𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, July 08, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Fri 9 Jul 02:39:55 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/2021/07/08/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmSqJtaqrrXbzBF4sG3nBzauArR36q6YbF5P7htcHd5cDB QmWCc6UN8rXnBKmcnhPY7waCCSXzfsG1AbhZikKfdp3ymB QmQYQoMFrDMTXEe4NcPiv7amMCQS2ho3c6EaMHAU4SfMUe QmacoxEMNBvXGjkyn4JfrL8LyXBMaArcxAJPBaNoTymtHV QmW6B9kehxSBryvAexunPR3eXN8dZc1CHxSebKiiSDXTRh QmTuxFtDwey5L4ibxTM85bAhdiFUVzq9RQwjk5UqDBCmxH QmcN8yR7Z2eWZBS1YERuwRsVnrTaWaznvZVg4RggnCUrnL QmbsFe5ziGquRqcXLGJdSnXGNu2hM1SfSeL88yE4KoNHRm QmXWM739fasQ1QSDPyf7CYGbRzny4RnfstXa97sZoavDtt QmYUKcuZUTw2RX354YZb7KS96QRvrYWBnM9Hc9ECWTxtmZ QmVYKhmzZnA5jSxg73EHK44EQHX2gPMHdJdswiX4sm36VV QmTzjhticCFGYFAPo3w1Yq3BFKqFQ9wkJFVZpCGyhdTYVL QmYfnwQyndVxZ3RBdb3h4no9or9LCWC23rmnAoVKtd61oJ QmSYEW1u6GR4Sx7jgEkZS78bKjEJL8bqy2t755oHQ3bj9M QmSRn7cBREvv5Sqho2U2eunX9LJykgRJNP5fvyy2aQTNVf QmYbCajogMVPFtfaxpbYNPXsCH7YHu4RDrbTn1bwxoFpVL QmWmhZ87epJnat1eMJ4BeFyB6qzD9SSd15E66vFEpywPtq QmeUHDj1sX5kJUYKzH1rtAQ3jcDnWVSc1LmvbW2UUK6NTN QmePPsrpuxrE6PnrxmkA3jbTKbYiwWiedMUCPboaKPHHBs QmcRVoR1XjzcCzpn5UyNcwrYXdAFt3fqixYfrrAGViNk58 QmdBGK8LdfCQt4rspJT96gBBbngug2byT3KpFfQt6qa3UR ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Microsoft is Basically Buying the Competition to Deny GNU/Linux Users a Choice | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] Will EPO Comply? | Techrights ⦿ ILOAT Finally Overturns Battistelli’s Vichyite Strike Regulations | Techrights ⦿ Working Towards Completion of Gemini as a Mirror | Techrights ⦿ Video: ILO-AT Caseload Shows That António Campinos Failed and Should be Sacked by the Administrative Council of the EPO | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 07, 2021 | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/buying-the-competition/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/epo-compliance/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/epo-strike-regulations/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/gemini-wiki/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/iloat-caseload/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/irc-log-070721/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/kdenlive-and-kde-gear-21-04-3/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/linux-mint-20-2-uma/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 63 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/buying-the-competition/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/08/buying-the-competition/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.08.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Microsoft_is_Basically_Buying_the_Competition_to_Deny_GNU/Linux_Users_a Choice⠀✐ Posted in Antitrust, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu, Windows at 7:47 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: In order to entrap GNU/Linux users or to send them Microsoft’s way Microsoft has secured some strategic alliances with companies that were all along supposed to compete with Microsoft; antitrust officials seem_to_be_M.I.A. SABOTAGE by Microsoft has long been the modus operandi, combined with cult tactics like charming and bribing_decision-makers_and_public_officials. Microsoft is basically a criminal operation; but it doesn’t want people to see that. It spends a lot of money for people not to notice. Check out the_following_from_Microsoft (yes, officially): 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_stickiness⦈_ “Give this a read then try to find it on Google,” told us the person who had sent it along. “It’s been scrubbed since I’ve started pointing this out with regard to anti-trust and my links to it are broken now. This behavior is anti- trust AF and I’m going to start reaching out about it now that I know they’re concerned. [...] Them scrubbing this post shows that they’re afraid of it being realized.” But the reason we are writing this post is actually this this_new_press_release from Canonical (“Canonical recognized as a 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year finalist”), followed very soon afterwards by shallow puff pieces like this_one (“Ubuntu Linux-maker Canonical is 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year finalist”). Microsoft has been grooming Canonical like this for quite some time instead of buying Canonical, raising antitrust stink. Canonical has been spying_on potential_clients_in_cahoots_with_Microsoft, promoting Windows (WSL), and working for the company that is attacking us in various other ways. Why are they so openly bragging about being associated with gangsters who use political corruption to incite_against_rivals even though Microsoft is a lot worse and much more deserving of antitrust scrutiny, including split-up? This ought to make people think twice before installing Ubuntu, choosing it either for a server or a desktop. Has Mark Shuttleworth (MS) become part of the other MS? Has he sold out to the schoolyard bully? █ “That’s extortion and we should call it what it is. To say, as Ballmer did, that there is undisclosed balance sheet liability, that’s just extortion and we should refuse to get drawn into that game.” –Mark Shuttleworth “Microsoft is asking people to pay them for patents, but they won’t say which ones. If a guy walks into a shop and says: “It’s an unsafe neighbourhood, why don’t you pay me 20 bucks and I’ll make sure you’re okay,” that’s illegal. It’s racketeering.” –Mark Shuttleworth ⣿⢙⠻⠛⠟⠛⣻⡟⢟⢛⠟⡟⣿⠛⡛⠋⢛⣿⣯⣽⠙⢻⣏⢟⡛⡛⠛⠛⡏⡋⢛⠛⡛⣿⠛⢙⠹⣛⠙⡋⢛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⣽⠟⠛⡛⢛⢹⡟⠻⠋⡛⠻⣻⡻⠛⢟⢻⡟⣿⢛⢹⡏⣿⠻⠛⠛⠛⡛⢙⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣾⣾⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣾⣶⣷⣶⣿⣶⣶⣶⣷⣼⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣷⣶⣾⣦⣴⣿⣶⣷⣾⣶⣾⣶⣾⣾⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣷⣶⣾⣷⣶⣷⣷⣵⣿⣷⣷⣷⣾⣶⣿⣶⣾⣷⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡿⠩⢫⢻⡟⡅⢩⢻⡏⣏⢹⠉⡍⡗⣥⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣇⢀⢷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⡿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠀⠒⢠⠁⠈⠀⠀⠀⡇⠈⠁⢸⡏⠀⠀⠀⠁⠁⠀⠈⠀⠉⠀⠁⠈⠀⣿⠀⢘⡇⠈⢸⢸⡃⠀⠀⡁⢈⠁⡀⣿⢈⠄⡡⠀⡁⠈⠀⡁⢸⡇⡌⠌⢠⣟⠀⡁⢈⠀⡁⢈⢠⠀⠀⠁⠈⠀⠄⠁⠈⢈⡇⠈⠌⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣾⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠾⢿⣿⢿⡿⢿⣿⣷⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣀⣀⣆⣐⣰⣀⣀⣆⣐⣂⣀⣷⢀⣐⣀⣃⣀⣾⣀⣀⣨⣀⣃⣐⣀⣂⣰⣀⣀⣇⣀⣀⣀⣂⣿⣀⣀⣄⣂⣆⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣀⣀⣄⣀⣐⣐⣰⣀⣀⣀⠀⣸⣀⣂⣂⣀⣀⣀⣘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠛⠻⠿⠿⡿⠿⠟⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⡿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠟⣿⠟⠻⢿⠿⡟⠿⠿⡿⠻⠿⠿⢿⡟⠿⠟⠿⠿⠛⠻⢿⠿⠻⢿⠿⠿⢻⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⡿⣿⢛⢛⠛⠟⢿⠟⠛⢿⠿⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣄⣡⣄⣠⣰⣄⣄⣌⣄⣡⣠⣄⣈⣸⣇⣀⣸⣠⣁⣿⣀⣤⣠⣀⣄⣌⣄⣰⣀⣇⣈⣸⣇⣸⣠⣠⣀⣠⣄⣠⣈⣌⣌⣠⣀⣸⣇⣡⣸⣌⣄⣡⣄⣀⣧⣁⣰⣷⣸⣈⣰⣎⣼⣇⣠⣨⣀⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠛⠻⠛⠟⠛⠻⠛⠛⠟⠻⠻⣿⠛⣿⠛⠿⠻⠛⠛⣿⠛⠏⢹⠛⠙⠿⠻⣿⠛⠛⠻⠋⠻⢻⡏⠛⠙⠻⣿⠛⠏⢹⠛⢿⡟⠛⡟⠟⠟⠛⠻⠛⠛⠟⠻⠻⡟⠟⢻⡟⠻⠛⠟⢻⡿⠻⠋⡟⠛⠛⠟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣤⣴⣤⣬⣤⣵⣤⣤⣦⣤⣤⣧⣤⣿⣨⣤⣤⣼⣬⣿⣬⣦⣿⣬⣼⣤⣤⣿⣤⣤⣴⣤⣇⣾⣧⣴⣤⣤⣿⣤⣦⣿⣤⣼⣧⣥⣥⣤⣤⣥⣴⣤⣤⣦⣤⣿⣧⣤⣼⣦⣴⣤⣦⣼⣧⣥⣼⣿⣤⣤⣦⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠉⠛⠛⠛⠋⣻⠻⠛⠛⠛⠟⠛⢻⢙⢛⢻⡏⢛⠛⣛⢛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⡟⠋⠋⠟⡋⢛⠙⡛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⢉⢙⡏⡟⢻⡏⢛⢛⠛⡛⢛⠛⡋⡛⠛⢛⠋⣻⠉⢛⢻⡟⡛⠛⢛⠛⠟⠛⠛⡛⢙⠛⠛⢛⣿⣿ ⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣾⣼⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣷⣾⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣷⣶⣾⣷⣾⣾⣦⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣷⣷⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿ ⣿⠈⠈⠉⠉⠨⣿⠩⠋⡍⠩⠉⢹⡏⢋⠩⠋⠉⢩⡟⠉⠩⠁⠉⠁⠁⠈⠙⠉⢻⠀⠉⣿⠉⠋⠁⠈⠀⢿⣏⢋⠩⠉⠏⣿⠉⢨⠙⠍⠹⠁⠈⠀⡇⠈⠉⠘⠉⠉⡟⠉⠨⠉⠉⠍⠉⣿⠨⠩⢹⡏⠀⢩⠈⢋⠉⢻⣿ ⣿⣷⣿⡾⣶⣷⣿⣶⢷⣷⣷⣷⢾⣷⣾⣶⣷⣾⣾⣿⣶⣷⣷⣷⣾⣾⣷⣾⣾⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣷⣾⣷⣾⣾⣿⣾⣷⣷⣶⣿⣶⣾⣾⣾⣷⣾⣷⣾⣿⣾⣶⣾⣾⣾⣿⣶⣷⣷⣶⣾⣶⣿⣷⣷⣿⣷⣾⣾⣾⣾⣷⣿⣿ ⣿⠃⠈⠄⡡⠀⠄⠠⢈⠀⠁⢸⢸⡇⣤⠉⣏⣿⡸⣹⠉⡏⠹⣿⡏⢉⠯⡹⢽⡏⣩⢩⢫⣿⠘⠍⠝⡇⣿⠸⡁⡯⢙⠍⣿⠹⣉⢏⠝⡃⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⡷⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣏⠀⣹⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣷⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣾⡿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⠿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿ ⣿⣧⣇⣇⣆⣀⡚⣿⣇⣿⣌⣀⣀⣀⣆⣐⣿⣐⣐⣿⣑⣂⣀⣀⣆⣶⡌⣾⣇⣌⣇⣾⣀⣆⣿⣃⣿⣰⣀⣇⣸⣀⣷⣸⣇⣂⡜⣼⡇⣪⣀⣇⣂⣕⣀⡀⠂⣀⣀⣂⣿⣸⣨⣺⣿⣥⣀⣀⣚⣐⣃⣈⠂⣅⣈⣂⣿⣿ ⣿⡟⣟⢿⣿⢿⠿⡿⢿⡟⠿⡿⣿⡿⢿⠿⣿⡿⢿⠿⡿⠿⣿⠿⣿⢛⠿⠿⡿⠿⣿⡿⢿⣿⡿⣿⠿⡿⣿⠿⠛⡿⡿⣿⢿⡿⢿⠿⡿⢿⣿⢿⠿⡿⠿⢿⡿⠿⡿⠿⢿⢿⣿⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣧⣷⣾⣧⣫⣢⣷⣼⣧⣣⣴⣼⣧⣼⣼⣄⣼⣼⣤⣧⣼⣤⣁⣿⣼⣶⣥⣿⣼⣼⣧⣼⣿⣴⣤⣧⣼⣧⣥⣧⣜⣴⣤⣼⣧⣤⣸⣄⣧⣿⣼⣦⣇⣼⣹⣧⣧⣣⣼⣤⣪⣧⣥⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 165 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/epo-compliance/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/08/epo-compliance/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.08.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ [Meme]_Will_EPO_Comply?⠀✐ Posted in Courtroom, Europe, Law, Patents at 8:02 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Dynamic interpretation!⦈ Compliance or fixing? Summary: EPO management has_lost a number of important cases at ILO-AT (regarding_its_attacks_on_over_1,000_members_of_staff_and_unlawful regulations); will it comply with the rulings? ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣧⣿⣬⣽⣿⣿⣷⣼⣭⣷⣹⣭⣼⣾⣮⣥⣼⣮⣮⣮⣾⣭⣾⣾⣭⣾⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣭⣦⣧⣽⣾⣽⣾⣾⣿⣮⣵⣷⣯⣷⣥⣷⣿⣧⣷⣯⣬⣷⣿⣽⣼⣾⣾⣽⣮⣬⣼⣮⣮⣿⣯⣵⣿⣧⣷⣯⣭⣷⣽⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣛⣻⣿⣋⣉⠉⠛⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⡿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⣿⡛⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⢐⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠾⢿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣷⣤⡀⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠿⠆⠙⠉⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⡀⠀⣠⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣦⡀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠉⢡⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢐⠎⢠⡼⢂⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣼⣿⣿⠿⣿⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⢔⢀⡎⢀⠀⡇⡔⠢⡰⡀⢨⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣽⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⠿⠋⠁⠀⠈⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡀⠀⣠⣶⠀⣰⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢨⡎⠠⠇⠘⠐⠃⠃⣀⣁⣁⣀⣁⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣴⡶⠋⠀⠀⠛⠉⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠿⠿⠟⠛⡄⢻⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⣤⣤⡄⠂⣾⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⡀⡐⡝⡛⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣄⠈⢴⡆⢀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣼⣿⢟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡃⢅⡡⠡⠂⡈⢸⢀⠀⠌⠩⢩⠩⠛⡈⢟⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠗⣀⠀⠘⣇⣀⣀⣀⠀⢸⣿⡿⠀⢰⠐⠉⡄⢙⠛⠛⡛⡪⠴⢷⣶⣶⣮⣤⣤⣃⣈⣐⠀⠃⢇⡊⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣵⣾⣿⣠⣠⣼⣿⣿⣍⡀⠘⣿⣷⣥⣬⣄⣀⣃⣈⠠⠁⠁⢀⠁⡁⠐⡐⡔⢪⢱⠘⠛⠛⢫⠛⠑⡾⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠿⢿⢿⢛⣟⣛⡿⠿⠿⠿⣆⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣌⣴⣶⣥⣶⣅⣤⣀⣀⠅⠇⠈⠀⡇⡎⢱⢀⠐⡌⠘⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠛⠿⡟⠻⣻⢻⡿⡿⢿⡟⡿⡿⢿⣿⠿⠿⢿⢿⣟⠿⠿⡿⢟⠟⠿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣛⣛⣟⣛⣛⣻⣛⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣈⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣴⣬⣤⣢⣂⣿⣿⡿⠟⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⢤⣈⡙⠛⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠛⢋⢁⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣴⣮⣿⣾⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣥⣤⣬⣴⣤⣿⣧⣽⣼⣴⣥⣧⣾⣤⣧⣥⣧⣴⣬⣼⣤⣤⣥⣦⣬⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣯⣭⣩⣭⣭⣭⣯⣯⣿⣽⣽⣽⣯⣯⣭⣽⣭⣯⣽⣭⣽⣪⣍⣩⣩⣗⣥⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣹⣟⣛⣛⣋⣋⣛⣙⣻⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣿⣹⣋⣟⣛⡟⣿⣛⣻⣻⣋⣏⣛⣏⣽⣭⣽⣛⣛⣛⣻⣿⣛⣻⣛⣏⣟⣛⣻⣙⣻⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⠿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣾⣷⣾⣶⣶⣾⣾⣶⣿⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣷⣮⣶⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣷⣶⣿⣶⣶⣾⣷⣷⣷⣿⣶⣷⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣷⣷⣾⣾⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣙⣩⣩⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 218 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/epo-strike-regulations/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/08/epo-strike-regulations/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.08.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ ILOAT_Finally_Overturns_Battistelli’s_Vichyite_Strike_Regulations⠀✐ Posted in Courtroom, Europe, Law, Patents at 1:31 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz The Judgments of the ILOAT’s 132nd Session were announced in Geneva on 7 July 2021 Summary: An explanation of the blow suffered by António_Campinos and the person who gave him the job; ILOAT (or ILO-AT) belatedly — or_eight_years_late! — assessed Battistelli’s Vichyite strike regulations There was some good news for EPO staff from Geneva on Wednesday when the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO announced its judgments from the recent 132nd_Session, held between 24 May and 28 June 2021. A significant number of the judgments related to Benoît_Battistelli‘s notorious “Strike Regulations” which were adopted eight_years_ago in June 2013. “But despite such clearly expressed reservations, the Administrative Council turned a blind eye to the palpable defects in the proposals tabled by Team Battistelli and – like a bunch of headless chickens – voted to adopt these manifestly flawed measures whose illegality has now been exposed for all to see.”On 27 June 2013, following a proposal_by_the_President_of_the_Office [PDF], the Administrative Council adopted_decision_CA/D_5/13 [PDF] amending the EPO Service Regulations (which entered into force on 1 July 2013). Amongst other things, CA/D 5/13 created a new Article 30a of the Service Regulations concerning the right to strike. Article 30a sets out some basic rules concerning strikes, defining what is meant by a “strike” and indicating, amongst other things, that a call for a strike can be initiated by a staff committee, an association of employees, or a group of employees, and that the decision to start a strike must be the result of a vote by the employees. Paragraph 10 of Article 30a authorises the President of the Office to lay down further terms and conditions for the application of Article 30a. Relying on that provision, on 28 June 2013 the former Vice-President of DG4, Mr Željko Topić – acting on behalf of the President – issued Circular No. 347 containing “Guidelines applicable in the event of strike”, which likewise entered into effect on 1 July 2013. At the time of their adoption in 2013, Battistelli’s Strike Regulations were strongly criticised by EPO staff representatives and the staff union SUEPO. This criticism was shared by outside observers of the social conflict at the EPO which was being escalated to new heights by Battistelli’s authoritarian management style à_la_France_Telecom. An article entitled “The President Repeals A Fundamental Right?” authored by Sylvie Jacobs, the Chairperson of the EU staff union, Union_Syndicale_Fédérale, which appeared in the January_2014_issue_of_the_USF_Newsletter [PDF], Agora, described Battistelli’s régime at the EPO in the following terms: “EPO President Battistelli’s HR policy reveals a serious lack of understanding of fundamental rights of workers, in particular their right of association in the form of a trade-union.” Later that year, in_November_2014 [PDF], a position paper issued by the staff union SUEPO entitled “Social Conflict at the European Patent Office” noted that “such measures are unprecedented in Europe, apart from Italy’s Carta del Lavoro (B. Mussolini, 1927) and Spain’s Fuero del Trabajo (F. Franco, 1938).” In drawing comparisons between Battistelli’s oppressive Strike Regulations and those of fascist-corporatist régimes that flourished in Europe during the inter-war period of the 20th century, SUEPO forgot to mention the example which was probably closest to Battistelli’s heart: the Labour Code or “Charte du Travail” adopted in 1941 by Philippe_Pétain‘s Vichy State. The repressive labour and social policies of Pétain’s État_Français were closely modelled on those of Fascist Italy. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Vichy Battistelli⦈ Did Maréchal Pétain’s Vichy State provide the role model for Battistelli’s repressive regime at the EPO? With Judgment_no._4430 [PDF], the ILOAT delivered on 7 July 2021, the ILOAT belatedly hammered another long overdue nail into the coffin of “le Système Battistelli” at the EPO, by striking down Circular No. 347 as manifestly unlawful. This long-awaited judgment is good news for all those who opposed the tyrannical regime of Team Battistelli over the last decade. While this significant legal victory is a cause for celebration, it should not be allowed to obscure the precarious legal situation of the staff of the EPO and other international organisations who are dependent on Tribunals like the ILOAT to defend their rights. Notwithstanding the fact that Circular No. 347 has been found to breach the fundamental rights of EPO staff, it remained in force for eight years! During this time it was used repeatedly to underpin the Corsican despot’s managerialist “Reign of Terror” and impede any kind of internal dissent and collective action on the part of EPO staff against the excesses of the Office Administration. Even more outrageous is the fact that at the time of the adoption of the Strike Regulations in 2013, the small number of delegations on the Administrative Council that made any attempt to evaluate the proposed measures had grave doubts about their compliance with international conventions. An internal_memorandum_from_the_Norwegian_Department_of_Labour_dated_26_June 2013 [PDF] expressed the following opinion: “The Department of Labour is therefore skeptical about a solution with an administrative regulation and about the content that, at a quick glance, seems extremely dubious in respect of its compliance with applicable international conventions.” But despite such clearly expressed reservations, the Administrative Council turned a blind eye to the palpable defects in the proposals tabled by Team Battistelli and – like a bunch of headless chickens – voted to adopt these manifestly flawed measures whose illegality has now been exposed for all to see. Will any lessons be learned from this débâcle? One would like to think so, but unfortunately the track record of the Administrative Council and the senior management of the Office over the last decade doesn’t provide much reason for optimism on this front. █ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢸ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⢸⣿⣿⣿⡧⣽⣧⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢻⣿⡟⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠻⠟⠉⠂⠀⠀⠀⠸⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠁⢸ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⠼⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣸⢟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡽⢇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⢸ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣴⣤⣴⣴⣿⣿⣴⣶⣰⣶⣴⠀⢀⢦⣴⣆⣀⣤⣤⣤⡰⣆⣦⣶⣿⣴⣆⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡇⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣷⣴⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡟⠀⢸ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡇⠀⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣄⡀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⢿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⡤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⢀⢀⣀⡀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣀⠀⢠⠀⡀⣀⣀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠗⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢍⣉⠛⠋⠁⠀⠘⠻⠿⠿⠃⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⢠⢸ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣶⣶⣿⢺⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣾⣧⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣶⣾⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⢸⣸ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⡧⣾⣿⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⠟⠋⠉⠋⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⡀⣿ 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⣀⣀⣀⣟⣯⣿⣥⣐⣄⣀⣀⠠⠱⠆⢀⣀⣀⠒⣸⣦⣤⣤⣄⣀⡘⣷⣶⣶⣾⣿⣟⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⣮⠉⠀⢻⣿⣻⣽⣿⣭⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡦⢶⣐⠰⠂⢀⡠⡋⡀⢀⢀⡠⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠻⠛⠛⡀⠀⠘⠀⣡⡗ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 447 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/gemini-wiki/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/08/gemini-wiki/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.08.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Working_Towards_Completion_of_Gemini_as_a_Mirror⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 8:23 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Work in progress: Techrights wiki in gemini:// 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Techrights_wiki_in_gemini://⦈_ Summary: While we do not actually migrate to Gemini, we do intend to offer it as a complete option or alternative, with a ‘first-class’ experience and feature parity (to the extent possible given the artificial limitations of the protocol) THIS is a bit of a heads-up for our gemini:// followers, who aren’t few (over 8,000 page requests yesterday). At the moment we algorithmically convert the Techrights wiki — hopefully all of the wiki, not just the articles (nearly 31,000 of them) — into Gemini (protocol/space/text) with the intention of having it pick up wiki updates as well (from HTTP) without manual intervention. It already updates as part of the cron jobs. It’s a rather big project, it does appear to have been attempted before, and it may be useful/handy to other MediaWiki users because the syntax is very widely used. We’ll say more when this is done or nearly done. Gemini is self-hosted from home and next week we get fibre installed. Less limitation, lower latency. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡍⣭⡿⡿⣿⠿⡏⠿⢿⠿⠯⣿⠿⢿⡟⠿⡿⠻⡿⢿⣿⡟⣿⡹⡿⣽⢽⢹⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⡿⢿⢽⢿⢿⠿⡿⠿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣧⣓⣧⣛⣇⣿⣸⣸⣇⣷⣿⢸⣧⣇⣿⣘⣗⣻⣿⣿⣡⣷⣱⣿⣸⣰⣜⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣸⣸⣼⣿⣼⣧⣛⣾⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣷⣷⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣹⣽⣿⣟⣿⣿⣟⣛⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⢿⣿⣻⢿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣯⣭⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣛⣿⣽⣿⣿⡿⢻⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣷⣿⣷⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣟⣿⣽⢩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣷⣽⣿⣿⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣏⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣏⣏⣿⣹⣏⣿⣸⣿⣿⣻⣿⣹⣯⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣈⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⣽⣯⣿⣗⣿⣿⣯⣷⣿⣿⣿⣮⣿⣽⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 530 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/08/iloat-caseload/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/08/iloat-caseload/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.08.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Video:_ILO-AT_Caseload_Shows_That_António_Campinos_Failed_and_Should_be Sacked_by_the_Administrative_Council_of_the_EPO⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 7:37 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/epo-iloat.webm Summary: This is a simple explanation of this_article from last night; 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But, you can find some that allow you full control over all aspects. Not only that, but they also allow you to distribute your version freely. These are known as free and open-source software. So, they were made mainly to provide more control to home users over their software. Now, there are many such viable options available for you out there. Linux is undoubtedly the most prominent one among them. After all, it has reached a leading position among all non-proprietary operating systems. Now, there are various distributions from Linux that you can choose from. The information given below can help you know all that you need to know about them. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ DHCP_Server_Conflict_Detection⠀⇛ This blog title should really be, “Why you always, always, always want conflict detection turned on on all the networks MAAS touches,” but that’s really long as a title. But hear me out. As promised, here is another DHCP blog, this time explaining how you can have multiple DHCP servers on the same subnet, serving overlapping IP addresses. There are a lot of network-savvy folks who will tell you that serving the same set of IP addresses from two different DHCP servers just won’t work. While that’s a really good rule to follow, it isn’t totally accurate under all conditions. # ⚓ DHCP_scope⠀⇛ It’s possible to have more than one DHCP server on the same network and still have everything work right, with no conflicts and no dropped packets or IP requests. It’s really not that hard to pull together, either, but there are some things to know, and some things to consider before we investigate that situation. For this blog, we’ll put some of the overlooked facets of DHCP in bold text. Let’s take a look. # ⚓ LXD_–_Container_Manager⠀⇛ I recently started working for InfluxData as a Developer Advocate on Telegraf, an open source server agent to collect metrics. Telegraf builds from source to ship as a single Go binary. The latest – 1.19.1 was released just yesterday. Part of my job involves helping users by reproducing reported issues, and assisting developers by testing their pull requests. It’s fun stuff, I love it. Telegraf has an extensive set of plugins which supports gathering, aggregating & processing metrics, and sending the results to other systems. Telegraf has a huge set of plugins, and there’s super-diverse ways our users deploy Telegraf, sometimes I have to stand up one-off environments to reproduce reported issues. So I thought I’d write up the basics of what I do, partly for me, and partly for my co-workers who also sometimes need to do this. My personal and work computers both run Kubuntu 21.04. Sometimes issues are reported against Telegraf on other Linux distributions, or LTS releases of Ubuntu. In the past I’d use either VirtualBox or QEMU to create entire Virtual Machines for each Linux distribution or product I’m working with. Both can be slow to stand up clean machines, and take a fair chunk of disk space. These days I prefer to use LXD. LXD is a system container manager, whose development is funded and led by Canonical, my previous employer. It’s super lightweight, easy to use and fast to setup. So it’s the tool I reach for most for these use cases. Note that LXD can also launch Virtual Machines but I tend not to use that feature, preferring lightweight containers. [...] I’ve been a big fan of LXD for some years now. I’ve found it a super fast, reliable way for me to spin up lightweight machines running random Linux distributions, and throw them away when done. It helps keep all those random and unstable pieces of software I’m testing nicely compartmentalised, and easy to nuke. