𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, July 15, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Fri 16 Jul 02:39:53 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/2021/07/15/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmbsFe5ziGquRqcXLGJdSnXGNu2hM1SfSeL88yE4KoNHRm QmXWM739fasQ1QSDPyf7CYGbRzny4RnfstXa97sZoavDtt QmYUKcuZUTw2RX354YZb7KS96QRvrYWBnM9Hc9ECWTxtmZ QmVYKhmzZnA5jSxg73EHK44EQHX2gPMHdJdswiX4sm36VV QmTzjhticCFGYFAPo3w1Yq3BFKqFQ9wkJFVZpCGyhdTYVL 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╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/15/campinos-nepotism/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/15/campinos-nepotism/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.15.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ [Meme]_Couldn’t_Even_Qualify_for_Management_at_GAP⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 1:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_President;_'There's_a_gap'⦈_ Summary: António_Campinos as EPO manager is truly_awful and he only got the job because of nepotism ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠀⠰⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢠⣶⣶⣶⡄⣶⣶⣶⣶⡦⣶⡆⠀⣶⡆⣶⣶⣶⣦⡀⣶⡆⢠⣶⣶⣶⡄⢠⣶⣶⣶⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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many new articles today. We’re moving_to_optical_fibre/ fiber_later_today. This will help Techrights in a number of different ways. We had lots of issues with our connection in recent months, mostly due to capacity limits. That sometimes meant that it would take hours just to upload a video. Backups could take days. Well, after these incidents (that we covered earlier this year) I’ve managed to convince them to charge me even less for the fibre than they charge for copper. It’s about 30 pounds a month inclusive of everything and it’ll address the hassle associated with hosting some things from home (low-bandwidth stuff like Gemini, not videos). “We’ve learned to assume risk of DDOS, SLAPP, and other gagging attempts (when outsourcing to platforms such as Medium, YouTube and Twitter people risk censorship by a private corporation which can do almost anything it wants without legal consequences).”Doing Techrights over IPFS, Gemini, IRC, and Web servers isn’t easy because there are many moving parts to keep track of. But when one is down the others are likely to remain up (more so if they’re decentralised) and in IRC’s case we have multiple networks connected by a bridge. We’re actually quite unique in that regard. We’ve learned to assume risk of DDOS, SLAPP, and other gagging attempts (when outsourcing to platforms such as Medium, YouTube and Twitter people risk censorship by a private corporation which can do almost anything it wants without legal consequences). 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇IPFS at Techrights⦈ I should definitely mention that there’s a very serious problem with this video (the one above), as will soon become evident to those who watch it (like the moment I realised what had happened). For a period of about 5 minutes I was showing something on the screen, but the focus was not shifted to the screen so instead it shows me talking to the screen, unaware that it is recording me instead of the screen. But given the nature of what I was showing, it’s possible to imagine more or less what I was trying to show and get the key message regardless (similar to what’s shown on the right; that’s in Firefox). I watched the video (which I very rarely do after recording) just to ensure I didn’t do anything too embarrassing. It’s strange, but not unacceptable. I’ve left is all in tact. As the clothing indicates, it has gotten hotter in Manchester lately. Maybe later this week we’ll exceed_the_temperature of the warmest day of the year so far (the day shown blow; highest temperature was 25 in the shade that day, so we hiked outdoors). █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Highland_cows_and_sheep⦈_ Feeding a calf (a special breed of cow) in_Manchester a few weeks ago ⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣸⠉⠩⡃⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉ ⡗⠀⠀⢸⠀⡟⡄⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⢺⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠐⠼⠆⠀⠀⠀⡏⣀⣸⠀⠀⠀⢩⣿⡐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⢿⣧⡶⠀⡒⡖⢴⢲⠂⡶⠀⡆⡖⠄⣹⢵⡶⡖⡗⣶⠒⢒⣒⡷⢶⠲⡶⠶⠶⠤⣀⡀⢈⠶ ⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠤⠂⠀⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠿⠇⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡸⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⠞⠁⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⣠⣦⣶⡿⠗⠒ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⢸⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣧⣴ ⠀⢨⢘⡂⣈⠏⠆⡎⡆⣆⡾⠰⢸⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣶⣿⣷⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣧⣀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⠛⢻⡆⢸⡟⠛⠃⢰⡟⠛⠷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⡇⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣽⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⠶⠞⠃⢸⡟⠛⠃⢈⡙⠛⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣲⣇⡟⠀⠀⠨⣿⣨⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣷⣶ 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http://techrights.org/2021/07/15/epo-working-group-on-teleworking/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/15/epo-working-group-on-teleworking/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.15.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Staff_Elements_in_Working_Group_on_Teleworking_Explain_Lies_From_EPO Management,_Which_Isn’t_Working_(Only_Robbing_and_Stealing_From_the_EPO)⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 12:46 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Looks like someone needs a little more bossing⦈ Maybe there is a productivity “gap” somewhere… Summary: A new document shows what sort of incompetent and aloof bunch of people run Europe’s second-largest institution; they lack empathy and they exploit COVID-19 to crush staff, mostly based on deliberate distortions and lies The Central Staff Committee (CSC) of the EPO circulated a letter today and someone passed us a copy to study. They had met the King ‘Gap’inos regarding home working, seeing that the COVID-19 problem is far from over (nor is the Benoît_Battistelli problem anywhere near over). The cynicism from the CSC can be understood in light of recent events. There is no sincere social dialogue and ‘Gap’inos did not prepare for this meeting. Maybe he thinks that just lying back, pretending to listen, can magically solve profound issues. The meeting is very recent and so is the report. They probably wanted to get it out there as soon as possible. Here’s the whole thing: Munich, 15-07-2021 sc21097cp – 0.2.1/4.4 § Working Group on Teleworking Report on the first meeting of 14 July 2021⠀➾ The meeting was the first opportunity ever for the staff representation to discuss directly the proposal for a teleworking scheme revealed in broad terms for the first time on 11 June 2021 in CA/38/21 (page 17). The administration had tabled neither an agenda nor supportive documents and presented themselves as being in listening mode. We decided to structure the meeting along the lines of our letter 1 of 22 June 2021 which was never answered. 1. Mandate of the Working Group A_teleworking_policy_for_the_mid-term The administration intends to discuss a mid-term policy to be submitted to the Administrative Council meeting of December 2021 for implementation at the end of January 2022, essentially: A maximum of 80% of the working time for working remotely within the country of employment, of which time a maximum of 60 working days from another EPC contracting state. The possibility to work remotely 80% of the working time remotely from any other host state (hence among Netherlands, Germany, Austria or Belgium) was not on the table. The administration explained that: • the maximum of 80% of the working time was set in order to maximize coverage of teleworking patterns wished by staff according to the Willis Towers Watson survey results and that “extreme cases of full teleworking could not be taken on board”, • the maximum of 60 working days from another EPC contracting state was set with the aim “to limit issues with the criteria of 6 months in most EPC member states for defining the place of residence if teleworking from another EPC contracting state were combined with other kinds of leave” The mid-term policy would be optional for opt-in/opt-out (namely on a voluntary basis) and could take effect from January 2022. The administration assured however that the emergency guidelines giving more flexibility for teleworking would be extended “if the pandemic situation requires”. The administration did not specify which authority would be considered for defining the end of the pandemic for the EPO. _____ 1 “Preparation of the first meeting of the Working Group on Teleworking”, Letter of the CSC WG nominees to the President, 22 June 2021 (sc21082cl) ===================================================================== A review of the mid-term policy would take place after 1 or 2 years of implementation and should hence be seen as a “pilot” for comparing staff wishes with their actual behaviour. Clear_rules_for_opt-in_and_opt-out_fully_explaining_the_consequences? The administration agreed that clear rules for opt-in and opt-out would be essential for line managers and their staff. The administration assured that saving on office space and expenditure is not their concern ”in view of the very good results of the Office” and distanced themselves from the policy of the European Commission closing half of its buildings in Brussels2 : “We have no such constraints. Everybody would be free to come to the Office”. The buildings would however need to be organised to ensure that team members coming to the buildings are close together and not isolated as is currently the case: “Those coming frequently would keep their office, those coming less frequently would have to be flexible and won’t have a designated personal office.” We warned that some line managers were putting pressure on their teleworking team members by threatening them to come back to their office. The administration assured that no arbitrary decision on teleworking should be made by line managers. We requested a fast conflict resolution panel for dealing with situations in which a colleague’s request for opt-in/opt-out is arbitrarily rejected. Maintaining_a_sense_of_belonging_in_a_hybrid_environment The administration explained that the frequency of presence in the Office should be both flexible and match the needs of the teams. Line managers will have to discuss with their team how and when they can meet in the Office on a regular basis. This opportunity will be given by the compulsory 20% of presence at work. Reference was made to the Boards of Appeals who consider that they should constantly be in Munich. We warned that, if the administration were to impose a compulsory presence of 1 day per week in the Office, it would deter employees from settling far away from their place of employment. Such a frequency should not be left to managerial discretion. The administration rejected such a frequency for the time being and assured to find a sensible solution to the problem. Reference was made to the EU agencies who impose to link teleworking from the home country with annual leave. Special_challenge_on_health_and_safety_of_staff We explained that teleworking in a virtual environment represents a special challenge for the Office on the health and safety of staff. The administration replied that any actual challenge is rather a consequence of the pandemic and should not be linked to teleworking. We insisted that our only experience with massive teleworking may indeed be linked to the pandemic but the challenge after the pandemic should not be underestimated. 