who spent the formative years of their professional career in such an environment, Ritzka is reported to subscribe to a markedly pro-business “maximalist” approach to patent matters. By a curious twist of fate, Ritzka – who is reputed to be one of the most “management-compliant” members of the Enlarged Board – was one of the panel of three judges who handed down the fateful interlocutory decision R_19/12 of 25 April 2014 in which an insufficient separation of the executive and judiciary at the EPO was conceded. “As might be expected for somebody who spent the formative years of their professional career in such an environment, Ritzka is reported to subscribe to a markedly pro-business “maximalist” approach to patent matters.”This is the decision that enraged Battistelli and made him embark on his private crusade against the Boards which culminated in their exile to Haar with the assistance of an Administrative Council which_was_in_Battistelli's_pocket. The driving force behind R 19/12 is said to have been the legal member and rapporteur Richard Menapace (now in retirement) and it seems unlikely that Ritzka herself played a significant role in the drafting of the decision. According to the EPO rumour-mill, as Chair of Technical Board 3.5.05, Ritzka has been involved in a number of disagreements with the technically qualified members of her Board, possibly due to her reputedly “maximalist” line on software and business method patenting. It is reported that these “differences of opinion” led to the defection of one member to Technical Board 3.5.01 and the departure of another member to take up a position as Chair of Technical Board 3.5.03. “According to the EPO rumour-mill, as Chair of Technical Board 3.5.05, Ritzka has been involved in a number of disagreements with the technically qualified members of her Board, possibly due to her reputedly “maximalist” line on software and business method patenting.”We shall return to Ritzka in due course when we examine the mysterious affair of the “missing signatures” on the letter of 8 December 2014 from the Enlarged Board of Appeal to the Administrative Council. But before doing so we will take a look at various allegations of partiality that have been circulating in the IP blogosphere since the composition of the panel for G 1/21 was announced in March. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠿⣿⡟⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣭⣷⣶⣆⣀⣀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠃⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠉⣹⣿⡿⠛⠋⠛⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠃⠀⢀⢠⣿⡿⠛⣿⠿⣷⣶⡦⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠁⠀⠈⠙⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣦⣤⠤⣈⡐⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠊⠀⢂⣼⣾⣿⡻⠿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣯⣅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⡛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣀⡀⠉⠓⢭⣝⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⢽⣿⣾⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣦⣀⠀⠀⠙⢿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠻⠿⠿⠇⠀⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣮⠉⠻⡥⠀⠀⠀⠀⠣⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⢀⣽⠿⠿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣗⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣷⡟⠛⠻⣿⣶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣴⣾⡿⢿⡂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢐⡿⠿⢟⡉⢪⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⡻⠿⠿⢟⣽⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢱⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠹⢾⣿⢿⡓⣴⣦⣼⡛⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⠀⠀⢸⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢀⠀⠈⣻⣿⡞⢹⣿⣿⡟⢀⡃⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣟⣼⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣿⣇⡿⢾⣿⠏⠀⢾⣶⡀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣤⣤⣼⣯⢁⣰⣿⣿⣿⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⠛⠋⣇⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠛⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣿⢙⢷⣷⠟⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 255 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/hey-hi-inventions/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/05/19/hey-hi-inventions/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Say_Hey_Hi_to_Inventions_and_Patents⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 6:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_discovers_'Hey_hi'_patents:_Campinos,_Grant_Philpott, and_Battistelli⦈_ Summary: Who needs to wrestle with the question of software patentability when the EPO can just call it “Hey Hi” (AI) or something “as such”? PATENTS as “inventions” Such were the intentions Patents “as such” regardless of conventions EPC won’t receive any mentions 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Patents_for_AI_inventions_in_Europe⦈_ Bastian is the Best Leaping past the patentability test JUVE puff_pieces will do the_rest Mimicking the mistakes of the far_west Visits to EPOnia made frequent Where each manager is delinquent █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇What_Media_says_about_EPO;_Real_EPOnia⦈_ ⠏⠤⠀⢘⣿⠛⢩⡭⣭⢭⣩⣭⡝⢫⣭⣭⣭⢩⣭⡍⣭⣭⢩⣭⣭⣍⣭⣭⠭⣭⣭⢩⣭⡝⠉⠙⠛⠟⣿⣿⡏⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⡛⠛⠙⠛⠛⠋⠉⠀⠉⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠷⠖⠘⠓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡄⠀⠀⢸⣿⡇⢸⣗⣿⠚⢹⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⢨⣿⡆⣿⣭⢸⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣓⣿⢻⢨⣷⡆⠀⢠⢤⡄⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⡍⠉⠙⢫⡁⣀⣀⣤⡄⢀⣀⣠⣤⣴⡦ ⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠰⠬⠭⠭⠼⠎⠉⠁⡈⠉⠉⠉⠭⠉⠥⠍⠩⠌⠉⠁⠉⠁⠉⠉⠉⠈⠈⠉⠁⠀⢸⣾⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⣾⣧⠉⠁⠉⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣘⡛⢹⣿⡇⣿⡉⣷⡏⢸⣿⣿⢹⡛⠙⡀⣿⣿⢸⢿⡈⣿⢹⣟⣹⣧⡏⢻⡏⢿⣟⠈⠉⠁⣿⣿⡟⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠄⠀⢻⣿⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⠏⠸⠿⠇⠿⠆⠿⢀⠸⠿⠿⠼⠇⠿⠇⠿⠀⠿⠻⠇⠿⠸⠷⠼⠿⠇⠸⠇⠿⠿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⢿⣿⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⢹⡆⠀⣸⠉⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠉ ⣿⡛⢿⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⢀⠛⠂⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⠘⠘⠀⠀⠠⣼⣿⣿⡇⠀⡤⠀⠀⠰⠶⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣶⣿⣿⣷⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣧⣈⣷⣠⣿⣤⣼⣯⣽⣤⣀⣤ ⣿⠁⢀⡀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⣸⣿⣿⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⣴⡄⠀⠋⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠷⣦⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/the-corporate-linux-foundation/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/05/19/the-corporate-linux-foundation/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Linux_Foundation_as_a_Farce⠀✐ Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Kernel at 5:34 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/linux-foundation-sham.webm Summary: The corporations that run the so-called ‘Linux’ Foundation have already decimated the domain Linux.com and now they twist marketing as “research”; they should investigate the harm they themselves have done to the “Linux” brand, which many now associate_with_spying_and_other_stuff STIRRED up by this morning’s self-promotional_puff_piece from the Linux Foundation — a piece of ‘fluff’ in support of mass surveillance — I’ve decided to do another video about what the Foundation has become. It’s just a tax- exempt marketing firm that exploits the “Linux” brand to gain visibility and attract members/funds, even if it hardly promotes Linux itself (it is not even using it!) and occasionally it promotes things that directly harm Linux. More and more of the staff has Microsoft roots and they promote a hugely misleading version of ‘history’ — one to suit their own agenda. “All corporations measure things like revenue, not freedom, and they may always compromise freedom if that contributes to them financially.”It’s possible to support GNU/Linux while condemning the Foundation. It’s also possible to support Linux (a kernel alone) without giving a damn about the Foundation. It’s not even a foundation, it’s just a private marketing group jointly owned mostly by mega-corporations. Community is not corporations and Free software, even though it co-exists with corporations, should not be led by corporations because it leads to disaster. All corporations measure things like revenue, not freedom, and they may always compromise freedom if that contributes to them financially. In a similar vein, governments aren’t corporations, municipalities are not corporations and bad things happen to both when corporations take over them. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 630 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_19/5/2021:_Gentoo/Google,_SUSECON_Digital⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:23 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Mars_Goes_to_Shell_|_LINUX_Unplugged_406⠀⇛ Tim Canham, Mars Helicopter Operations Lead at NASA’s JPL joins us again to share technical details you’ve never heard about the Ingenuity Linux Copter on Mars. And the challenges they had to work around to achieve their five successful flights. # ⚓ If_Someone_Asks_You_About_Linux,_Tell_Them…⠀⇛ I often get people asking me about Linux in real life. It can be tough telling people about Linux that have no idea about it. Here’s how I handle that situation. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ All_packages_that_were_present_in_Ubuntu_18.04_but_absent in_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Otherwise titled Figure out the differences between two apt repositories. Recently I’ve had a few packages that I often use but were missing from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. One is ckermit and the other is gnash, both of which I ‘converted’ to a snap. (In air quotes because I just converted the 18.04 deb). This made me wonder if I could figure out a list of that are present in Ubuntu 18.04, but absent in Ubuntu 20.04. As apt and dpkg are standardized tools and and package formats, we can use a few shell tools to parse the package lists and compare them side by side. This post shows you how to do the comparison yourself and I discuss the removed packages a bit. Some are version increments (like gcc-6 in Ubuntu 18.04 but gcc-7in Ubuntu 20.04), and some are packages that were combined into one instead of split up (like ltsp in Ubuntu 20.04 but a bunch of seperate ltsp-$postfix packages instead in Ubuntu 18.04). Many others are just replaced by newer versions (python-ceph vs python3-ceph). The list of differences is provided as a download, both ways. # ⚓ Install_PhpMyAdmin_on_Docker_to_manage_MariaDB_or_MySQL⠀⇛ PhpMyAdmin is a web interface through which a user has direct access to a MySQL or MariaDB database. H/she can use this graphical tool to interact with the database without having extensive knowledge of the commands used for the databases. It translates the selected function into the corresponding commands and applies them to the server or a special database. If you have ever used some hosting service then you would already be familiar with it. Because in WHM CPanel PhpMyAdmin comes as the default GUI application to manage databases. # ⚓ Using_Gimp_to_modify_PDF_files⠀⇛ Gimp is normally used to create or manipulate images files, but can also work with PDFs if you understand how it works and what it’s limits are. # ⚓ Virtualization_vs._Containerization:_What_is_the Difference?_|_ENP⠀⇛ If you want to run an application, there are two ways of doing it: on a physical computer, or on an abstraction of a computer. The two most common forms of abstraction are virtual machines (VMs) and containers. But what’s the difference between these two forms of abstraction? To answer this question, let’s take a look at VMs and containers in more detail. # ⚓ Scheduling_with_cron_&_At_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ One of the challenges (among the many advantages) of being a sysadmin is running tasks when you’d rather be sleeping. For example, some tasks (including regularly recurring tasks) need to run overnight or on weekends, when no one expected to be using computer resources. I have no time to spare in the evenings to run commands and scripts that have to operate during off-hours. And I don’t want to have to get up at oh-dark-hundred to start a backup or major update. Instead, I use two service utilities that allow me to run commands, programs, and tasks at predetermined times. The cron and at services enable sysadmins to schedule tasks to run at a specific time in the future. The at service specifies a one-time task that runs at a certain time. The cron service can schedule tasks on a repetitive basis, such as daily, weekly, or monthly. # ⚓ How_to_install_ONLYOFFICE_on_Deepin_20.2⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install ONLYOFFICE on Deepin 20.2. # ⚓ Terminal_Pagers_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ A terminal pager, or paging program, is a computer program used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. Some, but not all, pagers allow movement up a file. A popular cross-platform terminal pager is more. More can move forwards and backwards in text files but cannot move backwards in pipes. Less is a more advanced pager that allows movement forward and backward, and contains extra functions such as search. Some programs incorporate their own paging function, for example bash’s tab completion function. # ⚓ Quota_Management_on_Ubuntu_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ A Quota is a built-in feature of the Linux kernel that is used to set a limit of how much disk space a user or a group can use. It is also used to limit the maximum number of files a user or a group can create on Linux. The filesystem where you want to use quota must also support quota. Some of the filesystems that support quota on Linux are ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, etc. In this article, I will show you how to use quota in a multi-user environment on Ubuntu. So, let’s get started. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § Gentoo Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_Summer_of_Code_2021_students_welcome⠀⇛ We are glad to welcome Leo and Mark to the Google Summer of Code 2021. Mark will work on improving Catalyst, our release building tool. Leo will work on improving our Java packaging support, with a special focus on big-data and scientific software. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Next_SUSE_Rancher_and_SLES_Previewed_at_SUSECON_|_IT Pro⠀⇛ SUSECON Digital opened its event with previews of upcoming versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Rancher. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Woodside_Energy_adds_actual_robots_into_code_pipeline stages_–_Cloud_–_iTnews⠀⇛ “If we’re doing code development, then we’ll be doing that on a development robot out here in the lab,” he said on Wednesday. “Once we’re happy with some of the code changes we’re making, we’ll be pushing them up to GitHub, where the CI/CD processes will kick off and build those changes into fresh Debian changes. “We have a staging robot also out in the carpark, so once those packages have been built up into a new Docker image, we’ll pull it down onto the staging robot, and we’ll spend multiple days testing. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Ubuntu_Lifecycle_and_Release_Cadence⠀⇛ Ubuntu’s flagship operating system is hardly a thing of a novelty since we had been anticipating its release for a good while. In April 2020, Canonical officially announced the release of the next iteration of its Ubuntu operating system which is the long- term support 20.04 (Focal Fossa). The recommended minimum system requirements are a 2 GHz dual-core processor, 25 GB free hard drive space, and 4 GB RAM. For a clean installation, you need either a DVD drive or a USB port for the installer media. Internet access during the installation will be helpful so that you can download any recent updates at once. Of course, it’s possible to download and install any of the Ubuntu flavors as we did here. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Open_Source_Maintainers_Take_Center_Stage,_Joined_by Leaders_from_GitHub,_Red_Hat,_Google,_and_JFrog_at_Tidelift Upstream_Event⠀⇛ Tidelift, the premier provider of solutions for managing the open source software behind modern applications, today announced the schedule for Upstream, a free, one-day virtual event that brings together developers, open source maintainers, and the extended network of people who care most about their work. United by a vision to make open source work better for everyone, attendees will have the opportunity to meet the maintainers behind the open source tools they use every day and learn from industry experts developing with open source at scale. # ⚓ GitLab_tackles_crypto-mining_abuse_with_payment_card_checks for_free_accounts_|_The_Daily_Swig⠀⇛ A surge in crypto-mining abuse on GitLab has prompted the DevOps platform to mandate that even customers with free accounts must include payment card details in order to use its pipeline services. The San Francisco-based company says it has introduced the measure in part because the problem was creating “performance issues”. “Recently, there has been a massive uptick in abuse of free pipeline minutes available on GitLab.com and on other CI/CD providers to mine cryptocurrencies,” said GitLab in a blog post announcing the change. # § Public Services/Government⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] European_Commission_launches_new_Open_Source Bug_Bounties⠀⇛ Awards of up to EUR 5000 are available for finding security vulnerabilities in Element, Moodle and Zimbra, open source solutions used by public services across the European Union. There is a 20% bonus for providing a code fix for the bugs they discover. A new set of bug bounties were launched on 11 January 2021 using the Intigriti bug bounty platform. The bounties funded by the Commission’s ISA² programme focus on open source software widely used by European Public Services. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_inline_0.3.18:_Routine_Update⠀⇛ A new release of the inline package got to CRAN today. inline facilitates writing code in-line in simple string expressions or short files. The package was used quite extensively by Rcpp in the days before Rcpp Attributes arrived on the scene proving an even better alternative for its use cases. inline is still used by rstan and a number of other packages. Johannes Ranke, who uses and stresses inline via his package mkin, updated the loading/ unloading of DLLs which, following updates in R-devel, was failing some tests. As luck will have it, this new version appears to still fail on two of the platforms we do not actually have easy access to so another version may be coming “shortly”. # ⚓ Fortran-lang_welcomes_new_students_to_Google_Summer of_Code_2021⠀⇛ We’re happy to announce six students that will work on Fortran projects under the Google Summer of Code 2021 program: # ⚓ Physical_programming_for_children_with_visual disabilities⠀⇛ # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Top_5_New_Java_Features_To_Learn_In_2021⠀⇛ On the 16th of March 2021, Oracle started offering open-source Java 16 (Java SE 16) and Java 16 Development Kit (JDK 16) to all developers and enterprises, which is the seventh feature release as a part of the six- month cadence. According to the Oracle Critical Patch Update Schedule, JDK 16 will get at least two quarterly updates before Oracle releases JDK 17 (source). Thanks to this high level of predictability, Java developers will easily adapt to the innovation. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Junk⠀⇛ Mark Bittman writes the way he cooks: The ingredients are wholesome, the preparation elegantly simple, the results nourishing in the best sense of the word. He never strains; there’s no effort to impress, but you come away full, satisfied, invigorated. From his magnum opus, How to Cook Everything, and its many cookbook companions, to his recipes for The New York Times, to his essays on food policy, Bittman has developed a breeziness that masks the weight of the politics and economics that surround the making and consuming of food. In Animal, Vegetable, Junk, his latest book, he offers us his most thoroughgoing attack on the corporate forces that govern our food, tracking the evolution of cultivation and consumption from primordial to modern times and developing what is arguably his most radical and forthright argument yet about how to address our contemporary food cultures’ many ills. But it still goes down easy; the broccoli tastes good enough that you’ll happily go for seconds. o ⚓ An_Absolute_Shit⠀⇛ Richard Wagner was an anti-Semite. This wasn’t just ugly, of-the-times bigotry or part of a sad and private hang- up, but a blood-and-body-consuming dimension of his being. As per the usual pageantry that comes with hate, his loathing took on enduring and complicated expressions, was pathetically pseudoscientific, a product of some combination of transference, projection, and fear, and is, in hindsight—but also was, during his lifetime—a character trait that left his name and work rank with the spice of rot. o ⚓ Elements_of_Justice⠀⇛ Imagining Manhattan flattened As Rotterdam was — as Gaza is being Humbaba was guarding the Great Cedar Forest — the source Of fresh air, clean air, cool air A condition of health, air: The most vital Water and earth, And fire stands for energy Empedocles, who stares at seas And sees these elements As elements of health, says: Cities and societies That can’t, or won’t, deliver these, Enabling ease, Are symptoms of the great disease And, as such, are both ethically And legally invalid o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Nature_can_boost_health_of_people_in_cities_–_Futurity⠀⇛ The research shows how access to nature in cities increases physical activity, and therefore, overall health. Lack of physical activity in the US results in $117 billion a year in related health care costs and leads to 3.2 million deaths globally every year. It may seem like an intuitive connection, but the new research closes an important gap in understanding how building nature into cities can support overall human well-being. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ With_Less_Than_Half_the_Country_Fully_Vaccinated,_I_Fear_We Reopen_Too_Soon⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘You_Lie’:_Katie_Porter_Wields_‘Whiteboard_of_Justice’ While_Grilling_Pharma_CEO_on_Price_Hikes⠀⇛ “You’re spending all this money to make sure you make money rather than spending money to… help patients,” the California congresswoman told AbbVie’s Richard Gonzalez.  # ⚓ Democrats_Can_Claim_the_‘Family_Values’_Mantle_With_Paid Leave_and_Affordable_Child_Care⠀⇛ The American family is shrinking. And not necessarily by choice. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that births in the United States fell by 4 percent in 2020. The pandemic is likely compounding this decline, but the trend began long before the current crisis: Last year’s Census showed that the US population increased by just 7.4 percent in the 2010s—the slowest rate of growth since the 1930s. # ⚓ Have_You_Had_an_Experience_With_Prenatal_Genetic_Testing? We’d_Like_to_Hear_About_It_—_and_See_the_Bill.⠀⇛ Elective genetic screenings before and during pregnancy are safer and more available than ever. Tests, known as noninvasive prenatal tests, or NIPTs, involve a draw of the expectant parent’s blood. Other tests, called carrier tests, are done before a person gets pregnant to screen for genetic abnormalities. Some common NIPT companies include Progenity, Natera and Harmony. Providers promise to predict the risk for chromosomal abnormalities, without risk to the fetus. # ⚓ Opinion_|_Covid-19_Is_a_Global_Threat_to_Humanity—and Requires_an_International_Response⠀⇛ We cannot end the threat in the United States without ending it everywhere. # ⚓ ‘Bucket_of_Water’_vs._‘Raging_Inferno’:_Critics_Say_Biden’s Global_Vaccine_Donation_Not_Nearly_Enough⠀⇛ “Twenty million is a depressingly tiny figure compared to the global need,” said one expert. # ⚓ Businesses_&_Officials_Are_Concerned_Anti-Maskers_Won’t Honor_CDC’s_New_Guidance⠀⇛ # ⚓ A_Maskless_US_Heads_Down_a_Dark_Road_as_the_Covid_Pandemic Rages_On⠀⇛ The idiocy and mendacity of this announcement, at a time when only 36% of Americans have been fully vaccinated (about half the rate required to stop the disease’s spread) is stunning. Wearing a mask is not a burden, it doesn’t prevent someone from speaking, from going about routine business, even, as I have discovered over this past year, from running.  What it does do is prevent the spread of disease. Why the unseemly rush to do away with mask requirements? # ⚓ ‘Eating_ultra-processed_food_for_a_month_aged_my_body_by_10 years’⠀⇛ In filming his new BBC programme What Are We Feeding Our Kids? which airs this week, Dr Van Tulleken, a father-of-two whose wife, Dinah, is a fashion journalist, put himself on an 80 per cent ultra-processed food diet for four weeks in a real- life experiment. “It had a catastrophic impact on every aspect of my health and my life,” Dr Van Tulleken says. “My libido, piles, heartburn … everything got worse. I was anxious, depressed – and it was all self- perpetuating.” Sleeping was a struggle, too as was always feeling hungry. Dr Van Tulleken explains that UPF is designed to trick the body into overeating: “Things like monosodium glutamate (MSG) send a signal to your brain telling you this is nutritious. But when you digest it is there is nothing there – so you keep eating.” The diet, he estimates, aged his body by 10 years, but more disturbing was the impact on his mind. MRI scans taken after the experiment confirmed that the junk food had rewired his brain; strengthening the appetite and reward neural pathways into patterns more familiar with a drug addict. # ⚓ Sudan_Bans_Travelers_from_India,_Imposes_COVID_Curbs [Ed: Imagine being so badly stigmatised that even Sudan blocks you from entering]⠀⇛ Sudan on Tuesday banned travelers arriving from India and imposed new coronavirus restrictions including closing schools, as coronavirus cases rise. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Different_Types_of_Computer_Viruses_&_Their_Effects⠀⇛ Computer Viruses have been around for quite a while now, with almost all being spread through the internet or physical drives. The main objective of these viruses is pretty well known. Sneaking into the system, stealing, and destroying victims’ personal data are a few of the destructive traits they possess. Many users worldwide have been victimized by virus attacks, and there’s a possibility you might be next.It will probably help if you are well informed about its types and effects. But first, what is a computer virus? # ⚓ Electric_vehicles_escaped_last_week’s_gas_shortage_— but_the_next_cyberattack_could_take_them_down_instead⠀⇛ “If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you,” U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said during a White House news conference last week, referencing the Colonial [crack]. But the nation’s electric grid is far from secure itself. The ice storm in Texas left some parts of the states in the dark for over a week. California utilities have been forced to disrupt power on several occasions due to storms or to prevent equipment from setting wildfires. The state also faced rolling blackouts a few years back due to energy supply shortages. Much of the electric grid has been in place since the 1950s and 1960s, according to industry data, with some sections actually dating back to the late 19th century. # ⚓ Is_85%_of_US_Critical_Infrastructure_in_Private Hands?⠀⇛ When this problem is discussed, people regularly quote the statistic that 85% of US critical infrastructure is in private hands. It’s a handy number, and matches our intuition. Still, I have never been able to find a factual basis, or anyone who knows where the number comes from. Paul Rosenzweig investigates, and reaches the same conclusion. # ⚓ Is_It_Really_85_Percent?⠀⇛ Buried in the Times story is the commonplace assertion that public-private coordination is necessary because 85 percent of the nation’s critical infrastructure is owned by the private sector. The Times isn’t unique in its reliance on this data point as a guide to policymaking—leaders like FBI Director Christopher Wray and Sen. Angus King have also publicly referred to it in recent days. It’s not clear exactly why the Times invoked the figure, but presumably this statistic is offered to contrast the American reality with that of other nations. All of the critical infrastructure in, China, for example, is controlled by the state; and it seems plausible (given the generally greater state role in the economy) to believe that even in other Western democracies, such as France or Germany, the state has direct control over a greater portion of the national infrastructure than it does here in the United States. The difference matters. Form follows function, and the structure of the laws, regulations, and guidance a country puts in place will depend greatly on how researchers think the market is structured. Focus on the private sector is at the heart of the reported decision of the Biden administration to focus some of its forthcoming executive order on setting regulatory standards or guidelines for private-sector cyberdefense. # ⚓ ransomware,_real_resolutions⠀⇛ Some quick thoughts on ransomware as a tractable problem. # ⚓ From_RunDLL32_to_JavaScript_then_PowerShell⠀⇛ In the sample that was found, RunDLL32 is used to execute some JavaScript. Not a brand new technique but not very common (a retro- search on VT returned less than 50 samples!). To execute some JavaScript code, just call the DLL that provides JavaScript engine features: [...] # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ University_of_Minnesota_researchers fail_to_understand_consent_–_Help_Net Security⠀⇛ You’d think with all the recent discussion about consent, researchers would more carefully observe ethical boundaries. Yet, a group of researchers from the University of Minnesota not only crossed the line but ran across it, screaming defiantly the whole way. In response, the Linux Foundation, which is the core of the open-source community, took the unprecedented step of banning the entire University of Minnesota from contributing to the Linux kernel. [...] Alternatively, they could have worked with the Linux Foundation to conduct this research as a controlled experiment. Getting the consent of that Foundation means that the admins would know which submissions were subversive, allowing them to be filtered before going live. While both of these options reduce the risk of a vulnerability making through to a live product that people depend on, it still skirts the ethics of what then amounts to a social experiment on individuals who donated their time and skill in good faith. This is undoubtedly better than the path they chose but still not completely ethical. Experimenting on or with human behavior is always a tricky proposition. As it is, the path they chose and their reasoning behind it harkens back to the earliest days of technology, when the line blurred between good-faith security testing and cybercriminal. This was the impetus for legislative intervention and a code of ethics within the hacking / cybersecurity community. Ethics are the critical line that divides a hacker / White Hat from a bad actor / a Black Hat. [...] Much like in the realm of security, the scientific community also subscribes to a set of ethical guidelines about how they conduct their research. Specifically, at UMN, they have an Institutional Review Board (IRB), which outlines what research with human subjects is acceptable and is intended to review and approve studies with human subjects. Apparently, the IRB at UMN does not consider the Linux Kernel developer community to be humans as, according to the research paper, they provided an exemption to the team. I am not sure how researching how a development team reacts to subversive behavior is not a study of humans or human behavior. However, my expertise is cybersecurity for a reason. We also should consider the possibility that the IRB at UMN might have been misled. The fact that UMN has recently launched an investigation seems to support that possibility. # ⚓ Styra,_the_startup_behind_Open Policy_Agent,_nabs_$40M_to_expand_its cloud-native_authorization_tools_– TechCrunch⠀⇛ # ⚓ After_75M_downloads,_cloud-native authorization_startup_Styra_raises $40M⠀⇛ Styra Inc., the startup behind a ubiquitous piece of open-source software used to secure containerized applications, has raised $40 million in funding to help it double its headcount this year and win more customers. Battery Ventures led the round, the startup disclosed in its funding announcement today. Styra’s open-source Open Policy Agent tool is downloaded more than a million times per week by developers for a total of 75 million downloads to date. The tool, which the startup commercializes with a paid version for enterprises, helps developers manage application authorization. That’s the technical term for preventing unauthorized access to applications and their data. # ⚓ Industry’s_First_Enterprise-Grade Distribution_of_the_Popular_CNCF Project_Crossplane_Arrives,_Bringing the_Kubernetes-Powered_Universal Control_Plane_Approach_to_Platform Teams_Everywhere_|_Business_|_The Daily_News⠀⇛ Industry’s First Enterprise-Grade Distribution of the Popular CNCF Project Crossplane Arrives, Bringing the Kubernetes-Powered Universal Control Plane Approach to Platform Teams Everywhere # § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Citing_Mental_Health_and_Privacy Concerns,_Dems_Call_On_Facebook_to_Kill ‘Instagram_for_Kids’_Plot⠀⇛ “When it comes to putting people before profits, Facebook has forfeited the benefit of the doubt, and we strongly urge Facebook to abandon its plans to launch a version of Instagram for kids.” # ⚓ Time_Magazine_Lauds_Clearview_AI_Despite Its_Sketchy_Facial_Recognition_Tech⠀⇛ Time Magazine released its inaugural list of the 100 Most Influential Companies, featuring an array of large and small corporations that “are helping to chart an essential path forward.” Disturbingly, among its choices of “disruptors” is Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition start-up known for illicitly scraping Americans’ images and demographic information from social media and selling the data to law enforcement. By celebrating a company that engages in illegal mass surveillance, Time is complicit in the degradation of our privacy and our civil liberties. # ⚓ Bad_news_for_Facebook_on_two_fronts_–_and for_Ireland’s_role_as_EU’s_privacy enforcer⠀⇛ In support of this decision, Hamburg’s Commissioner, Johannes Caspar, explicitly mentioned some of the major privacy failures of Facebook. These included Cambridge Analytica, and the recent leak of 533 million personal data profiles. Caspar singled out one concern in particular: using profiling to influence voter decisions in order to manipulate democratic decision-making processes. “With nearly 60 million users of WhatsApp [in Germany], the danger is all the more concrete in view of the upcoming federal elections in Germany in September 2021, which will create desire to influence voters on the part of Facebook’s ad customers”, according to the Hamburg Commissioner. The press release concludes: # ⚓ Google_AMP_is_dead!_AMP_pages_no_longer get_preferential_treatment_in_Google search⠀⇛ Google is rolling out a significant change as a part of their page experience ranking algorithm in June 2021. From the release of the Core Web Vitals and the page experience algorithm, there is no longer any preferential treatment for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in Google’s search results, Top Stories carousel and the Google News. Google will even remove the AMP badge icon from the search results. You can now safely ignore Google AMP when building a more diverse and more exciting web without any artificial restrictions set by the adtech giant. # ⚓ ‘Organizing_Did_This’:_Amazon_Extends Moratorium_on_Police_Use_of_Facial Recognition_Tech⠀⇛ “Now, the Biden administration and legislatures across the country must further protect communities from the dangers of this technology by ending its use by law enforcement entirely.” # ⚓ Amazon_extends_ban_on_police_use_of_its facial_recognition_software_‘until_further notice’⠀⇛ Amazon didn’t immediately respond to request for comment about why the ban was being extended. In a statement provided when the ban on law enforcement use was first issued, Amazon said it hoped Congress would use the year provided by the moratorium to implement rules surrounding the ethical use of facial recognition technology. Part of its statement read: We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge. We hope this one- year moratorium might give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules, and we stand ready to help if requested. # ⚓ Amazon_extends_moratorium_on_police_use of_facial_recognition_software⠀⇛ Civil liberties advocates have long warned that inaccurate face matches by law enforcement could lead to unjust arrests, as well as to a loss of privacy and chilled freedom of expression. Amazon’s extension, which Reuters was first to report, underscores how facial recognition remains a sensitive issue for big companies. The world’s largest online retailer did not comment on the reason for its decision. # ⚓ France_says_Google,_Microsoft_cloud services_are_OK_for_sensitive_data⠀⇛ Some of France’s most sensitive state and corporate data can be safely stored using the cloud computing technology developed by Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft, if it is licensed to French companies, the government said on Monday. The comment, part of strategic plan laid out by French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and two other ministers, acknowledges U.S. technological superiority in the field and contrasts with previous calls from European politicians for fully homegrown alternatives. # ⚓ Sentiment_Analysis [Ed: Surveillance in "Data Science" clothing]⠀⇛ Sentiment analysis is a way to predict what the behind of the text (reviews or comments) means, whether it means positive, negative, or neutral. Sentiment analysis is another feature of the NLP. Most of the companies want to know about the feedback of their products from the customers. So, they asked customers to fill the feedback form, comments on the ads (Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Then the companies collect these feedbacks or comments to figure out what the customer thinks about the company products, and on behalf of that, the companies will target the customers. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Are_We_Getting_the_National_Security_We_Are_Paying_For?⠀⇛ Our country continues to expend nearly half its discretionary budget on its military might. That leaves only half for everything else. The perennial explanation given to defend this lop-sided priority is that the military guards our national security. If only that were true! # ⚓ As_US_Clears_3_Detainees_for_Release,_Amnesty_Demands_Biden Close_Gitmo⠀⇛ “President Biden cannot have true credibility advocating for other countries to respect human rights if he does not prioritize closing Guantánamo.” # ⚓ Why_Trump_Still_Insists_That_He_Won_the_Election⠀⇛ He calls people losers so he can’t be one. The thought of that label just makes him undone. But history’s verdict won’t be any finer: He’s not just a loser but also a whiner. # ⚓ Life_Lacking_a_Sense_of_Safety⠀⇛ Collapsed buildings’ blocks and gaping holes in Alwehdah Street where there was normal life a week ago are traumatic sights, triggering memories of those earlier atrocities. Today there are hundreds of injured people to be cared for in our crowded hospitals which are desperately short of many supplies because of the years of Israeli siege. Huge efforts are ongoing by the community to search for people under the wreckage of the buildings. # ⚓ The_Middle_East:_America’s_Briar_Patch⠀⇛ The supporters of “containment” believe that such a policy worked against the Soviet Union during the Cold War and thus could be retrofitted against China.  