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Dmenu_BW:_Bitwarden_Client_Actually_Worth_Using⠀⇛ A lot of Bitwarden client and interfaces are missing a lot of absolutely basic features to make them even remotely usable but today we’re looking at one that integrates with Dmenu that actually does everything I would need. # ⚓ Ubuntu_Podcast_from_the_UK_LoCo:_S14E18_–_Timing_Chefs Watch⠀⇛ This week we’ve been configuring new-ish HP Microservers and entering our first game jam. We discuss Project Kebe, an open source Snap Store implementation, and respond to all your wonderful feedback. It’s Season 14 Episode 18 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ AMD_SEV-SNP_Support_Revised_For_Linux_+_Updated_Hyper- V_Isolation_VM_Code_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ AMD engineers and their partners continue work towards upstreaming Secure Encrypted Virtualization’s Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) support for the mainline Linux kernel. AMD SEV-SNP debuted this year with EPYC 7003 “Milan” processors. SEV-SNP offers additional hardware features for EPYC’s virtualization capabilities. With SEV-SNP there is additional memory integrity protections around replay protection, data corruption, memory aliasing, and memory re-mapping. There are also other hardware protections with SEV-SNP as outlined in the comparison below. # ⚓ Kernel_5.13:_Growing_team_and_KernelCI_hackfest⠀⇛ As many developers in the northern hemisphere start to dream about their quickly arriving summer vacations, the increasing pace of kernel development gives no sign of taking a break any time soon. In fact, 5.13 was a record breaking release in the number of developers: exactly 2,062 developers contributed to this release – 336 of them for the first time. This was also the first kernel release with over 2,000 unique contributors. Collabora is, of course, the proud employer of a small, but very active, fraction of these developers. As usual, our team is working all around the kernel, fixing bugs and writing new features. In this release, Boris Brezillon fixed some hard-to- track bugs in the Panfrost DRM driver, improving the overall support for the platform. Ezequiel Garcia continued to improve the VP8 stateless codec and this time he moved part of the driver out of staging. Sebastian Reichel, who is on a quest to organize the device-tree description of drivers on the Power-Supply subsystem that he maintains, converted most of the DT descriptors to use the DT schema, such that they can be checked for compliance automatically. Dafna Hirschfeld and Enric Balletbo i Serra worked on MediaTek devices, fixing DRM/multimedia bugs and improving power management support, respectively. # ⚓ Real-Time_Patches_Updated_For_The_Linux_5.13_Kernel_– Phoronix⠀⇛ Thomas Gleixner has announced the release of the real-time “RT” patches for the Linux 5.13, the first update since the patches were re-based early on back during the 5.12 release candidates. This morning’s 5.13-rt1 release re-bases these real-time patches against the Linux 5.13 code-base, contains a rework of the locking core code, also reworks “large parts” of the memory management code, and other updates. # ⚓ QNAP_network_storage:_NAS_operating_system_QTS_5.0_with_new Linux_kernel⠀⇛ QNAP provides the QTS 5.0 operating system as a beta version for some of its NAS systems. The update comes with some fundamental changes, including an updated Linux kernel to version 5.10. Until now, the manufacturer used kernel versions 4.2.8 or 4.14.24, depending on the processor. In practical use, the new Linux kernel is intended to increase the speed of PCI Express SSDs with NVMe protocol in particular when they function as a cache, for example when buffering data on hard drives. QNAP speaks in the announcement also of “improvements with AMD processors” without going into detail. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Control_Panel_/_UI_For_Intel’s_Linux_Graphics Drivers_Is_Still_Under_Evaluation_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ At the end of last year we reported on the possibility of an Intel Command Center / graphics driver control panel for Linux but not set in stone. The latest to report on the matter of an Intel Linux graphics GUI solution is that it’s still being evaluated by the company. When recently inquiring about the state of IGC compiler usage by their Mesa drivers, I also asked whether there was anything new to report on the prospects of an Intel Linux graphics driver control panel akin to the Intel Command Center on Windows. o § Benchmarks⠀➾ # ⚓ GCC_8_Through_GCC_11_Stable_Plus_GCC_12_Compiler Benchmarks⠀⇛ For today’s benchmarking is a look at how the GNU Compiler Collection has performed over the past few years going from the GCC 8 stable series introduced in 2018 through the recently released GCC 11.1 stable feature release plus also including the current early development snapshot of GCC 12. Benchmarked are GCC 8.5, 9.4, 10.3, 11.1, and 12.0 (20210701). All of these compiler releases were benchmarked using the same Intel Core i9 10980XE (Cascade Lake X) system running Ubuntu 21.04 with the Linux 5.11 kernel. Each compiler was built from source in the same (release) manner. A variety of open-source C/C++ benchmarks were then carried out each time in looking at the resulting performance while keeping to the same CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS throughout the entire duration of benchmarks. This follows our other recent GCC 11 vs. LLVM Clang 12 compiler benchmarking, tuning flag comparisons, and more. If there is enough interest similar compiler comparison tests can also be done on AArch64. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ No,_open_source_Audacity_audio_editor_is_not_“spyware”_| Ars_Technica⠀⇛ The community’s telemetry concerns were received and addressed two months ago. # ⚓ ProtonVPN_on_Linux_Review:_An_Open-Source_VPN_Service_for Privacy_Minded_Users⠀⇛ If you want an enhanced level of privacy protection, transparency of the VPN service, and full-fledged Linux support, ProtonVPN is a fantastic choice. However, the pricing plan may prove to be expensive if you want to use it on more than two devices compared to other VPN providers. I think it is worth it if you regularly rely on a VPN connection to hide your IP address, use torrents, unblock geological restrictions, and more. And if you rarely use a VPN, you could look at some of the other VPN options available for Linux. What do you think about ProtonVPN? Have you tried it yet? Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below. # ⚓ vizex_–_visualize_disk_space_and_disk_usage⠀⇛ You often hear that disk space is cheap and plentiful. And it’s true that a 4TB mechanical hard disk drive currently retails for less than 100 dollars. But like many users we’ve migrated to running Linux on M.2 Solid State Drives (SSDs). They are NVMe drives reaching read and write speeds of over 5,000MB/s. That’s over 20 times faster than a 7,200 RPM traditional hard drive. M.2 SSDs do functionally everything a hard drive does, but help to make a computer feel far more responsive. M.2 are NVMe drives which reduce I/ O overhead and brings various performance improvements relative to previous logical-device interfaces, including multiple long command queues, and reduced latency. M.2 drives are more expensive than mechanical hard drives in terms of dollar per gigabyte. And M.2 with really large capacities are thin on the ground and expensive, so most users settle for lower capacity drives. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Getting_Started_with_cloud-init⠀⇛ cloud-init is an awesome technology that can be used to customize Linux images for deployment, that lets you do all kinds of neat things such as automatically creating users, installing packages, resetting SSH keys, and more. However, it’s often shrouded in mystery. In this video, I’ll walk you through using it to create a user, set the hostname, and install some packages. # ⚓ How_to_modify_an_existing_systemd_unit_file⠀⇛ In this example, we will show how to modify an existing unit file. There are three main directories where unit files are stored on the system but the ‘/etc/systemd/ system/’ directory is reserved for unit files created or customized by the system administrator. # ⚓ How_to_install_and_use_Team_Viewer_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ TeamViewer is a perfect software solution for users seeking reputable remote desktop and access solutions. Team Viewer parades itself with five useful mantras: Connect, Engage, Support, Enhance, and Manage. If your remote desktop and access solution checks these five boxes, then you have found a haven. With a TeamViewer suite, you can achieve customer- first engagement, augmentative reality, IT management, and remote connectivity solutions. Any device connection is possible. Any user and process support are also possible regardless of the time zone and location configuration. # ⚓ How_to_define_DNS_in_Docker_containers_–_TechRepublic⠀⇛ When you deploy a container on your network, if it cannot find a DNS server defined in /etc/ resolv.conf, by default it will take on the DNS configured for the host machine. That may be fine and dandy for certain situations. But what if (maybe for security reasons), you do not want your containers using the same DNS as your hosts. Say, for example, your host servers use a specific DNS server to prevent users from visiting particular sites. Or maybe you have different DNS configurations for VPNs. # ⚓ How_to_Migrate_Centos_8_to_AlmaLinux_8.3⠀⇛ CentOS 8 will reach end-of-life on December 31, 2021. So if you are using CentOS 8 operating system then it is recommended to upgrade it to centos alternative distributions named Alma Linux. In this guide, we will show you how to migrate CentOS 8 to the new AlmaLinux 8.3. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Zlib_on_Ubuntu_Linux_[Easily]⠀⇛ Zlib is an open source library for used for data compression. As an end user, you are likely to encounter the need of installing Zlib (or zlib devel package) as a dependency of another application. But here comes the problem. If you try installing Zlib on Ubuntu, it will throw “unable to locate package zlib” error. # ⚓ 6_Ways_to_Open_Folders_in_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS⠀⇛ Opening folders in Ubuntu is one of the basic tasks you will perform as a regular Ubuntu user. Although there are many ways to do so, we all have our preferences in which way to opt for when accessing folders on our system. # ⚓ Encrypt_and_decrypt_files_with_a_passphrase_on_Linux_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ Encryption and security for protecting files and sensitive documents have long been a concern for users. Even as more and more of our data is housed on websites and cloud services, protected by user accounts with ever-more secure and challenging passwords, there’s still great value in being able to store sensitive data on our own filesystems, especially when we can encrypt that data quickly and easily. Age allows you to do this. It is a small, easy-to- use tool that allows you to encrypt a file with a single passphrase and decrypt it as required. # ⚓ How_to_Easily_Encrypt_and_Decrypt_Files_on_Linux⠀⇛ The Age tool allows you to encrypt and decrypt sensitive files with a single passphrase, says Sumantro Mukherjee. This article provides step-by-step instructions to set up and use the tool. # ⚓ How_to_install_Pylint_on_Ubuntu_21.04_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ Pylint is a Python static code analysis tool which looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard, sniffs for code smells, and offers simple refactoring suggestions. It’s highly configurable, having special pragmas to control its errors and warnings from within your code, as well as from an extensive configuration file. It is also possible to write your plugins for adding your checks or for extending pylint in one way or another. One of the great advantages of using PyLint is that it is open-source and free. So you can include it in a wide variety of projects. Also, it integrates seamlessly with many popular IDEs so you can use it without any problems. Moreover, you can use it as a standalone application to increase the flexibility of your application. # ⚓ How_to_install_ODBC_on_Ubuntu_21.04_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ ODBC is an open specification for providing application developers with a predictable API with which to access Data Sources. Data Sources include SQL Servers and any Data Source with an ODBC Driver. With the need for an open-source implementation and compatibility with other operating systems, unixODBC was born. This project also has a graphical interface that you can use but its potential is in the binaries that offer compatibility with this implementation. # ⚓ How_to_run_a_command_without_having_to_wait_in_Linux/ Ubuntu⠀⇛ You may have encountered some commands which take a while to complete processing. There are some tricks that could help gain control once you launch the command so that you can do other things meanwhile. # ⚓ How_to_upgrade_to_Linux_Mint_20.2_–_The_Linux_Mint_Blog⠀⇛ It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 20 and 20.1 to version 20.2. If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience. # ⚓ Installing_Xorg_And_DWM_On_Gentoo⠀⇛ I made a video last week where I did a base installation of Gentoo inside a virtual machine. Viewers asked me if I could do a video on how to install Xorg and desktop environment or window manager. So…continuing along on the Gentoo journey, I’m going to show you how to install Xorg and Dwm. # ⚓ Linux_101:_Demystifying_the_Linux_directory_structure⠀⇛ Some new users have trouble understanding the Linux directory structure, so I thought I’d take a moment to demystify those strange folder names. It’s not nearly as complicated as you might think. Once you understand what’s what, it all starts to make sense. That said, let’s take a look at these strange directories. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ 10_Best_Archery_Games_For_Android_That_Let_You_Get Addicted⠀⇛ If you think about the interests of people in the primitive age, archery will come to your mind very fast. People of that time had to practice this activity to collect their food. But nowadays, there is no scope for us to practice this interesting activity. Some people again develop an interest in this activity as a hobby, but there is no better resource to practice it. Eventually, you can try it only if you compete. However, if throwing the arrow right to the point seems more interesting to you, PlayStore provides very good news for you. You can now try the best archery games for Android to practice archery. # ⚓ The_‘Homesteading’_update_for_survival_game_Vintage_Story is_shaping_up_to_be_huge_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ With a whole decoration system coming, survival game Vintage Story is going to be expanding in a big way with the upcoming Homesteading update that has a Release Candidate out now. Vintage Story is an uncompromising wilderness survival sandbox game inspired by lovecraftian horror themes. You’re probably tempted to say “hey it looks like Minecraft”, but this is far away from it. Having played it, it’s clearly aiming at a different market. You find yourself in a ruined world reclaimed by nature and permeated by unnerving temporal disturbances. Everything about it takes time, it’s a slow and thoughtful game with some pretty deep game mechanics. # ⚓ VKD3D-Proton_2.4_Released_With_Better_Performance,_Sparse 3D_Textures_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ A big focus for VKD3D-Proton 2.4 has been on the performance front. VKD3D-Proton 2.4 improves swapchain latency and frame pacing by up to one frame, avoids pipeline compilation stutter in some cases, rewrites the image layout handling code to improve GPU-bound performance improvements, and more. Thanks to the improved image layout handling for color and depth stencil targets, games like Horizon Zero Dawn can be 15~20% faster while games like Death Stranding are ~10% faster and many other games 5~10% faster. # ⚓ VKD3D-Proton_2.4_is_out_with_performance_improvements_for Direct3D_12_to_Vulkan_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ VKD3D-Proton is the project that Valve funds to act as a translation layer between Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for use with Steam Play Proton and a big new release is out. If you wish to know more about Steam Play and Proton do check out our dedicated section. Version 2.4 brings multiple performance enhancements including: an improvement to swapchain latency and frame pacing by up to one frame, lookup of format info was optimized, it now avoids potential pipeline compilation stutter in certain scenarios. They also noted some significant GPU- bound performance improvements thanks to a rewrite of how it handles image layouts for colour and depth-stencil targets with Horizon Zero Dawn seeing a noted ~15-20% GPU bound uplift, Death Stranding ~10% and around 5-10% in other titles too. # ⚓ Killer_Bundle_18_from_Fanatical_has_Shadow_Tactics, Warhammer_Gladius_and_more_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ In need of some new games and don’t know where to look? Here to help! Fanatical just recently launched the Killer Bundle 18 and it’s a pretty good one. Note: we’re not affiliated with Fanatical currently, just pointing out a good deal. The bundle comes in two editions giving you either 8 games/DLC at £4.29 or 11 for £6.89. It’s an incredibly easy deal to recommend since it contains some really good games. # ⚓ The_major_‘Summer_Update’_is_out_for_Transport_Fever_2⠀⇛ Following on from the Vulkan upgrade, Good Shepherd Entertainment and developer Urban Games have released the next major upgrade for Transport Fever 2. This Summer Update touches on all parts of the game, greatly improving many aspects. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Winners_of_the_KDE_and_LMMS_Plasma_Mobile_Sound Contest_–_Plasma_Mobile⠀⇛ Plasma Mobile just got a brand new selection of ringtones, alarms and system sounds thanks to the participants of the KDE/LMMS Plasma Mobile Sound Contest. Judges from both communities selected a variety of sounds made specifically for Plasma Mobile and now we are thrilled to announce the winners! # ⚓ Qt_Creator_5.0_Beta_Brings_Experimental_Support_For Clangd,_Building_Code_In_Docker_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ In addition to The Qt Company being busy at work on the Qt 6.2 toolkit, they have also been busy preparing Qt Creator 5.0 as their Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment. # ⚓ Qt_Creator_5.0_Beta_released⠀⇛ # ⚓ KDE_Floating_Applets⠀⇛ # ⚓ KDE_Gear_21.04.3⠀⇛ Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear. Today they all get new bugfix source releases. # ⚓ Kdenlive_21.04.3⠀⇛ The last maintenance release of the 21.04 series is out with improvements to same track transitions, improved Wayland support, as well as fixing issues with rotoscoping and the speech to text module. This version also adds support for the WebP image format. Due to technical issues there won’t be a Windows version for this release. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Pop!_OS_21.04_Released_With_COSMIC_Desktop:_Learn What’s_New⠀⇛ Pop!_OS is a modern-day take on Ubuntu by System76, an American company that specializes in building Linux-based notebooks and servers. It provides a clean and concise desktop experience for professionals working in the STEM field. Some of Pop!_OS’s biggest features include native support for AMD and Nvidia GPUs, out- of-the-box encryption support, and a highly customizable workspace. The latest version of Pop!_OS just hit the market and offers some exciting new features, including a fresh take on the GNOME environment called COSMIC. It also adds support for an intuitive dock as well as tiling window managers. # § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_overview_|_Nitrux_1.5.0⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of Nitrux 1.5.0 and some of the applications pre-installed. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Contribute_to_Fedora_Kernel_5.13_Test_Week_–_Fedora Community_Blog⠀⇛ The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.13. This version was recently released and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday, July 11, 2021 through Sunday, July 18, 2021. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Read below for details. # ⚓ Dive_into_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_for_Edge_with Labs⠀⇛ With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3 last November, Red Hat added support for resilient edge computing architectures based on proven features within RHEL. RHEL for Edge creates operating system images that update “atomically” with automatic rollback on failure. These operating system images provide efficient updates to RHEL systems by delivering only the deltas to an updated operating system image instead of the complete image. RHEL for Edge enables rapid application of security updates and patches with minimum downtime and continuity of operations if updates should fail. # ⚓ Red_Hat_is_still_Red_Hat⠀⇛ Red Hat has received a “positive” rating from Gartner, Inc. in its 2021 Vendor Rating Report. Among Gartner’s findings is that “Red Hat is still Red Hat,” and retains its neutrality and strategy independent of IBM. # ⚓ Read_about_Red_Hat’s_Open_Hybrid_Cloud_portfolio_in this_Gartner_Report⠀⇛ Gartner published its “2021 Vendor Rating: IBM report1″ in early June, and we’re pleased to report that Red Hat received an overall positive rating* from Gartner. We believe we received the rating because we remain focused on delivering the Red Hat portfolio of open hybrid cloud products and services with IBM as one of many strategic partners that help us deliver the offerings for digital transformation that our customers need. # ⚓ The_ever-evolving_IT_job_role:_system_administrator_| Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ During my career, I’ve had many different job titles. Sysadmin, IT consultant, IT project manager, and DevOp to name a few. But are these different jobs or just other names for the same thing? Decide for yourself while reading about my roles in three different kinds of organizations. # ⚓ Troubleshooting_application_performance_with_Red_Hat OpenShift_metrics,_Part_1:_Requirements_|_Red_Hat Developer⠀⇛ This is the first In a series of five articles showing how developers can use an extensive set of metrics offered by Red Hat OpenShift to diagnose and fix performance problems. I’ll describe a real-life success story where I did performance testing on the Service Binding Operator to get it accepted into the Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift. I’ll describe the Service Binding Operator’s performance challenges, how I planned my troubleshooting, and how I created and viewed the metrics. This first article lays out the motivation for the whole effort, the Service Binding Operator’s environment and testing setup, the requirements I had to meet to get the Service Binding Operator accepted into the Developer Sandbox, and the tooling made available by Developer Sandbox for performance testing. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Thorsten_Alteholz:_My_Debian_Activities_in_June 2021⠀⇛ This month I accepted 105 and rejected 6 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 111. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Elementary_OS_vs._Ubuntu:_Which_one_is_for_you?⠀⇛ Ubuntu is by far the most popular Linux distro in terms of its userbase. And if people are not using Ubuntu directly, they are likely using one of the many popular Ubuntu-based distros like Linux Mint, Pop_OS!, MX Linux, and the lots. However, today, we will look at elementary OS – a popular Ubuntu-based distribution geared towards Mac users – and see how it stacks against its old man. You see, despite its popularity, Ubuntu isn’t loved by all users. In fact, the distro faces its fair share of criticism. This is where Ubuntu-based distros sweep in, taking the positives of Ubuntu, dumping the negatives, and throwing in some additional tweaks of their own to create a unique spin. As such, with elementary OS, you get the stable Ubuntu base along with access to Ubuntu’s large software repository. However, elementary OS ditches Ubuntu’s user interface and aesthetics in favor of their own custom Mac-inspired beginner-friendly UI – the Pantheon desktop. It also gives a lot more attention to user privacy and security compared to Ubuntu. But these are just the cliff notes! Down below, we have a much more comprehensive take on elementary OS vs. Ubuntu, giving you a detailed look at both OS’s pros and cons. So if you are stuck choosing which distro is right for you, this read should definitely help out. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_Released_with_Improved_Update Manager,_Bulky_File_Renamer,_Cinnamon_5.0⠀⇛ Linux Mint team announced the second point release for Mint 20 today. Features Kernel 5.4, Ubuntu 20.04 package base, and Cinnamon 5.0, Xfce 4.16, MATE 1.24 for each desktop edition. Linux Mint 20.2 will be supported until 2025. It comes with improved Update Manager that supports installing updates for applets, desklets, themes, and extensions. As well, it now displays software update notifications if it has been available for more than 7 logged-in days or older than 15 calendar days. However, you can change the time period or disable the notification entirely. # ⚓ How_To_Upgrade_To_Linux_Mint_20.2_|_Easy_Method⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 is now available to download. In this tutorial post, we will show you the easiest way to upgrade to Linux Mint 20.2. Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” is a long-term support release and it is supported until 2025. It is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_Now_Available⠀⇛ The good news for Linux Mint users as Linux Mint 20.2 is now available to download. Linux Mint 20.2 is a long-term support release and it is supported until 2025. Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LT. The latest version of Linux Mint 20.2 comes with updated software and new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_“Uma”_Xfce_released!_–_The_Linux_Mint Blog⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2025. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_“Uma”_MATE_released!_–_The_Linux_Mint Blog⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2025. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_“Uma”_Cinnamon_released!_–_The_Linux Mint_Blog⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2025. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_Released_With_Cinnamon_5.0_Desktop⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” is now available as the latest update to this popular desktop Linux distribution built off Ubuntu LTS releases. Out today is Linux Mint 20.2 with the Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce desktop options. The flagship Linux Mint 20.2 edition with their GNOME-forked Cinnamon desktop is now up to version 5.0. Cinnamon 5.0 has a new search feature for its Nemo file manager, memory leak fixes, better handling of updates around Spices, and a wide variety of other mostly small updates. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_Now_Available_to_Download⠀⇛ The Linux Mint 20.2 release is now available to download. We look at what’s new in Linux Mint 20.2 (there’s a fair bit) plus share a link to download it. # ⚓ What’s_New_in_Linux_Mint_20.2_“Uma”⠀⇛ Linux Mint, one of the more popular Linux distributions, has released version 20.2, nicknamed “Uma.” It comes with new features, upgraded internals, and other changes. Today we’re taking a closer look at what’s new. Changes and Upgrades in Mint 20.2 The Linux Mint operating system has long been known for its user-friendliness and stability. Uma maintains that legacy, bringing only a few changes to Mint’s update manager and the stock app collection, in addition to several improvements under the hood. Below are the highlights. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_is_Now_Available_With_New_Features and_Tools_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 beta arrived a few weeks ago. And now, the final stable release for Linux Mint 20.2 is here. This release is an LTS upgrade based on Ubuntu 20.04 that is supported until 2025. Let us take a quick look at what’s new with this release and how do you get it. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ SBC_builds_on_PolarFire_SoC_with_dual_GbE_and_CAN⠀⇛ Aldec announced a “TySOM-M-MPFS250” SBC that runs Linux on Microchip’s RISC-V based, FPGA equipped PolarFire SoC and offers 2x GbE, 2x FMC, 2x micro- USB, PCIe x4, CAN, HDMI, and PMOD. EDA design verification firm Aldec has introduced a new member of its Linux-driven TySOM FPGA prototyping boards built around Microchip’s hybrid Arm/FPGA PolarFire SoC. The TySOM-M-MPFS250 is the first of a series of TySOM-M boards based on the low-power, security-enhanced PolarFire SoC, which combines Microchip’s PolarFire FPGA with a SiFive RISC-V CPU. The approximately Cortex-A35 like RISC- V cores comprise 4x 1.5GHz U54-MC CPU cores and a fifth monitor core. # ⚓ u-blox_introduces_WiFI_5/6_&_Bluetooth_5_M.2_cards_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ The card is based on the existing JODY-W2 module based on the NXP, previously Marvell, 88W8987 chipset with data rates up to 433 Mbit/s. The module requires a host processor running a Linux or Android operating system, and QNX support is in the works. # ⚓ Tiger_Lake_UP3_single_board_computer_offers_quad_displays, 2.5_GbE,_PCIe_Gen4,_up_to_32GB_RAM⠀⇛ Taiwan Commate Computer Inc, also known as just Commell, has unveiled LE-37O 3.5-inch single board computer based on Intel Tiger Lake UP3 embedded processors for industrial applications. The SBC supports up to 32GB DDR4 single-channel memory, up to four displays through DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, and LVDS interfaces, and offers both Gigabit Ethernet and 2.5 GbE ports, as well as PCIe Gen4 via an M.2 socket. [...] The company provides Windows 10 64-bit driver for the board. Linux support is unclear. It’s not the first Tiger Lake SBC from Commell, as we previously covered Commell LP-179 Pico-ITX motherboard with a more compact form factor. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Dual_Screen_Apollo_DSKY_simulates_the_Apollo_Guidance Computer_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ NASA’s history if full of fascinating facts and trivia. For example, the Apollo Guidance Computer, which handled navigation and control for both the Apollo Command Module and the Apollo Lunar Module, ran with less RAM and processing power than a TI-83 graphing calculator. But reading that fact isn’t the same as actually experiencing the Apollo Guidance Computer for yourself. That’s why a maker used three Arduino boards to create a simulator. The actual Apollo Guidance Computer sat inside of a protective metal enclosure that is rather boring, but the DSKY (Display and Keyboard) interface, which acted like a terminal, had a very distinctive design. It had 19 buttons, including a numerical pad, situated below two displays. The left display had a several indicator lights, similar to your car’s dashboard, to show the statuses and warnings. The right display had numerical readouts for the program number, verb, and noun, as well as data and a computer activity status light. # ⚓ Libre-SOC_Test_ASIC_Going_To_Fabrication,_Using_TSMC 180nm_Process_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Libre-SOC that started out as Libre RISC-V in aspiring to be an open-source software/ hardware Vulkan accelerator but then renamed to Libre-SOC after changing over to the OpenPOWER architecture is now seeing test fabrication done using TSMC’s 180nm process. This test ASIC is being fabbed thanks to Imec’s MPW Shuttle Service, Libre-SOC is all about being a hybrid CPU/GPU that’s 100% open-source but obviously not the fastest compared to today’s graphics processors. For achieving the graphics acceleration the plan is basically to use the likes of Mesa’s software OpenGL/Vulkan implementations atop this Power-based chip. # ⚓ This_shield_combines_the_retro_charm_of_Nixie_tubes with_modern_Arduino_Cloud_connectivity_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Nixie tubes are fun little devices that act like seven-segment display modules in that they can be lined up together in order to form a larger number by showing digits 0 through 9. One maker, Marcin Saj, has created a unique project that uses a series of six Nixie tubes that can show the current time, temperature, and humidity all within a compact footprint. It is also able to receive commands via the Arduino Cloud service and an Alexa skill, thus enabling users to toggle various functions on or off with a smart speaker or phone. # ⚓ Reverse_engineering_the_SDK_for_BL602_RISC-V_WiFi_& BLE_microcontroller_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Bouffalo Lab BL602, and its big brother BL604 with extra GPIOs, are RISC-V microcontrollers with WiFi and Bluetooth LE that offer an alternative to Espressif Systems ESP32 WiSoC, although it has been joined with Espressif’s own RISC-V solution with ESP32-C3. Soon after the “announcement” in October 2020, we found out the SDK and a relatively cheap BL602 board, but the SDK has many closed-source binaries. Soon after Sipeed and Pine64 expressed their interest in developing an open-source toolchain and even an open- source WiFi (and BLE) stack. Time has passed and even got a Pinecone board in January, but did not do anything with it, especially seeing the status of the software. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_A_10.1_(2019)_is_getting_the Android_11_update_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Redmi_Note_8_Pro:_MIUI_12.5_and_Android_11_rollout for_the_Global_ROM_model_commences_for_Mi_Pilots_– NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_11_is_finally_here_for_the_OnePlus_6/6T_as_an OxygenOS_Open_Beta⠀⇛ # ⚓ Itel_G-Series_43-Inch,_55-Inch_4K_Android_TV_Models Launched_in_India_|_Technology_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_TV:_Blaupunkt_Android_TV:_Blaupunkt_launches four_Android_smart_TVs,_price_starts_at_Rs_14,999_|_– Times_of_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ Philips_55-Inch_8200_Series_Ultra-HD_HDR_LED_Android TV_(55PUT8215/94)_Review:_Mid-Range_Pricing,_Very_Good Performance_|_NDTV_Gadgets_360⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_use_widgets_on_Android_–_Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ Here’s_how_to_backup_and_restore_text_messages_on Android_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_enable_Kids_Space_on_your_Android_tablet_| Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ 6_Things_You_Didn’t_Know_You_Could_Do_With_the Android_Clock_App⠀⇛ # ⚓ 6_great_Android_live_wallpapers_we_think_you’ll_love |_Popular_Science⠀⇛ # ⚓ 10_of_the_Best_Scanner_Apps_for_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_throttled_over_300_Android_apps_to_get_better battery_life_on_its_phones_without_telling_users_|_The Independent⠀⇛ # ⚓ Test_Your_Android_Phone’s_Water_Resistance_With_This Handy_App⠀⇛ # ⚓ HarmonyOS_rivals_Android_–_Daily_Monitor⠀⇛ # ⚓ Qualcomm’s_Smartphone_for_Snapdragon_Insiders_is_a pure_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Onyx_Boox_Note_Air_Review:_an_E-Reader_That’s_Also_a Full_Android_Tablet⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pokémon_GO_Android_Players_Get_Free_Items_&_YouTube Premium⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenUK’s_latest_report_paints_a_rosy_picture_of_open_source adoption⠀⇛ OpenUK has released the second of its three-part probe into the state of open source in Britain, finding that an overwhelming majority of businesses use the wares – but noticeably fewer are willing to contribute code back. “The first of its kind, this report makes visible the current business adoption of open source software in the UK and provides a baseline of what will be an annual review – to capture the growth, shifts and changes of open source software use in the UK in the coming years,” claimed Jennifer Barth, PhD, founder of consultancy firm Smoothmedia and the leader of the research which led to the report. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # ⚓ The_best_browser_for_Linux,_Windows_and_Mac_isn’t Google_Chrome_–_TechRepublic [Ed: Jack Wallen tells people to use proprietary software as a Web browser]⠀⇛ A couple of months ago, I finally left Opera as my default browser on Linux. That was a hard sell because the Opera Workspaces feature was something I didn’t think I could leave behind. And yet, the load the browser placed on my machine (especially when using Google Docs) was too big an issue to ignore. I’d be working along, minding my own business, when all of a sudden Opera would bring the desktop to a grinding halt. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla_Performance_Blog:_Performance_Tools Newsletter_(H1_2021)⠀⇛ As the Perf-Tools team, we are responsible for the Firefox Profiler. This tool is built directly into Firefox to understand the program runtime and analyze it to make it faster. If you are not familiar with it, I would recommend looking at our user documentation. If you are curious about the profiler but not sure how to get to know it, I’ve also given a FOSDEM talk about using the Firefox Profiler for web performance analysis this year. If you are new to this tool, you can check it out there. During our talks with the people who use the Firefox Profiler frequently, we realized that new features can be too subtle to notice or easily overlooked. So we’ve decided to prepare this newsletter to let you know about the new features and the improvements that we’ve made in the past 6 months. That way, you can continue to use it to its full potential! # ⚓ Mozilla_publishes_policy_recommendations_for_EU Digital_Markets_Act⠀⇛ As the Digital Markets Act (DMA) progresses through the legislative mark-up phase, we’re today publishing our policy recommendations on how lawmakers in the European Parliament and EU Council should amend it. We welcomed the publication of the DMA in December 2020, and we believe that a vibrant and open internet depends on fair conditions, open standards, and opportunities for a diversity of market participants. With targeted improvements and effective enforcement, we believe the DMA could help restore the internet to be the universal platform where any company can advertise itself and offer its services, any developer can write code and collaborate with others to create new technologies on a fair playing field, and any consumer can navigate information, use critical online services, connect with others, find entertainment, and improve their livelihood # ⚓ Firefox_extends_privacy_and_security_of Canadian_internet_users_with_by-default_DNS-over- HTTPS_rollout_in_Canada⠀⇛ In a few weeks, Firefox will start the by-default rollout of DNS over HTTPS (or DoH for short) to its Canadian users in partnership with local DoH provider CIRA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. DoH will first become a default for 1% of Canadian Firefox users on July 20 and will gradually reach 100% of Canadian Firefox users in late September 2021 – thereby further increasing their security and privacy online. This follows the by-default rollout of DoH to US users in February 2020. As part of the rollout, CIRA joins Mozilla’s Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Program and becomes the first internet registration authority and the first Canadian organization to provide Canadian Firefox users with private and secure encrypted Domain Name System (DNS) services. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ GSoC_21_Projects_mentored_by_Collabora_for LibreOffice⠀⇛ Summer is synonymous with the opportunity to participate in beautiful projects. Let’s look at the students who work in improving LibreOffice during the Google Summer of Code. This year, four of the approved GSoC projects for the LibreOffice community are mentored by Collabora developers. Find out about the improvements they are currently implementing! # § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ “Freedom_ladder”_IRC_discussion_and_brainstorming: July_22⠀⇛ # ⚓ “Freedom_ladder”_IRC_discussion_and_brainstorming: July_22⠀⇛ # ⚓ “Freedom_ladder”_IRC_discussion_and_brainstorming: August_05⠀⇛ # ⚓ “Freedom_ladder”_IRC_discussion_and_brainstorming: July_15⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF_Blogs:_June_GNU_Spotlight_with_Mike_Gerwitz:_17 new_GNU_releases!⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_journey_begins_with_a_single_step:_climb_the freedom_ladder⠀⇛ The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the most uncompromising nonprofit leader working for software freedom. For years, people have described the FSF’s community of staff, volunteers, and contributors as being the “lighthouse” others use to find their way to software freedom, and we take that responsibility seriously. Swapping out one set of programs you use for another set may not seem like that much of a challenge, but those who bend over backwards to avoid nonfree software even in the form of nonfree JavaScript can tell you how many roadblocks there are along the way to software freedom; a cursory examination of the programs the average person depends on can show how deeply nonfree software has seeped into daily life. We will never stop aiming to be that “lighthouse.” At the same time, we recognize that a stance like ours can sometimes be a deterrent to people making important incremental improvements in their practices. For years, we’ve been holding the principled finish line, and we’ll continue to do so. Now, we’re developing an actionable set of steps to help support individuals in making the step-by-step improvements that they can. By supporting them in taking a step at a time, we’re confident that we can help bring more people to a fully free setup than ever before. We’re calling this campaign the “freedom ladder,” and we need your support to help others begin climbing it. In the free software community, we sometimes use the term “throwing over the wall” to describe when a person or group releases a program as free software, but doesn’t provide any insight into its development. While this is absolutely better than releasing the software as proprietary, it forgoes opportunities for engagement and collaboration. We don’t want our advocacy to be this way, and want to involve you as much as we can. From the first day that we began formulating the concept, we knew that we were going to need the help of the community in getting it right. Each of the fourteen members on the FSF staff came to free software in a different way, and we are all still at different places on the freedom ladder. While comparing our experiences has been instructive, we know that it’s nowhere near exhaustive. Maybe you’ve already “arrived” at the combination of a fully free operating system and BIOS, or maybe you’re still on Windows but have started to use LibreOffice. Either way, we need your participation. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Write_good_examples_by_starting_with_real_code⠀⇛ When I write about programming, I spend a lot of time trying to come up with good examples. I haven’t seen a lot written about how to make examples, so here’s a little bit about my approach to writing examples! The basic idea here is to start with real code that you wrote and then remove irrelevant details to make it into a self- contained example instead of coming up with examples out of thin air. I’ll talk about two kinds of examples: realistic examples and suprising examples. [...] The example I just gave of explaining how to use sort with lambda is pretty simple and it didn’t take me a long time to come up with, but turning real code into a standalone example can take a really long time! For example, I was thinking of including an example of some weird CSS behaviour in this post to illustrate how it’s fun to create examples with weird or surprising behaviour. I spent 2 hours taking a real problem I had this week, making sure I understood what was actually happening with the CSS, and making it into a minimal example. In the end it “just” took 5 lines of HTML and a tiny bit of CSS to demonstrate the problem and it doesn’t really look like it took hours to write. But originally it was hundreds of lines of JS/CSS/JavaScript, and it takes time to untangle all that and come up with something small that gets at the heart of the issue! # ⚓ Jussi_Pakkanen:_A_followup_to_the_Refterm_blog_post⠀⇛ My previous blog post was about some measurements I made to Refterm. It got talked about on certain places on the net from where it got to Twitter. Then Twitter did the thing it always does, which is to make everything terrible. For example I got dozens of comments saying that I was incompetent, an idiot, a troll and even a Microsoft employee. All comments on this blog are manually screened but this was the only time when I just had to block them all. Going through those replies seemed to indicate that absolutely everyone involved [1] had bad communication and also misunderstood most other people involved. Thus I felt compelled to write a followup explaining what the blog post was and was not about. Hopefully this will bring the discussion down to a more civilized footing. [...] I pondered for a while whether I should mention the memcpy thing and now I really wish I hadn’t. But not for the reasons you might think. The big blunder I did was to mention SIMD by name, because the issue was not really about SIMD. The compiler does convert the loop to SIMD automatically. I don’t have a good reference, but I have been told that Google devs have measured that 1% of all CPU usage over their entire fleet of computers is spent on memcpy. They have spent massive amounts of time and resources on improving its performance. At least as late as 2013, performance optimizing memcpy was still subject to fundamental research (or software patents at least). For reference here is the the code for the glibc version of memcpy, which seems to be doing some special tricks. If this is the case and the VS stdlib provides a really fast memcpy then rolling your own does cause a performance hit (though in this particular case the difference is probably minimal, possibly even lost in the noise). On the other hand it might be that VS can already optimize the simple version to the optimal code in which case the outcome is the same for both approaches. I don’t know what actually happens and finding out for sure would require its own set of tests and benchmarks. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Maxim_Burgerhout:_Fish,_bash,_zsh⠀⇛ Over the last year, I’ve been using fish as my shell on Linux. Before that, I have tried both zsh (with and without oh-my-zsh) and bash. For bash, I wrote my own configuration framework, which – let’s be real – everyone needs to do and probably has done at some point. Last week, I decided to switch back from fish to bash. This blog is the story why I did that and what I’m using now. I might look into zsh again at some point, but not now. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ This_Week_in_Rust_398⠀⇛ # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ 3_reasons_Quarkus_2.0_improves_developer productivity_on_Linux_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ No matter how long you work as an application developer and no matter what programming language you use, you probably still struggle to increase your development productivity. Additionally, new paradigms, including cloud computing, DevOps, and test- driven development, have significantly accelerated the development lifecycle for individual developers and multifunctional teams. You might think open source tools could help fix this problem, but I’d say many open source development frameworks and tools for coding, building, and testing make these challenges worse. Also, it’s not easy to find appropriate Kubernetes development tools to install on Linux distributions due to system dependencies and support restrictions. Fortunately, you can increase development productivity on Linux with Quarkus, a Kubernetes-native Java stack. Quarkus 2.0 was released recently with useful new features for testing in the developer console. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Pentagon_kills_Microsoft’s_$10B_JEDI_cloud_contract, says_tech_is_now_outdated_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ Amazon’s legal stall tactics seem to have paid off. # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Open_3D_Foundation_Aims_to_Accelerate Game_Technology_Development⠀⇛ The Open 3D Foundation, recently formed by the Linux Foundation, aims to accelerate developer collaboration and support open source projects related to 3D graphics rendering and development. # ⚓ Linux_Foundation_forms_new_Open_3D Foundation_to_accelerate_game_development⠀⇛ The nonprofit Linux Foundation announce they are currently in the process of forming the Open 3D Foundation to accelerate developer collaboration on 3D game and simulation technology. The Open 3D Foundation is being created to support open source projects that advance capabilities related to 3D graphics, rendering, authoring, and development. Amazon Web Services, Inc. is also making available an updated version of the Amazon Lumberyard game engine as the Open 3D Engine (O3DE), under the permissive Apache 2.0 license The Open 3D Foundation and Open 3D Engine Project will enable developers to collaborate on building games and simulations as well as the AWS engine. # ⚓ Lessons_in_openness_from_Japan’s “business_reinvention”⠀⇛ In The Business Reinvention of Japan, Ulrike Schaede explores Japan’s approach to economic development in the late 20th and early 21st century. Her thesis is that this approach—what she calls an “aggregate niche strategy”—offers important lessons for the West by balancing the pursuit of corporate profit with social stability, economic equality, and social responsibility and sustainability. It’s also a case study in the power of open organization principles, which come to life in Schaede’s account. I would argue that Japan’s “aggregate niche strategy” was successful, in part, because of them. # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubernetes_Exam_Simulator_Available Now_to_All_Those_With_Valid Eligibilities⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Thursday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by CentOS (linuxptp), Fedora (kernel and php), Gentoo (bladeenc, blktrace, jinja, mechanize, privoxy, and rclone), Oracle (linuxptp, ruby:2.6, and ruby: 2.7), Red Hat (kernel and kpatch- patch), SUSE (kubevirt), and Ubuntu (avahi). # ⚓ REvil_victims_are_refusing_to_pay_after_flawed Kaseya_ransomware_attack [Ed: Well, they should quit Windows. Microsoft-connected sites googlebomb "Linux" to distract from this; they associate ransom with Linux.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Windows_security_update_KB5004945_breaks printing_on_Zebra_printers⠀⇛ # § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/ Dramatisation⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux-based_Malware_Requires_Linux Focused_Cybersecurity_Strategy_– Infosecurity_Magazine [Ed: This typically has nothing to do with "Linux"; users just install malicious programs]⠀⇛ Trend Micro’s Erin Sindelar considers the Linux-focused cybersecrity strategy needed to tackle an increase in Linux-based malware o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ EPO’s_G1_/21_videoconf_hearing_ends_on_a_cliffhanger [Ed: Totally_and_entirely_rigged_case. World Intellectual Property Review still issuing EPO fluff/ puff pieces.]