2. Content and outcome of consultation Expectations_management The Willis Towers Watson survey proposed 5 teleworking scenarios one of them consisting of full teleworking from any EPC member state. Staff therefore expected that the mid-term policy would offer this possibility and some even started to sell their house and move to another EPC member state. _____ 2 https://www.politico.eu/article/european-commission-to-close-half- of-its-buildings-as-teleworking- becomes-the-new-norm/ ===================================================================== The administration replied that “such a decision is a major step and a pre-emptive action [...] it is not a smart way to put the Office in a situation where it is then asked to help”. Consultation_of_member_states As announced in the report on the Administrative Council meeting of June, “[s]everal delegations [...] expressed caution over the scope for working from another member state” in particular the host states of Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. The administration replied that the corresponding Ministries of Foreign Affairs were contacted and actually have no issues with the proposals: “there was a problem with the communication flow between the ministries and the delegates [...] this is beyond the reach of the Office” The administration explained that DG5 is in discussion with Member States to clarify concerns on the length of stay in a country and taxation: “in most EPC contracting states a criteria of 6 months is used to determine the place of residence [...] a staff member may be considered to be resident in that other EPC contracting state and may lose some privileges.” The administration made it clear that “teleworking is a shared responsibility between the employee and the Office [...] the Office cannot take control of what staff does and just has the duty_to_inform_staff about the rules applying in the country from which they telework”. A_new_survey? After almost 2 years of “emergency” teleworking, staff may have changed their perception of teleworking. We thus requested a new survey to obtain adequate feedback from staff on the now proposed mid-term policy. The results would help the Office to know whether the assumption of an average of 50% daily building occupancy is realistic (CA/38/21, pages 32, 33 and 35). The administration rejected our request for a new survey and argued that “surveys can create confusion”. We consider that this is indeed the case only for surveys which ask an opinion on an offer (like full teleworking) which is thereafter not on the table anymore. The administration only accepted to consider the possibility of a new survey in 1 or 2 years at the stage of reviewing the mid-term teleworking policy. For the time being, the administration invited us to give feedback from staff. We pointed out the inherent contradiction of this invitation in view of the fact that staff representation still has no access to mass-emails for this purpose. The Working Group on Resources for Staff Committee is still waiting for the revised Circular 356 with a “Memorandum of Understanding on mass-emails” which was promised for June. 3. Overview of the savings made by the Office under the “emergency” teleworking guidelines On_buildings The “emergency” teleworking guidelines put in place on March 2020 in view of the pandemic together with a building occupancy rate capped at 15% significantly increased the number of staff members working from home (80% on average per day) compared to the Part-Time Home Working Scheme (13% on average per day). We referred to our letter pointing out that this led to significant savings made by the Office. The administration argued it had a look at the figures and concluded that: “Part-Time Home Working did not bring real savings, the savings made now were solely due to the pandemic and they were even less than expected”. ===================================================================== Management referred to air conditioning which needs to be continuously switched on (to reduce potential virus concentration) regardless of the building occupancy and argued that there was an increase of expenditure in IT equipment and facility management. In their view, no savings (or small savings only) are foreseen with the mid-term policy because all staff members may work from their office if they wish so. Along this line, the administration assured that no building would be sold and therefore the maintenance costs of these need to be considered into the calculation. In addition, this would be the most generous teleworking scheme among international organisations. Therefore, no compensation for staff working from home can be considered. On_sick_leave We argued that savings due to facility costs is only one aspect, savings due to increased production and reduced absenteeism cannot be neglected either. We cited as an example that sick leave decreased because staff does not register sickness if they work from home. This has a positive impact on both the office savings in general and our medical self-insurance. Management again linked it to the pandemic (e.g. postponement of treatment) and pretended that PTHW had a minimal impact on sick leave registration. In their view, 2020 and 2021 are exceptional years which are not comparable. On_canteens We requested a compensation for the unused subsidies caused by the closure of the canteens. The administration said it found “astonishing that EPO colleagues organize a crowdfunding action for a service provider whose employees are still employed3, but those EPO colleagues are not willing to pay one Euro more to ensure better food or working conditions to those employees [...] we don’t want to compensate cent for cent – this exercise would bring us nowhere.” (sic!) The administration then closed the debate by replying clearly that: “teleworking is an offer to colleagues to work from where they work best [...] it is the employee’s decision and thus the employee shall entail the costs”. 4. Follow-up For the next meeting foreseen in September, we expect the administration to provide us with a draft circular for a mid-term teleworking scheme. The CSC nominees in the Working Group on Teleworking _____________ 3 To our knowledge, a majority of Genusszeit employees are either unemployed or under Kurzarbeit. The situation is worse for Leonardi employees who are mostly unemployed The number of lies from Office management is astounding (and of very shallow/ low quality). 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[Meme]_Not_All_‘Linux’_is_Equal⠀✐ Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Kernel at 12:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Tree_Swing_Story:_GNU/Linux,_Linux,_Systemd,_ChromeOS, Android,_LineageOS,_'Clowd',_Serverless,_RHEL,_CentOS,_Marketing,_Microsoft vapourware_⦈_ Summary: As Thomas Grzybowski reminds us, Free_(libre)_software_freedom_is_not Linux 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Jai_Chiranjeeva:_Free_as_in_freedom;_freedom?_That's_right!⦈ ⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣛⠛⢻⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢛⠛⢻⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢛⠛⣻⡟⠛⠟⠛⠛⠛⢛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⡟⠛⠿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⣛⠛⣿⡟⠛⠻⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢛⠛⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠓⠛⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠓⠚⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠒⠂⢐⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠈⠛⠓⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⠒⠊⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠓⠒⠃⣸⣿ ⣿⠈⢲⣆⠠⡄⣀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡿⣿⣿⠈⢲⣆⠠⠄⣀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡿⣿⣿⠈⢲⣆⢠⠄⡀⠀⣀⣼⣿⡿⣿⡇⠉⣶⡄⢠⢀⡀⠀⣠⣾⣿⠿⣿⡇⠑⣶⡀⢤⢀⡀⠀⣠⣾⣿⢿⣿⡇⠑⣶⡀⠤⢀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⢿⣿ ⣿⠁⢀⣠⠀⢰⣿⠀⠿⠿⠛⡃⠈⣿⠁⢀⣬⠀⢸⣿⠠⠿⠿⢟⡃⠈⣿⠀⢀⣌⠀⢸⣿⠰⠿⠿⢛⡀⢹⡏⠈⣀⣌⠀⢼⡧⠸⠿⠿⢛⠀⢹⡏⠈⣐⡄⠀⣾⡇⠼⠿⠟⢛⠀⢹⡏⠀⣠⡅⠀⣿⡇⠾⠿⠟⢋⠀⢻ ⣿⣶⣶⣆⠀⠈⢁⡆⣾⣷⣿⣿⣷⣿⣶⣶⢀⠀⠈⢁⢰⣾⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⢰⢄⠀⠈⢡⢰⣾⡄⣿⣿⣾⣷⣶⣶⡄⠀⠈⢡⣶⣿⣾⣿⣿⣾⣷⣶⣦⡀⠀⠉⣰⣶⣿⣾⣿⣿⣾⣷⣶⣦⡀⠀⠉⣰⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢸⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣸⠀⠀⣸⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣾⢸⠀⠀⡼⣼⣿⡇⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡷⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢠⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣽⡇⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⣿⣾⣶⣶⣇⣿⣿⡧⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢨⣿⣿⣿⣧⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢸⠀⢀⠀⠀⠙⣻⣿ 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Summary: The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is making “COMPENSATION CLAIM” for some of the many abuses of corrupt EPO management, which is well overdue for some punishment; instead, as SUEPO warns, there’s risk that the credibility of the whole institution will collapse, including the complicit council’s (administered by what EPO staff calls “Mafia” because of its modus operandi) THE staff union, or SUEPO Central to be precise (overseeing operations in all the branches and representing 3,000-4,000 members of EPO staff), is seeking compensation from EPO President Gap_Campinos, who continues to protect Benoît Battistelli and cover up his_crimes (which he further exploits and sometimes extends). While trafficking billions of euros from the EPO to some dodgy gambling account he has the audacity to lecture_staff_about_a_budget_"gap". Based on correspondence we saw, SUEPO takes it a step further in_a_number_of directions_right_now. Yes, in parallel. The attack on labour rights is one thing; the attack on workers’ and pensioners’ compensation is another. To quote SUEPO: “In its 132nd session, the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILOAT) ruled on the strike regulations of the EPO. The ILOAT expressed in several Judgments on exemplary complaints that effectively the entire legal framework intended to curb strikes in the EPO is unlawful.” Suffice to say, quite frankly as usual, all the media was silent about it, but there are some good blog comments here (they also connect these EPO crimes to what’s happening with Team UPC). “In this letter to Mr Campinos,” SUEPO writes, “we request him to execute the judgments and that accordingly Circular 347 is quashed ab initio. For the reason that all EPO staff was deprived of their right to strike with unjustified salary deductions, we request that the outcome of the judgments 4430, 4432, 4433, 4434, 4435 is applied to all.” We showed_the_first_page_of_each_(last_week). “Finally,” SUEPO writes, “we urge Mr Campinos to propose to the Administrative Council the withdrawal of the decision CA/D 5/13 ex tunc. Such a decision in the upcoming meeting on 13 October 2021 could at least avoid another embarrassment for the Organisation in front of the Tribunal in Geneva.” In order for European citizens to understand the corrupt forces pushing the UPC, here’s a letter that helps explain the total disregard for the law and constitutions. 14 July 2021 su21017cl – 0.2.1-0.3.1-5.1 Mr António Campinos President of the European Patent Office ISAR – Room 1081 OPEN LETTER Reparation of the damage caused by the unlawful strike regulations Dear Mr Campinos, In its 132nd session, the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILOAT) ruled on the strike regulations of the EPO. The ILOAT expressed in several Judgments on exemplary complaints that effectively the entire legal framework intended to curb strikes in the EPO is unlawful. The judges emphasised: It has long been recognised that staff of international organisations have a right to strike and that generally it is lawful to exercise that right.1 They ruled inter alia:2 • Circular No. 347 (Circular on Strikes) is set aside. • “Go slow” and “work to rule” are legitimate forms of industrial action protected by the ordinary conception of the right to strike. • Imposing a minimum of 10% of employees who may call for a strike violates the right to strike. • The requirement that the vote be conducted by the Office violates the right to strike. • The time limit placed on the duration of strike violates the right to strike. • Being on strike must not be stigmatised as an unauthorised absence from work. A salary deduction on this basis is unlawful. • The deduction of 1/20 of salary for each day a member of staff is on strike is considered punitive and thus not lawful. In your first official meeting with SUEPO representatives on 5 December 2018, the above rules for strike were on the agenda. You confirmed your readiness for looking at them together with us with the intention of settling pending cases and finding a modus vivendi reflecting a staff union’s prerogative for organising a strike. But to date nothing in this respect has happened! ______ 1 Judgment No. 4430, consideration 13 2 Judgments Nos. 4430, 4433, 4435 ===================================================================== It is true that the regulations were introduced under your predecessor. However, you have to accept the consequences of continuing to entrust the fate of the EPO to the advisors of the time. Thus, the full responsibility for the serious loss of reputation caused for the EPO now lies solely with you. What was once a model organisation for Europe has revealed itself as an institution that has breached the fundamental rights of its employees – for more than eight years. ILOAT stated3: “Employees who strike by ceasing work are deploying a tool incidental to collective bargaining to place pressure on their employer, often in the context of a dispute about preserving or improving wages and working conditions, workplace safety, dismissals and freedom of association amongst other things. It is a tool employees have to redress the imbalance of power between them and their employer. Absent a right to strike, it is open to an employer to ignore entreaties by employees advanced collectively to consider, let alone respond to, their grievances about wages and working conditions etc.” We request that you execute the judgments and that accordingly Circular 347 is quashed ab initio. For the reason that all EPO staff was deprived of their right to strike with unjustified salary deductions, we request that the outcome of the judgments is applied to all. In particular, we request that, 1. Judgment 4430 be applied to all EPO staff who were deprived of their right to participate in the SUEPO strike of July 2013 2. Judgment 4433 be applied to all EPO staff who was considered on unauthorised absence for participating in the SUEPO strike of July 2013, 3. Judgments 4432 and 4434 be applied to all EPO staff active at the time of the events who were deprived of their right to vote in strike ballots 4. Judgment 4435 be applied to all EPO staff who had excessive strike deductions of 1/20th since 1 July 2013 In this respect, we request that the management reviews against strike deductions based on the salary slips of January 2021 are allowed immediately to avoid an increase in the workload of the appeals committee on a matter which has been ruled by the Tribunal already. Finally, we urge you to propose to the Administrative Council the withdrawal of the decision sCA/D 5/13 ex tunc. Such a decision in the upcoming meeting on 13 October 2021 could at least avoid another embarrassment for the Organisation in front of the Tribunal in Geneva. Yours sincerely, Johannes Schaaf Deputy Chairman of SUEPO Central ______ 3 Judgment No. 4430 UPC propaganda mills of litigation firms (e.g. Managing ‘IP’) are doing a rally/marathon of manufactured/fake optimism, but guess what… there are challenges on the way and they know it. Their jingoism is part of the lobbying strategy, which is not entirely novel. We invite EPO insiders to join our fight against the unjust, unlawful and unconstitutional UPC, which seeks to extend the same corrupt elements they see inside the Office to courts outside BoA. It’s a coup, it’s a long siege, and it targets the wallets of Europeans. Working for a “law firm” does not by definition imply you work to protect or uphold the law. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣯⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣽⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣝⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠯⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡿⣦⣠⢾⡇⢸⡇⢸⢷⡄⢸⡇⢸⡏⠉⢳⡄⠀⠀⠉⢹⠉⠁⣿⣀⣀⣿⠀⣿⣉⡉⠀⠀⢠⡞⠉⠉⠃⠀⢰⠿⡆⠀⢸⡏⢹⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠈⠃⢸⡇⢸⡇⢸⠀⠙⣾⡇⢸⣇⣀⣼⠃⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⣿⠉⠉⣿⠀⣿⣉⣁⠀⠀⠸⣆⡀⢹⡇⢠⡿⠶⢿⡄⢸⡏⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠈⠁⠈⠁⠈⠀⠀⠈⠁⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠉⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠁⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣿⣹⠇⣿⣉⢹⡏⢹⣇⣿⢸⠇⣿⡁⣿⡁⣿⣼⡇⣼⡇⢀⡟⡇⢿⢸⡇⣿⢰⢸⣿⡄⣿⣸⢸⡏⣿⢰⢸⣏⡇⣿⣹⠆⡿⣇⢸⡿⠇⢹⡏⢸⡇⣿⠹⠆⣿⡡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⡇⣿⣤⢸⡇⠘⣿⢹⣿⠀⣿⡄⣿⡄⣿⢻⡇⣿⣧⣼⡗⣿⢸⣿⢻⡟⡜⣼⢺⡇⡏⢿⢸⣧⡿⢸⢸⡏⡆⣿⢸⣶⡗⣿⢸⣷⡆⢸⡇⢸⡇⢿⣰⠆⣿⡄⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢶⣷⣾⣷⣶⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣷⣾⣿⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣷⣾⣳⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢴⣤⣌⠻⣦⡀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣝⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣌⡙⣷⡈⣿⡄⠀⢸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⡙⣷⠸⣷⢸⣧⠀⢸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣽⣿⣟⣻⣟⣛⣿⣿⣽⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣽⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⠋⢸⡇⣿⡇⣿⢨⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣇⣠⡿⣱⡿⢰⡟⣸⡇⠀⢸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣻⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⣤⣄⣉⣭⣶⠟⣰⡟⢱⡟⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣯⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢴⣤⣉⣉⣥⣴⠾⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣯⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣭⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⣀⣈⣉⣉⣉⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1073 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.15.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_15/7/2021:_Netflix_in_Gaming_(DRM)⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Lenovo_repair_center_returned_my_laptop._BIOS_update immediately_bricks_Windows_10.⠀⇛ Well, I got my ThinkBook 15 Gen2 ITS laptop back from the Lenovo repair center in Texas yesterday. Unfortunately, it seems they either wiped the SSD or replaced it. Sometimes they solder everything in and have to replace everything, and the dumb thing about this is that the whole thing happened over a USB port failing. So I get the thing back and set it up and then realize that the BIOS has been reverted to the 1.05 release that shipped with the ThinkBook 15 Gen2 ITL back in November of last year, so I updated it to the 1.12 BIOS that Lenovo recommends, which includes many bug fixes, not the least of which is to mitigate some RowHammer exploits, which are rather nasty and yet another one of the lulz that malware writers are exploiting now. With operating systems in general tending to become more secure, they’ll take what they can get, and such attacks are no longer theoretical. People really need to mitigate before the damage happens. Once you’re actively exploited, it’s too late. Unfortunately, the same BIOS version that updated the older motherboard just fine bricked Windows 10 with an “Inaccessible Boot Drive” Blue Screen of Death. Since the repair center returned it to me without any of my data on it anyway, I booted off a recovery stick and told it to “Reset This PC” from the built-in recovery partition (although I could have used the stick too since I always back up system files and make a new stick image whenever there’s a major new Windows update out. I don’t feel that we should be running into issues like this with supported BIOS updates and the supported OS, but that’s Microsoft and Lenovo for you. Just, thank God nothing important got messed up. If you are going to update the BIOS on these things, do it while you still have a warranty and preferably before you do anything else with the PC, and be prepared to recover the OS. [...] Microsoft claims to have stringent “Windows Hardware Quality Labs” standards for drivers that end up in Windows Update, and to be fair, unless you are having a problem or know what you’re doing, you might be best off leaving it alone, but in reality it gives you the driver that time forgot, sometimes it’s not even important (my backup hard drive works fine without the SES driver), and under no circumstances should old drivers interfere with important security features. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ 6_Must-Have_Open-Source_Tools_to_Secure_Your_Linux_Server⠀⇛ Tech geeks often tout Linux as the most secure operating system, especially compared to the mainstream proprietary ones like Windows and macOS. While that’s true for the most part, Linux doesn’t offer you a secure environment by default. Linux server’s security largely depends on what methods you adhere to and the tools you have deployed on your system to help it withstand viruses, malware, and other malicious attacks. Nothing’s invincible; for this very reason, it is practical to secure your Linux server with the best open-source security tools in the market. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Linux_Link_Tech_Show_Episode_914⠀⇛ joycon fixing, audacity, star wars # ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_638:_Bufferbloat_and_Beyond_–_Dave_Taht⠀⇛ Dave Taht is one of the Internet’s unsung (but singing) heroes, and is doing more than anyone today to rescue your Internet connection from something you haven’t heard of, but should: bufferbloat. On FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett spend an information-packed hour with Dave, digging deep into bloated network buffers, bureaucracies, corporate failings, and slow but real progress against all of those, much of it with Dave’s leadership. # ⚓ We_Have_Perfected_Tiling_Window_Manager_Rices⠀⇛ People occasionally ask me about my Linux rice and I really don’t know what to say, Tiling Window Managers have basically been perfected and they all look the same, sure color schemes will be different but the general design is all the same. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ AMD_Zen_3_APU_Temperature_Monitoring_Narrowly_Misses_Linux 5.14⠀⇛ Landing into “hwmon-next” just after the Linux 5.14-rc1 tagging that marks the formal end to feature work for the current cycle was the k10temp driver adding support for AMD Zen 3 APU temperature monitoring under Linux. The k10temp driver already has support for Zen 3 desktop CPUs and even Zen 3 SP3/Threadripper CPUs with the necessary model IDs in place, but unfortunately the Zen 3 Ryzen APU model ID was missing until the commit on late Sunday. The change is rather trivial and namely just adding the Family 19h Model 50 bits in place for allowing this k10temp thermal driver to work for Zen 3 APUs. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Some_ways_to_get_(or_not_get)_information_about_system memory_ranges_on_Linux⠀⇛ What’s clear is that in general, a modern x86 machine’s physical memory ranges are quite complicated. There are historical bits and pieces, ACPI and other data that is in RAM but must be preserved, PCI(e) windows, and other things. # ⚓ Filtering_spam_using_Rspamd_and_OpenSMTPD_on_OpenBSD⠀⇛ I recently used Spamassassin to get ride of the spam I started to receive but it proved to be quite useless against some kind of spam so I decided to give rspamd a try and write about it. rspamd can filter spam but also sign outgoing messages with DKIM, I will only care about the anti spam aspect. # ⚓ How_to_install_Netstat_on_Linux⠀⇛ Netstat is a Linux tool that system admins use for analyzing network stats. It comes in handy when you’re trying to take a deeper look at your Linux machine and how it is handling networking. In this guide, we’ll show you how to install Netstat on your Linux PC. # ⚓ Self_Hosted,_WEB_Photo_Organizer_With_Photoprism_and Raspberry_PI⠀⇛ With Smartphone camera quality increasing, thousands of photo files live spread in our hard drives, sometime without a unified organization. # ⚓ How_to_Install_LEMP_Stack_on_Rocky_Linux_8⠀⇛ LEMP is a popular stack that comprises open-source software that is collectively used to host and serve web applications, whether in production or any stage along the development cycle. The terminology LEMP is an acronym for Linux, Nginx (pronounced as Engine X, hence the E) which is a web browser, MariaDB or MySQL – database, and PHP for processing dynamic content). LEMP stack is popularly used for hosting high-traffic and highly scalable web applications and websites. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Mono_on_Ubuntu [Ed: Microsoft poison pill inside GNU/Linux]⠀⇛ Mono is the OpenSource implementation of the Microsoft .NET software stack. It is based on ECMA/ ISO standards and implements the C# programming language and the Common Language Runtime. To find out more about Mono, have a look at the Mono project website. # ⚓ How_to_Change_Hostname_in_Ubuntu_/_Linux_a_guide_for beginners_2021⠀⇛ Are you looking to change hostname in Linux? That is a good idea. But do you know “What is hostname? Why do you want to change hostname? or How to change hostname in Ubuntu or other Linux Operating System. In simple word, the hostname is a computer name of your laptop of desktop or other devices have Linux OS. If you remember, you set the hostname/computer name at a time when you were installing Ubuntu. But now, You don’t like that hostname by any reason and want to change it without restarting Ubuntu system. Yes you can change hostname easily by using the command line as well as using GUI (Graphical Interface) This article completely for beginners, because I cover how to change hostname by using GUI and What to do after changing the hostname. # ⚓ How_to_Install_OwnCloud_to_Create_Own_Cloud_Storage_in Linux⠀⇛ Cloud storage stands for a virtualized pool of network storage most commonly hosted by third parties. Cloud storage is a network-based service that physically does not exist but remains somewhere in the cloud. To be more clear, cloud storage means sharing data over a network, rather than having local servers or personal devices. Cloud storage is all around us in our smartphones, on desktops and servers, etc. The Dropbox application which is now available on smartphones is nothing but a cloud storage application. Google Drive is another cloud storage application that lets you store and access your stored data from anywhere and anytime. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_Nmap_on_Ubuntu_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ Nmap is a very popular free and open-source network security tool and port scanner. It designed to perform security scans and discover hosts on a network by sending different packets to them and then analyzing their responses. Nmap was named “Security Product of the Year” by Linux Journal, Info World, LinuxQuestions.Org, and Codetalker Digest. featured in twelve movies, including The Matrix Reloaded, Die Hard 4, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and The Bourne Ultimatum. # ⚓ How_to_Install_minio_S3_Object_Storage_on_Ubuntu_21.04_– Unixcop⠀⇛ Minio is an Amazon s3 compatible high-performance object storage service. It is an open-source application released under Apache License v2.0 that supports unstructured data such as images, videos, backup, etc. written in GO that uses buckets to organize the object.A bucket is similar to a folder or directory in a filesystem, where each bucket can hold an arbitrary number of objects We will install and configure self-hosted Minio object storage in Linux. For a demonstration of the example in the article, I have used Ubuntu 21.04. # ⚓ How_to_Set_Up_Postfix_SMTP_Relay_on_Debian_with_Sendinblue –_LinuxBabe⠀⇛ This tutorial is going to show you how to set up Postfix SMTP relay with Sendinblue on Debian. Postfix is a popular open-source SMTP server. Previously I wrote an article on how to easily set up a full-blown email server on Debian with iRedMail, which helped a lot of readers run their own email servers. However, some readers told me that port 25 is blocked by hosting provider/ISP as a way to control email spam, so they couldn’t send emails. Vultr would unblock port 25 if you ask them to, and ScalaHosting doesn’t block port 25 at all, so I recommend using ScalaHosting VPS. Some other hosting providers/ISPs like DigitalOcean would refuse to unblock port 25. # ⚓ How_to_Take_Screenshots_in_Incognito_Mode_in_Android_–_Make Tech_Easier⠀⇛ Incognito mode is