The Soviet Union, unlike China, was somewhat self-contained with an economy that was not relevant to international economics and an overall foreign policy that found itself surrounded by hostile Communist states, including China.  A policy of containment will not work against the more vital and stable  China, but this aspect of the proposition will be discussed in a future oped. It is foolish to believe that the United States could easily withdraw political and military resources from the Middle East, which has been our “briar patch” since we adopted a policy of one- sided support for Israel in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967.  For the past six decades, no international issue has preoccupied the attention of U.S. presidents as much as the Middle East.  The renewal of violence between Israel and the Hamas government is a reminder of the harm that stems from Israeli unwillingness to pursue Palestinian self-government; the policy of “apartheid;” the racist legislation introduced by left-wing Labor governments in the 1970s to deny Palestinians their ownership rights; and—the ultimate Catch-22—its policy of demolishing houses built without permits that the Israelis refuse to issue. # ⚓ Opinion_|_If_Biden_Genuinely_Aspires_to_Build_Back_Better, He_Would_Deviate_From_US_Militarism⠀⇛ if President Biden intends to Go Big at home, he will need to Go Big in changing U.S. policies abroad as well. # ⚓ Demilitarizing_the_Border⠀⇛ I was reminded of astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s reaction when he gazed back at the Earth from the moon: “It was [a] beautiful, harmonious, peaceful- looking planet, blue with white clouds, and one that gave you a deep sense… of home, of being, of identity. It is what I prefer to call instant global consciousness.” A couple hours after my own peaceful moment of global consciousness, Juan Carlos appeared at the side of a dirt road. I was by then driving in a desolate stretch of desert and he was waving his arms in distress. I halted the car and lowered the window. “Do you want some water?” I asked in Spanish, holding out a bottle, which he promptly chugged down. # ⚓ For_Okinawa,_Rahm_Would_Be_a_Knee_on_the_Neck⠀⇛ 1) It’s right next to China which much of the U.S. government is eager for some sort of fight with. 2) Its Constitution (imposed by the U.S.) bans war, and the U.S. has been hard at work pressuring Japan to violate that bit since about 10 seconds after it was adopted. # ⚓ AOC_and_Cori_Bush_Have_Helped_Remove_Taboo_on_Calling Israel_an_Apartheid_State⠀⇛ # ⚓ Getting_Back_to_Basics_in_Policy_on_Israel⠀⇛ With no cease-fire, let alone peace talks, in sight, and with Israel’s army having invaded Gaza, the death toll is bound to be very high. Yet both the caretaker Benjamin Netanyahu government in Tel Aviv and the Hamas leaders in Gaza may see benefit in keeping this war going. Wouldn’t be the first time political leaders preferred war to peace. The latest violence comes on the heels of two auspicious events: Netanyahu’s inability to form a new government, and a Human Rights Watch report that calls Israeli treatment of Palestinians “crimes against humanity.” # ⚓ ‘A_Heinous_Crime’:_Israeli_Airstrikes_Damage_Gaza’s_Only Coronavirus_Testing_Lab⠀⇛ “It was bad enough when Palestinians in Gaza weren’t able to get vaccinated, but now to reportedly lose their only coronavirus testing lab is…  beyond words.” # ⚓ The_Entire_US_Tax_Code_Is_Implicated_in_the_Forced Displacement_of_Palestinians⠀⇛ # ⚓ Centrist_Lawmakers_Join_Progressives_in_Urging_Biden_to Support_Gaza_Ceasefire⠀⇛ # ⚓ Omar,_Tlaib_Lead_Call_to_Stop_‘Appalling’_$735_Million_US Weapons_Sale_to_Israel_Amid_Gaza_Carnage⠀⇛ The Minnesota Democrat warned the munitions sale “will undercut any attempts at brokering a ceasefire.” # ⚓ In_‘Disgraceful’_Cave_to_Biden_Admin,_Meeks_Won’t_Request Delay_of_$735_Million_US_Arms_Sale_to_Israel⠀⇛ “Looks like even this little step toward transparency was shut down from the top.” # ⚓ Activist_Rapper_Lowkey_on_Gaza,_UK_Complicity_in_Israeli Apartheid_and_Settler_Colonialism⠀⇛ # ⚓ Israeli_/_Palestinian_Conflict⠀⇛ # ⚓ Global_Solidarity_Protests_Against_Israeli_Apartheid_as Palestinians_Stage_General_Strike⠀⇛ “Today, the people of Palestine are once again going on strike for their liberation—and calling on the world to join them.” # ⚓ Unity_at_Last:_The_Palestinian_People_Have_Risen⠀⇛ From the outset, some clarification regarding the language used to depict the ongoing violence in occupied Palestine, and also throughout Israel. This is not a ‘conflict’. Neither is it a ‘dispute’ nor ‘sectarian violence’ nor even a war in the traditional sense. # ⚓ Podcast_Panel:_The_Israeli_Assault_on_Gaza_with_Malak Mattar,_Dan_Cohen_and_Miko_Peled⠀⇛ # ⚓ Trained_by_Years_of_Guerilla_War,_Yemen’s_Houthis_Want_to Export_Their_Revolution_to_Palestine⠀⇛ Ayesh Atta arranges rings of long, light yellow Jasmine flowers into necklaces to give to the protesters and passers-by of his Mina Street flower shop in the coastal city of Hodeida. In the past, the 34-year-old Ayesh preserved the flowers in an icebox to sell in distant markets for Eid al-Fitr at a substantial profit. Now, despite desperately needing money, he’s decided to distribute the Jasmine necklaces for free to people who have taken to the streets in front of his shop in solidarity with the people of Palestine. # ⚓ Israel_Is_Targeting_Doctors_and_Health_Facilities,_Says Gaza_Physician⠀⇛ # ⚓ Israel_is_Making_the_Same_Errors_as_Britain_did_Over Northern_Ireland_50_Years_Ago⠀⇛ It is therefore entirely appropriate that on the same day that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis was exploding this week, an inquest in Belfast was reporting on a mass killing by the British Army in Belfast half a century earlier. This was what became known as the Ballymurphy Massacre which took place between 9 and 11 August 1971, when 10 Catholics were shot and killed in the working-class district of Ballymurphy in west Belfast. The British government and army claimed for years that the dead were IRA gunmen or had been throwing petrol bombs. But the inquest determined this week that all the dead were innocent civilians – and the army’s actions were “unjustified”. Boris Johnson has apologised unreservedly for the killings. # ⚓ Medea_Benjamin⠀⇛ # ⚓ Time_for_A_Two-State_Solution⠀⇛ The increasingly deadly hostilities have no effect on Israel halting encroachment on land in the disputed occupied West Bank or the apparent ethnic cleansing of annexed East Jerusalem that the Palestinians hope to claim as their state, with the eastern half of the Holy City as their capital. The annexation is not recognized internationally. Most troubling, a first since before the founding of Israel, are the fiery demonstrations inside Israel by Israeli Palestinian citizens and attacks against those Palestinians by far-right Israeli Jews. It’s a bad omen. [...] But stubborn, futile Palestinian demonstrations and four wars against the Goliath of Israel, a regional superpower, are unwinnable. It’s as if Mexico and Canada were to start firing missiles at the United States. Hopeless. # ⚓ Gaza_Physician:_Israel_Is_Targeting_Doctors_&_Health Facilities_to_Overwhelm_Our_Crumbling_System⠀⇛ The death toll in Gaza has reached 213, including at least 61 children, as Israel continues to attack the besieged area by air, land and sea using U.S.- made warplanes and bombs. The death toll in Israel stands at 11 from rockets fired from Gaza. Israel is facing increasing criticism for targeting doctors in its attack, and its airstrikes have reportedly damaged at least 18 hospitals and clinics, according to the World Health Organization. The attacks on medical staff and facilities are a “nightmare,” says Dr. Rasha, a Palestinian internal medicine physician working in Gaza who asked not to use her full name for safety reasons. “I think this is targeted to increase the overwhelming of the already overwhelmed healthcare system,” she says. # ⚓ Israeli_Human_Rights_Group_B’Tselem:_Israel_Is_Committing War_Crimes_by_Killing_Civilians_in_Gaza⠀⇛ As the Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 200, the leading Israeli human rights group B’Tselem is accusing Israel of committing war crimes by killing blockaded civilians and destroying infrastructure on a massive scale. Executive director Hagai El-Ad says Israel has not done enough to distinguish between military and civilian targets or to act with proportionality. “We’ve seen war crimes in previous military assaults on Gaza,” he says. “And, in fact, the impunity of the previous times in which war crimes were committed is what has paved the way for the continuation of more such crimes being committed.” Earlier this year, B’Tselem released a landmark report denouncing Israel as an “apartheid regime.” # ⚓ Palestinians_Stage_Historic_General_Strike_from_“the_River to_the_Sea”_for_the_First_Time_Since_1936⠀⇛ As the Israeli bombing of Gaza enters its ninth day, Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, Gaza and inside Israel are staging a historic general strike. This comes as violence is also spreading across Israel, with Jewish mobs attacking Palestinians in mixed Jewish and Arab communities. Last week, extremist Israeli settlers were filmed attacking Palestinian-owned shops in a Tel Aviv suburb. Another harrowing video shows ultranationalist Israelis dragging a man they believed to be an Arab from his car and beating him mercilessly. Some settlers were filmed on live television chanting “Death to Arabs,” and screenshots shared by an Israeli disinformation watchdog group show far-right Israeli WhatsApp and Signal groups coordinating attacks on Palestinians. We speak with Palestinian journalist and activist Rami Younis, who says Israeli media’s unwillingness to cover the widespread incitement is a “perfect example of how structural violence is maintained and nurtured in Israel.” # ⚓ Israel/Palestine_Coverage_Presents_False_Equivalency Between_Occupied_and_Occupier⠀⇛ Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/ Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality. # ⚓ “Genocide”:_Palestinian_Lawmaker_Condemns_Netanyahu_for Bombing_Gaza_to_Stay_in_Power,_Avoid_Charges⠀⇛ The ongoing Israeli attack on Gaza, which has now killed at least 213 people, “really is an act of genocide,” says Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian parliament and head of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society who has been leading efforts to manage the pandemic in the West Bank and Gaza. He says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces multiple corruption charges, is using the latest violence to save his political future. “This man and his government is using Palestinian blood, and maybe even Israeli blood, to stay in power, to evade the three cases of corruption that he has to face, and he’s doing anything to keep his seat.” # ⚓ Edward_Said’s_Palestine,_Revisited⠀⇛ Born in 1935 in Jerusalem, then part of the British mandate of Palestine, Said was educated at Princeton and Harvard, taught at Columbia for decades, and wrote dozens of books as well as hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles that attracted a loyal following and detractors, too. Timothy Brennan tells much of the story in his recent biography, Places of the Mind: A Life of Edward Said, which is dedicated to “the Palestinian people.” At times, Said tries to be even handed in The Question of Palestine, though it seems likely that his book might not satisfy many observers of the Middle East today precisely because he tries to be even handed. On the one hand, he condemns “Palestinian violence” and PLO hijackings and suicide bombers, and on the other hand he denounces Israeli sponsored “state terrorism,” though he concludes that Zionists have done far more harm to Palestinians than Palestinians have done to Zionists. # ⚓ Militias_Pose_A_Serious_Threat._So_Why_Is_It_So_Hard_To Stop_Them?⠀⇛ When you’ve got neo-Nazis harassing an innocent family in the suburbs because of a podcast that has nothing to do with them, it’s pretty clear this country has a domestic extremism problem. The Department of Homeland Security knows it, Congress knows it, and every single person who watched the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in horror knows it. There are many elements to the domestic extremism threat in America, but one prominent component is private militias. An assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has warned that violent extremist militias present “the most lethal” threats in the U.S., and the share of public demonstrations involving far-right militias has increased since the 2020 general election, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. But it’s one thing to identify a problem; it’s another to figure out what to do about it. Militias pose a prickly dilemma for law enforcement because they butt up against a bunch of different American narratives around self-defense, gun rights and how to live in a safe society. Some militias are just a group of guys doing target practice in the woods. Other militias plot to kidnap a governor. When trying to curb the worst of militias, law enforcement — from local beat cops to politicians passing new laws — inevitably run into questions of constitutional rights (the right to assemble, the right to bear arms) while also trying to keep communities safe. How do they know whom to go after, when to go after them, and how to stop them? # ⚓ Why_the_Republicans’_Big_Lie_works_so_well:_A_sociopathic party,_and_a_damaged_country⠀⇛ Donald Trump publicly lied at least 30,000 times while president and faced few if any negative consequences for that behavior. Moreover, he came within several thousand votes of “winning” the 2020 presidential election because of his strategic use of lying, deception and trickery, including voter suppression and voter intimidation. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Who’s_Making_—_and_Funding_—_the_World’s_Plastic_Trash?⠀⇛ ExxonMobil is the world’s single largest producer of single-use plastics, according to a new report published today by the Australia-based Minderoo Foundation, one of Asia’s biggest philanthropies.  The Dow Chemical Company ranks second, the report finds, with the Chinese state-owned company Sinopec coming in third. Indorama Ventures — a Thai company that entered the plastics market in 1995 — and Saudi Aramco, owned by the Saudi Arabian government, round out the top five. # ⚓ Just_20_Companies_Produce_Over_Half_of_All_Single-Use Plastic_Waste:_Report⠀⇛ “Transitioning away from the take-make-waste model of single-use plastics will take more than corporate leadership and ‘enlightened’ capital markets; it will require immense political will.” # ⚓ Report_by_Influential_Global_Energy_Body_Urges_No_New Fossil_Fuel_Projects⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘The_IEA_Is_Starting_to_Get_It’:_World_Energy_Body_Praised for_Finally_Admitting_Fossil_Fuels_Must_Stay_in_the_Ground⠀⇛ “Today’s bombshell report from the International Energy Agency is easy to translate,” said Bill McKibben. “Anyone who continues to engage or invest in fossil fuel development is wrecking the climate.” # ⚓ ‘We’re_at_the_Brink’:_Researchers_Warn_Greenland_Ice_Sheet May_Have_Already_Passed_Tipping_Point⠀⇛ “There will be substantially enhanced melting in the future—which is quite worrying,” said researchers. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_The_IEA—the_World’s_Most_Influential_Energy Modelling_Agency—Closes_the_Door_on_New_Fossil_Fuel Extraction⠀⇛ This is huge. An agency that has consistently boosted new oil and gas development in its flagship annual World Energy Outlook (WEO) is now backing up the global call to stop the expansion of fossil fuel extraction. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Falling_harvests_could_soon_follow_growing_deserts⠀⇛ A hotter world will mean more deserts and falling harvests − bad news for food producers and for all of us. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_The_Tax_Loophole_You’ve_Probably_Never_Heard_of Is_Making_the_Rich_Even_Richer⠀⇛ Unless the stepped-up basis loophole is closed, we will soon have a large class of hugely rich people who have never worked a day in their lives. # ⚓ House_Dems_Push_for_Infrastructure_Package_‘That_Truly Meets_This_Historic_Moment’⠀⇛ “Given the scale of our unemployment, caregiving, healthcare, climate, and inequality crises,” nearly 60 lawmakers wrote, “we urge our colleagues in Congress to pursue a larger upfront investment.” # ⚓ Hundreds_of_PPP_Loans_Went_to_Fake_Farms_in_Absurd_Places⠀⇛ The shoreline communities of Ocean County, New Jersey, are a summertime getaway for throngs of urbanites, lined with vacation homes and ice cream parlors. Not exactly pastoral — which is odd, considering dozens of Paycheck Protection Program loans to supposed farms that flowed into the beach towns last year. As the first round of the federal government’s relief program for small businesses wound down last summer, “Ritter Wheat Club” and “Deely Nuts,” ostensibly a wheat farm and a tree nut farm, each got $20,833, the maximum amount available for sole proprietorships. “Tomato Cramber,” up the coast in Brielle, got $12,739, while “Seaweed Bleiman” in Manahawkin got $19,957. # ⚓ Cryptography_experts_trash_NFTs_on_first_day_of_RSA Conference⠀⇛ The experts have weighed in: Non-fungible tokens are dumb as hell. The annual RSA Conference brings together some of the brightest minds in cryptography to discuss advances in the field, the year’s biggest hacks, and where the cybersecurity industry is heading. This year, it just so happened to kick off with a pronounced dunk on NFTs. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Kevin_McCarthy_Sinks_Even_Lower⠀⇛ House minority leader Kevin McCarthy has done it again: He’s disgraced himself in service to twice- impeached former President Donald Trump. This time, he’s officially come out against a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 violent insurrection, even after one of his own GOP allies negotiated a compromise deal that should have satisfied most of McCarthy’s prior objections (that’s what a compromise is, and if you get most of what you want, you go for it). # ⚓ Right-Wing_Media_Hounds_AOC_Over_Her_Choice_to_Keep_Wearing a_Mask⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Philadelphia’s_DA_Election_Is_a_Test_for Progressives_and_Criminal_Justice_Reform⠀⇛ The results of the city’s district attorney election will highlight the left’s growing influence—or how far they still have to go. # ⚓ Russian_lawmakers_approve_first_reading_of_bill_banning people_linked_to_‘extremist_organizations’_from_running_for parliament⠀⇛ The State Duma has approved the first reading of a bill banning people who were “involved in the activities” of outlawed extremist or terrorist organizations from being elected to the Russian parliament. # ⚓ Meet_the_Woman_Who_Would_Transform_the_Nation’s_Most Powerful_DA’s_Office⠀⇛ To hear Tahanie Aboushi tell it, a courtroom can be a strange place for a Muslim woman lawyer.1 # ⚓ Hot_Tip_for_the_NYT_on_Vaccines:_There_are_These_Two Countries_Called_Russia_and_China⠀⇛ This is not just a humanitarian point, which should be an incredibly big deal by itself. The idea of millions of preventable deaths in the developing world, and hundreds of millions of avoidable infections, should be enough to get any reasonable person’s attention. But beyond the humanitarian issue, there is the simple common sense point that the more the virus spreads, the greater the likelihood that a vaccine resistant strain will develop. This possibility should have everyone terrified. Can anyone in their right mind want to see a whole new round of infections, deaths, and lockdowns, as we wait for a new vaccine to be developed, tested, produced, and then distributed in mass quantities? # ⚓ Progressives_Urge_Biden_to_Move_Forward_on_Infrastructure Without_GOP⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_The_Congressman_From_Hell_Is_a_Symptom_of_Our Rotten_Political_System⠀⇛ Decades of disdain for politics as a civic calling means we get the politicians we deserve. # ⚓ ‘They_got_the_brunt’:_Journalists_report_dozens_more layoffs_among_city_employees_in_Moscow_in_response_to_pro- Navalny_protests⠀⇛ Entities under the Moscow Transport Department have laid off several dozen employees in response to last month’s protests in support of imprisoned opposition politician Alexey Navalny, says the independent television network Dozhd. Following reports last week that the Moscow subway system had fired nearly 40 employees in connection with recent opposition demonstrations, Dozhd interviewed nearly 100 of the city’s transport workers and found that they were warned of possible consequences after hackers leaked thousands of email addresses registered with Navalny’s team in mid-April. Most of the layoffs came after the May holidays. A source close to the Moscow Mayor’s Office told Dozhd that the order to fire these city employees came from the Kremlin. # ⚓ Legislation_to_secure_critical_systems_against_cyberattacks moves_forward_in_the_House [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Multiple bills meant to secure critical infrastructure against cyber threats were approved by the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday afternoon, just a week after a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline caused fuel shortages across the nation. The committee unanimously approved the Pipeline Security Act, introduced last week by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and a dozen other bipartisan cosponsors, which would boost pipeline security efforts at both the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Additionally, the committee approved legislation, spearheaded by Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) requiring CISA to establish a National Cyber Exercise Program to test critical infrastructure readiness against cyberattacks. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Cancel_Culture,_Case_Closed⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jordan_Peterson’s_New_Rules_Are_Old_News⠀⇛ To prepare for writing about Jordan Peterson, I asked numerous people I know what they thought of him. They all gave the same answer: “Who?” # ⚓ Lawsuit_Against_Snapchat_Rightfully_Goes_Forward_Based_on “Speed_Filter,”_Not_User_Speech⠀⇛ The parents argue that Snapchat was negligently designed because it incentivized users to drive at dangerous speeds by offering a “speed filter” that could be used during the taking of photos and videos. The parents allege that many users believed that the app would reward them if they drove 100 miles per hour or faster. One of the boys had posted a “snap” with the “speed filter” minutes before the crash. The Ninth Circuit rightly held in Lemmon v. Snap, Inc. that Section 230 does not protect Snapchat from the parents’ lawsuit. Section 230 is a critical federal law that protects user speech by providing internet intermediaries with partial immunity against civil claims for hosting user- generated content (see 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1)). Thus, for example, if a review site publishes a review that contains a statement that defames someone else, the reviewer may be properly sued for writing and uploading the defamatory content, but not the review site for hosting it. EFF has been a staunch supporter of Section 230 since it was enacted in 1996, recognizing that the law has facilitated free speech and innovation online for 25 years. By partially shielding internet intermediaries from potential liability for what their users say and do on their platforms, Section 230 creates the legal breathing room for entrepreneurs to create a multitude of diverse spaces and services online. By contrast, with greater legal exposure, companies are incentivized in the opposite direction—to take down more user speech or to cease operations altogether. # ⚓ Top_streamer_says_Twitch_revoked_her_ability_to_run_ads without_warning⠀⇛ The advertising ban comes months into what’s become known as the “hot tub meta” on Twitch. It’s become a trend for creators to stream themselves hanging out or playing games in hot tubs or inflatable pools. Siragusa has been a contributor to that trend, streaming from what appears to be a small plastic pool set up inside her home. But it’s not known why Twitch revoked Siragusa’s ability to run ads — a punishment the site has never doled out before, according to Kotaku. That’s part of what makes this situation so concerning for streamers: Twitch has an explicit set of rules that streamers need to follow to avoid a ban, but there’s no specific rules around who can and can’t be supported by advertising. Twitch allows streamers to appear in swimwear. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_We_Can_Defeat_the_Corporate_Media’s_War_to_Snuff Out_Independent_Journalism⠀⇛ Not only have some journalists become more influential than the papers they write for, but others have abandoned the employee-servant model completely. # ⚓ Killing_Tut.by_Belarus_opens_tax_fraud_case_against_the country’s_leading_independent_media_outlet⠀⇛ Belarus has opened a tax fraud case against the leadership of the country’s most prominent independent media outlet, Tut.by. On the morning of May 18, the financial police raided the Tut.by newsroom and the homes of a number journalists, including the apartment of editor-in-chief Marina Zolotova — who was taken away after the search. Tut.by’s website was also blocked, though it was quickly restored under an alternate address. Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya condemned the allegations and raids against Tut.by as the “premeditated murder” of an independent media outlet. # ⚓ Belarus_opens_tax_fraud_case_against_independent_media outlet_Tut.by⠀⇛ On the morning of May 18, law enforcement officers in Minsk raided the newsroom of the independent outlet Tut.by, as well as its regional bureaus, and the homes of its journalists. # ⚓ Belarusian_authorities_detain_13_‘Tut.by’_employees_after announcing_tax_fraud_case⠀⇛ Belarusian law enforcement have detained at least 13 people who work for the independent new outlet Tut.by.  o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Visions_of_a_Borderless_World⠀⇛ From the mountaintops of southern Arizona, you can see a world without borders. I realized this just before I met Juan Carlos. I was about 20 miles from the border but well within the militarized zone that abuts it. I was, in fact, atop the Baboquivari mountain range, a place sacred to the Tohono O’odham, the Native American people who have inhabited this land for thousands of years. At that moment, however, I couldn’t see a single Border Patrol agent or any sign of what, in these years, I’ve come to call the border-industrial complex. On the horizon were just sky and clouds—and mountain ranges like so many distant waves. I couldn’t tell where the United States ended or Mexico began, and it didn’t matter. # ⚓ The_Supreme_Court_May_Have_Just_Signed_Roe_v._Wade’s_Death Warrant⠀⇛ # ⚓ Steven_Donziger_Wants_to_Convince_‘a_Different_Jury’⠀⇛ The trial of the environmentalist lawyer Steven Donziger ended this week in a federal district court in Lower Manhattan. For a decade, Chevron’s lawyers have pursued him after he won a landmark case against the corporation on behalf of 30,000 clients in Ecuador for polluting a vast stretch of rain forest. # ⚓ Amazon_Brings_Its_Shady_Anti-Union_Tactics_to_Staten_Island Unionization_Effort⠀⇛ # ⚓ FBI_Informants_Still_Committing_Serious_Crimes_Thousands_Of Times_A_Year⠀⇛ The best defense is a good offense. The FBI’s decade-long streak of allowing informants to commit thousands of crimes a year continues, as Dell Cameron reports for Gizmodo. # ⚓ In_Rural,_Conservative_North_Carolina_County,_Anti-Jail Movement_Takes_Shape⠀⇛ Maybe in another rural, conservative county, a proposal to build a new jail would’ve been approved with very little fanfare. Even in Haywood County itself, a mountainous region in western North Carolina, the idea probably wouldn’t have garnered much attention a few years earlier.  After all, Haywood County is a place where Donald Trump won in 2020 by almost 30 percentage points, Republican firebrand Madison Cawthorn was elected to Congress, and support for the military runs strong. Law-and-order politics tend to carry the day.  # ⚓ Under_deadly_attack_French_police_demand_better protection⠀⇛ Others say it’s not just police tactics that are the problem, but the behaviour of individual officers. # ⚓ Rich_people_actually_do_have_trouble_understanding_what it’s_like_to_be_poor⠀⇛ The term “choice mindset,” refers to whether an individual is inclined to perceive their own actions and those of others as the result of deliberate decisions. When someone views life with a choice mindset, it means they are more likely to see victims as at least partially to blame for their misfortunes and to be less troubled by reports of inequality. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Nanyang Technological University have now uncovered an important clue about what causes people to think that way — namely, whether they come from a position of power in their own lives. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Debating_Bill_C-10_at_the_Canadian_Heritage_Committee,_Part Two:_A_Special_Law_Bytes_Podcast⠀⇛ Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, May 17, 2021 # ⚓ After_50,000_Layoffs_And_Absolute_Chaos,_AT&T_Ends_Its Bungled_Media_Experiment⠀⇛ You might recall that AT&T spent nearly $200 billion to acquire Time Warner and DirecTV, believing this would turn the dodgy old phone company into an innovative new media juggernaut. But despite $42 billion in tax breaks and oodles of regulatory favors from the Trump administration (like killing net neutrality), AT&T simply couldn’t overcome its own nature as a bumbling, government- pampered telecom monopoly. As a result, the company has laid off more than 52,848 employees since 2017. # ⚓ Debating_Bill_C-10_at_the_Canadian_Heritage_Committee,_Part One:_My_Opening_Statement⠀⇛ Let me conclude by noting that if a choice must be made – some additional payments by a streaming service or regulating the free speech rights of Canadians – I would have thought that standing behind freedom of expression would be an easy choice to make and I have been genuinely shaken to find that my government thinks otherwise. I look forward to your questions. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubisoft_Shifts_Its_Future_Plans_To_Include_More_‘Free_To Play’_Games⠀⇛ The embrace of “free” in the video game industry continues to pick up speed. We were just discussing the years-long success Epic Games has had with Fortnite, a free-to-play game that has nevertheless racked up $9 billion over the course of two years. The point of that post wasn’t that all games have to be free-to-play. The point was that there are methods in the industry that completely negate the idea that has far too long permeated industry mentality which amounts to: you cannot compete with “free” or piracy. Not only does the story of Fortnite prove that isn’t true, it proves that it’s not true in spectacular fashion. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Epic_Tries_to_Show_Apple_Is_Antitrust_Violator_Beyond_App Store⠀⇛ Another point of contention was Apple’s announcement in November of a new program to reduce App Store fees from 30% to 15% for developers who generate under $1 million per year in revenue. Schiller couched it as an initiative to help small businesses during the Covid-19, but acknowledged under questioning that the company was also pivoting in response to worldwide scrutiny over App Store practices. # ⚓ A_Primer_on_the_Current_Status_of_the_Epic_v._Apple_Case_– AAF⠀⇛ In the Epic Games v. Apple lawsuit, which recently began court proceedings, Epic Games alleges that Apple is exploiting a monopolistic position through its restrictions on sideloading and payment processing fees—arguments that mirror broader policy debates at both the federal and state levels. # ⚓ eBay_To_Let_Governments_Pull_Down_Listings_Automatically; What_Could_Possibly_Go_Wrong?⠀⇛ One common theme we’ve seen for ages in the various content moderation debates are that those who think that governments should be able to determine what content stays up and what content needs to come down don’t seem to recognize who various government leaders around the world are these days. Governments have an unfortunate track record of trying to pull down content that embarrasses themselves. And yet, for reasons unknown, eBay has decided that it is going to let government regulators automatically remove listings on the auction site. # ⚓ Brands_call_for_‘holistic’_approach_in_Amazon_counterfeits case [Ed: This is not about counterfeits but about monopoly and control over the channel]⠀⇛ As the CJEU prepares to answer the recurring question of marketplace liability for infringement, IP owners say legislative reform may have more of an influence # ⚓ KOL335_|_Institute_for_Youth_in_Policy:_Anarchy,_Copyright, Property_Rights⠀⇛ Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 335. I was interviewed by Paul Kramer of the Youth in Policy Podcast. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ No_second_extension_of_a_time_limit_due_to_COVID-19 [Ed: COVID-19 is only an excuse when the criminals who run the EPO need to justify doing illegal things]⠀⇛ The Board dealt with a request for re- establishment of rights with respect to the extended time limit for filing the statement of grounds of appeal. The representative of the appellant had waited until the evening of the extended deadline to submit the grounds of appeal and was due to Covid-19 restrictions forced to leave the office before a notification of his submission by fax was received. The next morning it turned out that due to an unknown change of the fax machine settings, the letter had not been received by the EPO. The Board concluded that all due care had not been exercised, and that the difficult circumstances due to COVID-19 do not give rise to another extension of the time limit as it already had been extended due to COVID-19. # ⚓ Samsung_Has_Ambitious_Plans_in_Place_For_Foldables; May_Showcase_S-Shaped_Screen_Soon [Ed: Plenty of prior art there, but in some patent offices this company is the biggest client/customer (that's what they call it), so who cares, right? The "Customer is Always Right"...]⠀⇛ South Korean giant Samsung is arguably the leader in the foldable smartphone space, with multiple foldable devices in the market currently. The company has no plans of slowing down on foldable smartphone, not as of now, from what we can make out of all the reports coming in about Samsung’s foldable plans for 2021. According to a new report, Samsung will show off new foldable designs during its SID Display Week 2021, which includes a foldable 17-inch tablet and a flexible smartphone with a 7.2-inch display that can be folded in two places and the structure resembles the letter Z or S. According to the report, Samsung may also showcase a Samsung Slidable Display or a horizontally stretching display, which is said to be for an upcoming smartphone, according to reports. Samsung is also rumoured to announce its Under Panel Camera (UPC) technology during the SID Display Week 2021 – this is the company’s own attempt at putting a camera under the display. During the SID Display Week 2021, Samsung is not expected to talk about commercial products but will only show and talk about new research and possibly demonstrate prototypes. # ⚓ What_To_Expect_When_You_Are_Expecting…_To_Meet_With_A Patent_Attorney [Ed: Expect to be lied to a lot to ensure they -- not you -- benefit financially]⠀⇛ You have a great product (or an idea for one). You think it will take the world by storm. You heard something about intellectual property protection and you are careful about not sharing your idea with just anyone. Your friend recommends talking to a patent attorney to discuss your options. Is that a good idea? Yes! But to make the initial meeting a success, try to answer a few questions to determine when to meet with a patent attorney or what to find out from a patent attorney. With many legal issues, the devil is in the details. In that light, the hypotheticals below are generic and merely illustrate basic principles. Your specific situation is likely to not fit neatly into all (or even most) of these hypotheticals. # ⚓ Recording_an_assignment_at_the_European_Patent_Office [Ed: Conveniently perpetuates the illusion that the EPO still follows the EPC. It violates it every day and is basically an illegal institution living on borrowed time, relying on corruption (bribery of the media etc.) to last a few more years.]⠀⇛ Document signing has presented novel challenges in the new remote-working environment. Recording an assignment at the European Patent Office (EPO) can be straightforward provided that the formal requirements are understood and complied with. This article aims to set out those formal requirements so that pitfalls can be avoided. Article 72 EPC relating to assignment reads: An assignment of a European patent application shall be made in writing and shall require the signature of the parties to the contract. [...] In the current circumstances, digital signatures might be more readily obtainable than an original (wet) signature. However, digital signatures are not currently an accepted form of execution on assignments at the EPO. However, the EPO will accept a scanned copy of an original signature and the parties may sign in counterparts. The national law of China, Japan and Korea foresees that a seal or stamp can take the place of a signature. As we understand current practice, this will be accepted by the EPO in lieu of a handwritten signature for China, Japan and Korea, provided it is accompanied by the seal holder’s name in printed form. # ⚓ Humira_patents_take_center_stage_as_House_panel targets_AbbVie_pricing⠀⇛ Patents protecting AbbVie’s inflammatory disease drug Humira in Europe expired two and half years ago, forcing the company to sharply cut its prices as low-cost competitors flooded the region. But in the U.S., the world’s top-selling drug is protected until 2023 due to broader intellectual property protection and legal settlements with would-be rivals. AbbVie, meanwhile, has kept raising prices. The company’s so-called “patent thicket” for Humira emerged as the biggest villain in a hearing Tuesday before the House Oversight and Investigations Committee, suggesting an area of potential agreement between Democrats and Republicans on drug pricing legislation. # ⚓ EU_patent_breakthrough_for_MGC_and_its_COVID treatment_product [Ed: There is no such thing as “EU patent”, but then again there’s not much real journalism left, as a lot of it is just shallow and promotional spam, ads disguised as ‘news’ ‘reports’ or ‘articles’ (even reposted_a_lot]⠀⇛ ASX-listed MGC Pharmaceuticals says a patent application for its CimetrA investigational medical product filed earlier this month has been accepted by the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office, giving it an avenue to seek patent protection in other EU and global markets. The company continues to move towards the start of a phase III clinical trial for CimetrA, a potential treatment solution for COVID-19 infected patients. # ⚓ Apple_Wins_Patent_covering_a_Foldable_iPad_and_new Hinge_System_that_could_also_be_used_in_an_alternative Mac_Pro_Display⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP_Asset_Management_in_Russia [Ed: Maybe stop referring to patents (monopolies) as "assets" or "rights"? It's misleading, it is a lie.]