⠀⇛ Last week’s European Patent Office hearing into the legality of oral proceedings by video conference faced technical issues of its own, as Douglas Drysdale and Ellie Purnell of HGF discovered. The second round of oral proceedings in case G1/21, held on Friday 2 July, have concluded, but European Patent Office (EPO) users and interested parties around the world will have to wait for the decision in writing to find out the result. The chair of the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) announced in the early afternoon that the board had heard enough from both the appellant and the representatives for the president of the EPO to deliberate the matter and take a decision in due course. # ⚓ UK_Supreme_Court_quashes_£220_million_third-party lawsuit_against_patent_litigant⠀⇛ Pharma rights holders in the UK will be relieved that the NHS has failed to overturn rules barring third parties from seeking compensation for losses resulting from the enforcement of patents later invalidated # ⚓ Legislative_Intent_Trumps_Legitimate_Interest:_EPO Confirms_Double_Patenting_As_A_Ground_For_Refusal [Ed: Well, the Enlarged Board of Appeal is stacked; until this is addressed, any decision issued is suspect]⠀⇛ In a long awaited decision, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (“EBA”) of the European patent Office (“EPO”) confirmed that a European patent application can be refused on the basis of double patenting under Articles 97 (2) and 125 EPC, if a patent with the same effective date has already been granted for the same subject matter. The decision revises the position previously taken by the Boards of Appeal that it is the application date-and not the effective date-that is relevant for the purpose of double patenting assessment. Absent any direct legal provision in the European Patent Convention (“EPC”), it has been an established practice at the EPO to raise a double patenting objection in applications sharing the application date with patents granted to the applicant for identical subject matter. This situation would commonly arise in divisional applications. However, a patent granted from a priority application would not trigger double patenting because a longer protection afforded by the follow-up patent would justify an applicant’s legitimate interest in having two patents. See our March 2019 Alert, Extension of Protection for Up to One Year Possible?” In the referral case T 318/14, the Board of Appeal asked the EBA to clarify the legal basis in the EPC for refusing an application on the ground of double patenting. The EBA was also asked whether the double patenting prohibition equally applies to all three cases, namely, (i) two separate applications having the same application date; (ii) parent and divisional applications; and (iii) a second application claiming priority from a first application-so-called “internal priority.” In its decision G 4/19, the EBA goes to great length to analyze the original legislative intent in view of the preparatory documents of the EPC as well as the national provisions. The EBA concludes that Article 125 EPC obliges the EPO to abide by generally recognized principle of procedural law such as the prohibition of double patenting. According to the EBA, it was the legislator’s intent to apply this principle to all three cases mentioned above, regardless of whether there is a legitimate interest in a second patent. Thus, contrary to previous case law, an applicant will no longer be able to pursue a follow-up application, if the priority application has already matured into a patent directed to the same subject matter. # ⚓ European_patent_litigation_makes_Oppo_an_EPO opposition_target [Ed: When so many invalid patents are being granted becoming litigious is a risk]⠀⇛ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2800 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.08.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_8/7/2021:_pfSense_CE_2.5.2_Released,_Cockpit_248,_and_Linux_Mint_20.2 “Uma”_Officially_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 9:10 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Open_Policy_Agent_0.30_lands,_irons_out_some_kinks_• DEVCLASS⠀⇛ The team behind general-purpose policy engine Open Policy Agent (OPA) has pushed out version 0.30 (and 0.30.1 to make it run correctly) of the project, which should help provide a more secure setup and relax things for those using OPA in edge scenarios. The Open Policy Agent was originally developed by cloud native tooling vendor Styra in a bid to provide a unified way of enforcing policies in microservices, pipelines, Kubernetes and more. In February 2021, it was welcomed into the realms of CNCF graduated projects, a status shared with widely used tools like Prometheus and Kubernetes. Users are said to include Netflix and Chef. # ⚓ Profile:_Cloud-native_storage_speed_and_enterprise_smarts key_for_StorageOS [Ed: A pool of buzzwords]⠀⇛ Croome is a specialist in agile delivery of Unix infrastructure and DevOps concepts, and led global engineering teams at Fidelity and Nomura. # ⚓ 10_Factors_Behind_the_Popularity_of_Microservices:_Part_1⠀⇛ Andy Oram explores various computing trends that make microservices today’s architecture of choice. Microservices are the hottest design concept in programming today. The concept is not new: they basically carry out the principle of modularity taught to programmers over the past several decades. But microservices take modularity to a new height and thereby satisfy many needs of modern application developers. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Noodlings_29_|_Transient_State⠀⇛ Due to a variety of recent changes to that network, the openSUSE Project is moving our IRC communications to Libera.Chat. # ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_637:_Open_Source_Web_Radio_with_AzuraCast_– Buster_Neece⠀⇛ Buster Neece, lead developer of AzuraCasts joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to talk online radio in the open source community and more. AzuraCast is “web radio in a box” that has an intuitive design and meticulous attention to detail for a great user experience. Neece also shares troubling fallout around the updated Audacity terms of service which lead the community to believe Audacity is becoming spyware. It’s a great discussion on FLOSS Weekly. # ⚓ Linux_in_the_Ham_Shack_Episode_#420:_No_No_Jar_Jar⠀⇛ Hello and welcome to the 420th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em! In this episode the hosts discuss Youths on the Air 2021, the FCC and 5cm, the reopening of ARRL HQ, satellites made of plywood, the Linux 5.13 kernel, a new version of Mixxx and much more. We hope you enjoy this episode and have a great week. # ⚓ BSDNow_410:_OpenBSD_Consumer_Gateway⠀⇛ Open Source and Blogging Bubbles, Building Customized FreeBSD Images, Updating Minecraft in FreeBSD, Upgrading FreeBSD jails using mkjail, Dragonfly 6.0 Performance benchmark, OpenBSD Consumer Gateway Launch, and more. # ⚓ The_Linux_Link_Tech_Show_Episode_913⠀⇛ Laptop end to the woes, audacity, ardour, home automation o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ The_initramfs_for_old_kernels_can_hide_old_versions_of things⠀⇛ In short, what looks like an issue in the new kernel may actually be a change in the new initramfs that you get along with the new kernel. It’s hard to tell for sure, although you can try rebuilding the initramfs for an older kernel if you can work out how to do this correctly. Of course, if you do rebuild an initramfs for an old kernel to see if it’s really the kernel that’s at fault, you definitely want to save a copy of your working old initramfs. # ⚓ Systemd_249_Released_With_New_Option_For_Simple_Whole-File- System_A/B_Updates⠀⇛ Systemd 249 has been promoted to stable as the newest version of this Linux init system. Systemd 249 brings plenty of changes as usual with new systemd releases. One of the notable changes is around being able to carry out whole-file-system A/ B updates. As explained in the change-log, “When operating on disk images via the –image= switch of various tools (such as systemd-nspawn or systemd- dissect), or when udev finds no ‘root=’ parameter on the kernel command line, and multiple suitable root or /usr/ partitions exist in the image, then a simple comparison inspired by strverscmp() is done on the GPT partition label, and the newest partition is picked. This permits a simple and generic whole-file-system A/B update logic where new operating system versions are dropped into partitions whose label is then updated with a matching version identifier.” # ⚓ Samsung_Posts_Newest_“KSMBD”_Linux_Patches_For_In-Kernel SMB3_Server_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ For quite a while now Samsung engineers have been developing an in-kernel SMB3 file sharing server for the Linux kernel. In recent months that code has been maturing more and now the latest version of this KSMBD kernel code has been published. Out now is the fifth round of these patches for KSMBD (previously as “CIFSD” within the kernel) for implementing an in-kernel SMB3 server. The focus remains on being able to deliver optimal performance and supporting more features like RDMA integration compared to what can be implemented efficiently in user-space with the likes of Samba. # ⚓ Linux_5.14_Now_Handles_The_Microsoft_Xbox_One_Select/Share Button_On_Its_Controllers_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ The Linux 5.14 input subsystem updates have landed with new hardware support and other changes. The Linux 5.14 input updates aren’t the most exciting but a few highlights worth mentioning include: - The “qwiic-joystick” driver has been added for supporting the SparkFun Qwiic. This is a ~10$ USD open-source joystick for DIY electronics projects. This open-source hardware now has an open-source driver in the mainline kernel. # ⚓ Linux_5.13_with_intrusion_protection_and_sandbox [Ed: Automated translation]⠀⇛ After seven release candidates, Linus Torvalds decided to release the Linux kernel 5.13. The week after rc7 was pretty quiet, which led him to no longer hold back Linux 5.13. With more than 17,000 commits including merges, it is one of the largest releases in the 5.x series. Over 2000 developers contributed to the release. Nevertheless, Torvalds reassured in his release note that, despite its size, there was nothing really “outstandingly unusual” about it. He suspects the size increase in the extra week of the rc8 from Linux 5.12, which delayed the merge window from 5.13. Between the lines this means that additional patches and merges have built up due to this extra week. These have now also been incorporated into Linux 5.13. # ⚓ Spectre_revisits_BPF⠀⇛ It has been well over three years now since the Spectre hardware vulnerabilities were disclosed, but Spectre is truly a gift that keeps on giving. Writing correct and secure code is hard enough when the hardware behaves in predictable ways; the problem gets far worse when processors can do random and crazy things. For an illustration of the challenges involved, one need look no further than the BPF vulnerability described in this advisory, which was fixed in the 5.13-rc7 release. Attacks on Spectre vulnerabilities generally rely on convincing the processor to execute, in a speculative mode, a sequence of operations that cannot happen in real execution. A classic example is an out-of-range array reference, even though the code performs a proper bounds check. The erroneous access will be backed out once the processor figures out that it mispredicted the result of the bounds check, but the speculative access will leave traces in the memory caches that can be used to exfiltrate data. The BPF virtual machine has always been an area of special concern when it comes to defending against speculative-execution attacks. Most such attacks rely on finding a fragment of kernel code that can be made to do surprising things when the CPU is executing speculatively; kernel developers duly have made a concerted effort to eliminate such fragments. But BPF exists to enable the loading of code from user space that runs within the kernel context; that allows attackers to craft their own code fragments and avoid the tedious task of combing through the kernel code. Much work has been done in the BPF community to frustrate those attackers. For example, array indexes are ANDed with a bitmask so that they cannot reach outside of the array even speculatively, regardless of what value they may contain. But it can be hard to anticipate every case where the processor may do something surprising. # ⚓ Suppressing_SIGBUS_signals⠀⇛ The mmap() system call creates a mapping for a range of virtual addresses; it has a long list of options controlling just how that mapping should work. Ming Lin is proposing the addition of yet another option, called MAP_NOSIGBUS, which changes the kernel’s response when a process accesses an unmapped address. What this option does is relatively easy to understand; why it is useful takes a bit more explanation. Normally, when a process performs an operation involving memory, it expects the desired data to be read from or written to the requested location. Sometimes, though, things can go wrong, resulting in the delivery of a fatal (by default) signal to the process. A “segmentation violation” (SIGSEGV) signal is generated in response to an attempt to access a valid memory address in a way that is contrary to its protection — writing to read-only memory, for example. Attempting to access an address that is invalid, instead, results in a “bus error” (SIGBUS). Bus errors can be provoked in a number of ways, including using an improperly aligned address or an address that is not mapped at all. If a process uses mmap() to create a mapping that extends beyond the end of the backing file, attempts to access the pages past the end of the file will result in SIGBUS signals. If, however, a memory range has been mapped with the proposed MAP_NOSIGBUS flag, SIGBUS signals will no longer be generated in response to an invalid address that lies within the mapped area. Instead, the guilty process will get a new page filled with zeroes. If the mapped area is backed up by a file on disk, the new page will not be added to that file. To a first approximation, the new option simply makes SIGBUS signals go away, with the process never even knowing that it had tried to access an invalid address. # ⚓ Some_5.13_development_statistics⠀⇛ As expected, the 5.13 development cycle turned out to be a busy one, with 16,030 non-merge changesets being pulled into the mainline over a period of nine weeks. The 5.13 release happened on June 27, meaning that it must be time for our traditional look at the provenance of the code that was merged for this kernel. In terms of changeset counts, 5.13 was not the busiest development cycle ever; that record still belongs to 5.8, with 16,306 changesets merged; indeed, 5.10 (16,174) was also busier. But 5.13 did set a record by including the work of 2,062 developers — the first time more than 2,000 developers have participated in a single release cycle. Of those developers, 329 contributed their first patch to the kernel in this cycle, a number that just matches the previous record set by 4.12. # ⚓ Fedora_Magazine:_Contribute_to_Fedora_Linux_Kernel_5.13 Test_Week⠀⇛ The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.13. This version was recently released and will arrive soon in Fedora. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday, July 11, 2021 through Sunday, July 18, 2021. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Read below for details. # ⚓ ACPI_CPPC_CPUFreq_Will_Try_Frequency_Invariance_Again_For Linux_5.14_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Frequency invariance support for the ACPI CPPC CPUFreq driver originally landed in Linux 5.13 but was reverted late in the cycle due to problems (possible kernel oops) while now that’s been cleaned up and is trying again for Linux 5.14 with this functionality striving for more accurate load tracking. Linux frequency invariance support has been a hot topic with various drivers / kernel code seeing adaptations by different vendors. Fundamentally the frequency invariance is about addressing the issue of tasks appearing larger if the CPU is running slower so the frequency invariance takes into account the current frequency (or performance state) relative to the maximum possible frequency (or maximum performance state). What’s new for Linux 5.14 (after being dropped in 5.13) is the ACPI CPPC (Collaborative Processor Performance Control) CPUFreq driver now having frequency invariance support. # ⚓ Google_pauses_Chrome_OS_update,_breaks_Linux_container⠀⇛ Last week, Google rolled out an incremental update to Chrome OS 91 and it didn’t take long for numerous users to start reporting a serious bug that was crippling the CPU and a number of Chromebooks. The bug report, now triaged, has been updated from priority 3 to priority 1 which is the second-highest level that can be given to a but. Priority 0 is normally reserved for bugs that expose serious security issues or completely bork system functionalities. While the bug has been acknowledged by Google and its developers, it is still unclear as to what is causing the issue or how far out we are from a fix. # ⚓ F2FS_Brings_Compression_Improvements_To_Linux_5.14_– Phoronix⠀⇛ The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) continues seeing new features and improvements to this file- system that is increasingly used by Android devices and other flash/SSD-focused systems. F2FS for this new kernel has a compress_cache feature to improve random read performance. The compress_cache mount option allows using the address space of an inner inode to cache the compressed block to improve the cache hit ratio for random reads. Also on the compression front is allowing compression for mmap files. This is part of the F2FS developers continuing to make optimizations with Android in mind. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Intel’s_Mesa_Drivers_Using_The_IGC_Compiler_Delayed [⠀⇛ Last summer I wrote about Intel prototyping their Mesa drivers to use the IGC compiler, which followed Intel transitioning their Windows driver to use this compiler that was originally written for their open-source Linux compute stack. While they were making good progress last year on having their Mesa drivers use the IGC compiler, the project has been pushed back. [...] After word got out that Intel was interested in using IGC in Mesa, it drew some criticism from various Mesa developers over those prospects. # ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Gratitude⠀⇛ This is going to be less of a technical post and more of a have you thought about post from me personally (usual disclaimer: this post represents only my views). With that said, I think this is more important than the average post here, meaning that expectations should be set somewhere between I need to stop everything else I’m doing until I finish reading and this is the most important event in my life. Let’s talk about open source. No, Open Source. The idea of it. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Audacity_fork_maintainer_quits_after_alleged_harassment_by 4chan_losers_who_took_issue_with_‘Tenacity’_name⠀⇛ Efforts to wrest control of the open-source Audacity audio editing project from corporate owner Muse Group have hit a stumbling block after the maintainer of one of the more popular forks stepped down over alleged physical harassment. The trouble began when the two-decade-old Audacity project was acquired by Muse Group in May, a freshly launched parent company holding commercial services Ultimate Guitar, MuseScore, and others. Audacity seemed like a natural enough fit, and new maintainer Martin “Tantacrul” Keary promised it would remain both free and open source. # ⚓ What_Does_It_Mean_When_Software_Is_Forked?⠀⇛ Software is forked when a rift occurs within its developing team, which could be due to differences of opinion regarding the project’s direction or personality clashes. A faction or member of the development team will then take the program’s source code and start independent development under a different name, approach, and direction. So, even though a fork is based on its parent software’s source code, it is a new and independent project in its own right. Because it’s hard to legally secure the rights to a propriety software source code, forking occurs almost exclusively within the free software development world. This type of software’s “open source” nature also means that any user is within their rights to use, study, change, and distribute both it and its source code. # ⚓ Cockpit_248⠀⇛ Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. # ⚓ PostgreSQL_JDBC_42.2.23_Released⠀⇛ getColumnPrecision for Numeric when scale and precision not specified now returns 0 instead of 131089 fixes: Issue #2188 – Calling refreshRow on an updateable resultset made the row readOnly. Fixes Issue #2193 – results should be updateable if there is a unique index available PR#2199 Fixes Issue #2196 – Rework sql type gathering to use OID instead of typname. This does not have the issue of name shadowing / qual-names, and has the added benefit of fixing #1948. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_Fix_Buzzing_Sound_from_Speakers_on_Arch_Linux_with Intel_Chipset_–_Fasterland⠀⇛ Every time I make a new install of Arch Linux on my Intel laptop, I notice a disturbing and annoying buzzing sound coming from my external speakers a few seconds after a playback is starter and then stopped. This is a common problem and the cause is a power saving feature on the Linux Kernel. # ⚓ How_to_Create_an_Integrated_Application_Launcher_For_an Appimage_file_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a custom application launcher for an appimage in the Gnome Desktop Environment in Ubuntu. Although we are focusing on Ubuntu for this tutorial, this method should also work in other distributions that use the Gnome Desktop Environment and may also be useful reading for those using other Desktop Environments as some parts are still applicable. # ⚓ How_to_install_LibreOffice_7.1_on_Linux_Lite_5.4⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install LibreOffice 7.1 on Linux Lite 5.4. # ⚓ How_to_install_Natron_on_a_Chromebook_in_2021⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Natron on a Chromebook in 2021. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ Pablo_Iranzo_Gómez:_imapfilter_for_Gmail⠀⇛ Until two weeks ago I was using an IMAP server (based on Zimbra) for my work email, but the date for migration to Gmail arrived with no choice to postpone… # ⚓ How_To_Install_Emacs_Editor_on_Linux_Mint_20_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Emacs Editor on Linux Mint 20. For those of you who didn’t know, Emacs is a very useful plus feature- rich text editor that may be used across multiple various platforms. Emacs can also be used for coding purposes with support for programming languages like java, c++, and python. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Emacs customizable text editor on a Linux Mint 20 (Ulyana). # ⚓ What_is_PaaS?_Platform-as-a-Service_Types_Explained_| RoseHosting⠀⇛ It is a cloud service model where developers rent all-powerful components required to build an application, thereby relying on cloud providers for infrastructure, operating systems and development tools. This model greatly simplifies your entire process of web application development, especially for developers as it reduces the complexity of backend management. # ⚓ The_Sysctl_Command_in_Linux_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ In this tutorial we’ll learn the fundamentals of the sysctl command. To start off, have you wondered how an operating system can use the hardware on which it is running? It’s the kernel that acts as an interface between an operating system and the hardware. It enables the communication between both entities and is part of the operating system that runs on the hardware. A user, however, does not interact with the kernel but rather works in a limited space to manage files and execute programs. So, for example, does Ubuntu have a kernel? Yes, it does. We can also make certain modifications to the kernel using the sysctl command, which is this article’s focus. Let’s proceed to take a look at this concept. # ⚓ How_to_Use_the_Grep_Command_in_Linux_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we’ll cover how to use grep command along with its various parameters. I’ll be using Ubuntu 20.04 for examples, but the grep command should work the same in all Linux distros. The grep command in Linux is used to search for a text pattern in a file or in a set of files. It can be used to search in a set of files for a particular pattern and to display the found lines. It can also be used to match text patterns in command line output. For a concrete example of this you can check the Mixing the grep Command with Other Commands section of this article. Note: Even though there’s slim chance that the grep command is not installed on the distro you’re using, you should to install it using your distribution’s package manager. Let’s proceed to take a look at the grep command. # ⚓ What_to_do_when_2FA_won’t_allow_you_into_your_Linux_servers –_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Recently, I had an incident where a two-factor authentication-enabled Linux server wouldn’t allow me in via SSH. Fortunately, I had physical access to the server, so it wasn’t a complete disaster. Had I not been able to log into the machine on site, I would have had to count on someone on- premise to take care of the situation. In some cases, that would not do. # ⚓ Top_Linux_commands_for_system_administrators_|_FOSS_Linux⠀⇛ Linux operating systems offer countless sysadmin commands and utilities, which help users, developers, and engineers with system administration tasks. For example, sysadmin commands and packages can help users optimize or manage applications and provide valuable troubleshooting information to network admins or sysadmins. These commands apply to Linux development environments, VMs, containers, and bare metal. # ⚓ [Short_Tip]_Doing_for-loops_in_Nushell⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Install_Glances_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Glances on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Glances is a real-time system monitoring tool written in Python language. It monitors system resources, including CPU, Memory, Load, Disk I/O, Processes, File System space, Network interface, and more. Glances present a maximum of information in a minimum of space through a curse or web-based interface. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Glances system monitoring tool on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ How_to_install_Steam_on_Rocky_Linux⠀⇛ Just a few short days ago – well, no, technically it’s summertime, unless you’re on the wrong side of the disc, so the days are long – I tested Rocky Linux, then subsequently wrote a guide on how to turn it into a perfect desktop, and therein noted one big omission. Steam. My desktop enhancement article did not have any instructions for this gaming platform. The reason is, at the time of my testing and writing, it was near impossible installing Steam on Rocky. But it can be done, if you’re diligent enough. Now, let me show you how. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Linux_Mint’s_New_‘Bulky’_File_Renamer_in Ubuntu_20.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Linux Mint introduced a new batch file renamer app ‘Bulky’ in the upcoming 20.2 release. Here’s how you can install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04. Bulky is a simple and elegant tool for renaming multiple files and folders in Linux. It’s a free and open-source tool developed by Linux Mint team. With Bulky Renamer, you can find and replace file / folder names with regular expression support, while preview the changes under ‘New name’ section before clicking “Rename” button. # ⚓ Is_your_Ubuntu_a_32-bit_or_a_64-bit_OS?⠀⇛ As a Linux user, knowing whether you’re running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Ubuntu on your machine might be useful at times. The topic of how to determine the flavor of your operating system (OS) as well as the architecture of the underlying CPU emerges. # ⚓ Best_5_commands_to_check_HostName_in_Linux_|_Linux_Today⠀⇛ This quick tutorial from 2DayGeek will show you how to check the hostname using different commands in Linux. # ⚓ Linux_101:_How_to_find_drive_space_usage_from_the_command line_–_TechRepublic⠀⇛ If you need to know how much space remains on those drives connected to your server, the information is but a quick command away. Jack Wallen shows you how. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Total_War:_WARHAMMER_II_–_The_Silence_&_The_Fury_releases soon_as_the_last_DLC_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Total War: WARHAMMER II – The Silence & The Fury is now firmly set to be the last DLC for the very popular strategy game from Creative Assembly, SEGA and porter Feral Interactive. A release date as announced recently as July 14, although Feral Interactive previously stated it would arrive for Linux (and macOS) sometime “shortly” after the release for Windows. It’s shaping up to be a pretty big DLC and an accompanying free update will also arrive at the same time. # ⚓ The_‘Big_Balance_Update’_is_out_now_for_Warzone_2100_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ After many years of upgrades for the free and open source Warzone 2100, the team hacking away at the code have issued a fresh update to focus on balancing issues. Info: Warzone 2100 was originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive and was release in 1999, much later it was open sourced in 2004 and the legacy of it continues on as a completely free game. To this day it’s still one of the most innovative RTS games around. Something that often needs to be address in many competitive games, balancing is a difficult thing to do with so many different pieces and especially so for a strategy game with so many ways to play it. # ⚓ The_fab_Death_Trash_will_be_releasing_on_GOG_in_addition_to Steam_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Death Trash, an upcoming and very impressive open- world RPG is now confirmed to be getting a DRM-free release on GOG when it enters Early Access on August 5. Considering GOG are still quite picky when it comes to what indie games they bring over, often turning them down, it just goes to show how much of a mark Death Trash has made with its recent (and now permanent) demo on Steam. # ⚓ Frogsong_is_an_upcoming_heartfelt_adventure_game_in_the world_of_Frogs_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Ribbit? Frogsong from developer Brandon Braun is an upcoming heartfelt adventure game set in the world of the Frogs and it really does look charming. We actually covered this one back in 2020 and somehow missed that it now has a Kickstarter that’s about to finish. [...] Linux support is confirmed for the full game but not the demo. The Kickstarter campaign ends on July 12 and it just recently managed to hit the CA$25,000 goal. Since it has the funding now, the developer estimated the full release to be in 2022 with two thirds of it already done. # ⚓ The_Pedestrian_on_Linux_|_Ubuntu_20.04_|_Native⠀⇛ The Pedestrian running natively on Linux. # ⚓ Indoorlands_is_a_special_kind_of_theme_park_builder arriving_July_14⠀⇛ Indoorlands from Pixelsplit is an upcoming game about building theme parks. It’s piqued our curiosity due to the idea of everything being inside, and the way you design things. The developer has released two previous games with Virtual Rides 3 – Funfair Simulator and Deadly Days, with both being positively rated (and we quite liked Deadly Days too). With the building system in Indoorlands you place down great big halls, then go inside to design every aspect of them. You can mix and match different themes, place down tons of different decorative objects and entire rides placed inside these huge rooms – it’s called Indoorlands for a reason huh? # ⚓ The_International_10_for_Dota_2_gets_a_new_location_and date⠀⇛ After Valve announced recently that after Sweden decided against allowing it to happen, that they would look elsewhere and they’ve now settled with Bucharest, Romania at the country’s largest stadium — Arena Nationala. The prize pool is massive, the biggest ever for a single e-sports event at $40,018,195 making it a ridiculously huge event. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ pfSense_CE_2.5.2_Released,_With_Some_Challenges_For Early_WireGuard_Adopters⠀⇛ pfSense Community Edition is the open source branch freely available for use, as opposed to pfSense Pro which is the new closed source branch. pfSense CE 2.5.2 has just been released for you packet junkies out there, but as ServeTheHome discovered it may not be a simple upgrade for some. After the release of pfSense 2.5, pfSense and FreeBSD pulled back on kernel WireGuard support which many had been using in conjunction with pfSense. This means that a number of users out there are running a router with an outdated version of Wireguard and that will prevent a happy upgrade to 2.5.2, which returns Wireguard support as an experimental add-in. Upon installing the update, those few brave souls running Wireguard will be faced with error messages stating that all Wireguard interfaces and tunnels must be removed before the installation can succeed. This is inconvenient but as the number of users that will see the message is quite low the decision makes some sense. In order to upgrade the existing version of Wireguard, pfSense would have to put a fair amount of work into testing and development for this patch. This could change thanks to the open source nature of pfSense CE, but ServeTheHome is not holding much hope for that at the moment. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ SUSE_Manager_Now_Supports_Amazon_Linux!_|_SUSE Communities⠀⇛ SUSE Manager 4.2, released two weeks ago, now supports Amazon Linux 2. While that alone is good news already, allow me use this opportunity to give a bit of context: I believe that, in a sense, Open Source Software revolves around choices. By giving you options, SUSE gives you the freedom to choose. Even better if it doesn’t tie you to your choices, but allows you to revert them later with as little friction as possible. And an ideal solution allows you to choose not having to choose in the first place – by allowing all those options to coexist. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ What_is_a_sysadmin?_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ What does the term “sysadmin” or “system administrator” mean to you? What does a sysadmin do? How do you know you are one? Existential questions like this seldom have concrete answers, and the answers that do present themselves can be pretty fluid. The answers are also significantly different for different people and depend upon their work experience. # ⚓ Automating_performance_analysis⠀⇛ As a system administrator, have you ever found yourself in this situation? Your production systems have been humming along nicely when, out of the blue, the phone rings. “What just happened!? Everything slowed to a crawl, but now it’s fine again?” Where to even start? Your systems are complex. There are so many moving parts potentially contributing to the problem that root causes can be anywhere—and worse, they can be transient. There are databases, networked storage, firewalls, applications, JVMs, VMs, containers, kernels, power management, backups, live migrations, database schema changes—and that’s just on your development laptop! It’s even more complex in production datacenters and the cloud, where you’ve got it all operating on large, real-life data sets. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) provides tools that can help. Let’s look at a simple command line technique and tools that will help you as the first responder to a performance emergency—beyond dashboards, beyond top(1) and iostat(1) and pidstat(1) and netstat(1) and vmstat(1) and so on and so forth—to help you to gain deeper understanding and find root causes. # ⚓ Automate_Kubeflow_deployment⠀⇛ Kubeflow is an end-to-end machine learning platform on Kubernetes that provides components and rich features to compose machine learning pipelines. The new release, v1.3, came out recently, and you can deploy the new release on the IBM Kubernetes Service. The deployment involves Kubernetes cluster creation, local environment setup, deployment, and configuration, and if you are not familiar with these operations, they can look intimidating. One mistake in these procedures can lead to a painful debugging, reconfiguration, and even scrap and redo. Don’t worry, we’ve got you. Resources to lower the barrier for you: IBM Cloud Schematics to deploy multi-user Kubeflow v1.3, which integrates with App ID as a login mechanism, and an Auto-Kubeflow repository. # ⚓ Whitehurst,_stepping_down_from_IBM,_wants_to_be_a_CEO again⠀⇛ IBM announced the departure of president Jim Whitehurst last week, with scant details about the decision or the move. Whitehurst, who led Red Hat from December 2007 through the acquisition of the open- source software company in a $34 billion deal with IBM, told Barron’s that he wants another chance to be CEO, but it wasn’t going to happen at IBM. In the Barron’s interview, Whitehurst noted that he, 54, and Krishna, 59, are too close in age for that to work out, adding that he knew his tenure at IBM was likely to be short when the board of directors chose Krishna, a 30-year IBM veteran, as CEO. Whitehurst told Barron’s that he knew that his time at IBM was likely to be short when the board chose the 30-year IBM veteran Krishna as CEO. Whitehurst had been widely considered a candidate to succeed Rometty, and WRAL TechWire’s The Skinny blog had Whitehurst as a top candidate for the role of CEO at the time of the acquisition of Red Hat by IBM. # ⚓ 5_elements_of_servant_leadership⠀⇛ I have had the privilege of building and leading teams inside many organizational cultures. As such, I have observed the varying degrees of effectiveness of many types of cultures – hierarchical, flat, inclusive, fear-inducing, supportive, toxic, and just about every combination of the above. By maintaining attention to the core principles and responsibilities that I sketched out early in my leadership career, I’ve ensured that, regardless of the broader culture, my personal mission and service to my team remains in focus. I would like to share some ideas from those core principles of servant leadership – five essential elements to consider prioritizing in your work with your team. # ⚓ Digital_transformation:_3_post-pandemic_best practices_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ While enterprise executives have been thinking about digital transformation for years, the past 12 months have seen massive acceleration. There is now broad consensus that digital innovation is necessary for survival. But success is far from guaranteed. Past data shows that a majority of companies struggle to make these initiatives a success: A 2019 Everest Group survey reports that 78 percent of enterprises failed to meet the business objectives of their digital transformation. Some of the most common challenges include a lack of buy-in throughout the organization, poor communication, and a flawed long-term roadmap for innovation. More recently, enterprises have been plagued by flawed strategies such as pilot projects, limited rollouts, and other barriers to growth. Time for a reality check. Let’s look at some best practices that can help your organization maximize the potential of your digital transformation. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Proxmox_VE_7.0_surprisingly_with_Debian_11_“testing” as_the_basis⠀⇛ Only a good two months after Proxmox VE 6.4, the makers of the Linux-based open source virtualization platform are postponing version 7.0. With Ceph 16.2 (Pacific) it now supports the current version of the object storage system by default. The predecessor Ceph 15 (Nautilus) can still be used. Debian 11 as a base As with every new major version, the Debian substructure of Proxmox VE also changes – this time from Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 11 (Bullseye). This is surprising because the latter is still in the “testing” phase of the Debian development cycle. So far the Proxmox developers have always based their environment on a Debian version from the current “stable” branch. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_“Uma”_Released._This_is_What’s_New⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 Uma is not available for download and to upgrade. We wrap up the release for you with download instructions. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_“Uma”_Officially_Released,_This_Is What’s_New⠀⇛ Based on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) and powered by the long-term supported Linux 5.4 LTS kernel series, Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” ships with the latest Cinnamon 5.0 desktop environment on the flagship edition, as well as the Xfce 4.16 and MATE 1.24 desktop environments on the Xfce and MATE editions. Highlights of the Linux Mint 20.2 release include an updated Warpinator app with support for selecting the network interface you want to use for sharing files and new optional compression setting for up to 3 times faster file transfers, an updated NVIDIA Prime applet that now supports computers with AMD/NVIDIA hybrids graphics, as well as an updated Update Manager app with support for Cinnamon spice updates and automation of Flatpak updates. # ⚓ Ubuntu_Touch_OTA-18_Is_Coming_July_14th_with Performance_Improvements,_Various_Changes⠀⇛ Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 promises to be yet another maintenance update to the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system developed by UBports for Linux-powered smartphones, bringing various performance improvements to make the entire system more snappy on all supported devices. To achieve that, the team managed to implement a way for Ubuntu Touch to scale down and display wallpapers without affecting the performance of the system, which mostly benefits BQ Aquaris E4.5 users using the default wallpaper. For other devices, the RAM savings will vary depending resolution of the screen and wallpaper. # ⚓ Design_and_Web_team_summary_–_2_July_2021⠀⇛ The web team at Canonical runs two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. # ⚓ Ubuntu_Blog:_Moving_toward_Diátaxis⠀⇛ We discovered the Diátaxis Framework earlier this year. It’s been on our roadmap to shift MAAS doc to this cool new way of explaining things. This cycle, we plan to make it happen. [...] In other words, if we change your context too many times, you’ll stop reading and just try something. When that doesn’t work, you may scan the doc again once or twice, but pretty soon, you’ll be on our MAAS discourse page, asking for someone to decode it all for you. There’s nothing wrong with MAAS discourse — it’s a great forum, and lately, one of our team members is always tasked with patrolling it as a top priority. But around eighty-five percent of your information needs should be met by the documentation. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Tiny_module_gears_up_Intel’s_Elkhart_Lake⠀⇛ Portwell’s Linux-ready, industrial temperature “PCOM-BA02GL” is a Mini Type 10 module with Intel’s Elkhart Lake CPUs, up to 8GB IBECC RAM, 2.5GbE, 10x USB, 2x SATA, 4x PCIe, and DP and LVDS. The COM Express compute module form factors that continue to dominate the x86 world were considered remarkably compact when they were announced 16 years ago. Yet the COM Express “Compact” Type 6 is considerably larger than newer form factors such as Qseven and SMARC, as well as many SBCs such as the Raspberry Pi. The exception is the RPi sized, 84 x 55mm Mini Type 10, which American Portwell Technology, Inc. has adopted for its Intel Elkhart Lake based PCOM-BA02GL module. # ⚓ Industrial_panel_PC_muscles_up_with_Comet_Lake-S⠀⇛ Aaeon’s Linux-friendly “OMNI-2155-CML” is a 15.6- inch, industrial panel PC powered by an Intel 10th Gen CPU with up to 64GB DDR4, HDMI, SATA, 2x GbE, 4x USB 3.2 Gen2, 2x COM, 2x M.2, and a mini-PCIe slot. Aaeon announced its first industrial panel PC with a socketed processor in the form an Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake-S CPU, thereby “allowing for easier maintenance and scalability.” The 15.6-inch OMNI- 2155-CML, which runs Ubuntu 20.04 and Win 10 IoT Enterprise, is the first Comet Lake based panel PC we have seen, and is likely one of the highest performing panel PCs on the market. # ⚓ HIIT_Pi_makes_Raspberry_Pi_your_home_workout_buddy⠀⇛ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Hardware_accelerated_video_playback_now_possible_on the_PinePhone⠀⇛ You’ve been able to watch videos on a PinePhone for a while, but up until recently most of the video players available for the phone have relied on software to render videos. That means they hammer the phone’s limited CPU resources, causing video to occasionally look choppy and often limiting playback to low resolutions. Recently Brian Daniels discovered a method for enabling hardware-accelerated video playback using command line tools. Now support is baked into a media player called Clapper. There’s no more need fire up a terminal to start your video playback. # ⚓ Biden_Executive_Order_Will_Try_To_Address_Some_‘Right To_Repair’_Harms⠀⇛ Back in 2015, frustration at John Deere’s ham-fisted repair restrictions and draconian tractor DRM helped birth a grassroots tech movement dubbed “right to repair.” The company’s crackdown on “unauthorized repairs” turned countless ordinary citizens into technology policy activists, after onerous restrictions not only significantly drove up repair costs, but forced owners to often haul their equipment hundreds or thousands of miles to an authorized repair location. # ⚓ Biden_to_sign_exec_order_calling_for_right-to-repair rules_for_farmers,_maybe_rest_of_us⠀⇛ President Joe Biden is expected this week to sign an executive order directing the formation of rules that ensure Americans have the right to repair … their farming equipment, at least. Though this effort may well extend beyond agriculture, the White House today chose to focus on the farming side of things, presumably because a right-to-repair for farmers was a core Democrat policy in the 2020 US presidential race. As such the order, when it arrives, will reportedly tell the FTC, with support from the government’s agriculture dept, to look into cementing people’s right to fix their gear. # ⚓ The_PinThing_is_a_motorized_pin_display_|_Arduino Blog⠀⇛ Tactile displays are one of the neatest ways to interact with how data is displayed, as it can not only be seen, but also felt. However, these kinds of systems are often quite expensive due to their complex nature, which is why Jason Higgins wanted to create his own pin display that he calls the PinThing. The device primarily consists of a five by three grid of “pixels” that are each driven by their own geared motor. When the motor turns, it slides a nut along a threaded rod, therefore pushing the pixel in or out. Nearly the entire project was 3D-printed to keep costs low. This includes the backplate, bracing for the motors, and the threaded rod/ nut assembly. Some of the earlier motor prototypes had a built-in homing pushbutton switch, but this was determined to be unnecessary. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 10_Best_Archery_Games_For_Android_That_Let_You_Get Addicted⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Redmi_Note_8_is_finally_receiving_the_Android_11 update_albeit_sans_MIUI_12.5_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_A03s_Appears_on_Wi-Fi_Alliance Certification_Running_Android_11,_Launch_Seems_Imminent –_MySmartPrice⠀⇛ # ⚓ There’s_a_new_hidden_feature_in_Chrome_on_Android that_you_need_to_try⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_players_get_additional_bonuses_during_GO_Fest 2021⠀⇛ # ⚓ Blaupunkt_43-inch_CyberSound_Ultra-HD_Android_TV_ (43CSA7070)_Online_at_Lowest_Price_in_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_SmartTag+_review:_The_best_Android AirTag_competitor,_until_Google_builds_one_|_Android Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_factory_reset_your_Android_phone:_All_the possible_ways!⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_battle_royales_for_Android_2021_|_Android Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_smartwatch_in_2021_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_app_deals_of_the_day:_SaGa_SCARLET,_more –_9to5Toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_change_app_icons_on_Android_–_Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Connect_to_a_Hidden_Wi-Fi_Network_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dozens_of_Android_Cryptocurrency_Mining_Apps_Turn_Out to_Be_Scams_|_PCMag⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_admits_throttling_top_Android_apps_and_there may_be_trouble_ahead_|_Trusted_Reviews⠀⇛ # ⚓ July_2021_Android_security_update_is_now_rolling_out to_Pixel_phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ 36_states,_D.C._sue_Google_for_alleged_antitrust violations_in_its_Android_app_store_–_POLITICO⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Nextcloud_Hub_22_is_Here_with_Exciting_New_Features⠀⇛ Nextcloud Hub 22 introduces approval workflows, integrated knowledge management, and decentralized group administration. Nextcloud is an open source software package for organizations and individuals who want to host their own secure cloud services. When on January 17, 2020, Nextcloud version 18 was announced, its name was changed to Nextcloud Hub. With Nextcloud Hub you can share and collaborate on documents, send and receive email, manage your calendar and have video chats without data leaks. As fully on-premises solution, it provides the benefits of online collaboration without the compliance and security risks. Keep in mind that Nextcloud Hub 22 is compatible with the latest PHP 8 but drops compatibility with PHP 7.2. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ New_Release:_Tor_Browser_10.5.1_(Android Only)⠀⇛ Tor Browser 10.5.1 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version is a bugfix for Android Tor Browser 10.5. # ⚓ Mozilla_Rally:_trading_privacy_for_the_“public good”⠀⇛ A new project from Mozilla, which is meant to help researchers collect browsing data, but only with the informed consent of the browser-user, is taking a lot of heat, perhaps in part because the company can never seem to do anything right, at least in the eyes of some. Mozilla Rally was announced on June 25 as joint venture between the company and researchers at Princeton University “to enable crowdsourced science for public good”. The idea is that users can volunteer to give academic studies access to the same kinds of browser data that is being tracked in some browsers today. Whether the privacy safeguards are strong enough—and if there is sufficient reason for users to sign up—remains to be seen. [...] Part of the difficulty in the messaging around a project like Rally is all of the moving parts it has and that different kinds of users are going to need different areas of emphasis in order to really make it clear for them. It is a project that sits at a particularly uncomfortable intersection of concerns—or the lack thereof. The lack of any real tangible benefit from joining up is problematic as well. “For the good of society” has a nice ring to it, but it is terribly difficult to quantify. If Mozilla were a different kind of company, one could imagine it gathering this kind of information without any kind of uproar from the social-network- using folks who seem utterly unconcerned with the massive privacy invasions those kinds of sites routinely perform. But Mozilla is not that kind of organization, so it needs to convince those who do not really seem to care about privacy much to care enough to install the add-on, while not excessively irritating the more tech- savvy users who get up in arms about even the smallest loss of private data. It is a hard balance to find. Given all that, it is a little hard to see Rally being a huge success. There are certainly perfectly reasonable concerns about gathering this kind of data, storing it, dealing with governments that want access to it, and so on. The privacy-savvy may well skip over Rally for its real or perceived shortcomings, while the vast majority of folks may either never hear of it or pay it no attention whatsoever. That is somewhat sad, perhaps, at least to those who can see value in the kinds of studies (and platform oversight) that Rally data-gathering would enable. It will be interesting to see what comes of it. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreOffice_project_monthly_recap:_June_2021⠀⇛ # § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] myLearning_digital_platform_expands_courseware; announces_new_features⠀⇛ “Learning Locker is going to store learning data and can serve as a source of record for organizations,” said Bill Muse, AETC Learning Services program manager. “Intelliboard is our reporting and analytics tool, and BigBlueButton is a conferencing system that will allow for virtual classrooms with audio, video, slide presentation, and a chat functionality within the myLearning system.” According to Muse, these new features should be fully operational on the site by mid- August. # ⚓ Connecting_with_Students_in_the_Virtual_Classroom⠀⇛ Make full use of the features typical of the BigBlueButton virtual classroom, such as the multi-user whiteboard, the chat and the breakout rooms. Especially in a breakout room, your students have ample opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. While they can always rely on you to ask questions about the learning material, it is beneficial if they can exchange information amongst themselves. Are your students actively participating in such smaller live sessions? Recognize their efforts. After all, teamwork makes the dream work. # ⚓ Turning_a_new_page:_information_literacy_goes online⠀⇛ To address this, breakout rooms in a BigBlueButton virtual classroom can be used to split groups and help online students engage in effective discussion. Teachers can guide students to speak about the search process, the challenges they encounter, and how they address them. This discussion, which occurs in small groups, allows student to learn from their peers and to get new ideas about how different results are retrieved. # § FSF⠀➾ # § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ MyGNUHealth_1.0.1_is_out!