an online privacy feature that prevents your browsing history from being stored. While the feature is effective for browsing without leaving a trace, it can sometimes limit the experience. For example, you are not allowed to take screenshots in Incognito mode. # ⚓ How_to_Ubuntu_Update_and_Dist_Upgrade_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS Guide_2021⠀⇛ The latest version of Ubuntu 20.04 has been launched on 23 April 2020. If you are still using the old version please dist upgrade now. A Long year back, I started to use Ubuntu version 6.04. It was really hard to update ubuntu. Slowly -2 latest versions were launched in the market one by one with new features. And Today Ubuntu has version 20.04 LTS with very attractive features. So Updating Ubuntu and its software become very easy and simple. You can update ubuntu by command line as well as using a GUI interface. This really makes users happy and satisfied. I will cover this topic of how to ubuntu update and dist upgrade process work. what is the difference between ubuntu update and ubuntu dist upgrade? You must check the current version of ubuntu before moving to the next step. If you know the current version then it will be better to update Ubuntu in the latest version. # ⚓ How_to_Use_Shutdown_Command_in_Linux,_Proper_way_explained 2021⠀⇛ Don’t you want to see the screen of your Linux machine? Either you don’t work anymore? Then you can shutdown machine like Windows operating system. But, It is a little bit painful for the new user if he/she doesn’t have access to GUI. He/she can’t run commands randomly, that is the weakest point in Linux. You will have to run command in the proper way. So before to bring your system down, you must know about shutdown command in Linux. The shutdown command in Linux is used to down system securely. At the time of shutdown all logged in users and processes are notified that the system is going down, and nobody is allowed to log in. By shutdown command in Linux you can down system immediately or you can schedule process. # ⚓ How_to_Use_The_Netcat_Command_(nc):_An_In-Depth_Tutorial⠀⇛ Netcat is one of the most versatile networking tools for system administrators – it is called the Swiss army knife of Networking. This tool can be used for creating any connections over TCP or UDP protocol which makes it an excellent debugging tool. It helps the user investigate connections directly by connecting to them. Netcat can also perform port scanning, file transfer, and sometimes it might be used by the hackers or penetration testers for creating a backdoor into a system. In this tutorial, we’ll be covering the Netcat utility or nc command in detail. Netcat was developed back in 1995. Despite its usefulness and popularity, it was not maintained. Many other versions of it have been developed since then. One of the most prominent among them is called Ncat, developed by the Nmap project. # ⚓ How_to_install_Atom_Text_Editor_on_Linux_Lite_5.4 [Ed: Microsoft vendor lock-in]⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install Atom Text Editor on Linux Lite 5.4. # ⚓ Troubleshooting_application_performance_with_Red_Hat OpenShift_metrics,_Part_2:_The_test_environment_|_Red_Hat Developer⠀⇛ This series shows how I solved a real-life performance problem by gathering metrics from Red Hat OpenShift in the Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift. Part 1 laid out the development environment and requirements. Now, in Part 2, we will set up the test environment and I will introduce two different test scenarios. # ⚓ Add_User_to_Group_in_Linux,_How_to_Do_It_(with_Examples)⠀⇛ In this article we will show you how to add a user to a group in Linux system. We will also learn how to view the groups and group ID of any user account. Linux user and group is an essential part of Linux security. As you know, Linux is a multi-user operating system. Adding users to group is a task worth learning. Groups allow certain user permissions to be available for group members. The primary purpose of groups is to define a set of privileges such as reading, writing, or executing permission for a given resource that can be shared among the users within the group. Instead of managing permissions for each user account, you can simply add a user to a group in Linux to grant the appropriate permissions. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ 6_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_FICS_Chess_Clients⠀⇛ Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It is a very popular game, played by millions across the world, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments. Chess has the virtue of being suitable for people of all ages. It has many positive attributes such as to help individuals develop their memory, improve and enhance their concentration, as well as logical thinking. It also promotes and improves imagination and creativity. Chess is one of those games that takes a few days to learn and the rest of your life to master, with the game being a never ending learning process, even for the top players. The game is played on a square chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Each player controls 16 pieces, and the object of the game is to checkmate the opponent’s king. # ⚓ Netflix_is_getting_into_video_games,_so_we’ll_have_another cloud_gaming_service⠀⇛ Not only is Netflix a huge force in series, films, anime and plenty more they’re also now getting into video games. Coming from a report on Bloomberg, it certainly looks like we’re going to see one of the biggest streaming players enter the cloud gaming / game streaming market. In the report it mentions that Netflix has now hired Mike Verdu, a former VP at Facebook Reality Labs who also worked with EA prior to that. Verdu will be vice president of game development at Netflix. Sounds like we will see games on Netflix within a year if it all goes well, with games being sat in their own category just like everything else on the service. # ⚓ Netflix_Signals_Expansion_Into_Video_Games_With_New Executive_Hire⠀⇛ Before joining Netflix, Verdu was the V.P. of content for Facebook Reality Labs where he oversaw Oculus Studios and the teams bringing second- and third-party virtual reality games and other apps to Oculus VR headsets, such as Oculus Quest and Quest 2. Verdu also previously served as the senior V.P. of Mobile for Electronic Arts, where he was responsible for the mobile game studios that operated “SimCIty BuildIt,” “Plants vs. Zombies 2,” “Real Racing 3,” “The Sims Freeplay,” “The Simpsons: Tapped Out” and Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes,” among others. # ⚓ Netflix_Expands_Into_Video_Games_With_New_Executive_Hire⠀⇛ Netflix is expanding into video games and has hired Mike Verdu, a former Facebook and Electronic Arts executive, as its new vice president of game development, a Netflix spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ Haiku_R1/Beta3_Timeline_Update⠀⇛ It is possible for Haiku WebKit updates to be issued post-release, however it is a priority of the Haiku Project to ensure that the browsing experience in Haiku is as best as it can be, especially considering that the web browsers are an important part of any operating system and that WebPositive is a major focus point for reviewers. # § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ opera_browser_updated_to_77.0.4054.254_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ The Opera Browser based on google chromium code and highly customized has been updated to version 77.0.4054.254 and shipped to go to the software repository. # ⚓ mozilla_thunderbird_updated_to_78.12.0_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Mozilla Thunderbird has been updated to the latest version. Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. # ⚓ evince_pdf_viewer_updated_to_40.3_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Evince is a Document viewer. It supports PDF, PostScript and other formats. To view .dvi files as produced by TeX in evince, install the evince-dvi package. # ⚓ brave_browser_updated_to_1.26.74_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Brave, the best looking chromium based browser has been updated to stable release version 1.26.74 and shipped to the software repository for easy installation convenience. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Huh,_it’s_as_if_something_happened_that_made_people not_like_CentOS_so_much⠀⇛ Canonical is cock-a-hoop after Ubuntu snatched first place for OpenStack deployment from the CentOS Linux distribution – but according to some the victory might ring hollow. The finding came from the 2020 OpenStack User Survey, organised by the Open Infrastructure Foundation, which queries respondents on a variety of topics, including the main operating system used for their OpenStack cloud deployments. The 2020 survey kicked off after IBM’s $34bn purchase of Red Hat, and closed before Red Hat confirmed the community build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), known as CentOS, would morph into CentOS Stream. The change to something perceived as not fit for a production environment left the knickers of many developers ever so twisted. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Qualcomm_QCM2290/QCS2290_SoM_and_Devkit_target_Industrial IoT_applications⠀⇛ Last June, Qualcomm introduced several industrial IoT solutions that we did not cover at the time with Qualcomm QCM2290/QCS2290 IoT chip for camera applications, industrial handhelds, retail and tracking, Qualcomm QCS8250 WiFI 6 & 5G SoC for connected healthcare, digital signage, retail, and video collaboration, Qualcomm QCS6490/QCM6490 WiFI 6E & 5G SoC for connected healthcare, logistics management, retail, transportation, and warehousing, and Qualcomm QCS4290/ QCM4290 designed for cameras, industrial handhelds, and security panels with 4G LTE and WiFi 6 connectivity. # ⚓ Monitor_your_home’s_temperature_and_humidity_with_Raspberry Pis_and_Prometheus⠀⇛ Data is beautiful. As a #CitizenScientist, I enjoy gathering data and trying to make sense of the world around me. At work, we use Prometheus to gather metric data from our clusters, and at home, I use Prometheus to gather data from my hobbies. This article explores how to take an application—a Python script that gathers temperature and humidity data from a sensor—and instrument it to provide data in a model that Prometheus can gather. I’ll also create a systemd service to start and manage the application. Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting system that gathers metrics and provides a powerful query language for exploring data. I’ve written about setting up Prometheus locally at home. Prometheus is frequently used to gather data from container orchestration clusters such as Kubernetes and OpenShift. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Learn_the_Internet_of_Things_with_“IoT_for_Beginners” and_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Xiaomi_starts_testing_Android_12-based_MIUI_builds for_Mi_11,_Mi_10,_Mi_10T_series_of_phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Motorola_Android_11_update_brings_bugs_and_issues_for many⠀⇛ # ⚓ Motorola_Android_11_update:_List_of_eligible_devices &_release_date⠀⇛ # ⚓ Speedtest_can_now_tell_you_if_your_Android_phone_can stream_4K_videos⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Best_Free_Android_Emulator_Programs_For_Mac_And PC_Users⠀⇛ # ⚓ Philips_55PUT8215_4K_Android_TV_Review:_It_has_some good_things_going_for_it_|_HT_Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Print_from_your_Android_phone,_without_needing a_computer⠀⇛ # ⚓ You_can_share_links_directly_from_the_Recents_menu_in Android_12_Beta_3⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_plans_to_launch_their_“play_as_you download”_feature_for_its_users⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_Beta_3_has_a_wild_new_way_to_handle_auto- rotation_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ realme_X7_Pro_finally_starts_receiving_Android_11 stable_update⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_Nord_2_Will_Get_2_Android_Updates,_3_Years_of Security_Updates;_May_Have_50-Megapixel_Primary_Camera |_Technology_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Porsche_911,_Cayenne_and_Panamera_models_to_receive Android_Auto_and_wireless_Apple_CarPlay_|_Drive⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_app_deals_of_the_day:_Mad_King_Ludwig, more_–_9to5Toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ Voice-activated_Android_STBs_for_SKY_Brasil_|⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Chrome_will_soon_let_you_turn_on_an_HTTPS-first mode⠀⇛ The HTTPS-First Mode will be available starting with Chrome 94, according to Google. Currently, that release is set for September 21st. And HTTP connections will still be supported, the company says. # ⚓ Increasing_HTTPS_adoption⠀⇛ As we approach an HTTPS-first future, we’re also re-examining the lock icon that browsers typically show when a site loads over HTTPS. In particular, our research indicates that users often associate this icon with a site being trustworthy, when in fact it’s only the connection that’s secure. In a recent study, we found that only 11% of participants could correctly identify the meaning of the lock icon. To try and reduce this confusion, Chrome will run an experiment in M93 that replaces the lock in the address bar with a more neutral entry point to Page Info (example below). We hope that this experiment will improve the discoverability of critical privacy and security information and controls provided in Page Info, such as site