⠀⇛ At present, along with the increasing importance of intangible assets in the market-driven economy and with the development of the intellectual property law, the number of protectable and marketable intellectual property subject matters is constantly growing. It is remarkable that persons, in particular, legal entities and individuals, have started to show an increasing interest in the security and protection of the results of intellectual activity and means of individualization when creating, promoting, and selling products or providing services, both in Russia and abroad. At the same time, we see that in some cases intellectual property objects are acquired in the name of one holder and in other cases — in the name of several holders of the relevant rights (rights holders) for quite different purposes, including commercial and non-commercial. # ⚓ [Older]_PyroGenesis_Announces_European_Patent Office’s_Intent_to_Grant_Plasma_Atomization_(3D Printing)_Patent;_Increasing_Productivity_and_Further Controlling_Particle_Size_Distribution⠀⇛ # ⚓ Brazilian_Supreme_Court_Ends_Patent_Term_Extension and_Retroactively_Cuts_Pharmaceutical_and_Medical Device_Patent_Terms⠀⇛ On May 6, 2021, the Brazilian Supreme Court determined that the minimum ten-year patent term set forth in Article 40 of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Statute (Law No. 9,279) was unconstitutional (ADI 5529), and, on May 12, 2021, retroactively reduced the terms of granted pharmaceutical and medical device patents that are valid only due to the ten- year patent term provision to 20 years from the filing date. The terms of granted patents in fields other than pharmaceuticals and medical devices did not have their terms retroactively reduced, i.e., they maintain their ten-years from grant date terms. # ⚓ F-star_Therapeutics_Reports_First_Quarter_2021 Financial_Results_and_Provides_Corporate_Update_– PharmiWeb.com⠀⇛ FS118 European patent protection granted: The European Patent Office (EPO) granted a patent in January 2021 with claims protecting the composition of matter of F-star’s FS118 molecule giving protection until June 2037. The phase 2 proof-of-concept trial of FS118 is proceeding on plan and the Company plans to provide an update on progress in the first half of 2022. # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Fortress-funded_VLSI_Technology fighting_to_defend_$2.175_billion_jury_verdict_over semiconductor_patents:_post-trial_motions⠀⇛ The two VLSI Technology v. Intel patent infringement cases that have been put before juries in the Western District of Texas this year have had two extreme outcomes: after a record verdict over $2.175 billion in March that shocked the technology industry, two other VLSI patents were found not to be infringed in April. A third trial between the two entities is coming up soon. In either case, the losing party has the right to appeal. Many observers have noted that exorbitant jury verdicts are rarely upheld: they’re typically adjusted or overturned. But there is no guarantee, and Intel leaves no stone unturned to attack VLSI’s March 2021 win. On April 22, almost simultaneously with the jury verdict in the second case, Intel brought a total of four post-trial motions. One of the four motions is specific to the ’759 patent, for the infringement of which the jury awarded $675 million (a little less than third of the total amount). I’ve uploaded Intel’s related Rule 52 motion and VLSI’s opposition to Scribd. # ⚓ Data_reveals_patenting_in_semiconductors_is_on_the rise,_with_Asia_accelerating_its_output [Ed: Patents are a function of monopoly seeking, not innovation. Countries like China lowered the bar of patenting.]⠀⇛ A deep-dive into semiconductor-related patent publications reveals insights into the state of innovation and demonstrates the impact of government policy on R&D activity. In this co-published piece, George Park of IPValue and Paul Ahern of Longitude Licensing provide the details # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Aeritas_patent_challenged⠀⇛ On May 18, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination against U.S. Patent 9,390,435, owned by Aeritas LLC, an NPE. The ‘435 patent relates to receiving notifications, e.g., notification related to products or services of interest, at a mobile device based on the location of the mobile device and notification criteria, and then receiving information, e.g., additional information about the products or services or a purchase confirmation, at the mobile device in response to an input. The patent has been asserted in 21 litigations, including current assertions against Finnair Oyi, Darden Restaurants, Whataburger Restaurants, Burger King, and WestJet Airlines. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Hollywood,_Alcohol,_and_Trademarks⠀⇛ This pending petition for certiorari involves a trademark registration dispute between Kaszuba (HOLLYWOOD BEER) and Hollywood Vodka LLC (HOLLYWOOD VODKA). Kaszuba first registered his mark (albeit on the Secondary Register). Later, HVL was denied registration — in part because of the existence of the Kaszuba’s mark. HLV then filed a cancellation proceeding before the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board (TTAB). After a drawn-out process, the Board eventually sided with HLV—entering judgment against Kaszuba as a sanction for discovery violations. # ⚓ USPTO_files_proposed_rules_for_new_US_trademark_act [Ed: Lobbyists changing rules and laws again, to better suit the rich of course, at everybody else's expense. They can't lose, they'll only ever get richer and more protected from competition as long as we allow this...]⠀⇛ The USPTO filed its proposed rules for implementing provisions of the Trademark Modernization Act yesterday, May 17. The document set forth guidelines for how the USPTO would oversee the new ex-parte expungement and ex-parte re-examination proceedings, which are designed to make it easier for third parties to cancel marks that are no longer in use. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Future_of_Museums_Is_Open!⠀⇛ # ⚓ After_Threats_to_Block_Twitter_&_VPNs,_Russia_Warns Facebook_&_YouTube⠀⇛ Following demands that Twitter should remove “prohibited” content or face blocking in Russia, the authorities are warning that if Facebook and YouTube don’t clean up their acts too, they could face similar measures. Those thinking of deploying VPNs to circumvent blocking are also on notice, since the government believes it has the necessary tools to thwart evasive technological action. # ⚓ Confusion_Ensues_as_Trinidad_&_Tobago_Threatens_Users of_‘Illegal’_Streaming_Devices⠀⇛ The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has sent a stark warning to those who sell and use illegal streaming devices. Importing and marketing these piracy tools can lead to a $250,000 fine and a ten-year prison sentence. Unfortunately, the vague definition of these illegal devices has created quite a bit of confusion. In a matter of hours, hundreds of comments poured in, noting that Firesticks, Chromecasts, mobile phones, and PCs could fit this description too. # ⚓ FBI_Got_Access_To_Sci-Hub_Founder’s_Apple_Account⠀⇛ The war against educating people without paying huge sums of money continues without pause. Over the last few years, we’ve written a bunch about Sci-Hub and its founder, Alexandra Elbakyan, including the fact that academic publishers have convinced the DOJ to investigate Elbakyan, claiming that this effort to (*checks notes*) give more academics free access to academic articles is… tied to Russian intelligence. The whole thing seemed bizarre. Sure, fine, people can make arguments about copyright — but saying that it’s connected to Russian intelligence seems like quite a conspiracy theory. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3373 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_20/5/2021:_Mesa_21.1.1_Released_and_Windows_10X_is_Dead_Already⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:40 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ 5_Reasons_to_Choose_the_Linux_Terminal_Over_GUI⠀⇛ As a Linux newbie, the preference for a Graphical User Interface (GUI) comes naturally. Also, shifting from Windows can be a bit difficult without a GUI. The unfamiliar syntax and the need to memorize the commands might scare you at first, but getting comfortable with the terminal will definitely be helpful in the long run. More so, you can use the up and down arrows on your keyboard to navigate commands that you have entered before. This greatly simplifies your work and makes it more beginner-friendly. As you become a better developer, the need to use the Command Line Interface (CLI), commonly known as the terminal, will become more apparent. In this article, we will discuss some key reasons why you should begin using the terminal. # ⚓ Linux_on_Chromebooks_is_finally_coming_out_of_beta_with Chrome_OS_91⠀⇛ Google today at I/O announced that Linux on Chromebooks would finally be coming out of beta with the release of Chrome OS 91. The company had offered Linux apps on Chrome OS alongside Android apps, hoping to reach an audience of developers with IDEs and so on. However, the Linux Development Environment, as Google had dubbed it, had been in beta ever since while first launched. The company had added new features at a steady cadence, enabling things like GPU acceleration, better support for USB drives, and so on so people could be more productive while using Linux apps. Alongside Linux, Google also announced that it would be bringing Android 11 to Chromebooks. Technically, the update has already started with Chrome OS 90 for select Chromebooks, and it’ll come with a host of new features including increased optimization of Android apps and a new dark theme. Google’s increased support of Android is no coincidence. The company says that the operating system sees 3x increased usage of Android apps, and the new Android 11 update will see Android move to a virtual machine rather than the current container based method, making it easier to update in the future. # ⚓ Microsoft_confirms_Windows_10X_is_dead [Ed: Well, Microsoft Windows_has_been_dying_since_Vista]⠀⇛ Microsoft is confirming today that it no longer plans to release Windows 10X. The operating was originally supposed to arrive alongside new dual- screen devices like the Surface Neo, with a more lightweight and simplified interface and features. This was all before the pandemic hit, and Microsoft then decided to prioritize Windows 10X for single- screen laptops instead. Windows 10X is now officially over, and Microsoft is now planning to bring its best bits into Windows 10. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_I/NO_|_Coder_Radio_414⠀⇛ After Chris gets a reality check from Mike, the guys answer some emails and admit a cold hard truth. # ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_630:_The_State_of_Making_–_Dale_Dougherty_& Make⠀⇛ Without Dale Dougherty, our guest for this show, we might never have had the maker movement with Maker Faire, Make Magazine, Maker Camp, and the influence it has had on education, hardware, and software creation. In a deeply engaging hour, Dale brings Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb up to date on the maker movement with its massive influence on education while visiting other fun topics, such as his role as well in the founding of the Web as we know it today. # ⚓ Stallman_ISN’T_OUT_OF_TOUCH_With_Technology!⠀⇛ In some previous videos about Stallman I said something that I would like to take back and that is that Stallman is out of touch with technology, while he does have some funky solutions for some modern problems he certainly understands what the problems actually are. # ⚓ UbuntuDDE_Remix_21.04_overview_|_Powerful_Ubuntu_with_the most_beautiful_desktop_environment.⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of UbuntuDDE Remix 21.04 and some of the applications pre-installed. # ⚓ mintCast_361_–_The_Launch_Launch⠀⇛ First up, in our Wanderings, I start building, Joe writes with a pinecil, Tony upgrades, Josh fights a game, and Bo tries to leaf. Then, our news Audacity gets bought up, System76 Launches the Launch, and LibreOffice Lets you Search! o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_5.12.5⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 5.12.5 kernel. All users of the 5.12 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.12.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.12.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_5.11.22⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_5.10.38⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_5.4.120⠀⇛ # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ XWayland_Lands_Support_For_Sharing_Pixmaps_Via_MIT- SHM_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ The patch allows for sharing pixmaps of X11 clients under XWayland via shared memory with the MIT-SHM extension. This work was driven by the Sway/WL-ROOTS developers and they have tentative patches for making use of the functionality. Notably they are pursuing the shared memory buffers support for use in conjunction with their new Pixman software-based renderer. Simor Ser has been working on a new Pixman software renderer for WL-ROOTS with this SHM support being needed for the X11 clients. # ⚓ NVIDIA_465.31_driver_out,_plus_NVIDIA_takes_another shot_at_limiting_crypto_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ A few bits of NVIDIA news to cover today with some small and some big news including drivers, hardware and open source. Firstly, on the driver front, NVIDIA recently released the Linux 465.31 driver as part of their “New Feature Branch”. It’s a small release adding in support for the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU and the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU, plus a bug fix that “could cause AddressSanitizer to report a heap-buffer- overflow during initialization of the OpenGL and Vulkan libraries”. Onto something bigger: NVIDIA are trying to get “GeForce Cards into the Hands of Gamers”. How? Well, they announced a reduced hash rate for newly manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, 3070 and 3060 Ti graphics cards to make them “less desirable to miners”. This is somewhat similar to what they did when they announced the RTX 3060. These new cards will start shipping in May, with the reduced ETH hash rate and they will be clearly labelled as either “Lite Hash Rate” or “LHR” and listed on the boxes and will not apply to cards already purchased. o § Benchmarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu_20.04.2_LTS_/_20.10_/_21.04_Performance_On_Intel Xeon_Scalable_Ice_Lake⠀⇛ While there is more to consider when choosing a Linux distribution than just the out-of-the-box performance, for those curious about the performance of recent Ubuntu releases for running with Intel’s new 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable “Ice Lake” processors, here are some benchmarks showing how the performance has improved from Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS to Ubuntu 20.10 and now the recent Ubuntu 21.04 Linux release. With now having the dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 server for Linux testing, I’ve been working on a variety of interesting Linux/BSD benchmarks from this Ice Lake Xeon platform. As part of a larger Linux distribution comparison being conducted now, I ran tests of clean installs across Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS / 20.10 / 21.04 on this Intel reference server with the two Xeon Platinum 8380 processors, 512GB of RAM (16 x 32GB DDR4-3200), and Intel 3D XPoint DCP 5800X 800GB (SSDPF21Q800GB) NVMe SSD. # ⚓ mesa_21.1.1⠀⇛ Hello everyone, The first bugfix release for the 21.1 branch is now available, containing mostly AMD and Intel changes as usual, but also a decent amount of ARM fixes and more. The next bugfix release is schedules for two weeks from now, on June 2nd. Cheers, Eric # ⚓ Mesa_21.1.1_Released_With_More_Open-Source_AMD_/_Intel Graphics_Driver_Fixes_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ For those that wait until the first point release of a new quarterly Mesa 3D driver stack feature release before upgrading, now is the time to move to the Mesa 21.1.1 series. Two weeks after the big Mesa 21.1 release, Mesa 21.1.1 is now available as the first point release and arriving right on schedule. Current Mesa release manager summed up v21.1.1 in today’s announcement as “mostly AMD and Intel changes as usual, but also a decent amount of ARM fixes and more..” o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Best_Free_Office_Suites_for_Linux_in_2021⠀⇛ LibreOffice is the most favored office suite app in the Linux community and this is not just due to the fact that it works as an excellent alternative to Microsoft Office Suite but also that it is completely free and open source. It has successfully branded itself as more than just an app to be a community of culture, collaboration, and sharing. If you ever have any use issues or encounter platform-specific bugs be rest assured that your situation can be taken care of. # ⚓ Hiri_–_A_Linux_Email_Client_for_Exchange_and_Office_365⠀⇛ # ⚓ 3_Tools_To_Display_Linux_Laptop_Battery_Information_From the_Command_Line⠀⇛ This article explains how to display Linux laptop battery information from the command line. Using the tools below, you’ll be able to check the current battery discharging rate, the battery capacity (current, full and design), current battery voltage, temperature, and more. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_unzip_TarGZ_files_in_Linux⠀⇛ TarGZ archives are a staple of Linux. Many programs are distributed in this file format, as well as other files. Despite this, many Linux users do not know how to unzip TarGZ files in Linux. In this guide, we’ll show you that it’s effortless to unzip TarGZ files on Linux. To get started, download your favorite TarGZ file and follow along! # ⚓ How_to_Install_1Password_in_Ubuntu_via_Its_Official Repository_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ The 1Password password manager now adds officially Linux support. # ⚓ How_to_install_KDE_Plasma_5_on_Linux⠀⇛ KDE Plasma 5 is a beautiful, fully-featured desktop environment for the Linux desktop. It’s highly modern and has tons of configuration options that any Linux user would love. In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up KDE Plasma 5 on Linux. # ⚓ How_To_Install_SpiderFoot_Security_Scanner_On_Debian_10 VPS⠀⇛ SpiderFoot is a free and open-source information gathering tool used to automate the process to gather information from a given target, including domain name, hostname, IP address, subnetwork, threat intelligence lists, spam blacklists, and much more. It automatically crawls 100+ open-source data sources to get information from the target machine. In this post, we will show you how to install SpiderFoot on Debian 10 VPS. # ⚓ Sharing_your_amortisation_schedule_to_anyone⠀⇛ Last month, my company allowed me to claim some benefits through a dedicated platform. This platform is specifically built for this purpose and allows you to recover these benefits not only in the form of coupons or discount codes, but also as reimbursements for medical visits or interest on mortgage payments. I wanted to try the latter. I logged on to the platform and then I filled in all the (many) details about the loan that the plaform asks you to fill in, until I had to upload my amortisation schedule which contains a lot of sensitive data. In fact, a strange thing happened at this step: my file was named document.pdf, but after uploading it was renamed to document_2.pdf. # ⚓ WebRTC_fails_tests_on_Firefox_78.10.0esr_(64-bit)⠀⇛ Having to participate in many online events since the COVID crisis started, I’ve come to notice that few of the online clients work properly on the current Firefox ESR found in Debian. A quick visit at WebRTC Test confirmed that none of the tests in the Network and Connectivity section pass. Meanwhile, a Windows 10 laptop running Edge via the same network works just fine, so I have to assume that either a Firefox or Debian packaging issue is to blame, but I wouldn’t know where to start. # ⚓ Maria_“tatica”_Leandro:_Configuring_the_Taotronic Headphones_with_Microphone_on_Linux⠀⇛ I’ve owned a TaoTronic TT-BH22 headphones with noise cancellation for a while ago, and I can tell you that despite being quite cheap have worked perfectly for me. Battery life is fantastic (around 40 hours) and noise cancelling, even if it’s not 100% perfect as the professional ones, is more than acceptable. # ⚓ iSCSI_Target_and_Initiator_Installation_on_Centos8/RHEL8_– Unixcop⠀⇛ iSCSI is a way of connecting storage devices over a network using TCP/IP. It can be used over a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), or the Internet. iSCSI devices are disks, tapes, CDs, and other storage devices on another networked computer that you can connect to. Sometimes these storage devices are part of a network called a Storage Area Network (SAN). If you want to work as a “SAN Device” on software level then you will use “iSCSI“ In the relationship between our computer and the storage device, our computer is called an initiator because it initiates the connection to the device, which is called a target. # ⚓ Pacemaker_HA_Cluster_setup_on_Centos8/RHEL8_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ Pacemaker is a cluster resource manager. The High Availability Add-On cluster infrastructure provides the basic functions for a group of computers (called nodes or members) to work together as a cluster. High Availability(HA) cluster also known as failover cluster or active-passive cluster. In this scenario if one node get fails then another node get active and start working. # ⚓ PWM_with_Raspberry_PI:_python_example_usage_for_a_breathing LED⠀⇛ Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) is an electronic technique of reducing the (average) power provided to a circuit by providing regular discrete pulses. As Raspberry PI hasn’t analogic PINs, this can provide an effective way to simulate an analog output In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to use PWM with Raspberry PI, include an example with a “breathing” LED. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Configure_KVM_on_Ubuntu_Linux⠀⇛ KVM allows you to use multiple OS on your system without having issues. There are options to use virtual machines, VMware, and other integrated systems for using different operating systems on your PC. Still, KVM is one of the most reliable arrangements for virtualization. KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine, which allows you to switch between mouse, keyboard, monitor, and systems. Some people also consider KVM as an integrated arrangement of Keyboard-Video-Mouse, where the entire system works over an internet (local/broad) connection. KVM has both hardware devices and software systems that you can install/ use with your Ubuntu system. If you’re a system administrator, using KVM on your system must give you relief from switching one system to another. # ⚓ How_To_Use_PostgreSQL_With_Ruby_On_Rails_Application_– OSTechNix⠀⇛ Even though the default database SQLite3 works great with Ruby on Rails, we shouldn’t be using it in some cases. For instance, if your Rails application is being concurrently accessed by large number of users, SQLite is not recommended. We should try more robust databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL, which provides scalability, concurrency, centralization, and control. We already knew how to use MySQL with Rails application. Today, we will see how to use PostgreSQL with Ruby on Rails application in Ubuntu Linux. # ⚓ How_to_view_and_delete_photo_metadata_–_Tutorial⠀⇛ Images be images. Photos be photos. A collection of pixels. But not just. Various image formats also support the inclusion of additional information in the image file, things like resolution, focal length, shutter speed, GPS data, and more. This extra stuff, commonly referred to as Exif data, can be useful for tagging and search, but it may not necessarily be the best thing when it comes to privacy. In this article, I’d like to show you a few useful methods for how to examine and then optionally remove Exif data from your photos or images, so that if you must share them with other people, they don’t contain too much unnecessary information other than pretty pixels. I’ll mostly focus on Linux, with some small extras for Windows folks. All right, follow me. # ⚓ Lennart_Poettering:_File_Descriptor_Limits⠀⇛ The primary way to reference, allocate and pin runtime OS resources on Linux today are file descriptors (“fds”). Originally they were used to reference open files and directories and maybe a bit more, but today they may be used to reference almost any kind of runtime resource in Linux userspace, including open devices, memory (memfd_create(2)), timers (timefd_create(2)) and even processes (with the new pidfd_open(2) system call). In a way, the philosophically skewed UNIX concept of “everything is a file” through the proliferation of fds actually acquires a bit of sensible meaning: “everything has a file descriptor” is certainly a much better motto to adopt. Because of this proliferation of fds, non-trivial modern programs tend to have to deal with substantially more fds at the same time than they traditionally did. Today, you’ll often encounter real-life programs that have a few thousand fds open at the same time. Like on most runtime resources on Linux limits are enforced on file descriptors: once you hit the resource limit configured via RLIMIT_NOFILE any attempt to allocate more is refused with the EMFILE error — until you close a couple of those you already have open. # ⚓ How_to_Clean_Your_Ubuntu_System_Using_Bleachbit_Tool⠀⇛ Bleachbit is an open-source utility that helps you in cleaning, optimizing, and protecting your privacy. It takes care of cleaning your disk space, browser history, delete cookies, shreds temporary files and directories, delete logs, and discard junk from your system. This tool has evolved over time and has added more features. BleachBit is created to clean thousands of applications including Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and more. Beyond easily removing files, it contains advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, erasing free disk space to mask traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. # ⚓ Getting_the_most_out_of_Linux_Bash_history_command⠀⇛ The Linux command line – the terminal – stores history of commands executed in the past by a user. This history is persistent and remains in memory even if we reboot our system. We can retrieve and reuse these stored commands to make the most of the history storage feature of the bash shell. The Linux bash has a very powerful command called “history”. This command is a built-in bash command that is used to extract history information about commands that have been executed by Linux users in all previous sessions. In this tutorial, we will enable you to get the most out of your shell history by learning the proper use of the history command. Linux stores the command history for a particular user in a ~/.bash_history file by default. We will use the Linux terminal application to execute the commands mentioned in this tutorial. # ⚓ What_Is_Alias_In_Linux?_How_To_Use_And_Create_Permanent Aliases?⠀⇛ Typing texts and memorizing commands is one of the downsides of being a command-line enthusiast. And if you need to type and remember the same long command, it might reduce your productivity in a terminal. What if you can replace a long command with your own fancy short name, or group multiple commands? Yes, alias is a method that can help you use the command line efficiently. # ⚓ How_to_manage_AWS_Cloudwatch_using_aws-cli⠀⇛ In this article, I will show you aws-cli commands to manage Cloudwatch from the terminal. This guide will help you get started with using aws-cli for creating, managing Cloudwatch alarms. # ⚓ Install_ModSecurity_with_Apache_in_a_Docker_Container⠀⇛ ModSecurity is a free, open-source, and most popular web application firewall (WAF) that protects your web application against a wide range of Layer 7 attacks. It was designed for Apache web server monitoring, logging, and filtering requests. It comes with a Core Rule Set that detects and stops several attacks including, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, Trojans, bad user agents, session hijacking, and more. # ⚓ How_To_Change_The_GDM3_Login_Screen_(Greeter)_GTK_Theme_And Background_Image_Using_gdm-tools_–_Linux_Uprising_Blog⠀⇛ gdm-tools is, like its name suggests, a set of command line tools to change the look of the GNOME Display / Login Manager (GDM 3). Using gdm-tools, you’ll be able to easily change the GDM login screen (greeter) theme and background image, backup / restore the default GDM theme and optionally reset everything to default, and extract the default GDM theme for use in “weird” GNOME sessions, such as the Ubuntu session. # ⚓ How_To_Install_1Password_In_Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Install_Figma_on_Linux_(Ubuntu,_Fedora,_Arch,_etc.) |_Technastic⠀⇛ Figma is a popular tool amongst graphic designers and UI, UX designers. It can be used to create wireframes, high-fidelity interface designs, prototyping, etc. One of the unique features of Figma is that it runs entirely inside a browser. Since it’s an online tool, it also has features for real-time collaboration. Being a web app also means Figma can be used on any platform with a web browser. However, a native client certainly is more convenient to use. So, today we’ll show you how to install Figma on Linux. # ⚓ How_To_Install_Notepad++_on_Debian_10_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Notepad++ on Debian 10. For those of you who didn’t know, Notepad++ is one of the most popular text editors on Windows. Sadly, the developers have no plans to write a native, Linux version of the Notepad++ app. Fortunately, thanks to tools like Snap packages, getting the Windows release of Notepad++ working on Linux is easier than ever. 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 installation of the Notepad++ open-source code editor on a Debian 10 (Buster). # ⚓ Process_Monitoring_on_Linux⠀⇛ In this article we will discus the most common commands with examples which are used in process monitoring in Linux systems such as… # ⚓ How_to_install_Karlson_by_Dani_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Karlson by Dani on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. If you have any questions, please contact us via a YouTube comment and we would be happy to assist you! This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not those with an ARM64 architecture CPU. # ⚓ How_To_Use_Ubuntu_Disk_Usage_Analyzer_(Baobab)⠀⇛ This is a simple guide to check your Ubuntu disk usage using built-in program named Disk Usage Analyzer. With this, you can view ranking of folders measured by each size. This may help you finding and removing unused folders to free you some disk space. Let’s try it! o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Sunless_Skies:_Sovereign_Edition_is_out_now_as_a_free upgrade⠀⇛ If you’ve not played Sunless Skies, you absolutely should and the free enhanced Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition is officially out now for all players. An absolutely magnificent experience overall, and now better than ever with a number of big upgrades. Awesome writing, backed up by an incredible style that really absorbs your attention. [...] Look, you get to soar through the skies in a Space Train, with some incredible gothic scenes and masterful story-telling. What more can you possibly want in a game? Don’t pass up on this one. Brilliant. # ⚓ Physics_progress_report_#1⠀⇛ It’s Camille (PouleyKetchoupp) again. I’ve been working on improving Godot Physics since December and time flies! A lot has happened and it’s finally time for some progress update. You might know some things already if you’re following news I post on Twitter from time to time, but you can read further for more details. # ⚓ Bee_ready_for_the_honey_as_Hive_Time_gets_a_sweet_update for_World_Bee_Day⠀⇛ Get ready to look after your hive once more and create some of that sweet honey in Hive Time, which just had a sweet upgrade for World Bee Day (May 20). A game created by Cheeseness, a developer who has contributed articles to GamingOnLinux in the past. # ⚓ Wii_U_Gamepad_Driver_For_Linux_Remains_In_The_Works_– Phoronix⠀⇛ While the Nintendo Wii U game console is approaching a decade since launch and has already been discontinued for several years, work towards a mainline Linux kernel driver for properly supporting the Wii U gamepad continues. There has been the libdrc.org open-source project for supporting the Wii U gamepad under Linux but a proper kernel driver with mainline ambitions has been in the works more recently with the latest code having been volleyed today. # ⚓ Frantic_pixel-art_action-roguelite_shoot_‘em_up_Jetboard Joust_is_out_now_for_Linux_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ With a classic retro arcade feeling, the shoot ‘em up fuelled by new technology and a roguelite features Jetboard Joust has officially arrived for Linux on Steam. The Linux release comes along side the release for the Atari VCS, which is also based on Linux and so the builds are pretty close. Hopefully if more developers decide to release for the VCS we might see even more, just like with Danger Scavenger. # ⚓ Total_War:_WARHAMMER_III_shows_off_Kislev_in_the_latest teaser⠀⇛ The release will be sometime late this year, although we don’t know exactly when, Creative Assembly said the Linux version will “be available as close to launch day as possible”. # ⚓ AI_War_2:_Zenith_Onslaught_floods_the_space_strategy_game with_a_ton_more_content⠀⇛ If you’re after a new strategy game to sink you mouse fingers into – check out AI War 2 as the huge second expansion AI War 2: Zenith Onslaught has just released. The Zenith Onslaught expansion is absolutely jam- packed with features. From “small” details like powerful new elite Cruisers that you can put in a new slot in your fleets, to galaxy-spanning empires like the Dark Zenith and the Zenith Architrave, this expansion is filled with new tools to use and new foes to best. Wormhole Borers let certain AIs alter the map topology, while Nomad Planets alter the map topology on their own as they roam around. The Zenith Miners consume entire planets, and Golem variants abound. There are also options to make some of the new fations your allies, and take on the AI together. # ⚓ HP_EliteDesk_800_G2_Mini_Desktop_PC_–_Games_–_Week_6_– LinuxLinks⠀⇛ This is a weekly blog looking at the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC running Linux. We’ve previously examined the onboard graphics capabilities of the HP EliteDesk 800 G2. This ultra small PC uses the Intel HD Graphics 530 (GT2), a mobile integrated graphics processor launched in 2015 for the Skylake-based processors. The GPU integrates 24 execution units clocked at up to 1150 MHz (depending on the CPU model). Due to its lack of dedicated graphics memory or eDRAM cache, the HD 530 has to access the main system memory. We acknowledge that integrated graphics struggle with demanding games. But there are tons of free games available for Linux which aren’t that graphically intensive. How do they fare? # ⚓ Prepare_for_bigger_Portal_2_modded_levels_with_a_new_update removing_limits_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Valve have again updated the incredible first- person puzzler Portal 2, this time the update is quite small (comparatively to the Vulkan update) but still mighty. While modders have been able to use the Steam Workshop for some time now, there were some limits on file sizes that constrained what they could do – but no more! The latest update removes to 100mb level size limit for the Steam Workshop. Will be thoroughly interesting to see if it brings back more level creators to create some bigger and wilder puzzles to solve. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ 12_Open_Source_Linux_Desktop_Environments_of_2021 [Ed: Tecmint is rerunning old articles now. With the date modified to make it seem new (it's from 2017, see comments)]⠀⇛ The word ‘Open Source‘ can be attributed to the Linux community which brought it into existence along with the introduction of Linux (successor of then-existing Unix Operating System). Although ‘Linux‘ in itself came into existence as only a base Kernel, its open-source nature attracted a huge society of developers worldwide to contribute to its development. This created a revolution worldwide and many people and communities started contributing towards making it a complete Operating System which could replace Unix. Then onwards, there has been no turning back with active development going on at a steady pace. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Sam_Thursfield:_New_faces_in_the_Tracker_project⠀⇛ The GSoC 2021 cohort has just been announced. There’s a fantastic list of organisations involved, including GNOME, and I’m happy that this year two of those projects will be based around Tracker. [...] I hope the increased involvement shows our developer experience improvements are starting to pay dividends. More eyes on the code that powers search in GNOME is always a good thing. # ⚓ Pebbles:_OS_calculator_for_scientists_and statisticians_for_Gnome_Linux_desktops⠀⇛ For so long, we didn’t have a fancy calculator on Linux desktops, but now we have Pebbles. Pebbles is a lightweight multi-mode calculator intended for students, scientists and statisticians. Even more, it is completely free (Libre) open-source project with active development team of 5. Although, Pebbles is built primarily for elementaryOS, other distro users can install it easily, especially on Arch Linux, Manjaro, Ubuntu and Debian. The only requirement to install it from source there is “vala” as an additional dependency. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ Announcing_Oracle_Solaris_11.4_SRU33⠀⇛ We’ve just released SRU33 for Oracle Solaris 11.4. It is available via ‘pkg update’ from the support repository or by downloading the SRU from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2433412.1. # ⚓ Solaris_11.4_SRU33_Released_–_Finally_Delivers_Valgrind, jQuery,_VirtIO_Guest_Support⠀⇛ Oracle on Tuesday released Solaris 11.4 SRU33 as the latest monthly stable release update for this largely idling operating system. With the thirty- third stable release update to Solaris 11.4 are delivering some arguably long overdue features. Perhaps most notable is the VirtIO guest support now being included with Solaris 11.4 SRU33. This KVM/VirtIO guest support was merged for 11.4 SRU33 and includes the PCI framework and driver support and various other components for guest support in complying with this virtualization standard. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ GeckoLinux_ROLLING_Switches_to_Btrfs_as_Default Filesystem⠀⇛ The latest GeckoLinux ROLLING brings Kernrel 5.12.3 and the new fully redesigned desktop environment Gnome 40. GeckoLinux is a Linux spin based on the openSUSE distribution. It comes in two flavors. The Static editions for GeckoLinux are based on openSUSE Leap while the rolling edition is based on the stable openSUSE Tumbleweed release. But unlike OpenSUSE, Gekolinux provides installation media with seven separate graphical desktops for both release models. The latest GeckoLinux ROLLING 999.210517 update are built with unmodified openSUSE Tumbleweed and Packman packages from those projects’ own repositories. This release offers several improvements for GeckoLinux rolling users. # ⚓ RealSenseID_compatibility_with_all_openSUSE⠀⇛ While focused on the openSUSE Innovator initiative as an openSUSE member and official Intel oneAPI innovator, I tested the RealSenseID device on openSUSE Leap 15.1, 15.2, 15.3 RC and Tumbleweed. With all the work, we made available in the SDB an article on how to install this device on the openSUSE platform. More information can be found at https://en.opensuse.org/SDB: Install_RealSenseID. # § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Archcraft_OS_–_Minimal_Arch_Linux_with_Openbox_WM⠀⇛ So, I was searching around for a ready-to-use Arch Linux with only Window Manager options and found this Archcraft OS. Here’s a quick review of Archcraft OS, in case if you are planning to try it out. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ A_beginner’s_guide_for_contributing_to_Apache Cassandra_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Apache Cassandra is an open source NoSQL database trusted by thousands of companies around the globe for its scalability and high availability that does not compromise performance. Contributing to such a widely used distributed system may seem daunting, so this article aims to provide you an easy entry point. # ⚓ How_to_explain_supply_chain_management_in_plain English⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deploy_Red_Hat’s_single_sign-on_technology_on_Red_Hat OpenShift_using_templates⠀⇛ Templates offer very interesting features for deploying Red Hat’s single sign-on technology on Red Hat OpenShift. As an end user, you can use one of the re-encrypt TLS termination templates, where TLS is configured automatically, or a pass-through termination TLS template, in which case you will do some of the TLS configuration manually. As you’ve seen in this article, it’s much easier to add new certificates to the SSO truststore when using a pass-through TLS termination template. You can do it dynamically by updating the secret for the trustsrore.jks file. If you are using a re-encrypt TLS termination template, you will need to rebuild and redeploy your original SSO image. # ⚓ Fedora_Magazine:_Set_up_a_.NET_development environment [Ed: Fedora_says_boycott_GNU/FSF/RMS but is glad to promote Microsoft. It’s not a community, it’s just an IBM front group.⠀⇛ Since the release of .NET Core, .NET developers are able to develop applications for and in GNU/Linux using languages like C# # ⚓ Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_8.4_now_generally available⠀⇛ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, which was pre- announced on April 27 at Red Hat Summit, is now generally available. We encourage Linux developers to download this latest release and try out the new software. We also recommend updating both development, and production systems to the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4 release. # ⚓ Red_Hat_OpenShift_Certification_extends_support_for Kubernetes-native_technologies_with_Helm⠀⇛ Red Hat is pleased to introduce an expanded Red Hat OpenShift Certification to further support applications on Kubernetes and container orchestration across hybrid cloud footprints. With this certification, Red Hat partners can enable and certify their software solutions on OpenShift through either Operators or Helm charts. Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform; and with this enhanced certification, partners can more easily tap into Kubernetes-native technologies to manage and scale software deployments. Red Hat OpenShift Certification allows partners using Helm to access Red Hat certification tools and services to verify the functionality of their software on OpenShift. # ⚓ RHEL_for_Edge:_What’s_new_in_RHEL_8.4⠀⇛ In November of 2020, we announced a deployment option for Red Hat Enterprise Linux aimed at solving challenges common to edge computing environments. With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4, we are excited to continue the momentum in bringing our customers an operating system experience aimed at simplifying and securing workloads outside the core data center. The focus of this release is around improving the user experience around the core capabilities released last year. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ What’s_new_in_security_for_Ubuntu_21.04?⠀⇛ Ubuntu 21.04 is the latest release of Ubuntu and comes at the mid-point between the most recent Long Term Supported (LTS) release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and the forthcoming 22.04 LTS release due in April 2022. This provides a good opportunity to take stock of some of the latest security features delivered in this release, on the road to 22.04 LTS. Ubuntu 21.04 brings with it a vast amount of improvements and features across a wide variety of packages. In this blog post, we will take a look at those features and improvements that add to the overall security of a Ubuntu system. Starting from the bottom-up, one of the most fundamental components in Ubuntu is the GRUB2 boot-loader. In light of the recent additional GRUB2 secure-boot bypass vulnerabilities, the Ubuntu Foundations team considered options to make Ubuntu more secure by enabling easier grub updates. The outcome was to change the way GRUB2 is shipped in Ubuntu. In general Ubuntu releases would ship with a fixed version of GRUB2 (and many other packages) at release time and so when it came time to fix security issues, patches would have to be backported to an aging codebase. This brings numerous technical challenges, so to alleviate these, a single GRUB2 package will now be shipped across all supported Ubuntu releases, with 21.04 being the initial release to support this feature. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ JingPad_A1:_A_US$549_2-in-1_convertible_with_the_first Linux-based_tablet_OS⠀⇛ In March, Jingling revealed the JingPad A1, the first 2-in-1 convertible running a tablet OS based on Linux (JingOS). At the time, it was unclear how much the JingPad A1 would cost, but Jingling has now confirmed that the tablet will start at US$549. There is a caveat though, as this is Indiegogo pricing. The campaign will commence on June 15, but we expect US$549 to be the tablet’s early-bird price. The JingPad A1 runs on a Unisoc Tiger T7510, a relatively unknown SoC that has a PowerVR GM9446 GPU and two ARM CPU core clusters: four Cortex-A75 cores and four Cortex-A55 cores. # ⚓ Firefly_ROC-RK3566-PC_launches_for_US$65_with_Android_11, Ubuntu_and_M.2_2242_SSD_support⠀⇛ Firefly has launched a Rockchip RK3566-powered single-board computer. Appropriately called the ROC-RK3566-PC, the single-board computer (SBC) is the same size as many SBCs, including the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. Specifically, the ROC-RK3566-PC measures 90 mm x 60 mm, making it 5 mm wider than the Pi 4 and 4 mm longer. Currently, the ROC-RK3566 starts at US$65 with 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage. Firefly also sells a 4 GB/32 GB model for US$95. Please note that both of these are promotional prices that will eventually increase to US$89 and US$119, respectively. Firefly hopes to eventually sell a model with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage, though. # ⚓ Wind_River_Delivers_Cybersecurity_and_Anti-tamper Protections_for_Mission-Critical_Intelligent_Systems⠀⇛ # ⚓ Wind_River_Delivers_Cybersecurity_and_Anti-tamper Protections_for_Mission-Critical_Intelligent_Systems_|_Wind River⠀⇛ Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software for intelligent systems, today announced security enhancements to Wind River Studio, a cloud-native platform for the development, deployment, operations, and servicing of mission-critical intelligent systems. Studio enables companies to meet rigorous cybersecurity and anti-tamper requirements, further helping secure devices and systems through development, deployment, and operations. The steep rise in security threats shows a concerning trend. As new devices become connected, each represents a point of entry that can be exploited by a cyberattack. In 2020, IoT devices were responsible for 32.72% of infections observed in wireless networks, more than twice that in 2019. (1) Industries with higher dependency on software and intelligence-based systems will need to start demanding that security be addressed at every step in an intelligent system’s lifecycle. # ⚓ Beelink_GKmini_Review_–_An_Intel_Celeron_J4125_mini_PC reviewed_with_Windows_10_Pro,_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ When reviewing mini PCs I typically look at their performance under both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) and compare them against some of the more recently released mini PCs. Since the start of 2021, I review using Windows 10 version 20H2 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and test with a selection of commonly used Windows benchmarks and/or equivalents for Linux together with Thomas Kaiser’s ‘sbc-bench’ which is a small set of different CPU performance tests focusing on server performance when run on Ubuntu. I also use ‘Phoronix Test Suite’ and benchmark with the same set of tests on both Windows and Ubuntu for comparison purposes. On Ubuntu, I also compile the v5.4 Linux kernel using the default config as a test of performance using a real-world scenario. Prior to benchmarking, I perform all necessary installations and updates to run the latest versions of both OSes. I also capture some basic details of the device for each OS. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Elevate_is_a_walkable_pin_array_floor_that_generates shape-changing_terrains_for_VR_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Virtual reality technology has come a long way in the last decade, but there are still some major things that could be done to make it even more interactive and immersive. For one, what if VR users could actually feel the ground they walk on rather than simply see it? A team of students from KAIST in South Korea and the University of Chicago set out to tackle this by creating a fairly large 1.8 by 0.6 meter platform that can accurately create the feeling of varied terrain. Called the Elevate, this device uses a total of 1,200 pins that can individually raise and lower with 15mm of resolution. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Nokia_X20_will_be_a_part_of_Android_12_developer preview_programme_|_Nokiamob⠀⇛ # ⚓ Oppo_has_an_Android_12_beta_ready_for_the_Find_X3_Pro already_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_Beta_1_has_a_sparkly_new_ripple_animation for_taps⠀⇛ # ⚓ App_hibernation_in_Android_12_frees_up_space_from unused_apps⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12:_How_to_download_Google’s_new_beta_phone OS,_who_can_use_it_now_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_beta_has_a_game_mode_tucked_away_–_Android Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Android_12_beta_causes_some_OnePlus_9_and_9_Pro phones_to_bootloop_(there_is_a_fix)_–_GSMArena.com news⠀⇛ # ⚓ After_13_years,_Android_is_finally_becoming_“super smooth”_thanks_to…_Android_12_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_Beta_1:_‘Alarm’_is_now_a_tile_in_Quick Settings_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_Announcement_Has_Been_Overtaken_By_Dragon Ball_Fans⠀⇛ # ⚓ Titan_Pocket,_the_smallest_QWERTY_Android_11 smartphone,_is_now_up_for_crowdfunding⠀⇛ # ⚓ Panasonic_Toughbook_S1_Rugged_Android_Tablet_With Snapdragon_660_SoC,_IP67_Rating_Launched_|_Technology News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_makes_it_incredibly_easy_to_change_your compromised_passwords_(on_Android)_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_adds_foldable-focused_Android_developer updates_–_TechCrunch⠀⇛ # ⚓ Material_You_is_a_colorful,_personalized_redesign_for Android_and_more_|_Engadget⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lofelt’s_framework_that_brings_better_haptics_to Android_is_available_for_OEMs_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ Advertisers_flee_to_Android_as_majority_of_iOS_users opt_out_of_ad_tracking_|_AppleInsider⠀⇛ # ⚓ Unlock_Android’s_secret_powers_by_learning_how_to_use this_hidden_settings_menu_|_Popular_Science⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_can_finally_tap_to_pay_for_BART,_Caltrain, Muni,_and_other_SF_Bay_Area_transit_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ Xiaomi_rolls_out_Android_12_Beta_1_update_for_the_Mi 11_series⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_Beta_coming_to_devices_from_OnePlus,_TCL, more_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12′s_radical_new_design,_Wear_OS_brought_back from_the_dead,_and_more:_Every_big_Google_I/ O_announcement⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_cheat_sheet:_Everything_you_need_to_know_– TechRepublic⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_Beta_1_has_colorful_new_charging animations⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_I/O_2021:_Privacy_emerges_key_theme,_Android 12_Beta_unveiled_–_The_Economic_Times⠀⇛ # ⚓ Unihertz_Announces_New_Kickstarter_Launch_of_Titan Pocket_–_The_Smallest_QWERTY_Android_11_Smartphone⠀⇛ # ⚓ iWedia_and_Synaptics_team_up_for_swift_Android_11 deployments⠀⇛ # ⚓ Italy_fines_Google_for_excluding_Enel_e-car_app_from Android_Auto_|_Reuters⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Turn_On_Caller_ID_Announcements_on_Your Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android’s_Nearby_Share_can_now_alert_you_when_someone wants_to_share⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_Beta_released_with_revamped_user interface⠀⇛ Google has just announced the release of Android 12 Beta. We already covered the first Android 12 developer preview with changes including support for AVIF image format, trust and safety improvement, and enhanced media transcoding. But with the release of Android 12 Beta, Google also introduced significant changes to the user interface created with a design language called Material You, plus some new features that we’ll explore in this post. # ⚓ Google_I0_2021_Brings_Android_12_Beta_and_More⠀⇛ With the competitive landscape of mobile computing, Google seems to have decided that it has the edge with personalization. The company released changes to many of its products at Google IO 2021 – perhaps one of the most significant changes could be what Android 12 will bring. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla_Firefox_Is_Adding_Capabilities_to Defend_Against_Malicious_Sites_on_Desktop⠀⇛ Mozilla Firefox is adding new security features to improve the browsing experience. It will be coming soon to stable releases. # ⚓ How_To_Actually_Enjoy_Being_Online_Again⠀⇛ The upcoming Firefox release coming out on June 1, understands that after this last year we all need some simplicity. The Firefox browser is being redesigned to bring you a more modern and calmer web experience. Wherever visual noise — like notifications, menus and buttons — could be eliminated, were eliminated. Subtle design changes add up to make a big visual difference with new tabs that are easier to navigate, extra spacing, and lighter typography. You know those auto-playing videos that normally disrupt your browsing? Instead of having to click on every tab to see where the sound is coming from, easily scroll your tab bar and look for the sound-on icon and with one tap, turn it off. Plus, you know that you have more privacy and security built into your web experience with Firefox’s SmartBlock feature and Total Cookie Protection. You can sit back and enjoy the fresh new experience with one less thing to worry about. # ⚓ Firefox_Making_Strides_On_Improved_Linux Stability_Thanks_To_Better_Crash_Reports⠀⇛ Mozilla detailed today how their year- long effort so far aiming to improve the stability of the Firefox web browser on Linux is paying off. Helping Mozilla developers improve Firefox’s Linux stability can be attributed in large part to better crash report handling. One of the big specific items improving their Linux crash report handling is that they are now scraping debug information for Firefox builds and its dependencies from package repositories on Arch, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu. # ⚓ Improving_Firefox_stability_on_Linux⠀⇛ Roughly a year ago at Mozilla we started an effort to improve Firefox stability on Linux. This effort quickly became an example of good synergies between FOSS projects. # § CMS⠀➾ # ⚓ Dropping_support_for_Internet_Explorer_11⠀⇛ Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) was released over 7 years ago and is currently used by less than 1% of all users on the Internet with usage rapidly declining. A large majority of popular websites have already stopped supporting IE11 (including Microsoft Teams in 2020), and even the Microsoft 365 apps and services will be dropping support later this year. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ W3C_Posts_First_Public_Working_Drafts_For_WebGPU, WebGPU_Shading_Language⠀⇛ WebGPU as a next-gen web standard for accelerated graphics and compute is stepping closer to reality with the first public working drafts having been published. # ⚓ POCL_1.7_Released_With_Better_Support_For_SPIR- V_Binaries_On_CPUs⠀⇛ POCL 1.7 is out as the newest version of this “Portable Computing Language” that aims to effectively allow OpenCL to run well on various CPU architectures as well as other targets like OpenCL over NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HSA. POCL continues to support OpenCL 1.2 with various OpenCL 2.x features thanks to LLVM’s Clang doing much of the heavy lifting for supporting OpenCL across targets. POCL 1.7 as the open-source project’s first new feature release since December brings a few key improvements. # ⚓ Top_10_Deep_Learning_Algorithms_That_Every_AI Enthusiast_Should_Know⠀⇛ Deep Learning is basically a subset of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Typical AI and ML algorithms can work with datasets having a few hundred features. However, an image or a signal may have millions of attributes. That’s where the Deep Learning Algorithms come in. Most of the DL algorithms have been inspired by the human brain called the artificial neural network. The modern world has extensive use of Deep Learning. From biomedical engineering to simple image processing – it has its uses. If you want to become an expert in this field, you have to go through the different DL algorithms. And that’s what we will be discussing today. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Slice_infinite_generators_with_this_Python_3.7 feature⠀⇛ This is the eighth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.7 was first released in 2018, and even though it has been out for a few years, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three of them. [...] Python 3.7 was released about four years ago, but some of the features that first showed up in this release are cool—and underused. Add them to your toolkit if you haven’t already. # ⚓ micropipenv:_Installing_Python_dependencies_in containerized_applications_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ Trends in the software engineering industry show that the Python programming language is growing in popularity. Properly managing Python dependencies is crucial to guaranteeing a healthy software development life cycle. In this article, we will look at installing Python dependencies for Python applications into containerized environments, which also have become very popular. In particular, we introduce micropipenv, a tool we created as a compatibility layer on top of pip (the Python package installer) and related installation tools. The approach discussed in this article ensures that your applications are shipped with the desired software for the purposes of traceability or integrity. The approach provides reproducible Python applications across different application builds done over time. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Adding_arguments_and_options_to_your_Bash scripts_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ One of the most important tools for most sysadmins is automation. We write and maintain scripts to automate the common and frequent tasks that we must perform. I have dozens of scripts—short and long—that I’ve written and modified over the years. Some of my most useful scripts have been to perform regular backups early each morning, install updated software packages with fixes and enhancements, and upgrade from one version of Fedora to the next. I just upgraded all of my personal hosts and servers to Fedora 34 a few days ago using a fairly simple script. # ⚓ Mojibake_madness⠀⇛ This is the fifth blog post in a series about character encoding mishaps. (See posts 1, 2, 3 and 4.) My aim in each case is to understand how perfectly good characters get mangled into mojibake, otherwise known as gibberish. Today’s victims come from two recent data audits and deserve a lot of sympathy. In both cases the datasets I checked were UTF-8 encoded. # ⚓ Awk:_The_Power_and_Promise_of_a_40-Year-Old Language⠀⇛ Languages don’t enjoy long lives. Very few people still code with the legacies of the 1970s: ML, Pascal, Scheme, Smalltalk. (The C language is still widely used but in significantly updated versions.) Bucking that trend, the 1977 Unix utility Awk can boast of a loyal band of users and seems poised to continue far into the future. In this article, I’ll explain what makes Awk special and keeps it relevant. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ What_is_serverless_with_Java?_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ For decades, enterprises have developed business-critical applications on various platforms, including physical servers, virtual machines, and cloud environments. The one thing these applications have in common across industries is they need to be continuously available (24x7x365) to guarantee stability, reliability, and performance, regardless of demand. Therefore, every enterprise must be responsible for the high costs of maintaining an infrastructure (e.g., CPU, memory, disk, networking, etc.) even if actual resource utilization is less than 50%. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Ampere_Is_Designing_Their_Own_Arm_Server_CPU_Cores,_Coming In_2022_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Last year the ARM server startup launched Ampere Altra with impressive performance thanks to being able to offer 80 physical cores per socket. Ampere Altra is making use of Arm’s Neoverse N1 while moving ahead they have been quietly designing their own cores. Ampere did reaffirm as part of today’s strategy update that Ampere Altra Max with up to 128 cores per socket compared to 80 cores with Ampere Altra is still coming this year. Previously we were expecting Ampere Altra Max earlier in the year while their latest guidance is to expect Altra Max in Q3 — not surprising given the supply chain issues and other factors plaguing the industry. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Better_breeding_with_‘Bulls_Out_for_Cancer’_campaign [Ed: If you slaughter these gentle animals for money and also combat cancer, how do you reconcile such priorities?]⠀⇛ Beef and dairy farmers are joining forces to raise money for testicular cancer, while also improving their herd genetics as part of Breedr’s Bulls Out for Cancer campaign. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Welcoming_Linux_to_the_1Password_Family⠀⇛ Linux support is far and away our most requested feature. Bringing the world’s most loved password manager to such a passionate community – and building on the incredible work of the open source community – is both humbling and exciting for all of us at 1Password. # ⚓ 1Password:_How_to_install_the_password_manager_on Linux⠀⇛ This is a tricky proposition for some—an official 1Password client has been released for Linux. [...] The sticking point for some? It’s not open source. For me, that’s not a problem. The most important thing to me is that the software I need/want runs on Linux. Once upon a time, I was a purist in that I would only install and use open source software. Over the years I realized there was too much software I required that didn’t have an open source option with the features I needed. At that point, I decided if the software would run on Linux, I was okay with it. Besides, if I support closed source software that runs on Linux, it might help other companies realize there is a market out there for proprietary solutions on Linux. In the end, the more commercial software Linux has, the better its chances are of being accepted by the masses. This was an important lesson for me to learn back in the early 2000s. # ⚓ 1Password_for_Linux_Is_Officially_Here_With_Brand_New Features [Ed: 1Password is openwashing its proprietary software products and some sites help it, maybe even for money]⠀⇛ 1Password is a pretty good password manager (even though not open-source) and has a good rep in the open-source community as well. They even offer free team memberships for users working on open-source projects. Its desktop client for Linux was in the beta phase but now it is ready for prime time. # ⚓ Lilbits:_IFA_trade_show_is_cancelled,_Internet Explorer_is_discontinued,_and_1Password_comes_to Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ 1Password_finally_rolls_out_support_for_Linux computers_|_HT_Tech⠀⇛ After nearly seven months since the first development preview, Linux users now have access to 1Password’s most requested feature for years — an official app for Linux computers.  # ⚓ 1Password_For_Linux_Is_Finally_Here:_How_To Install?⠀⇛ Since October last year, we’ve been closely following 1Password for Linux after it was first announced and we also wrote an article on how to install the beta releases. Finally, the good news is, the first stable build of the application has finally landed on Linux, and in this article, let’s try it out and look at how to install 1Password on Linux. But first, what is 1Password? For starters, 1Password is a paid password manager that stores your passwords and makes managing them easier for you. The stored passwords are locked by a master password called PBKDF2. # ⚓ 1Password_Rolls_Out_Official_Support_and_a_Desktop App_for_Linux⠀⇛ It includes several features Windows, Mac, iOS and Android users don’t have yet. # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Free_Course_Explores_WebAssembly Modules_from_the_Cloud_to_the_Edge⠀⇛ # ⚓ Get_a_handle_on_building WebAssembly_microservices_with_this free_Linux_Foundation_course_– TechRepublic⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation has announced a new online course designed to help developers learn to use WebAssembly modules “from the cloud to the edge,” and it’s currently free for anyone who wants to sign up. # ⚓ Linux_Foundation_offers_free WebAssembly_online_class⠀⇛ WebAssembly, despite its name, is far more useful than just as a stack-based virtual machine (VM) for web browsers. It’s increasingly being used to address a wide variety of programming needs from cloud-native computing, edge computing, mobile development, and edge-based projects. To help you master it, the Linux Foundation is now offering a free online training course, called WebAssembly Actors: From Cloud to Edge (LFD134x). # ⚓ Please_Participate_In_Hyperledger’s 2021_Blockchain_Brand_Survey [Ed: Linux Foundation just_means_to_say “MARKETING”_when_it_says “RESEARCH”]⠀⇛ Together with Linux Foundation Research, Hyperledger is conducting a survey to measure the market awareness and perceptions of Hyperledger and its projects relative to other blockchain platforms used in the technology industry, specifically identifying myths and misperceptions. Additionally, the survey seeks to help Hyperledger articulate the perceived time to production readiness for products and understand motivations for developers that both use and contribute to Hyperledger technologies. # ⚓ Contrast_Security_Joins_Cloud Native_Computing_Foundation_and_Linux Foundation_to_Drive_Security_Best Practices_Around_Cloud_Native Architectures_and_Open_Source Software⠀⇛ Contrast Security, a leader in modernizing application security, today announced that it has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Foundation as a silver member, which brings together the world’s top developers, end-users, and vendors to enable cloud native architectures and open source technologies. CNCF serves as the vendor- neutral home for many of the fastest-growing open source projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. In becoming a member, Contrast aims to support and educate the industry on the increasing risks and benefits of cloud native architectures and open source software through active participation in the foundation’s events, projects, and community. # ⚓ Contrast_Security_Joins_Cloud Native_Computing_Foundation_and_Linux Foundation_to_Drive_Security_Best Practices_Around_Cloud_Native Architectures_and_Open_Source Software⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Fedora (cacti, cacti-spine, exif, and hivex), Red Hat (bash, bind, bluez, brotli, container-tools:rhel8, cpio, curl, dotnet3.1, dotnet5.0, dovecot, evolution, exiv2, freerdp, ghostscript, glibc, GNOME, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, gssdp and gupnp, httpd:2.4, idm:DL1, idm:DL1 and idm:client, ipa, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, libdb, libvncserver, libxml2, linux-firmware, mailman:2.1, mingw packages, NetworkManager and libnma, opensc, p11- kit, pandoc, perl, pki-core:10.6 and pki-deps:10.6, poppler and evince, python-cryptography, python-lxml, python-urllib3, python27:2.7, python3, python38:3.8, qt5-qtbase, raptor2, redis:6, rh-mariadb103-mariadb and rh- mariadb103-galera, rust-toolset:rhel8, samba, sane-backends, shim, slapi-nis, spice, spice-vdagent, sqlite, squid:4, sudo, systemd, tigervnc, trousers, unbound, userspace graphics, xorg-x11, and mesa, virt:rhel and virt-devel: rhel, wpa_supplicant, and xorg-x11- server), SUSE (kernel), and Ubuntu (djvulibre, gst-plugins-base1.0, linux- raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, python-pip, and runc). o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Extraterritorial_overreach_in_SEP enforcement:_slide_deck_used_in_my_presentation_today_(DG GROW_webinar_on_standard-essential_patent_enforcement)⠀⇛ Each of these scenarios obligates a party to do something it might not want to do voluntarily, and in each case that party will have to comply or a court will impose contempt sanctions. So the net effect as well as the nature of the leverage is materially the same in each of the three cases. The UK Supreme Court’s Unwired Planet approach has already failed, as my fifth slide shows that there’s been a flurry of antisuit injunction activity since that decision came down last summer. How could we get out of this? I’ve asked that question before. Intergovernmental agreements are not going to happen anytime soon. Standard-setting organizations are in no better position to reach a consensus. The solution I propose can be implemented by any country seeking to preserve its jurisdiction over its patents. It can be implemented unilaterally. It’s to decline to recognize in a given jurisdiction a license agreement imposed on a party by a foreign court (regardless of which of the three above-mentioned types of coercion it may be). If a SEP holder didn’t want to be bound to a UK determination of the value of the German part of the portfolio, German courts could allow the enforcement of those patents, for the purpose of obtaining incremental payments up to a FRAND level. Conversely, if a UK court sets a royalty rate that is too high with respect to a major market like, for instance, China, the Chinese company might go to its local courts and seek a partial refund. Courts could still force someone into a global license agreement, but effectively the courts in other jurisdictions would be in a position to correct those findings. A portfolio may not be all that strong in a given jurisdiction. Or the local rates may simply be lower. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Post-ASI_battle:_InterDigital_sues_Xiaomi_for_patent infringement_in_Munich [Ed: InterDigital is a notorious patent troll that sucks up others' patents just for the sake of blackmailing companies. It's not difficult to see that some of the litigation/harassment firms that represent (get paid by) patent trolls are also most prominent in Team UPC. That says a lot about who stands to gain from such a corrupt and illegal proposal.]⠀⇛ The claims filed by InterDigital against Xiaomi regard EP 33 55 537, EP 24 21 318, and EP 2 485 558, all of which protect 3G and 4G technology. The Regional Court Munich will hear the claims in three separate proceedings (case IDs 7 O 4225/21 and 4226/21, 21 O 4227/ 21). An oral hearing at the 7th chamber of the court (7O 4226/21) is scheduled for February 2022 and will launch proceedings. This hearing is the main hearing concerning EP 318. Unusually, the case has no early first hearing, which is the norm according to the Munich procedure. [...] In the ASI dispute, both Arnold Ruess and Hogan Lovells appeared for the first time in the proceedings for clients InterDigital and Xiaomi. For the main proceedings, Hogan Lovells is setting up a mixed team of litigators and patent attorneys from the Düsseldorf and Munich offices. Arnold Ruess relies on the technical support of patent attorney firm df-mp. The firm is one of the most active litigation outfits in Germany for proceedings involving mobile communications patents. Both Dominik Ho and David Molnia worked side by side with EIP for Conversant in the dispute with Daimler. # ⚓ The_EU’s_Action_Plan_on_Intellectual_Property_After COVID-19 [Ed: This is no such thing as "Intellectual Property" and they're clearly referring here to patents, which basically contribute to more deaths at a faster rate because this way the pharmaceutical companies can make more money]⠀⇛ At the end of 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission (“the Commission”) published its new “Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe.” This communication underlines that while major progress has been made in the last twenty years, many patients do not benefit from these innovations since medicines are either unaffordable or unavailable. The Commission’s goals are ambitious: promoting patient access to innovative and affordable medicines, supporting the competitiveness and innovative capacity of the EU’s pharmaceutical industry and developing the strategic autonomy of the EU, while enabling a green and digital transition of the European pharmaceutical policy. # ⚓ Samsung_has_an_ambitious_foldable_plan._May_introduce S-shaped_screen_soon [Ed: We're meant to think certain things are unprecedented just because a profit- motivated USPTO is eager to grant a patent?]⠀⇛ Korean giant Samsung Is undoubtedly a leader in the field of foldable smartphones, and there are currently multiple foldable devices on the market. The company has no plans to slow down its foldable smartphones so far, from what we can make from all the reports on Samsung’s foldable plans for 2021. According to a new report, Samsung’s SID Display Week 2021 includes a foldable 17-inch tablet and a flexible smartphone with a 7.2-inch display that can be folded in two places, with a structure of letter Z or S. similar. # ⚓ Patent_case:_Floration_Europe_B.V._vs._Coöperatie Royal_FloraHolland_U.A.,_Netherlands [Ed: Will they sue you for carrying flowers to a funeral?]⠀⇛ When transporting flowers, several measures need to be taken to maintain their freshness. Floriation’s patent required regulation of the ethylene concentration in the package. Whether Royal Flora Holland had used this feature was the central theme in this decision. The provisions judge found no direct infringement and also concluded that there was no equivalency, since in such a case the deviating feature should have the same function as the claimed feature. That was not the case. # ⚓ Awards_podcast:_DCC_on_transactions,_litigation_and IP_in_Asia-Pacific [Ed: Gosh, this is hilarious. There's a "patent prosecution firm of the year"; do we also have a bomb company of the year and award-winning abortionist? How about "happiest funeral parlor"?]⠀⇛ Davies Collison Cave won two Managing IP Asia-Pacific awards in 2020: patent prosecution firm of the year for Australia, and boutique firm of the year for the whole region. With offices in Singapore and New Zealand as well as in Australia, the firm works with clients across Asia-Pacific. # ⚓ Healthcare_Innovators_Show_Resistance_To_The_Pandemic [Ed: Using patents the sector that profits from illness is 'making a killing']⠀⇛ Oxford Nanopore recently announced its plans to list on the London Stock Exchange, with some valuing the company at over £4 billion. So where does the actual value of the company lie? Partly in its know-how, but substantially in the IP which protects the underlying technology. The company has a broad portfolio of over 200 patent families, some owned by the company itself, and some which are licenced-in. This portfolio, which covers different aspects of the sequencing platform technology, is critical to the company’s ability to secure deals and attract investment. # ⚓ Doctrine_of_equivalents_–_how_‘new_normal’_approach affects_life_sciences_sector [Ed: What they mean by "new normal" is "doing illegal things but justified using COVID"]⠀⇛ The ‘doctrine of equivalents’ (ie, the principle that a patent may be infringed by a product or process which is considered equivalent to that… # ⚓ How_Brazil’s_SC_ruling_will_influence_in-house strategies [Ed: Patrick Wingrove, the voice of patent trolls, in Brazil doing something sane but not good for the people who pay his salary]⠀⇛ Five counsel in LATAM and the US say they’ll need to change prosecution tactics and scrutinise their portfolios as a result of the Direct Action 5,529 decision # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ $2,000_for_Relevant_Holdings_prior_art⠀⇛ On May 19, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,849,814. The patent is owned by Relevant Holdings, LLC, a NPE. The ’814 patent generally relates to a database that is able to search, sort, and display various video and sounds clips. The patent is currently being asserted against Mindgeek USA, Inc. # ⚓ Dolby_patent_challenged_in_China⠀⇛ On May 19, 2021, Unified Patents filed a Chinese invalidation request for CN1663258 owned by Dolby International AB. CN1663258 has been designated essential to the HEVC Advance pool and SISVEL’s AV1 pool. It is also related to patents that have been designated in those pools. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Long_walk_to_copyright_reform_(Pt_2):_South_Africa’s National_Assembly_rescinds_its_decision_to_pass_the Copyright_Amendment_Bill [Ed: A country that checks what copyright does for (or to) its people rather than some foreign monopolies looking to oppress with lawfare]⠀⇛ After months of discussion, South Africa’s Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry reached a formal decision on the President’s reservations in respect of the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) and the Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill (PPAB). [The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry is part of the National Assembly/Parliament] As readers may know, following the President’s letter indicating reservations about the constitutionality of the two bills [on which see Katpost here], the CAB and PPAB were returned to the National Assembly who is tasked with reconsidering the bills and addressing the President’s concerns. [...] On the controversial fair use exception, the Opinion indicated, citing various parliamentary submissions and testimonies, that there was adequate public participation in drafting of the clause and that the President’s reservations were unfounded. This position is contrary to the position already taken by the Parliament to reopen the fair use provision and other copyright exceptions for public comments. While there are other groups such as South African Democratic Union (Sadtu), ReCreate South Africa, the South African Guild of Actors (Saga) and Blind SA that agree with the above-mentioned Opinion, others prefer the position taken by the Parliament to go back to the drawing board and re-engage the public on the Bills. Whatever side one takes, the CAB and the PPAB are essentially up for discussion and public engagement…again. [Thankfully?], in its decision, the Parliament stated that it will incorporate its previous work on the bills (including previous consultations and submissions) up to the Second Reading of the Bills. The next step will now be to see how Parliament rolls out the public engagement and consultation process this time around… Stay tuned! ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 5896 ➮ Generation completed at 02:41, i.e. 57 seconds to (re)generate ⟲