⠀⇛ I just released 1.0.1 for the stable series 1.0 of MyGNUHealth, the GNU Health Personal Health Record. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_Rcpp_1.0.7:_More_Updates⠀⇛ The Rcpp team is pleased to announce release 1.0.7 of Rcpp which arrived at CRAN earlier today, and will be uploaded to Debian shortly. Windows and macOS builds should appear at CRAN in the next few days. This release continues with the six-months cycle started with release 1.0.5 last July. As a reminder, interim ‘dev’ or ‘rc’ releases will alwasys be available in the Rcpp drat repo; this cycle there were seven (!!). These rolling release tend to work just as well, and are also fully tested against all reverse-dependencies. # ⚓ Track_changes_in_/etc_with_etckeeper⠀⇛ Today I will introduce you to the program etckeeper, a simple tool that track changes in your /etc/ directory into a versioning control system (git, mercurial, darcs, bazaar…). # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Assembly_of_Python_External_C++_procedure_using 2D_vector⠀⇛ I was unable to return 2D vector from C++ to Python via Python API. Thus content of 2D vector has been written to file and later on the Python Runtime Module displayed the content of file been created inside C++ procedure. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Making_Sense_of_Sex_and_Gender⠀⇛ By the end of that long lunchtime conversation, he said he had no trouble following my argument and found little to disagree with. “To tell you the truth,” he said, “I don’t really understand a lot of what the trans movement is saying.” I told him I had no trouble understanding his confusion, because the transgender movement’s arguments seemed unclear, sometimes even incoherent, to me as well. Then I asked him: “Is there any other issue on which you can’t make sense of a political movement’s arguments but you still support its policy proposals?” o ⚓ The_Volvo_Strike⠀⇛ The strike has had an impact on production at other Volvo plants. Parts shortages are causing temporary layoffs at the company’s Mack Trucks assembly plants in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Volvo multinational corporation had revenues of $30.68bn, and operating profits of $1.3bn, in 2020. The Covid pandemic caused both figures to be lower than their 2019 equivalents. Recently Volvo Group paid over $2.3 billion in dividends to shareholders. o ⚓ St._Vincent’s_Journey_Into_Musical_Memory⠀⇛ You can take the title of St. Vincent’s latest album, Daddy’s Home, at least two ways. You might think of the phrase in narrative terms, if you’re going by the album’s lyrics or the interviews granted around the project: Daddy is home. Richard Clark, father of St. Vincent (given name, Annie Clark) has come home from prison after serving nine years of a 12-year sentence for his involvement in a $43 million stock market scam. “Yeah, you did some time,” sings his daughter in a staccato squeak. “Well, I did some time, too.” Leaving the nature of her own atonement to the listener’s imagination, she drives home her close connection to her father, calling the two of them as “tight as a Bible with the pages stuck like glue.” Daddy has returned, St. Vincent reports, and having him back cements their closeness, though she doesn’t tell us why or how, at least not in the lines she sings. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ War_on_Science_Persists_Within_Biden_EPA_as_Staffers_Allege Chemical_Reports_Altered⠀⇛ Four scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency are alleging that the “war on science” is continuing under the Biden administration, with managers at the agency altering reports about the risks posed by chemicals and retaliating against employees who report the misconduct. The government watchdog Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a formal complaint Friday on behalf of the scientists with the EPA’s Office of the Inspector General, calling for an investigation into reports that high-level employees routinely delete crucial information from chemical risk assessments or change the documents’ conclusions to give the impression that the chemicals in question are not toxic. # ⚓ China’s_Zuchongzhi_Quantum_Computer_is_the_most_powerful_in the_world⠀⇛ The sci-fi dream of quantum computing has been real for years now. Back in 2019, Google partnered with NASA to create a Quantum Computer that performed calculations far faster than traditional PCs. In the two years since Google’s Quantum Computer went live, a Chinese research team led by Jian-Wei Pan have upped the anti. Last year, the team already improved upon Google’s efforts by using light-based photonic qubits instead of current- powered superconducting qubits. However, they’ve already improved on that design with Zuchongzhi. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Teachers’_Unions_Are_Pushing_Back_Against_Attacks_on_Anti- Racist_Education⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Samsung_Electronics_Adopts_International_Open_Source Standard⠀⇛ Samsung Electronics today announced the adoption of OpenChain ISO (International Organization for Standardization) / IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) 5230:2020, the first international standard for open source compliance. The company joins a growing community of companies in the field of consumer electronics, automotive, cloud computing and telecommunications in using this standard to manage supply chains. The OpenChain Project began in 2016 as an initiative of the Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization in the United States. It aims to establish an effective and consistent open source compliance system. The OpenChain Project was adopted as an ISO / IEC international standard in 2020. The project evaluates each company’s open source compliance capabilities and grants certification if they met the criteria. # ⚓ Apple_co-founder_Steve_Wozniak_stands_up_for_right-to- repair,_argues_company_built_on_open_source⠀⇛ “We wouldn’t have had an Apple, had I not grown up in a very open technology world,” said Wozniak. “Back then, when you bought electronic thing like TV’s and radios, every bit of the circuits and designs were included on paper. Total open source.” He continued by talking about how straightforward repair use to be. “Even non-technical family members could pull out the tubes…and find a tube tester… and if it was bad, buy a new tube. Everyone did this all the time back then.” He then focused on the way that Apple, at its founding, was positively impacted by the open schematics of the time. “When starting Apple, I could never afford a teletype for input and output.” He then spoke about how he was able to use a tv to output the signals. “That all came from being able to repair things, modify them, and tap into them yourself.” Moving on from his own repair experience, he questioned, “why stop the self-repair community? Why stop the right to repair people? Look at the Apple II. It shipped with full schematics… this product was the only source of profits for Apple for the first ten years of the company.” o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ The_G20_Must_Act_Immediately_to_Vaccinate_the_World⠀⇛ When G20 finance ministers meet in Venice on July 9-10, they should adopt a plan to immunize the world against COVID-19. Every vaccine-producing country will be in the room: the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, China, Russia, and India. Together, these countries produce enough doses to complete the immunization process for the entire globe by early 2022. Yet the world still lacks a plan to get it done. # ⚓ The_Art_of_the_Meal⠀⇛ Martinsburg, West Virginia—Laughter, good conversation, and by all means good food nourish the soul. I learned everything about that, along with setting a lovely table and entertaining, from my mother and paternal grandmother. In adult life, I maintain this passion for effervescence at the dinner table whether in an intimate setting or among large groups of 100-plus. # ⚓ Ivermectin_is_the_new_hydroxychloroquine,_take_3: Conspiracy_theories_and_grift⠀⇛ After last Friday’s post, I hadn’t planned on writing about ivermectin again for a while. Ivermectin, as you might recall, is the veterinary deworming drug also sometimes used in humans to treat various parasitic worms, that has become the new hydroxychloroquine in that, despite an extreme paucity of clinical evidence, has taken hydroxychloroquine’s place as the new “miracle cure” (or at least highly effective) treatment for COVID-19 that “They” don’t want you to know about (because, of course, it’s off patent and cheap and would thus eliminate the need for COVID-19 vaccines). Although ivermectin is not quite there yet, it’s fast approaching the point in its predecessor’s saga nearly a year ago when I labeled hydroxychloroquine the Black Knight of COVID-19 treatments, in a nod to Monty Python and the Holy Grail‘s Black Knight who hilariously refused to admit defeat no matter how many of his limbs King Arthur lopped off. # ⚓ Sha’Carri_Richardson_Is_Excluded_From_Relay,_Her_Last Option_for_the_Olympics⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sha’Carri_Richardson_and_the_last_gasp_of_the_war_on marijuana⠀⇛ The reaction, however, hints at a potential sign of hope: While Richardson is the latest victim of the war on marijuana, she may soon be among its last. Because with the pace of change happening around the world regarding cannabis, it seems likely that suspensions like hers could soon become a historical footnote — a reflection of an era gone by when the world tried an overly punitive approach to a relatively harmless drug. # ⚓ Yes,_open-plan_offices_do_suck⠀⇛ New research from Bond Business School at Bond University shows that it’s not just a question of the type of working environment you prefer: the noise in open-plan offices increases stress and worsens mood. The study was performed under experimentally controlled conditions, and it found that just eight minutes of simulated open-plan office noise was enough to heighten negative mood by 25%. Furthermore, it increased stress (as measured by heart rate and sweat response) by 34%. # ⚓ US_pushes_Mexico_for_approval_of_GM_crops,_access_to_potato market⠀⇛ The United States pressured Mexico on Wednesday to allow genetically modified crops into the country and to open up access to U.S.-grown potatoes. United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai pushed for the concessions during a meeting in Mexico City with Mexican Agriculture Minister Víctor Villalobos and Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Microsoft’s_emergency_patch_fails_to_fix_critical “PrintNightmare”_vulnerability_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ Game-over code-execution attacks are still possible even after fix is installed. # ⚓ Attacks_on_Kaseya_Servers_Led_to_Ransomware_in_Less …⠀⇛ # ⚓ Apple_Podcasts_Continues_to_Be_Plagued_by_Technical Issues⠀⇛ # ⚓ Beta_Software_:_Systems_presents_new_generation_of Linux-_and_Unix-based_solutions_for_output_and_log management⠀⇛ Beta Systems presents the new generation V5 of its Linux- and Unix-based solutions for output management and document archiving as well as log management and archiving. With the new product generation, customers receive improved functionalities coupled with more flexibility and enhanced security and compliance capabilities. # ⚓ Help_Wanted_—_Staff_Shortages_for_Detecting_and Resolving_Security_Vulnerabilities_on_Data_Center Servers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Insurance_and_Ransomware⠀⇛ As ransomware becomes more common, I’m seeing more discussions about the ethics of paying the ransom. Here’s one more contribution to that issue: a research paper that the insurance industry is hurting more than it’s helping. # ⚓ Number_of_victims_in_major_ransomware_attack_still unclear [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The company whose software was exploited in the biggest ransomware attack on record said Tuesday that it so far it appears that fewer than 1,500 businesses were compromised. But cybersecurity experts suspected the estimate was low and noted that victims are still being identified. # ⚓ Microsoft_Issues_Emergency_Patch_for_Windows_Flaw⠀⇛ Microsoft on Tuesday issued an emergency software update to quash a security bug that’s been dubbed “PrintNightmare,” a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is actively being exploited. The fix comes a week ahead of Microsoft’s normal monthly Patch Tuesday release, and follows the publishing of exploit code showing would-be attackers how to leverage the flaw to break into Windows computers. # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # ⚓ Github_Copilot:_AI_Assistant_To_Help_You_Get Sued⠀⇛ Github has released an amazing new AI pair programming tool trained on the billions of lines of stored on Github, however, it’s not magic and sometimes dumps out code that is known to be from a GPL project. This is a serious problem for any developers interested in using this tool. # ⚓ GitHub’s_new_Copilot_code_suggestion_tool raises_GPL_concerns⠀⇛ Sounds like a cool and useful feature, but this does raise some interesting questions about the code it generates. Sure, generated code might be entirely new, but what about possible cases where the code it “generates” is just taken from the existing projects the AI was trained on? The AI was trained on open source code available on GitHub, including a lot of code licensed under, for instance, the GPL. # ⚓ Why_Are_People_Criticising_GitHub_Copilot?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vincent_Fourmond:_Upcoming_features_of_QSoas and_github_repository [Ed: Developers need to delete GitHub, seeing the_real_agenda_of Microsoft]⠀⇛ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Open@RIT:_The_Birth_of_an_Academic_OSPO [Ed: Off-topic openwashing from the 'Linux' Foundation]⠀⇛ I met Green at RIT’s booth at OSCON in the summer of 2019 and learned about JHU’s soft launch of their OSPO. Our booth showcased RIT’s work with students in Free and Open Source humanitarian work. We began with a 2009 Honors seminar course in creating educational games for the One Laptop per Child program. That seminar was formalized into a regular course, Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software. (The syllabus for the course’s most recent offering can be found at this link) By the end of 2010, we had a complete “Course-to-Co-Op lifecycle.” Students could get engaged in FOSS through an ecosystem that included FOSS events like hackathons and guest speaker visits, support for student projects, formal classes, or a co-op experience. In 2012, after I met with Chris Fabian, co-founder of UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, RIT sent FOSS students on Co-Op to Kosovo for UNICEF. We later formally branded the Co-Op program as LibreCorps. LibreCorps has worked with several FOSS projects since, including more work with UNICEF. In 2014 RIT announced what Cory Doctorow called a “Wee Degree in Free,” the first academic minor in Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture. All of these efforts provided an excellent base for an RIT Open Programs Office. (more on that missing “s” word in a moment) With the support of Dr. Ryne Raffaelle, RIT’s VP of Research, I wrote a “white paper” on how such an office might benefit RIT. RIT’s Provost, Dr. Ellen Granberg, suggested a university- wide meeting to gauge interest in the concept, and 50 people from 37 units across campus RSVP’d to the meeting. A subset of that group worked together (online, amid the early days of the pandemic) to develop a “wish list” document of what they’d like to see Open@RIT provide in terms of services and support. That effort informed the creation of the charter for Open@RIT approved by the Provost in the summer of 2020. # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_Announces_30th Anniversary_of_Linux_T-Shirt_Design Contest⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_Announces_30th Anniversary_of_Linux_T-Shirt_Design Contest [Ed: So-called 'Linux' Foundation does not know GNU/Linux OS actually started in 1983. The omissions are intentional.]⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced a design contest for the Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference 2021 Conference T-shirt to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Linux. Submission designs should center around the 30th Anniversary of Linux theme in some capacity. # ⚓ Please_participate_in_the_Software Bill_of_Materials_(SBOM)_Readiness Survey⠀⇛ The recent presidential Executive Order on Cybersecurity focuses on producing and consuming SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials). SBOMs are especially critical for a national digital infrastructure used within government agencies and in critical industries that present national security risks if penetrated. SBOMs improve understanding of those software components’ operational and cyber risks from their originating supply chain; however, their use is not widespread. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Fedora (glibc), Gentoo (doas, firefox, glib, schismtracker, and tpm2-tss), Mageia (httpcomponents-client), openSUSE (virtualbox), Red Hat (linuxptp), Scientific Linux (linuxptp), and Ubuntu (libuv1 and php7.2, php7.4). # ⚓ Evasive_Techniques_Used_By_Malicious_Linux Shell_Scripts⠀⇛ In our previous blog, we discussed the common utilities in Linux which are generally used by threat actors in the attack chain. This blog discusses the common defense evasion techniques which are mostly used in malicious shell scripts and how Uptycs detects them. # ⚓ Microsoft_struggles_to_wake_from_its PrintNightmare:_Latest_print_spooler_patch_can_be bypassed,_researchers_say⠀⇛ Any celebrations that Microsoft’s out- of-band patch had put a stop PrintNightmare shenanigans may have been premature. The emergency update turned up yesterday for a variety of Microsoft operating systems; little-used products like Windows Server 2012 and 2016 were excluded from the interim release. While it initially appeared the remote- code execution (RCE) aspect of the security bug had been resolved, the local privilege escalation (LPE) hole remained, judging by the findings of a number of security researchers. # ⚓ Microsoft_patches_PrintNightmare_–_even_on Windows_7_–_but_the_terror_isn’t_over⠀⇛ Microsoft has issued out-of-band patches for the PrintNightmare bug that allows remote and local Windows users to execute code as SYSTEM on boxes running the print spooler service, including domain controllers. The bug, designated CVE-2021-34527, is present in all versions of Windows. However, Microsoft’s advisory states: “Updates are not yet available for Windows 10 version 1607, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2012.” # ⚓ Mega-distie_SYNNEX_attacked_and_Microsoft_cloud accounts_it_tends_tampered⠀⇛ Technology distributor SYNNEX has admitted that its systems and Microsoft accounts it tends have been attacked, after the National Committee of the US Republican Party (RNC) named it as the source of a recent security incident. Bloomberg on Tuesday reported that APT 29, aka Cozy Bear, last week attacked the RNC which, as the organising entity of the US Republican Party, holds all sorts of interesting and sensitive data. Cozy Bear was also named as the entity behind the supply chain attack on SolarWinds # ⚓ Kaseya’s_VSA_SaaS_restart_fails,_service restoration_delayed_by_at_least_ten_hours⠀⇛ Kaseya’s attempt to recover its SaaS services has failed, and its CEO has attempted to play down the significance of the incident that has seen its VSA services offline since July 2nd and over 1,000 ransomware infections. [...] The company had previously advised that SaaS restoration had commenced, with individual SaaS servers due to come online “throughout the night US time”. “All systems will be online and accessible by July 7th 6AM US EDT,” the advice stated. Now the company says its next update will come at 8AM US EDT. It has offered no information on likely time of restoration or the nature of the issue that has slowed the SaaS rollout. Nor has Kaseya said if its promise to patch its on-premises VSA software within 24 hours of SaaS restoration remains in force. # ⚓ The_10_best_books_on_computer_security_|_FOSS Linux⠀⇛ The term computer security is also synonymous with Cybersecurity and information technology security. It relates to protecting, preventing, and understanding the threats that can cause harm to both a networked computer system and a configured information system. The security threat can result from the theft of data on such systems or their unauthorized use. A computer system is defined by both hardware and software. Since computer hardware is also equally valuable, the protection of sensitive computer hardware parts is easily achievable through alarms, locks, and serial numbers. On the other hand, achieving data protection and authenticated system access is not straightforward. It requires complex security tactics and algorithms. # ⚓ Sophos_secures_deal_to_acquire_Capsule8⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sophos_acquires_Capsule8_for_Linux_security⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sophos_Acquires_Capsule8_Security_Platform_for Linux_Containers_–_Container_Journal⠀⇛ Sophos this week announced it has acquired Capsule8, a provider of tools for securing runtimes on Linux servers and container platforms, as part of an effort to expand its current focus beyond Windows security. # ⚓ An_unpleasant_surprise_for_My_Book_Live owners⠀⇛ Embedded devices need regular software updates in order to even be minimally safe on today’s internet. Products that have reached their “end of life”, thus are no longer being updated, are essentially ticking time bombs—it is only a matter of time before they are vulnerable to attack. That situation played out in June for owners of Western Digital (WD) My Book Live network-attached storage (NAS) devices; what was meant to be a disk for home users accessible via the internet turned into a black hole when a remote command-execution flaw was used to delete all of the data stored there. Or so it seemed at first. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ New_EDRi_report_reveals_depths_of biometric_mass_surveillance_in_Germany,_the Netherlands_and_Poland⠀⇛ The EDRi network’s new independent report by the Edinburgh International Justice Initiative (EIJI), “The Rise and Rise of Biometric Mass Surveillance in the EU”, reveals stark and compelling evidence of abusive facial recognition and other forms of biometric mass surveillance across the European Union (EU). This research shows that harmful biometric mass surveillance practices have become worryingly normalised by law enforcement, other public authorities and private companies in Germany and the Netherlands – with Poland starting to catch up. This new evidence comes hot on the heels of the EU’s two top privacy watchdogs, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and European Data Protection Board (EDPB), confirming that the EU must ban all automated recognition of human features in publicly accessible spaces. This supports the call from EDRi to permanently ban the indiscriminate or arbitrarily- targeted surveillance of people through their biometric features, in publicly-accessible spaces. # ⚓ CHATCONTROL:_European_Parliament_Approves Mass_Surveillance_Of_Private Communications⠀⇛ Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police. The European Pirates Delegation in the Greens/EFA group strongly condemns this automated mass surveillance, which effectively means the end of privacy in digital correspondence. Pirate Party MEPs plan to take legal action. In today’s vote, 537 Members of the European Parliament approved Chatcontrol, with 133 voting against and 20 abstentions.[1] According to police data, in the vast majority of cases, innocent citizens come under suspicion of having committed an offence due to unreliable processes. In a recent representative poll, 72% of EU citizens opposed general monitoring of their messages.[2] While providers will initially have a choice to search or not to search communications, follow-up legislation, expected in autumn, is to oblige all communications service providers to indiscriminate screening. # ⚓ Improving_Enforcement_in_State_Consumer Privacy_Laws⠀⇛ Strong enforcement sits at the top of EFF’s recommendations for privacy bills for good reason. Unless companies face serious consequences for violating our privacy, they’re unlikely to put our privacy ahead of their profits. We need a way to hold companies directly accountable to the people they harm—especially as they have shown they’re all- too willing to factor fines for privacy violations into the cost of doing business. To do so, we recommend a full private right of action—that is, making sure people have a right to sue companies that violate their privacy. This is how legislators normally approach privacy laws. Many privacy statutes contain a private right of action, including federal laws on wiretaps, stored electronic communications, video rentals, driver’s licenses, credit reporting, and cable subscriptions. So do many other kinds of laws that protect the public, including federal laws on clean water, employment discrimination, and access to public records. Consumer data privacy should be no different. Unless companies face serious consequences for violating our privacy, they’re unlikely to put our privacy ahead of their profits. # ⚓ EFF_Gets_$300,000_Boost_from_Craig Newmark_Philanthropies_to_Protect Journalists_and_Fight_Consumer_Spyware⠀⇛ “This donation will help us to develop tools and training for both working journalists and student journalists, preparing them to protect themselves and their sources. We also help journalists learn to research the ways in which local law enforcement is using surveillance tech in its day-to-day work so that, ultimately, communities can better exercise local control,” said EFF Cybersecurity Director Eva Galperin. “Additionally, EFF is launching a public education campaign about what we are calling ‘disciplinary technologies.’ These are tools that are ostensibly for monitoring work or school performance, or ensuring the safety of a family member. But often they result in non- consensual surveillance and data- gathering, and often disproportionately punish BIPOC.” A prime example of disciplinary technologies is test-proctoring software. Recently, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine charged 17 students with cheating after misreading software activity during remote exams. After a media firestorm, the school later dropped all of the charges and apologized. Other disciplinary technologies include employee- monitoring bossware, and consumer spyware that is often used to monitor and control household members or intimate partners. Spyware, often based upon similar technologies, is also regularly used on journalists across the globe. “We need to make sure that technology works for us, not against us,” said EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn. “We are so pleased that Craig Newmark Philanthropies has continued to support EFF in this important work for protecting journalists and people all over the world.” o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Afghanistan_Awaits_Uncertain_Future_After_US_Withdrawal⠀⇛ As such, America’s military involvement in Afghanistan is comparable to Vietnam before it withdrew in 1975. More than two million Vietnamese from North and South, and 58 thousand Americans, died in America’s Vietnam war.  A Brown University study concluded that, as of April 2021, about 241 thousand people were killed in the Afghanistan and Pakistan war zone since 2001, including 71 thousand civilians. America’s Afghan war casualties since 2001 tell us that a total of 2,312 service personnel have been killed, and more than 20 thousand wounded. Various estimates put the civilian death toll between half a million and two million people during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989). # ⚓ Abandon_Afghanistan_and_Don’t_Look_Back⠀⇛ It’s been two decades. There was no legal or moral justification for the war to begin with. They’ve had too much time as it is. For those of us who have been closely connected to America’s longest war last week’s abandonment of Bagram airbase, the biggest U.S. facility in occupied Afghanistan, makes the long-promised withdrawal feel real. # ⚓ Biden_Acknowledges_“Over_The_Horizon”_Air_Attacks_Planned Against_Taliban⠀⇛ Here is a portion of President Biden’s remarkable exchange with the press, which occurred at the close of his comments on the June, 2021 jobs report: When the President refers to “over-the-horizon capacity that we can be value added” he is referring to a plan, that appears might cost $10 billion, to fly drones and manned attack aircraft from bases as far away as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait to assist the current Afghan central government in defending itself against the Taliban. # ⚓ Afghanistan:_the_Darkening_Glass⠀⇛ Casualties are not yet on the scale of the civil war. The Taliban are biding their time, encircling cities, waiting for the Americans to depart. Many local garrisons have surrendered anyway, while elsewhere, tribal elders have negotiated bloodless transfers of power. When Ghani and his government, riddled with corruption and edging rapidly towards irrelevance, look down, they see only paint. They’re in a corner from which no amount of U.S. ‘support’ (bombs) can extricate them. Their collaboration with foreign powers has marked them with a black spot, too, that no soap can wash off. # ⚓ Why_Daniel_Hale_Deserves_Gratitude,_Not_Prison⠀⇛ “Pardon Daniel Hale.” # ⚓ Jovenel_Moïse_Dead:_Haitian_President_Assassinated, Plunging_Country_into_New_Political_Crisis⠀⇛ Haiti is reeling from a new crisis after President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his home in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince early Wednesday. In a statement, Haitian Prime Minister Claude Joseph said “a group of unidentified individuals” attacked the private residence of the president, killing him and injuring the first lady. Moïse, who had led Haiti since 2017, was accused of orchestrating a coup to stay in power beyond February 7, when his term officially ended. For months Haitians have staged large protests against Moïse demanding he leave office, but Moïse clung to power with support from the Biden administration, which backed his claims that his term should end next year. Dahoud Andre, a longtime Haitian community activist and member of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti, says rumors are flying about who could be behind the killing. “As of now, we have no clue where this assassination came from,” Andre says, adding that “the Haitian people loathed Jovenel Moïse” and describing him as a “tool” of the United States. We also speak with Kim Ives, editor of Haiti Liberté, who says the assailants appear to have been well resourced in their attack. “Clearly this was a fairly sophisticated operation,” Ives says. # ⚓ Haitian_President_Assassinated,_Plunging_Country_Into_New Political_Crisis⠀⇛ # ⚓ Assassins_of_Haiti_President_Jovenel_Moïse_Reportedly_Posed as_US_Agents⠀⇛ This is a breaking news story… Check back for possible updates… Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated early Wednesday morning after what initial news reports described as “a group of unidentified people” attacked his home on the outskirts of the nation’s capital of Port-au-Prince. # ⚓ Hong_Kong_Kowtows_To_China_Again,_Turns_Virtual_Police State_Into_An_Actual_Police_State⠀⇛ The Chinese government agreed to stay out of Hong Kong’s (government) business until 2047 when it took possession of the region in 1997. It has refused to hold up its end of the bargain. # ⚓ Afghanistan:_Soldiers_flee_to_Tajikistan_after_Taliban clashes⠀⇛ The troops retreated over the border to “save their own lives”, according to a statement by Tajikistan’s border guard. Violence has risen in Afghanistan and the Taliban have been making significant gains, particularly in the north of the country, in recent weeks. # ⚓ Afghanistan:_Women_pick_up_arms_against_Taliban_in_Ghor, Muhammad_Ghori’s_home⠀⇛ Now, the Ghor province of Afghanistan is being trampled upon by the Taliban, who are capturing vast tracts of the country as the deadline for the withdrawal of the US-led Nato troops comes closer. b Of about 400 districts of Afghanistan, the Taliban are said to be in control of over 100 dbistricts. The month of June saw several deadly battles between the Afghan forces and the Taliban including those in Ghor, where tens of soldiers were reportedly killed. In a significant development, women in Ghor have taken up arms to defend their motherland against the Taliban. Photographs of Ghor women holding guns and rocket launchers are being shared on social media. # ⚓ US_Military_Urges_Washington_to_Heed_Warnings_on_China⠀⇛ Studeman said part of the difficulty is that while many in the United States see war as unlikely, countries like China view it as a more organic part of their struggle. And Beijing under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, in particular, is prepared to go to great lengths to surpass the United States as a preeminent global power. # ⚓ America_leaves_Afghanistan_on_the_brink_of_collapse⠀⇛ America and its NATO allies have spent billions of dollars training and equipping Afghan security forces in the hope that they would one day be able to stand alone. Instead, they started buckling even before America left. Many districts are being taken not by force, but are simply handed over. Soldiers and policemen have surrendered in droves, leaving piles of American-purchased arms and ammunition and fleets of vehicles. Even as the last American troops were leaving Bagram over the weekend of July 3rd, more than 1,000 Afghan soldiers were busy fleeing across the border into neighbouring Tajikistan as they sought to escape a Taliban assault. “Everyone is shocked by how fast it’s fallen apart,” says a Western diplomat. # ⚓ The_War_on_Drugs_Is_50_Years_Old⠀⇛ Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon stood before the White House press corps, staffers at his side, to announce “a new, all-out offensive” against drug abuse, which he denounced as “America’s public enemy number one.” He called on Congress to contribute $350 million for a worldwide attack on “the sources of supply.” The first battle in this new drug war would be fought in South Vietnam where, Nixon said, “a number of young Americans have become addicts as they serve abroad.” # ⚓ Man_Charged_In_Capitol_Riot_Was_Yoga_Instructor,_Police Chief,_COVID_Protester⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2_Years_Ago,_Alan_Hostetter_Taught_Yoga._Now_He_Faces Charges_Tied_To_The_Jan._6_Riot⠀⇛ # ⚓ What_Led_A_Police_Chief_Turned_Yoga_Instructor_To_The Capitol_Riot?⠀⇛ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Fourth_Circuit_Appeals_Court_Says_Right_To_Access_Court Documents_Begins_When_The_Documents_Are_Filed⠀⇛ Courthouse News Service has obtained a significant win in its lawsuit against court clerks in Virginia — one that soundly affirms the First Amendment right to access court documents. This isn’t the only place CNS is fighting for its First Amendment rights, but this decision affects everything in the Fourth Circuit, which covers Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Fish_are_becoming_addicted_to_methamphetamines_seeping_into rivers⠀⇛ The control fish showed no preference for one side of the simulated stream or the other, but the methamphetamine-exposed fish repeatedly chose to stay in the drugged water. What’s more, the methamphetamine-exposed fish had elevated levels of methamphetamine in their brain tissue and were also less active than normal – which might reduce their chances of surviving and reproducing. # ⚓ Waste_plastic_deluge_could_soon_prove_irreversible⠀⇛ The waste plastic deluge fouling the world’s beaches could be more than just an eyesore. It could be a toxic timebomb. # ⚓ North_America_Just_Experienced_Hottest_June_on_Record—For Now⠀⇛ Last month was the hottest-ever June in North America in recorded history, researchers said Wednesday, validating a hunch held by millions of people who just endured lethal temperatures that sparked dozens of wildfires and killed more than 500 individuals and over one billion intertidal animals. While “the heat dome above western Canada and the northwest United States generated headlines around the world as daily temperature records were shattered across British Columbia, Washington, and Portland,” new satellite data “reveals this was part of a broader trend that built up over several weeks and a far wider area, which is underpinned by human-driven climate disruption,” The Guardian reported. # ⚓ As_the_World_Burns,_DC_Slow-Walks_on_Climate⠀⇛ Nazis! I hate those guys, especially when—in the white-masked modern guise of Texas-fried unpatriotic cowards called the Patriot Front—they march with their upside-down American flags right past Independence Hall, hours ahead of July 4. At least until they encountered a handful of real Philadelphians, when they bravely turned their tail and fled. # ⚓ Amid_Record_Heat,_Footage_Shows_GOP_Sen._Ron_Johnson Dismissing_Climate_Change_as_‘Bullsh*t’⠀⇛ Amid a deadly northwestern heatwave that scientists have described as “the most extreme” in recorded history, footage uncovered by CNN shows Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin flippantly dismissing the established science of human-caused climate change during an event hosted by a GOP-aligned advocacy group. “I don’t know about you guys, but I think climate change is—as Lord Monckton said—bullshit,” Johnson said, mouthing the expletive. “And by the way, it is.” # ⚓ A_“Topical”_Storm_in_Miami⠀⇛ And as if that weren’t trippy enough, I came across a YouTube video yesterday of Sam Cooke singing Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” in one of the best covers of the song I’ve ever heard. Whoa!  Check it Out: # ⚓ ‘Nowhere_Is_Safe’:_Scientists_Sound_Alarm_as_Killer_Heat Rages_in_Pacific_Northwest⠀⇛ Across the globe, from Northern Canada to New Zealand, killer heat is having a devastating effect on people, wildlife, and our natural environment. And there seems to be no respite for some of the worst affected areas. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Exxon’s_Senate_Puppets⠀⇛ But a sad reality was revealed in last week’s bombshell news that Montana’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester and Republican U.S. Steve Daines were named by Keith McCoy, Exxon’s senior director of federal relations in Washington, as two of 11 senators who he says are “crucial” to ExxonMobil. In truth, it appears our senators are actually “fighting” for the oil and gas industry, not the 1 million Montanans counting on them for Senate representation. Of course there will be those who dismiss such attention-grabbing headlines as rumors, “fake news” or propaganda put out by opponents. But in this case it’s fair to say this information came “straight from the horse’s mouth” since it was recorded from a Zoom meeting in which Unearthed, a Greenpeace affiliate, pretended to be “head hunting” for some high-powered lobbyists. To say they got more than expected would be the understatement of the year. # ⚓ Over_200_Activists,_Celebrities,_and_Democratic Donors_Demand_Biden_‘Reject_Line_3′⠀⇛ More than 200 activists, celebrities, Democratic donors, and environmentalists on Wednesday joined the Indigenous-led fight against Line 3 with a letter calling on President Joe Biden to cancel Enbridge’s tar sands pipeline project. “We are asking you to reject Line 3 and to firmly establish the principle that we will move forward toward real climate solutions.”—Letter to President Joe Biden # ⚓ ‘Unacceptable’:_66_Million_Gallons_of_Toxic_Fracking Waste_Dumped_in_Gulf_of_Mexico_Since_2010⠀⇛ As “extreme” fossil fuel extraction methods such as fracking and acidizing have become increasingly common in offshore oil and gas production over the past decade, the U.S. government is allowing corporations to discharge millions of gallons of hazardous waste into the Gulf of Mexico “without limit.” That’s according to Toxic Waters: How Offshore Fracking Pollutes the Gulf of Mexico, a new report (pdf) published Wednesday by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). # ⚓ Canada_Funneled_$23_Billion_in_Subsidies_to_Three Pipelines_Since_2018⠀⇛ The Canadian federal and provincial governments have handed over C$23 billion (US$18.5 billion) in subsidies to three major oil and gas pipeline projects in just the past three years, according to a new report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), defying global calls to phase out government support for fossil fuels. But even that total is likely an undercount given the lack of transparency from the Canadian government over its support of the industry. “Canadian support to pipelines is higher than $23 billion dollars, but we don’t know by how much. The access to information request that we filed resulted in thousands of pages either redacted or withheld,” Vanessa Corkal, policy advisor at the IISD, and lead author of the report, said in a statement. Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Seahorses_Extinction_Assessment_Reveals_Threatened Species_and_Knowledge_Gaps⠀⇛ # ⚓ More_carbon_dioxide_will_dry_world’s_rainforests⠀⇛ More carbon dioxide could parch the rainforest as effectively as the woodman’s axe or farmer’s torch. Both are on the cards. # ⚓ Indigenous-directed_Short_Film_Asks_Interior Secretary_Haaland_to_Return_Federal_Protections_to_Gray Wolves⠀⇛ The Global Indigenous Council today released “FAMILY,” a short film highlighting the deep cultural connection Indigenous Nations share with wolves and the major threats currently facing imperiled wolves in the lower 48 states. Watch “FAMILY” on the Global Indigenous Council YouTube page here. “FAMILY” appeals to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to reverse President Trump’s decision to remove federal protection from gray wolves in the lower 48 states and to relist the wolf under the Endangered Species Act. Leaving the Trump Administration’s wolf delisting rule in place contradicts President Biden’s Jan. 26 “Memorandum on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships,” as the vast array of tribes impacted by the former administration’s decision were never consulted. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘Tax._The._Rich.’_After_Pentagon_Cancels_Contract,_Bezos’ Wealth_Hits_Record_$211_Billion⠀⇛ After the Pentagon’s decision to cancel a contract led Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ fortune to soar by $8.44 billion, hitting a record $211 billion, Rep. Pramila Jayapal Wednesday afternoon doubled down on her demand to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans. “The world’s richest man reached a record $211 billion net worth Tuesday after Amazon.com Inc. shares rose 4.7% after the Pentagon announced it was canceling a cloud-computing contract with rival Microsoft Corp.,” according to Bloomberg. # ⚓ Top_Economist_Warns_15%_Global_Minimum_Tax_on_Corporations Is_‘Way_Too_Low’⠀⇛ University of California, Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman, a leading expert on tax evasion, argued Wednesday that the 15% global minimum tax on multinational businesses pushed by the United States and endorsed by more than 100 countries is well below what’s needed to crack down on widespread corporate tax avoidance and redress longstanding inequities. “For the Biden administration to give working families a real leg up, it should push Congress to enact a 25% minimum tax.”—Gabriel Zucman, University of California Berkeley # ⚓ Cryptocurrency_May_Wreak_Havoc_on_Economy_—_Especially_on People_With_No_Assets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Campaign_to_Rein_in_Mega_IRA_Tax_Shelters_Gains_Steam_in Congress_Following_ProPublica_Report⠀⇛ Two members of Congress who have long been responsible for shaping federal laws on retirement savings are considering major reforms after ProPublica exposed how the ultrawealthy are turning retirement accounts into gargantuan tax shelters. Rep. Richard Neal, the Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, told ProPublica that he has directed the committee to draft a bill that “will stop IRAs from being exploited.” o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Dovgy_makes_eight_Jailed_ex-governor_Sergey_Furgal_adds_a new_lawyer_to_his_defense_team_—_a_former_top_investigator who_served_time_for_bribery_and_abuse_of_office⠀⇛ Jailed former governor Sergey Furgal has added an eighth lawyer to his defense team. Dmitry Dovgy — a former senior investigator who was sent to prison in 2009 on bribery and abuse of office charges — officially joined the Furgal case during a closed- door remand hearing on July 5. Also during the hearing, the Moscow City Court extended Furgal’s arrest until October 7. Dovgy told Meduza that he had to sign a non-disclosure agreement and will begin studying the case file soon. Here’s what we know about the former Khabarovsk krai governor’s newest lawyer.  # ⚓ Russia_declares_Estonian_consul_detained_by_FSB_persona_non grata⠀⇛ The Russian Foreign Ministry has declared Estonia’s consul to St. Petersburg persona non grata. The diplomat now has 48 hours to leave the country, the state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday, July 7. # ⚓ The_Strange_Virus_Attacking_Republican_Governors⠀⇛ WARNING: A mutant coronavirus named Gubernatorious Imbecilious is spreading across the country, threatening to become pandemic. # ⚓ Opinion_|_Heritage_Defense:_On_the_Lost_Cause,_One_Nation Under_God,_the_Ubiquity_of_Slavery,_and_Those_Pesky Socialists_Claiming_There’s_Anybody_Here_Except_White_Men⠀⇛ # ⚓ New_Book_Details_How_Trump_Wanted_to_Use_Pandemic_to_Cancel 2020_Election⠀⇛ # ⚓ Trampling_the_Right_to_Vote⠀⇛ The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., June 19, 1965, urging the House to pass the Voting Rights Act. Netflix is streaming a movie based on a true story about integrating a White school after an inferior Black school caught fire in Durham, N.C., in 1971. Titled “The Best of Enemies,” it has no big stars but a big, timely and important story to tell. # ⚓ Eric_Adams_Won_as_a_Centrist,_but_Bold_Progressives_Took the_Other_2_Citywide_Contests⠀⇛ New York is a big city. It contains multitudes, and, yes, sometimes it contradicts itself. Its dominant Democratic Party can nominate both centrists and progressives for the city’s top jobs. Indeed, it has done just that. # ⚓ Mitch_McConnell_Says_Bipartisanship_Is_“Over.”_Believe Him.⠀⇛ # ⚓ More_Than_700_Republicans_Running_in_2022_Have_Pushed Trump’s_Election_Lies⠀⇛ # ⚓ Eric_Adams,_Ex-Police_Captain,_Wins_NYC_Democratic_Mayoral Primary_After_Running_on_Crime_as_#1_Issue⠀⇛ The next mayor of New York City will likely be the Brooklyn borough president and former police officer Eric Adams, according to a newly released tally in the Democratic primary race which accounts for most absentee ballots. Adams would be the city’s second Black mayor and ran to the right of his party, promising to tackle crime. Democracy Now! co-host Juan González has covered Adams for three decades and says Adams captured the votes of people concerned about an increase in gun violence and crime, which González suspects stems from police “standing down” in response to the movement to defund them. # ⚓ Gravel_Can_Still_Make_a_Mountain⠀⇛ Fifty years to the month before, while Rumsfeld was Counselor to President Richard Nixon, Gravel “didn’t really know what the legal consequences would be” of “resting on the speech and debate clause of the Constitution” to make public the top secret Pentagon Papers that turned popular opinion against the Vietnam War. In 2008, Gravel was one of the few presidential candidates offering a break from Rumsfeld’s renewed militarism in the Middle East, as term limits prevented George W. Bush’s re-election but not the continuation of his wars. Those wars remained ongoing as Gravel ran again in 2020, by which time he would have entered the Oval Office as a nonagenarian. # ⚓ In_Leaked_Video,_GOP_Congressman_Admits_His_Party_Wants Chaos_and_Obstruction⠀⇛ # ⚓ In_Leaked_Video,_GOP_Congressman_Admits_His_Party_Wants ‘Chaos_and_Inability_to_Get_Stuff_Done’⠀⇛ Newly leaked video footage of a recent event hosted by the right-wing group Patriot Voices shows Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas openly admitting that his party wants “18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done” as President Joe Biden, a bipartisan group of senators, and congressional Democrats work to pass climate and infrastructure legislation. “Honestly, right now, for the next 18 months, our job is to do everything we can to slow all of that down to get to December of 2022,” Roy says in the clip, referring to the month after that year’s midterm elections. Republicans need to flip just a handful of seats to take back the House and Senate. # ⚓ How_to_be_a_good_ancestor⠀⇛ What unfolded was striking. The citizens who were just being themselves advocated for policies that would boost their lifestyle in the short term. But the people in robes advocated for much more radical policies — from massive health care investments to climate change action — that would be better for the town in the long term. They managed to convince their fellow citizens that taking that approach would benefit their grandkids. In the end, the entire group reached a consensus that they should, in some ways, act against their own immediate self- interest in order to help the future. This experiment marked the beginning of Japan’s Future Design movement. What started in Yahaba has since been replicated in city halls around the country, feeding directly into real policymaking. It’s one example of a burgeoning global attempt to answer big moral questions: Do we owe it to future generations to take their interests into account? What does it look like to incorporate the preferences of people who don’t even exist yet? How can we be good ancestors? # ⚓ What_Did_New_York’s_Mayoral_Primary_Tell_Us_About_Ranked- Choice_Voting?⠀⇛ But while ranked-choice voting isn’t the culprit for last week’s mishap — it was Board mismanagement — it did serve to expose some of the debates around ranked-choice voting, including whether it’s a fair system of voting and whether voters even want it. Let’s start there. Why is ranked-choice voting such a hot topic of debate? # ⚓ Why_social_media_firms_are_at_loggerhead_with_government_on new_IT_Rules?⠀⇛ The tussle that started between central government and social media firms over new IT Rules seems to be not ending soon. Big social media giants like Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook and even search engine Google have time and again declined to comply with some of the New IT Rules. Twitter gained fresh controversy when IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s twitter account was blocked over violation of American Copyright law. In recent weeks acrimony grew between Centre and Twitter to the extent that Police have filed at least five cases against Twitter and it’s officials. # ⚓ China_divided_as_WeChat_deletes_LGBT_accounts_from platform⠀⇛ China decriminalised homosexuality in 1997, but the LGBT community continues to face discrimination in the country. On Wednesday, at least two student LGBT groups have issued statements in response to their WeChat accounts being removed, which included the erasure of all their previous posts. # ⚓ Wharton_Grad_Set_to_Take_on_Big_Tech_as_New_India Minister⠀⇛ Ashwini Vaishnaw, 51, will head the ministries of Electronics & Information Technology, Communications as well as Railways, the government announced late on Tuesday evening. The incoming minister has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Indian Institute of Technology, which counts tech leaders like Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai as alumni. # ⚓ Pussy_Riot_activist_arrested_at_vaccination_center_in Moscow_hours_after_release_from_jail⠀⇛ Hours after his release from jail, Pussy Riot activist Alexander Sofeev went to get his second coronavirus vaccine dose. Police officers arrested him as he was exiting the vaccination center at the Gostiny Dvor in downtown Moscow. Pussy Riot members informed Meduza about the arrest. # ⚓ Leonid_Volkov_fined_over_pro-Navalny_flash_mobs_on_February 14⠀⇛ Moscow’s Golovinsky District Court has fined Navalny’s chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, 25,000 rubles ($337) over the “love is stronger than fear” flash mobs that took place in cities across Russia on February 14, 2021. o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ YouTube’s_recommendations_still_push_harmful_videos, crowdsourced_study_finds⠀⇛ A new crowdsourced investigation from the Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit behind the Firefox web browser, asked more than 37,000 YouTube users to act as watchdogs and report harmful content through a browser extension that was then analyzed by research assistants at the University of Exeter in England. That user-supplied content included Covid- 19 misinformation, political conspiracy theories, and both violent and graphic content, including sexual content that appeared to be cartoons for children, the analysis found. A majority — 71 percent — of all the reports came from videos recommended by YouTube’s algorithm, and recommended videos were 40 percent more likely to be reported than intentionally searched-for videos, according to the report. Reported videos also out- performed other videos, acquiring 70 percent more views per day than others watched by volunteers. # ⚓ Looking_for_COVID-19_‘Miracle_Drugs’?