permissions. Importantly, a “Not Secure” indicator will continue to show on sites without HTTPS support, and the experiment includes an enterprise policy in case organizations want to opt-out. In all cases, we’ll provide advance notice if we decide to move ahead with a full launch. # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ YottaDB_r1.32_Released⠀⇛ There are numerous smaller enhancements that make system administration and operations (DevOps) friendlier, and easier to automate. For example, %PEEKBYNAME() has an option to query global directory segments without opening the corresponding database files, orphaned relinkctl files are automatically cleaned up, and the –octo option of ydbinstall / ydbinstall.sh installs Octo such that octo –version reports the git commit hash of the build. # ⚓ Against_SQL⠀⇛ This isn’t just a matter of some constant programmer overhead, like SQL queries taking 20% longer to write. The fact that these issues exist in our dominant model for accessing data has dramatic downstream effects for the entire industry: Complexity is a massive drag on quality and innovation in runtime and tooling The need for an application layer with hand- written coordination between database and client renders useless most of the best features of relational databases The core message that I want people to take away is that there is potentially a huge amount of value to be unlocked by replacing SQL, and more generally in rethinking where and how we draw the lines between databases, query languages and programming languages. # § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Virtual_Workshops_for_Embedded_Machine_Learning⠀⇛ Back in April we started a series of workshops that focused on helping you master embedded machine learning all from the comfort of your own home! We partnered with our friends at HiMax and Nordic to help incorporate imaging and weather sensors, as well as our growing MicroMod product line, to learn how to collect data, build your first models, test and deploy them, and more! Both workshops filled up completely (to the point that we needed to increase the cap on one) so we wanted to share them with you in case you didn’t have a chance to get in, or if you did attend but wanted to re-watch the VOD. Keep in mind for those of you that are going to be learning along with the workshops, each have their own, unique kit to pick up. Make sure to click the links below to visit each workshop page to find all the materials you need! # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Book_Review:_A_Philosophy_of_Software_Design⠀⇛ I really liked A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. It is compact and short, only 170 pages, so it is a quick read, but it contains many good ideas. The focus is on how to structure systems to make them easy to understand and work with. The author is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford, but he has also spent 14 years developing commercial software. # ⚓ [Old] What_is_a_hacker?⠀⇛ In our use, a hacker is a member of an international subculture of computer programmers, hardware designers and others who subscribe to a certain aesthetic, people who understand to appreciate a certain kind of beauty. The word is also often used by us to signify a very gifted computer expert who programs for enjoyment, not necessarily for payment or other rewards, but being a hacker is not limited to programmers or even hardware designers. One might be a molecular biology hacker, for example. # ⚓ Report:_83%_of_UK_software_engineers_suffer_burnout, COVID-19_made_it_worse_•_The_Register⠀⇛ A report on the wellbeing of UK software engineers (developers and DevOps professionals) found 83 per cent suffering from some degree of burnout, with most agreeing that COVID-19 was partly to blame. This survey [PDF] was conducted in June 2021 by pollsters Survation, on behalf of DevOps company Haystack, and although the number of participants was small (just over 250) it was conducted by interviews, rather than online forms which are vulnerable to low-quality responses. # ⚓ Want_To_Build_An_App?_Android_Studio_Is_The_Program For_You [Ed: When you use this program you're basically a pawn of Google; when I made Android apps I used Eclipse (Google doesn't like things it cannot control).]⠀⇛ Ever wanted to build your own app but not exactly sure where to start or what programs to use? Android Studio could be an option for you. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ 5_hidden_gems_in_Python_3_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Python has made a name for itself in the world of programming for being easy to learn, easy to read, and reasonably easy to debug. It’s seen as a good starting language because it can usually resolve complex concepts such as data types on the programmer’s behalf. It’s considered easy to read because its syntax is simple and it enforces predictable formatting. And it’s easy to debug because not only does it catch many errors on its own, it also integrates with advanced tools like GNU Debugger (gdb.) And that was its reputation before Python 3. Like everything else in life, change is inevitable for programming languages. Python must iterate and develop because computers are forever improving, and people’s expectations of what a “simple” programming language does for them change over time. Additionally, other languages sometimes come up with really good ideas that get adapted into Python. Python 2.x was outrageously popular, so when Python 3 began to loom on the horizon, there was a considerable amount of anxiety mixed in with the excitement. Everyone wanted to know how Python could possibly get any better, but there was also the obligatory fear of change, the potential loss of important libraries that wouldn’t upgrade, and the uncertainty of what workload would be required to adapt existing codebases. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ This_Week_in_Rust_399⠀⇛ Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions. o § Leftovers⠀➾ # ⚓ Swedish_rapper_Yasin_jailed_over_plot_to_kidnap_rival artist⠀⇛ The plot failed but the victim was kidnapped, beaten and robbed several weeks later without Yasin’s involvement. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ NLP_needs_to_be_open._500+_researchers_are_trying_to make_it_happen⠀⇛ A group of more than 500 researchers from 45 different countries — from France, the US, and Japan to Indonesia, Ghana, and Ethiopia — has come together to work towards tackling some of these problems. The project, which the authors of this article are all involved in, is called Big Science, and our goal is to improve the scientific understanding of the capabilities and limitations of large-scale neural network models in NLP and to create a diverse and multilingual dataset and a large- scale language model as research artifacts, open to the scientific community. # ⚓ Tapping_into_the_Brain_to_Help_a_Paralyzed_Man Speak⠀⇛ Now, in a scientific milestone, researchers have tapped into the speech areas of his brain — allowing him to produce comprehensible words and sentences simply by trying to say them. When the man, known by his nickname, Pancho, tries to speak, electrodes implanted in his brain transmit signals to a computer that displays them on the screen. # § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Explainer:_Digitech_risks_for_School_Boards⠀⇛ I’m a parent with two children in public schools in Christchurch, NZ. I’m also a software developer with an interest in education. I’m writing this post to make members of NZ school boards of trustees aware of a significant risks they face, but which I believe few if any school boards in NZ recognise, much less attempt to mitigate. These risks are created by the software adopted by nearly every school in NZ. This software is provided via national-level agreements made by the Ministry of Education with their vendors, who are mostly US-based multinational technology corporations. Increasingly, school curriculums completely depend on this software. Today, nearly every school in NZ is either a ‘Microsoft Office 365′ or a ‘Google Classroom’ school. Many schools also embed products like SeeSaw and StoryPark into their student assessment process and depend on them for parental engagement. My goal here is to explain the liabilities lurking within this status quo, and how the Ministry of Education has divested responsibility for these liabilities onto individual school board members. # ⚓ Technology_commentator_Tony_Grasso⠀⇛ Research finds young people are signing away their rights in legal documents they don’t understand [...] # § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Intel_Did_A_Boeing⠀⇛ Similarly, the end result for Intel of focusing on the stock price instead of the product was: [...] # ⚓ The_Woz_Backs_‘Right_To_Repair’_Reform⠀⇛ We’ve repeatedly noted how the “right to repair” movement has been gaining a full head of steam as consumers, independent repair shops, schools, farmers, and countless others grow tired of corporations’ attempts to monopolize repair. Whether it’s Sony and Microsoft creating repair monopolies for their game consoles, Apple bullying independent repair shops, or John Deere making it a costly hassle just to fix a tractor, the more companies restrict access to cheap repair, parts, tools, and documentation, the more this movement seems to grow. # ⚓ Right_to_Repair:_Draft_report⠀⇛ This draft report was released on 11 June 2021. It assesses the case for a right to repair in Australia, with a focus on whether consumers face any unnecessary barriers to repair that require a government policy response. The final report is expected to be handed to the Australian Government by 29 October 2021. # § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Boris_Johnson_Goes_Full-On_Bolsonaro⠀⇛ Last week the British prime minister Boris “BoJo” Johnson put Bolsonaro on notice: the latter would now have a serious rival when it comes to death-dealing standards and ways where Covid is concerned. BoJo said he planned to lift almost all remaining restrictions in England on July 19 — a day dubbed “Freedom Day” by the idiot pro-Tory tabloids. # ⚓ Governor_DeSantis_Peddles_“Don’t_Fauci_My_Florida” Shirts_as_COVID_Cases_Spike⠀⇛ # ⚓ Republicans_Force_Tennessee_Health_Department_to_Stop Vaccine_Outreach_to_Youth⠀⇛ # ⚓ Why_vaccine-shy_French_are_suddenly_rushing_to_get jabbed⠀⇛ Since May the EU has largely sorted out its supply system. As a result, some 45% of adults in the EU are fully vaccinated and another 19% of adults have had the first of two doses. Thierry Breton, the European commissioner in charge of vaccines, said on July 10th that there are now enough doses to get 70% of adults fully vaccinated but that the limiting factor was now hesitancy. # ⚓ All_three_types_of_EU_Digital_COVID_Certificate_now available_in_My_Kanta_Pages⠀⇛ The EU Digital COVID Certificate, which is available in the My Kanta Pages, will also include a test certificate and a certificate of recovery as of 14 July. The EU COVID-19 vaccination certificate has been available in the My Kanta Pages since 22 June. # ⚓ US_overdose_deaths_hit_record_93,000_in_pandemic_last year⠀⇛ Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase. # ⚓ Drug_Deaths_Set_Records_Last_Year,_and_It_Wasn’t_Just Because_of_Covid⠀⇛ Drug overdose deaths rose nearly 30 percent in 2020 to a record 93,000, according to preliminary statistics released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The deaths rose in every state but two, South Dakota and New Hampshire, with pronounced increases in the South and West. [...] In recent years, annual drug overdose deaths had already eclipsed the peak yearly deaths from car crashes, gun violence or the AIDS epidemic. # ⚓ SE_Asia_Report:_COVID_surge_creating_havoc_across Asia_–_Beef_Central⠀⇛ Covid 19 surge creating havoc across Asia with human health and market supply chains # ⚓ Coronavirus_Notebook:_Vaccine_Safety_Study_Kicks_Off In_UK,_Govt_Plans_Booster_Vaccination_For_Most Vulnerable [Ed: Third and fourth shots coming, though half the British population did not receive two shots (yet)?]⠀⇛ A new international task force has used its first meeting to call for more access to COVID-19 vaccines and therapies in developing countries, and the World Bank and other finance institutions are putting money into South African firm Aspen Pharmacare to boost the production of vaccines. # ⚓ Coronavirus_Notebook:_WHO_Backs_Actemra_&_Kevzara_In COVID-19,_German_Body_Says_Remdesivir_Has_‘Considerable Added_Benefit’⠀⇛ The UK REACT-1 study has shown a threefold reduction in COVID-19 infections in double- vaccinated adults. # § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Kroll_Ransomware_Attack_Trends_–_2020 YTD⠀⇛ Threat actors in nearly half (47%) of Kroll’s ransomware cases leveraged open remote desktop protocol (RDP) and Microsoft’s proprietary network communications protocol and more than a quarter (26%) cases were traced back to a phishing email. Vulnerability exploits (17%), including but not limited to Citrix NetScaler CVE-2019- 19781 and Pulse VPN CVE-2019-11510, and account takeovers (10%) rounded out the primary ransomware precursors (Figure 2). # ⚓ Where’s_the_Apple_M2?⠀⇛ DPReview just published Apple still hasn’t made a truly “Pro” M1 Mac – so what’s the holdup? Following on the good performance and awesome power efficiency of the Apple M1, there’s a hungry background rumble in Mac-land along the lines of “Since the M1 is an entry-level chip, the next CPU is gonna blow everyone’s mind!” But it’s been eight months since the M1 shipped and we haven’t heard from Apple. I have a good guess what’s going on: It’s proving really hard to make a CPU (or SoC) that’s perceptibly faster than the M1. Here’s why. # ⚓ Ransomware_gang_REvil’s_websites_go_offline, sparking_speculation⠀⇛ The “dark web” page of the group known as REvil disappeared some two weeks after an attack which crippled networks of hundreds of companies worldwide and prompted a ransom demand of $70 million. # ⚓ India_among_top_three_countries_facing_phishing attacks_via_WhatsApp_and_Telegram,_reveals report⠀⇛ The biggest share of detected malicious links between December 2020 and May were sent via WhatsApp (89.6 per cent), followed by Telegram (5.6 per cent), according to data shared by Kaspersky Internet Security for Android, part of the cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab. Messaging app Viber was in third place with a share of 4.7 per cent and Hangouts had less than one per cent share. # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ How_LFCA_Compares_to_Legacy Entry-Level_IT_Certifications [Ed: LF does not even know what it exists for anymore, except hoarding_money_by_misusing_the Linux_brand_to_its_very_own detriment. The_“Linux”_mark_is being_milked_by_death_by_people who_never_even_use_Linux.]⠀⇛ When we developed the Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate (LFCA) exam, we wanted to create a certification that would help folks get started in an IT career by demonstrating to employers they possess knowledge of the most important and widely used modern infrastructure technologies. Our goal was to make an IT career more accessible, and also close the skills gap that is making it difficult for employers to find enough talented candidates. # § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Inside_Facebook’s_Data_Wars⠀⇛ But the CrowdTangle story is important, because it illustrates the way that Facebook’s obsession with managing its reputation often gets in the way of its attempts to clean up its platform. And it gets to the heart of one of the central tensions confronting Facebook in the post-Trump era. The company, blamed for everything from election interference to vaccine hesitancy, badly wants to rebuild trust with a skeptical public. But the more it shares about what happens on its platform, the more it risks exposing uncomfortable truths that could further damage its image. # ⚓ “An_Ugly_Truth”_gives_sneak_peek_as Zuckerberg_becomes_wartime_leader⠀⇛ Facebook tells Axios that Zuckerberg instructed leaders they’d have to be more decisive, and would need to move forward even when there wasn’t a clear consensus. His view was that it was like wartime, and he needed to run the company as a wartime CEO. # ⚓ Mark_Zuckerberg_and_Sheryl Sandberg’s_Partnership_Did_Not Survive_Trump⠀⇛ For the past week, the country had been reeling from the violence in Washington, and with each passing day, reporters were uncovering more of the footprint left behind by the rioters on social media. Speaking to the cameras rolling in her sun-filled Menlo Park, Calif., garden, Ms. Sandberg confronted this question, one she’d prepared for: Could Facebook have acted sooner to help prevent this? # § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Bombast_in_the_Black_Sea:_the_Latest_British Provocation⠀⇛ The Suez Canal and the Brink of War Less than two weeks before the U.S. presidential election in 1956, Israel invaded Egypt in order to set the stage for the British-French invasion.  With Western preoccupation in the Middle East, the Soviet Union threatened to intervene on behalf of the Arabs and stepped up the bloody suppression of the Hungarian Revolution.  President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s opposition to the invasion allowed the United Nations to negotiate a cease-fire in Egypt.  In the aftermath of the Suez crisis, the United States effectively replaced Britain as the guarantor of stability in the Middle East, creating a commitment that remains the underlying premise of U.S. policy in the region.  The Middle East has become America’s briar patch, and the discontinuity in the region in the wake of the U.S. invasion of Iraq points to the need for reassessing our commitment. # ⚓ Causes_of_Extremism_Spike_in_US_Military_Examined_in New_Study⠀⇛ A new look at current and former members of the U.S. military linked to extremist plots finds the numbers have tripled, due in large part to a series of recent events such as the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, which helped mobilize extremists in general. The analysis by the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), released Wednesday, looked at 354 individuals with military backgrounds charged or convicted of criminal acts linked to extremist ideology. # ⚓ ‘Charming_Kitten’_APT_Siphons_Intel_From_Mid-East Scholars⠀⇛ The current campaign includes masquerading as British scholars; engaging in dialogue with targets; and linking to the website of a legitimate, world-class, already compromised academic institution in order to harvest credentials. # ⚓ Professor_Says_Being_Impersonated_by_Iranian_ [Crackers]_Was_Stressful_But_Good_For_Networking⠀⇛ Iranian [attacker] with links to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps impersonated two academics in an attempt to hack journalists, think tank analysts, and other academics, according to a new report. # ⚓ German_police_raid_suspected_IS_supporters⠀⇛ Police in the German state of Hesse searched multiple locations in connection with investigations involving suspected “Islamic State” extremists, local authorities said Wednesday morning. Ten search warrants were executed across the state “on suspicion of terrorist financing and the preparation of a serious, state- endangering act of violence” early Wednesday. # ⚓ Afghanistan:_US_to_evacuate_endangered_translators⠀⇛ An official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Reuters news agency that the initial evacuation will include about 2,500 people who are likely to be housed in military facilities, either in the US or a third country, while their visa applications are processed. The Special Immigrant Visa program is offered to those who worked with the US government or the American-led military force during the Afghanistan war that began in 2001. # § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Fact_check:_Untethered_to_reality,_Trump_lies_over and_over_about_the_2020_election_at_CPAC⠀⇛ What can you even say about claims so disconnected from reality? Here’s a brief fact check of eight of them. # ⚓ MS_Estonia_preliminary_investigation_not_yielding_any big_surprises_yet⠀⇛ Work conducted on July 12 and 13 went well, with no equipment failures, while weather conditions were good. The teams used side scan sonar and a multibeam sonar belonging to Stockholm University on the vessel Electra, which, BNS reports, give an excellent overview of the wreck of the Estonia and the seabed surrounding the wreck. More light being shed on geological picture Arikas said the seabed was also explored using a profiler, which allows a user to view the seabed substrate to a depth of 50 meters. This will provide the survey group with an answer as to the geological state of the seabed, meaning where there are rocks, moraine, clay and sand, he said. # § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Italy_to_ban_large_cruise_ships_in_centre_of_Venice to_protect_lagoon⠀⇛ The decision, confirmed at a meeting of Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s cabinet, comes just days before a meeting of the UN’s cultural organisation UNESCO, which had proposed to add Venice to its list of endangered heritage sites. “The decree adopted today represents an important step for the protection of the Venetian lagoon system,” Draghi said in a statement. # ⚓ Hotter_worlds_cut_humans’_size_−_and_their_brains?⠀⇛ In a greenhouse world, humans’ size could shrink. And there is a hint of hazard to thinking capacity as well. # ⚓ End_Subsidies_That_Drive_Overfishing_and_Threaten Ocean_Health⠀⇛ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ EPA_Warns_of_Mountain_Valley_Pipeline_Impact_on Streams,_Says_Project_Should_Not_Receive_Water Permit⠀⇛ The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is advising the Army Corps of Engineers not to grant a federal water permit to the Mountain Valley Pipeline due to “substantial concerns” about the project’s impact on streams and rivers. The warning is another regulatory hurdle for a pipeline that is already delayed and over budget. The EPA’s advice brings hope to opponents of the pipeline who are growing increasingly confident that the 303-mile natural gas pipeline, which has been under construction for over three years, will never come online. Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # ⚓ UK_domestic_flights_nearly_50%_cheaper_than_the train,_but_six_times_worse_for_carbon⠀⇛ Which? compared the carbon footprint of flying vs taking the train on 10 UK routes between 3 and 8 August, including to many popular holiday destinations such as Bournemouth and Newquay. However, travellers who want to reduce their carbon footprint by taking the train face an expensive bill for doing so. Eight of the 10 routes we looked at were cheaper by plane, and significantly so – train fares were 49% more expensive than the same route by plane on average. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ The_French_nationals_going_‘childfree’_to_save the_planet⠀⇛ A graphic on the organisation’s website counts in real time the number of people alive on earth. The counter steadily ticks upwards. “We’re already at 7.8 billion. It’s already too much. We should hit 8 billion by 2022 or 2023,” says Garnier. # ⚓ Overpopulation_leading_to_undue_stress, competition_and_conflict⠀⇛ World Population Day is observed on July 11each year. This day was established by the United Nations and is dedicated to focusing on the importance of the population issues. This year the theme is, “Rights and Choices are the answer: Whether baby boom or bust, the solution to shifting fertility rates lies in prioritising the reproductive health and rights of all people.” Many scientists think estimating all available resources, the earth has a maximum carrying capacity of 9-10 billion population. The current population of the world is about 7.8 billion and if it is not controlled then by the end of the century it is estimated to rise to 10.8 billion. There are many causes of overpopulation like high birth rate, low death rate, better medical facilities, rise in the number of immigrants, agricultural and industrial revolution and lack of family planning facilities, especially in rural areas. India has all these factors which result in overpopulation thereby causing other problems like exhaustion of natural resources, climate change, pollution, overcrowding, unemployment and many others. I will confine myself to the issue of unemployment. # ⚓ The_Potential_Effects_of_Overpopulation_in Florida⠀⇛ Florida’s population continues to grow rapidly. It’s not just caused by local births. It’s also caused by people from both local and international lands, moving into the state. While it can be a good idea to have a lot of people supporting the economy, too much of one thing can be bad too. # § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Report_Finds_Min._Wage_Earners_Can’t_Afford_One- Bedroom_Rental_in_Most_of_U.S.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Fate_of_Democrats’_Ambitious_$3.5_Trillion_Bill_Rests Once_Again_With_Centrists⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_NYT_Goes_Looney_Tunes_on_the_Fed⠀⇛ This is bizarre, because people who read the news section of the NYT would know that workers have more bargaining power in the economy right now than at any point since at least the late 1990s. The quit rate hit a record level in April, and even with a drop in May, it is still at a 20-year peak. Workers, especially at the bottom end of the wage ladder, are seeing substantial wage gains. The pandemic payments have also allowed many families to pay down debt, leaving their finances in much better shape than before the recession. Also, the expanded subsidies in the health care exchanges have allowed many people to get health care insurance who could not previously afford it. The NYT had a very good column earlier this month by Julia Coronado laying out many of the measures showing the improved economic plight of low and middle class families. # § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Biden_Is_Silent_on_Filibuster_as_Texas_Dems_Face Arrest_to_Protect_Voting_Rights⠀⇛ # ⚓ Thousands_in_Cuba_Protest_Amid_Deep_Economic_Crisis and_Ongoing_US_Blockade⠀⇛ # ⚓ Protest_Song_Of_The_Week:_‘Fuck_These_Fuckin Fascists’_by_The_Muslims⠀⇛ The following was originally published at Ongoing History of Protest Music. Punk rock has a long history of “fuck Nazi/fascists” type songs. The latest release by The Muslims, aqueer, Black, and Brown Muslim punk band hailing from North Carolina, upholds that tradition.The Muslims formed in 2017. Since then, they have released three albums and one EP. They unapologetically use their music to challenge racism, political corruption, and white supremacy. Their newest single “Fuck These Fuckin Fascists” is direct, scathing, and representative of the kind of music they create.