_We_Already_Have_Them. They’re_Called_Vaccines⠀⇛ Indian hospitals have reported a high case load of pediatric mortality and morbidity. That children can die from COVID-19 is a point worth stressing, given the emphasis that Weinstein and other vaccine skeptics have placed on the vaccines’ risks to children. The impression listeners might get from Weinstein’s podcast is that children are at no risk from this disease. This is false. A retrospective cohort study published recently in Nature found that among 12,306 lab-confirmed pediatric COVID-19 patients in the United States, in the study cohort, the hospitalisation frequency was 5.3 percent, with 17.6 percent needing critical care services and 4.1 percent requiring mechanical ventilation. We don’t know how many cases go unconfirmed, so this study leaves important questions unanswered. But clearly, COVID-19 is a killer: Last year, it made the top-10 list of causes of pediatric death in the United States. If even a few thousand of Weinstein’s listeners have been convinced by him to avoid being vaccinated, we can reasonably estimate, based on the patterns of infection we’ve so far seen, that many of them will acquire the disease, and roughly 1.8 percent of those will die. Not some, but many of the survivors will suffer permanent damage. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_289:_Florida’s_Social_Media_Bill Fiasco,_With_State_Rep._Anna_Eskamani⠀⇛ If you’ve been following our coverage of Florida’s recent law about social media content moderation, you know it hasn’t been going well — it was an insane bill that was quickly shut down by an injunction from a judge who could see how obviously unconstitutional it was. But the fight isn’t over, so this week we’re joined by Florida Representative Anna Eskamani, one of the most vocal critics of the bill in the state legislature, to discuss how this all happened and what’s going to come next. # ⚓ Trump_to_the_Barricades⠀⇛ Perhaps someone should remind him that they’re private companies to which the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply. # ⚓ Trump_Brings_Class-Action_Lawsuit_Against_Facebook,_Twitter for_“Canceling”_Him⠀⇛ # ⚓ Trump_Roundly_Ridiculed_for_‘Bogus’_Big_Tech_Lawsuit⠀⇛ Critics of Donald Trump reacted with derision and disdain Wednesday after the former president announced a lawsuit against three tech firms and their CEOs that banned him for violating company policies against false and hateful posts. The Associated Press reports Trump announced his class-action suit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google-owned YouTube, as well as respective CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai, in Bedminster, New Jersey Wednesday afternoon. # ⚓ It_Can_Always_Get_Dumber:_Trump_Sues_Facebook,_Twitter_& YouTube,_Claiming_His_Own_Government_Violated_The Constitution⠀⇛ Yes, it can always get dumber. The news broke last night that Donald Trump was planning to sue the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter for his “deplatforming.” This morning we found out that they were going to be class action lawsuits on behalf of Trump and other users who were removed, and now that they’re announced we find out that he’s actually suing Facebook & Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter & Jack Dorsey, and YouTube & Sundar Pichai. I expected the lawsuits to be performative nonsense, but these are… well… these are more performative and more nonsensical than even I expected. # ⚓ Fortnite_faces_ban_in_Indonesia_after_minister_brands_it blasphemous_to_Muslims⠀⇛ As Minister Sandiaga Uno orders a review, some players fear other games – like Minecraft – in which people can create their own worlds could also be banned. # ⚓ Indonesia_Minister_calls_for_Fortnite_ban_over_user- generated_content⠀⇛ While Fortnite has a main map, the game’s creative mode allows players to make custom maps and game modes in a sandbox environment, using in-game assets. Maps can then be shared publicly with the Fortnite community. According to CNN Indonesia, the country’s Minister of Communication and Information Johnny G. Plate has acknowledged that the content was created by a player and not Epic itself, and plans to work with National Police to track down the creator of the offending content. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Defense_lawyer_petitions_investigators_to_drop_criminal case_against_Doxa_journalists⠀⇛ The defense lawyer for Doxa editor Armen Aramyan, one of four student journalists facing felony charges for allegedly involving minors in illegal protests, has petitioned state investigators to drop the criminal case due to a lack of evidence of a crime. Lawyer Leonid Solovyov filed his appeal with the head of the investigation, Vitaly Gagarin. # ⚓ ‘Confess_and_you_can_call_your_mom’_A_year_later,_the details_of_Russia’s_treason_charges_against_journalist_Ivan Safronov_remain_largely_unknown⠀⇛ A year ago today, on July 7, 2020, agents from Russia’s Federal Security Service arrested 30-year- old Ivan Safronov on charges of treason — punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Then serving as an advisor to the head of Russia’s space agency, Safronov worked for many years prior as a journalist at the newspapers Kommersant and Vedomosti. Meduza reviews the developments in the case over the past 12 months and looks at how Safronov and his defense team have weathered a year of uncertainty. # ⚓ Pulitzer_Prize-Winning_Journalist_Nikole_Hannah-Jones_Joins Howard_U._After_Rejecting_UNC_Tenure⠀⇛ After months of controversy, acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has announced that she will join the faculty at Howard University, one of the country’s most prestigious historically Black universities, instead of joining the faculty at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she went to graduate school. The decision by Hannah-Jones comes after her tenure was initially denied by the UNC board of trustees in May, when it was unanimously approved by the faculty. The board typically rubber-stamps tenure for professors who have won such approval from their peers, and it reversed the decision after protests from alumni, faculty and students. Hannah- Jones has been a target of right-wing vitriol since she spearheaded the award-winning 1619 Project for The New York Times, which sought to reevaluate the role of slavery in the founding of the United States. Joe Killian, investigative reporter for NC Policy Watch whom Nikole Hannah-Jones credits with breaking the story about the “discrimination I faced in the UNC tenure debacle,” says the tenure fight is a “microcosm” of the wider ideological divisions in the United States. He notes that the Chapel Hill board of trustees is filled with political appointees whose interests do not align with those of the student body. “The board at Chapel Hill is stacked with white men, stacked with people who are conservative, and it doesn’t look anything like the university itself,” Killian says. # ⚓ When_it_comes_to_whistle-blowers_like_Julian_Assange, Biden’s_actions_look_a_lot_like_Trump’s⠀⇛ Biden has promised to end the practice of seizing reporters’ phone records during investigations of unauthorized disclosures of government records. His administration has resumed daily press briefings, and neither Biden nor his press secretary has accused reporters of asking “stupid questions.” But when it comes to whistle-blowers — in particular, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose role in exposing government secrets is comparable to the work of everyday journalists — Biden’s actions, so far, are similar to those of President Donald Trump. And of the presidents who preceded him. # ⚓ High_Court_gives_US_government_limited_permission_to_appeal January_decision_that_Assange_should_not_be_extradited⠀⇛ The UK High Court has notified the parties involved in Julian Assange’s extradition case that the United States government’s appeal will be listed for a hearing. # ⚓ UK_High_Court_Grants_US_Permission_for_Appeal_in_Assange Extradition_Case⠀⇛ Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s legal team said Wednesday that the United Kingdom’s High Court had granted permission to the U.S. government to appeal an earlier decision that blocked Assange’s extradition “Mr. Assange’s continued pursuit by the Biden administration calls into question the legitimacy of the United States’ stated commitment to press freedom, civil liberties, and human rights.”—Doctors for Assange # ⚓ Trump_Started_a_War_on_Journalism._Biden’s_Justice Department_Has_Yet_to_End_It⠀⇛ When the Trump administration indicted WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange under the infamous 1917 Espionage Act, journalists and other public figures sounded the alarms, warning of a war on the free press. # ⚓ Assange_Extradition:_British_High_Court_Grants_US_A_Limited Appeal⠀⇛ The following was originally published as part of Shadowproof’s newsletter, The Dissenter. To become a subscriber, go here.The High Court of Justice in the United Kingdom agreed to hear the United States government’s appeal in the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but on limited grounds.According to Stella Moris, who is Assange’s partner, the High Court rejected the efforts of the U.S. government to “second guess the magistrates’ conclusions on medical and expert evidence.”No date was immediately set for a hearing on the appeal, and it was unclear whether the High Court had considered the request by Assange’s legal team for a cross-appeal.The Dissenter reviewed the appeal submissions, which are not publicly available.On behalf of the U.S. government, the Crown Prosecution Service challenged District Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decision to oppose extradition on account of Assange’s “medical condition.”Prosecutors contended the judge made errors of law when determining whether it would be oppressive to approve his extradition. They also insisted the judge should have notified the U.S. government of her “provisional view” so they could offer her “assurances” to alleviate her concerns.Furthermore, prosecutors maintained the judge should have disqualified defense psychiatrist Professor Michael Kopelman, whose assessment and testimony on Assange played a crucial part in her decision.Attorneys for Assange countered claims that the Crown Prosecution Service put forward in the appeal, maintaining Baraitser did not commit an error when she concluded Assange’s “suicidal impulses” would come from his “psychiatric condition” and would not be “his own voluntary act.”Regarding the argument that the judge was wrong to favor Kopelman’s evidence, Assange’s legal team asserted, “This attack totally fails to recognize the entitlement of the primary decision maker to reach her own decision on the weight to be attached to the expert evidence of the defense on the one hand and the prosecution experts on the other.”The High Court apparently agreed Baraitser was well within her right to consider what weight to attach to evidence from each of the medical professionals.Prosecutors offered the High Court “assurances” that were never put forward during or prior to the extradition trial. They suggested the U.S. government would not impose special administrative measures (SAMs) against Assange in pretrial confinement or in prison if he was convicted, though they did not say they would not hold him in administrative segregation or other forms of isolation.Assange “will receive clinical and psychological treatment as is recommended by a qualified treating clinician employed or retained by the prison,” where he is held, the prosecutors added.The prosecutors claimed Assange would not be imprisoned at ADX Florence in Colorado, a supermax prison, but they included a caveat that left open the possibility that he could be sent to the facility if he committed a “future act” that met the “test for designation.” Significantly, the prosecutors tried to salvage the extradition case by agreeing to allow Assange to apply for prisoner transfer to Australia under the Council of Europe Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons.” The U.S. government would “consent to the transfer.”Assange’s legal team bristled at this offer. “They had every opportunity to offer such an assurance at the extradition hearing, since the relevant Council of Europe treaty has been in operation for many years.” But the U.S. government did not offer this assurance so it could be tested during the extradition trial and before the judge issued her decision.“Such a transfer under the specific provisions of the treaty could not take place until the conclusion of the trial and all appellate processes, which are obviously likely to be very prolonged,” the defense replied. “In the meantime, Mr. Assange would be detained in the conditions of isolation identified by the defense expert witnesses—and in any event—in an alien and hostile environment far from his family.”It was not immediately clear how the High Court responded to the “assurances” put forward by the U.S. government well after the extradition request was litigated in September 2020.Moris spoke to the press outside the High Court after the decision. She had visited Assange at the Belmarsh high-security prison in the morning.“The U.S. government should have accepted the magistrates’ court’s decision. Instead, it keeps this case going,” Moris declared.She contended the case is falling apart because the U.S. Justice Department’s key witness, Siggi Thordarson, “admits he lied in exchange for immunity from U.S. prosecutors.” o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Workers,_Businesses_Show_Support_for_Striking_Frito-Lay Workers_in_Kansas⠀⇛ Support and solidarity from community members and labor advocates around the world are buoying the spirits of hundreds of Frito-Lay workers who walked off the job at a Kansas plant this week over what they say are intolerable forced overtime hours, low pay, and other alleged abuses. Around 600 employees began striking just after midnight Monday at snack giant Frito-Lay’s Topeka plant, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal. They have been picketing outside the plant ever since, holding signs with messages including “Mandatory Overtime—Where is my family time?” and “Cost of living goes up while our pay stays the same.” # ⚓ You_decide_Is_Putin_running_an_illiberal_democracy_or_a mafia_state?_Maxim_Trudolyubov_grapples_with_the_many_labels given_to_Russia_today.⠀⇛ Thanks to numerous journalistic investigations (such as Proekt’s recent profile of Russia’s top cop, Vladimir Kolokoltsev) the private life of the Russian state has long ceased to be a secret. We see that Russian officials live a double life — they present themselves to the public as ordinary civil servants, while hiding their economic interests. We know that journalists who shed light on this, as well as opposition figures, may become victims of persecution and may even face attempts on their lives. But officially, Russia remains a democracy with separation of powers, political parties, and elections, and a government that fights against corruption and prides itself on economic stability. How does one live with the feeling that there’s a huge gap between what’s painted on the facade and what’s happening behind it? And what kind of political regime has developed in this context? Meduza “Ideas” editor Maxim Trudolyubov grapples with the many labels used to describe Russia’s political system. # ⚓ The_Life_of_an_Essential_Activist:_Maggie_Phair,_1930- 2021⠀⇛ Maggie’s activist career began at San Fernando High School when she brought the director of the Urban League to challenge racial slurs made by a teacher against Japanese, who had just been released from relocation camps. She challenged the discriminatory standards that enrolled all Chicano students in agriculture or home economics majors. She was a strong advocate for free speech, even for the bad guys. Soon after enrolling at UCLA she joined the Congress on Racial Equality, helped to desegregate Bullock’s Tearoom, and Bimini Baths, a popular swimming pool. Anti-racist work convinced her of the need for full employment, and for democratic socialism. It was there that she met lifelong friends Vern Davidson and David McReynolds while organizing for the socialist club on campus. # ⚓ Counter_demonstrators_disrupt_anti-violence_rally_in Tbilisi,_clash_with_police⠀⇛ On July 6, a rally took place in the center of Tbilisi in support of the journalists and LGBTQ+ activists who were injured during violent attacks by homophobic demonstrators the day before. Hundreds of people, including queer rights activists and their supporters, gathered outside of the Georgian parliament to protest the street violence that forced rights activists from Tbilisi Pride to cancel a “March of Dignity” planned for the day before. Counter demonstrators also gathered in the area, clashing with police and trying to break through the cordon that separated them from the solidarity rally. They threw stones at law enforcement officers and lit firecrackers. Dozens of people were detained and several police officers were injured. The police cleared the area after several hours — protestors from the anti-violence rally were escorted away in minibuses for safety reasons. According to OC Media, far-right demonstrators then reclaimed the space outside of the parliament and set fire to an EU flag they tore down from outside the building. # ⚓ On_700th_Day_of_House_Arrest,_Allies_Rally_for_Freedom_of Steven_Donziger⠀⇛ On the 700th day of Steven Donziger’s house arrest, supporters of the human rights attorney gathered outside his New York City apartment on Tuesday night to demand his release and to mourn the 2,000 residents of the Amazon rainforest who have died as a result of carcinogenic fossil fuel pollution. Donziger led the legal team, which represented more than 30,000 Indigenous people and farmworkers harmed by over three decades of oil drilling in Ecuador, that won a $9.5 billion judgement against Chevron in 2013 for deliberately dumping more than 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater and other hazardous pollutants in the delicate Amazonian ecosystem—resulting in a “rainforest Chernobyl” that has caused widespread suffering throughout the local population. # ⚓ FBI_Cites_Guidelines_That_Don’t_Actually_Forbid_Social Media_Monitoring_As_The_Reason_It_Was_Blindsided_By_The January_6_Attack⠀⇛ The FBI has spent thousands on social media monitoring software. These contracts are public, making it literally unbelievable the agency has managed to stave off FOIA requests by handing out “neither confirm nor deny” non-answers. A court didn’t buy the FBI’s excuse for its Glomar, pointing out that confirming public information would not give criminals a heads-up on surveillance software the FBI is currently using. # ⚓ Whistleblowers_Allege_Kids_Mistreated_by_ServePro Contractors_Hired_to_Oversee_Detention_Camp⠀⇛ Unaccompanied children held at an immigration detention camp in the Texas desert suffered substandard living conditions and mistreatment by contracted staff including employees of an emergency cleanup company, as well as neglect and indifference from Biden administration officials, according to a whistleblower complaint first reported Wednesday by NBC News’ Julia Ainsley. “The contractor providing direct supervision of the children in the dormitory tents—Servpro—is a fire and water damage repair company.”—Whistleblowers’ complaint # ⚓ Black_Girls_Matter⠀⇛ # ⚓ What_does_patriotism_really_mean?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Do_You_Live_in_the_Kanehili_or_Kauluokahai_Subdivisions?_We Have_Questions_About_the_Quality_of_Your_Homes.⠀⇛ I’m Rob Perez, a reporter at the Honolulu Star- Advertiser, working in partnership with the newsroom ProPublica. I’ve been reporting on people who got homes through the Hawaiian Homes program but are experiencing a variety of problems — sewage backups, cracking walls, poorly graded lots, faulty plumbing and more. The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands does not keep a public record of complaints, which means I need your help to understand what’s happening to you and your neighbors. I’d like to ask you some questions about how you like living in your home, neighborhood and community. We hope to hear from one person in each of the roughly 500 homes in Kanehili and Kauluokahai. This questionnaire should take you about 10-15 minutes. You can also call or text me anytime: 808- 479-2109. # ⚓ Can_protesters_in_Colombia_win_change?⠀⇛ o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Telecom_Watchdog_asks_DoT_to_stop_OneWeb,_Starlink_and Amazon_from_getting_free_5G_spectrum_through_backdoor⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ 36_states,_DC_sue_Google,_alleging_antitrust_violations_in app_store⠀⇛ The complaint alleges that Google shut-out potential competitors in Android app distribution through exclusionary contracts, technical barriers and “misleading” security warnings. Those moves allegedly limited app choices and drove up prices, ultimately hurting consumers. # ⚓ 37_AGs_Hit_Google,_‘Gatekeeper_of_Our_Digital_Devices,’ With_New_Antitrust_Lawsuit⠀⇛ Google and parent company Alphabet were hit with yet another federal antitrust lawsuit on Wednesday—this one filed in a San Francisco-based U.S. district court by the attorneys general of 36 states and Washington, D.C. “Through its illegal conduct, the company has ensured that hundreds of millions of Android users turn to Google, and only Google, for the millions of applications they may choose to download to their phones and tablets.”—New York Attorney General Letitia James # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ After_All_That,_Nintendo_Can’t_Even_Get_$50_A_Month Out_Of_RomUniverse⠀⇛ The saga of how RomUniverse, a site dedicated to offering ROMs for classic Nintendo games, came to its end is both frustrating and very dumb. Back in 2019, Nintendo launched a massive war on ROM sites, coinciding with the release of a mini version of Nintendo’s NES console. Eventually, the company’s sights turned to RomUniverse. Run solely by Matthew Storman, the site first tried and failed to crowdfund its legal expenses, made the lame argument that somehow the first sale doctrine meant that Storman could legally offer up digital versions of bought Nintendo games, only to see Storman represent himself in court and eventually lose. While Nintendo always had the law on its side, it was also true that sites like RomUniverse existed for a long, long time and Nintendo wasn’t injured enough by any of this for it to be on the radar prior to the ROM War of 2019. In fact, I would argue that ROM sites for a long, long time kept up the interest in these classic games that created a market for Nintendo’s classic console releases. # ⚓ Movie_Companies_Want_U.S._Internet_Provider ‘Frontier’_to_Block_Pirate_Sites⠀⇛ A group of independent movie companies want to hold Internet provider Frontier Communications liable for pirating subscribers. In addition to damages, the filmmakers request a site-blocking order, targeting The Pirate Bay, YTS, RARBG, and many others. As a bonus, the movie companies note that the most prolific pirates can be sued directly too. # ⚓ Hollyood_&_Netflix_Sue_Repeat_Pirate_IPTV_Operator For_Massive_Copyright_Infringement⠀⇛ In 2020, the operator of pirate IPTV service Area 51 shut down under pressure from the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment. After the service was resurrected several times in breach of a settlement agreement, a coalition of Hollywood studios, with the addition of Amazon and Netflix, have now filed a massive copyright infringement and breach of contract lawsuit. # ⚓ Thordarson’s_Fabrications:_Another_Hole_in_the_Julian Assange_Prosecution⠀⇛ The case against Assange could have been thrown out under any number of grounds. Unfortunately, the judgment halting his extradition to the US on 17 charges based on the Espionage Act and one charge of computer intrusion was framed in purposely narrow terms, ignoring the patently political nature of the proceedings.  Were it not for District Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s January 4 ruling accepting the state of his precarious health, risk of suicide and the dangerous conditions he would face in the US legal system, the publisher would no doubt be facing special administrative measures and, most likely, the life-sucking interior of a supermax. A central, and impairing problem in the ruling, was its comfortable acceptance of virtually everything submitted by the prosecution, including the contention that Assange was no journalist, and that he conspired with various associates to hack and make off with classified material.  The judgment also refused to consider – given the ongoing investigation in Spain against the security firm UC Global – that the Central Intelligence Agency had compromised the legal credibility of proceedings by bugging Assange’s privileged conversations in the Ecuadorian embassy.  “This court has no access to the information discovered from this investigation,” reasoned a dismissive Baraitser.  Sordid proposals by US intelligence officials to abduct or assassinate Assange, adduced in court by two anonymous witnesses formerly in the employ of UC Global, could be dismissed as having no bearing on the case. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 7148 ➮ Generation completed at 02:40, i.e. 58 seconds to (re)generate ⟲