“I started writing this song during Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial and finished it during theattempted coup,” stated vocalist QADR. “What a time to be alive. As a person who fits the description ofa so-called ‘Black Identity Extremist,’ I find it funny that our music and message, calling out racistviolence, makes people more uncomfortable than actual racist violence. At least we’re cute, tender, andfunny AF.”QADR added, “Artists are the truth-tellers throughout history, and we’re just speaking our truth.Fascism was never wiped out, it just got more polite and calls itself a Richard Spencer now, whateverthat is. We’re going to speak truth to power and have a damn good time doing it.”Trump may no longer be president of the United States, but fascist ideologies live on. Raise your voice and join The Muslims in telling fascists to “fuck off!”Listen to The Muslims’ “Fuck These Fuckin Fascists”: # ⚓ Twitter_restricts_account_of_expert_who_mocked_China leader⠀⇛ A New Zealand academic says Twitter temporarily restricted her account after she mocked Chinese President Xi Jinping. University of Canterbury Professor Anne-Marie Brady is an expert on China’s attempts to exert political influence around the world and has been an outspoken critic of its ruling Communist Party. Last week, she sent tweets poking fun at the party’s 100th anniversary celebrations. # ⚓ Twitter_sees_jump_in_govt_demands_to_remove_content of_reporters,_news_outlets⠀⇛ In its transparency report published on Wednesday, Twitter said verified accounts of 199 journalists and news outlets on its platform faced 361 legal demands from governments to remove content in the second half of 2020, up 26 percent from the first half of the year. The biannual report on Twitter’s enforcement of policy rules and the information and removal requests it receives comes as social media companies including Facebook and Alphabet’s YouTube face government scrutiny worldwide over the content allowed on their platforms. # ⚓ China_tightens_control_over_cybersecurity_in_data crackdown⠀⇛ Tech experts in China who find a weakness in co mputer security would be required to tell the government and couldn’t sell that knowledge under rules further tightening the Communist Party’s control over information. # ⚓ Facebook_Requests_FTC_Recuse_Khan,_Entry-Level Broadband_Prices,_FCC’s_Open_RAN_Showcase⠀⇛ Facebook is asking for the recusal of Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan from the agency’s antitrust cases against the company, following Amazon’s call. # ⚓ Finland_sanction_reversed_after_rejected_Iraqi_asylum seeker’s_death_proven_fake⠀⇛ The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday revised a ruling sanctioning Finland for the supposed death of a refused asylum seeker returned to Iraq, based on evidence his death had been faked. # ⚓ Hawkins_Blasts_Biden’s_Failure_to_Call_for_Filibuster Reform_in_Voting_Rights_Speech⠀⇛ Hawkins Blasts Biden’s Failure to Call for Filibuster Reform in Voting Rights Speech Calls for Expanded Pro-Democracy Movement Howie Hawkins, the 2020 Green Party presidential candidate, blasted President Joe Biden today for failing to call for filibuster reform in order to get voting rights legislation through the U.S Senate. “Biden’s voting rights speech in Philadelphia was a white flag of surrender by the feckless Democrats to the ruthless Republicans. The Democrats have the power to pass federal voting rights laws that can stop the Republican assault voting rights and impartial elections in the states. Biden’s failure to take on the filibuster makes the Democrats complicit in Republican voter suppression,” Hawkins said. “The Democrats have enough Senate members to reform the filibuster and pass federal voting rights legislation. Instead Biden spoke about voting rights as a 2022 mid-term election issue. By then it will be too late. The Republicans are positioning themselves with new state election laws to take control the House and Senate by partisan gerrymandering, voter suppression, and meddling with election results,” Hawkins said. Hawkins called for a new pro-democracy movement that is independent of both major parties with an expanded agenda of pro- democracy demands. # § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet_Censorship:_The_Real_Monopoly_Threat⠀⇛ He’s right, but in pretty much the opposite of the way he intends. When the mainstream “right” and “left” agree on anything, that’s almost always a blazing neon sign warning us that our freedoms are under threat. Catron (and Trump and Sanders) want the US government to seize control of social media platforms and dictate which users those platforms must accept and what kind of content those platforms must permit publication of. They don’t put it quite that baldly, of course, but who would? Their cause is implicit in their criticisms of “Big Tech” as a “monopoly,” which requires government regulation to promote competition in the “marketplace of ideas.” # ⚓ Court_To_Judge_Roy_Moore:_You’re_Not_Defamation- Proof,_But_This_Contract_You_Signed_Sure_Is⠀⇛ Judge Roy Moore — former Senate hopeful and twice-removed-for-misconduct Alabama Supreme Court justice — has lost his lawsuit against satirist Sacha Baron Cohen. Having agreed to be on the receiving end of some satire (albeit not knowingly), Roy Moore sued Cohen after falling victim to a prank in which Cohen (performing as his character General Erran Morad) waved an electric wand he claimed could detect sexual predators. The wand beeped while close to Roy Moore. # ⚓ Devin_Nunes’_Lawyer,_Steven_Biss,_Finally_Gets Sanctioned_In_Wacky_Defamation_Case⠀⇛ Back in April, we wrote about how Steven Biss, who has become infamous for his flurry of frivolous defamation lawsuits — many of which are on behalf of Congressional Representative Devin Nunes as well as an odd collection of wacky people in Nunes’ orbit — had lost yet another case, but that the court had rejected sanctioning Biss. That didn’t last long. That ruling was in the 4th Circuit appeals court in the case Biss brought on behalf of Russian-born academic Svetlana Lokhova against a Cambridge academic, Stefan Halper, and a variety of media organizations. I’m not going to recount all the details of the case again. You can read those in our original post. Just know that it seemed to be a pretty obvious SLAPP suit. Much of it was filed after the statute of limitations had passed, on statements that were clearly not defamatory, and, in at least one case, appearing to sue the wrong party. However, the District Court judge and the Appeals Court both found that while Biss had a long history of bad behavior in court, they didn’t want to take the further step of sanctioning him. Yet. Though both courts made it clear that further shenanigans could change that. # ⚓ Blasphemy_suspect_injured_in_firing_en_route_to_court in_Multan⠀⇛ A man accused of blasphemy was injured after the brother of the complainant allegedly opened fire on him while he was going to attend the hearing of the case lodged against him. As per police, the man, a resident of Chah Loharanwala in Mauza Jhok Lashkarpur, was going to attend the hearing of a blasphemy case lodged against him with the Makhdoom Rasheed police. # ⚓ Sokoto_Residents_Ask_Sultan_To_Pass_Death_Sentence_On Youth_Who_Allegedly_Insulted_Prophet_Muhammad⠀⇛ Some of the residents had explained that the youths dragged the victim, Talle Mia Ruwa from a police post in the community where he was initially kept, overpowered the police personnel and dragged the middle-aged man to the community square where they killed him. SaharaReporters reported that irate youths, supported by leaders in Sade community in the Darazo LGA, burnt Talle Mai Ruwa for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad. # ⚓ Jeremiad_Against_Fascist_Facebook_/_My_Departure⠀⇛ This is exactly the problem. Why have 5000 friends and 2800 followers if they never see your posts? It’s like pouring water into a bucket with a big hole in the bottom. It’s become a farce. # § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Turkey_a_leading_country_in_violating_women journalists’_rights:_CFWIJ_report⠀⇛ A total of 77 female journalists around the world experienced rights violations in June, with 36 of those cases recorded in Turkey, the CFWIJ report revealed. # ⚓ Judge_denies_media_access_to_audio_recordings_from alleged_Whitmer_kidnap_plotter⠀⇛ A U.S. magistrate has denied a request from several media outlets that sought audio linked to the case against a man accused of attempting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. # ⚓ UK_High_Court_grants_limited_permission_for_US_to appeal_Assange_extradition_ruling⠀⇛ As the UK High Court grants limited permission for the US government to pursue its appeal against the decision opposing the extradition of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates the call for Assange’s immediate release and for the case against him to be dropped. # ⚓ European_Parliament_condemns_closure_of_Apple_Daily, urges_Hong_Kong_authorities_to_release_all_detained journalists⠀⇛ In an urgent resolution adopted on 8th of July, the European Parliament condemned the forced closure of Apple Daily newspaper and urged for the immediate release of all detained journalists in Hong Kong. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) commends this much- needed resolution addressing the escalating crackdown on press freedom in the territory. # ⚓ Iranian_Agents_Are_Facing_Charges_For_Their_Role_In_A Plot_To_Kidnap_A_U.S._Journalist⠀⇛ Iran has previously been successful in attracting other critics of the nation to countries outside the U.S. or Iran. Once away from home, intelligence officers detained the dissidents and took them forcibly back to Tehran, where they met jail sentences or death. These dissidents are native Iranians who have already fled their home country out of fear for their safety. # ⚓ VOA_Persian_TV_Host_Says_Iran_Kidnap_Plot_Sought_to Stop_Her_Social_Media_Activism⠀⇛ In a video message recorded Tuesday, Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad said Federal Bureau of Investigation agents told her that Iran’s Islamist rulers “not only wanted to make sure that I physically didn’t exist anymore, they also wanted to destroy my Instagram, Facebook, Telegram and WhatsApp channels.” # § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ The_five-day_workweek_is_dead⠀⇛ But there’s nothing inevitable about working eight hours a day, five days a week (or more). This schedule only became a part of American labor law in the 1930s, after decades of striking by labor activists who were tired of working the 14-hour days demanded by some employers. Indeed, one of the biggest goals of the American labor movement beginning in the 19th century was “an attempt to gain time back,” Erik Loomis, a history professor at the University of Rhode Island, told Vox. And now, more than 15 months into the pandemic, there’s a growing conversation about how American workers can take back more of their time. The trauma and disruption of the last year and a half have a lot of Americans reevaluating their relationships to work, whether it’s restaurant servers tired of risking their safety for poverty-level wages or office workers quitting rather than giving up remote work. And part of that reevaluation is about the workweek, which many say is due for a reboot. # ⚓ Two_Tibetans_Arrested_For_Celebrating_Dalai_Lama’s Birthday⠀⇛ ”They were arrested on suspicion of being part of a group on social media that shared images and documents, and encouraged the reciting of Tibetan prayers on the birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama,” Golog Jigme said, citing sources in the region. # ⚓ More_Than_160_Additional_Indigenous_Graves_Have_Been Found_In_Canada⠀⇛ The Penelakut Tribe says more than 160 undocumented and unmarked graves have been found on the site of the former Kuper Island Indian Industrial School. # ⚓ TSA_agent_at_MSP_accused_of_leaking_security_footage, taking_unauthorized_photos_of_female_travelers⠀⇛ “Security cameras at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport play an important role in maintaining the safety of people using the facility,” airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said in an emailed statement. “Footage from those cameras is subject to state data practices laws, which prohibit unauthorized acquisition or distribution of protected data. Misuse of the data can violate individuals’ rights to privacy and in some cases compromise the security of the airport and of the millions of people who use it. Any individual who violates the law is subject to criminal prosecution.” # ⚓ Taliban_Impose_New_Restrictions_on_Women,_Media_In Afghanistan’s_North⠀⇛ Several residents of Balkh, a district in northern Balkh province that is located 20 kilometers north of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, confirmed to VOA that the Taliban have distributed leaflets, ordering locals to follow strict rules that are similar to those they imposed on Afghans when they last governed the country from 1996 to 2001. # ⚓ Hisbah_threatens_to_apprehend,_prosecute_users_of mannequins_in_Kano⠀⇛ Hisbah Commander-General, Ustaz Harun Muhammad Sani Ibn-Sina declared that the use of mannequins to display clothes is unIslamic and contravenes the provision of Islamic injunctions hence the decision to ban the use of the object by tailors, supermarkets, boutique owners and others in the state. # ⚓ Muslims_against_black_Africans_in_France:_“You nigger,_you_dirty_black_bitch”,_“we_Algerians_have_sold you_like_cattle_for_800_years”_(VIDEO)⠀⇛ On Thursday July 8, Mourad D. was found guilty of assault and racial insult. In a video posted on social media on May 30, the man could clearly be heard racially insulting a woman who was recording him after a violent attack: “You nigger, you dirty black bitch”, or “we Algerians have sold you like cattle for 800 years”. A few minutes earlier, he had not hesitated to hit an Uber Eats delivery man. The events had taken place outside the restaurant “Le Brasco” in Cergy, in the Val- d’Oise. # ⚓ Over_60_Hindus_forcibly_converted_to_Islam_in Pakistan’s_Sindh⠀⇛ The Hindus were compelled to recite the Kalimas (Islamic oath of allegiance) in front of municipal chairperson Abdul Rauf Nizamani. # § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Creating_audiobooks⠀⇛ I’ve found three options for DRM-free audiobooks for any book or text (e.g. long- form articles): find the audiobook on YouTube and download the audio track (using for example Invidious or youtube-dl); use an ebook reader app such as Librera/FBReader to read the book using text-to-speech; or create an audiobook using a text-to-speech service. The real-time text-to-speech option (using an app) has downsides: it either needs a constant [Internet] connection to use a web service to perform the TTS, or else it’s an offline version but the quality of TTS is usually pretty bad. I decided that I’d much prefer good quality offline audiobooks that I can listen to anytime, anywhere. To create my audiobook, I follow this process: convert the article/book to text, clean up the text if necessary, generate an audio file using text-to-speech, and post- process the audio file if necessary. # § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ When_does_pre-clinical_data_plausibly_support_a therapeutic_effect?_(T_966/18) [Ed: Another case from the_rigged_‘courts’_of_the_EPO]⠀⇛ The timing of a patent filing is critical to the patent’s validity. The earlier a patent is filed, the lower the risk of disclosures before the priority date destroying novelty and inventive step. Yet, the later a patent application is filed, the more time there is to obtain data and satisfy the requirement that the invention is sufficiently supported and disclosed. The recent Board of Appeal decision in T 0966/18 is an example of a case in which pre-clinical data, together with common general knowledge, was deemed as plausibly demonstrating a claimed therapeutic method. In fact, the data provided in the patent in question was surprisingly light. The patentee was able to compensate for this by reference to a strong body of supporting evidence from the prior art. However, this strategy may come back to bite the patentee when the question of inventive step is considered. Legal Background: Plausibility at the EPO It is established case law of the Boards of Appeal that clinical data is not absolutely necessary to demonstrate the plausibility of a claimed invention (T 0609/02, Case Law of the Boards of Appeal, II.C.7.2, see also Warner- Lambert v Actavis [2018] UKSC 56 (IPKat)). Indeed, at the time a patent application is filed for the new therapeutic effect of a drug, clinical trial data are often not available. Even if the inventors are pursuing the drug candidate in clinical trials, the patent application may be filed well before any read-out of results from the trial. Early filing is often necessary to avoid the clinical trial summary and protocol becoming prior art, particularly in jurisdictions other than Europe (IPKat). [...] The Board of Appeal decision in T 966/ 18 appears to confirm a relatively low bar for establishing the plausibility of a medical use claim. To this Kat, the Board of Appeal in this case were surprisingly lenient with regards to the quality of the data needed to support a medical use claim. Quantitative pre-clinical data, without evidence of statistical significance, was enough to satisfy the sufficiency requirement for a relatively ambitious therapeutic effect, at a standard below what might be expected for peer- reviewed publication. It is of course possible that the Board of Appeal was inadvertently influenced by the post- filed positive clinical trial results that the patentee was able to provide. In view of these data, a negative decision on sufficiency might have appeared unreasonable. However, whether or not the Board was in fact swayed by the post-filed data, a large factor in the Board’s decision was undoubtedly the strong body of evidence from the prior art that there was a link between the target and disease pathology. The prior art effectively lowered the bar for the quality of pre-clinical data that was required in the patent. However, the question of inventive step of the claims has not yet been considered, either by the Board of Appeal or the Opposition Division. It will thus be interesting to see whether the patent holds up at Opposition in view of the Board of Appeal’s observation that the skilled person would have been aware of a body of evidence linking the target and disease, and prior art suggesting the use of anti-α-SN in a vaccine strategy for Parkinson’s Disease. Whilst the patent has successfully jumped the sufficiency hurdle, the potentially larger hurdle of inventive step remains. # ⚓ LONGi_has_achieved_several_successes_in_patent dispute_against_Hanwha_Q-Cells [Ed: The 'success' of suing]⠀⇛ # ⚓ In-house_counsel_get_set_for_UPC [Ed: Charlotte Kilpatrick continues_to_produce_UPC_propaganda]⠀⇛ Lawyers from the telecoms, pharma and chemical industries reveal their plans for using the UPC, and send a warning to UK firms # ⚓ Measuring_up_measurement_methods_–_how_to understand_EPO_patent_parameters [Ed: Continuing to overlook_the_collapse_of_patent_quality_and the_rule_of_law_at_the_EPO]⠀⇛ Last week we examined the ‘unclear essential parameter trap’ where an application including a parameter that does not meet EPO standards may be refused, regardless of its substantive merit. This week we explore the various ways in which a parameter may be deemed unclear. Strict EPO practice is nothing new – the legal framework around the ‘unclear essential parameter trap’ is long established, although changes made to the EPO Guidelines in 2019 made this even more stringent. The changes essentially merged two sub-sections of the previous guidelines, incorporating the comments on measurement methods from previous F-IV, 4.18 into current F-IV, 4.11. Although in principle nothing much has changed, anecdotally, there are reports of more clarity objections to usual parameters than before. One can find reasons for this perceived stricter practice in subtle changes to guideline’s wording. Previous F-IV, 4.18 stated “In principle the method of measurement is necessary for the unambiguous definition of the parameter” (emphasis added). The term ‘in principle’ perhaps suggesting some flexibility in how the rule should be applied. In contrast, current F-IV, 4.11 states unequivocally “the method for measuring a parameter (or at least a reference thereto) must appear completely in the claim itself” (emphasis added)”. Moreover, the EPO has categorised the changes to the guidelines as part of “major amendments”, which had “substantially rewritten sub-sections on the practice regarding the use of parameters in claims”, implying a shift in practice. # ⚓ Managing_rejection:_how_in-house_revive_failed USPTO_patents [Ed: Fake patents, not failed patents, but the propaganda mill of the patent litigation powerhouses don't know or understand the notion of patent denied]⠀⇛ Counsel from Siemens, Hologic and three other companies explain how they make the most of interviews to get past rejections # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Serial_assertions_of_the_same patent_claims_in_the_Western_District_of_Texas against_multiple_defendants:_judicial_economy weighs_against_venue_transfer⠀⇛ Once upon a time, there was a federal judicial district to the east of Dallas that every defendant to a patent infringement case sought to leave. Today, that district still exists, and remains pretty important. But the number one hotspot is the Western District of Texas (specifically, its Waco division). Judge Alan Albright is his lawsuits’ keeper, at least when we’re talking about patent cases. Not only does he take a long time to rule on venue transfer motions but from time to time he denies venue transfers even though the arguments made by plaintiffs against a transfer are outrageous, such as in a case in which a shell company was set up just to game the system. Unsurprisingly, the exit route from the Western District of Texas quite often passes through the DC-based Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit made an interesting–not spectacular, but definitely instructive–decision (PDF) that practicioners should keep in mind. There’s a case in which a Canadian company named NCS Multistage is suing a Norwegian company named TCO in the Western District of Texas. The defendant would have preferred to litigate in the Southern District of Texas. But the Federal Circuit found that Judge Albright had not clearly abused his discretion. # ⚓ Doubled_down:_Enlarged_Board_of_Appeal_decision G_4/19_on_Double_Patenting [Ed: It is widely known by now, based on extensive evidence, that the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO is rigged, but this corrupt law firm (lawsuits won against them) doesn't care. All about money. Backing EPO corruption.]⠀⇛ The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office recently issued decision G 4/19. The Enlarged Board held that a European patent application can be refused if it claims the same subject-matter as an existing European patent (i.e. not just a co-pending EP application) which has been granted to the same applicant and has the same effective date. # ⚓ Electronic_Priority_Document_Exchange_(PDX) Program [Ed: Just doing fake “tech”, like punishing_people_who_are_not_Microsoft customers]⠀⇛ This site provides useful information for applicants that wish to take advantage of the electronic priority document exchange (PDX) program. Use of PDX avoids the fee associated with ordering a certified priority document for each office of subsequent filing and the costs of transmitting those certified copies to foreign associates or foreign intellectual property (IP) offices. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) transmits certain U.S. priority applications as- filed to any foreign IP office that participates in the priority document exchange program (participating office) and retrieves/accesses certain foreign priority applications as-filed from the participating offices. The priority document exchange program includes two modes of exchange: Direct Bilateral Exchange and World Intellectual Property Organization Digital Access Service (WIPO DAS) Exchange. # ⚓ Chinese_Invention_Patent_Grants_Up_63%_in_May 2021_YoY [Ed: How to detect that patent quality has collapsed (in pursuit of other goals)]⠀⇛ The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) recently released data indicating that 2021 year-to-date invention patent grants totaled 269,706 invention patents, a 62.4% increase in cumulative grants from January through May 2020. The percentage of patents granted to foreign patentees dropped from 19.5% to 15.7% although the absolute number of patents to foreign patentees increased from 32,389 to 42,286. However, this may overstate the total number of patents granted to true foreigners as some Chinese entities file in the name of a foreign holding company – for example, the top foreign patentee in 2020 was Alibaba Group of Hangzhou, China according to CNIPA’s annual report for 2020… # ⚓ BAT_and_Kirkland_invalidate_four_Philip_Morris heat-not-burn_patents [Ed: The latest of many fake patents to just simply perish. Notice who granted this and ponder how/why...]⠀⇛ Today, the UK High Court handed down a judgment invalidating four patents belonging to tobacco product manufacturer Philip Morris (case no: HP-2020-000011). The decision is yet another twist in the high-stakes global dispute between the rivals BAT and Philip Morris. All current battles between the two giants concern lucrative technology for heat-not-burn cigarettes. BAT and Philip Morris showdown In the same proceedings, Philip Morris defended the validity of its four patents while counterclaiming for infringement by BAT’s heat-not-burn glo product. However, given that the court found all four patents invalid, the judge dismissed the counterclaim. A spokesperson for BAT says, “BAT is pleased that the UK High Court has found these four Philip Morris patents invalid. BAT commenced this legal action to protect our innovations and product portfolio in the Tobacco Heated Products space. We will continue to protect our valuable proprietary technology.” A spokesperson for Philip Morris says, “We respectfully disagree with the decision of the court and are evaluating the decision and assessing our options. The patents in question form part of PMI’s extensive portfolio of patents for smoke-free innovations reflecting our commitment to and progress towards a smoke-free future and our considerable investment in smoke-free technologies over more than a decade.” “We intend to continue to vigorously protect our intellectual property.” # ⚓ “What’s_the_point_of_a_TRIPS_waiver?”_A_reply [Ed: Patents can do endless harm if the law is misused (as happens a lot these days); our objective should be to convince patent litigation fanatics/profiters that this is the case and get them to publicly admit it]⠀⇛ In the face of existing and new scholarship, uncritical assumptions that proponents have not considered the operational challenges of a waiver is unhelpful. You will find nuance and detail to our plea here to see the waiver as a proportionate and necessary masthead from which a number of actions need to flow. As Trebilcock and Poliwoda argue, here, even for those who take the view (as they do) that a sweeping waiver of IP rights, by itself, is unlikely to have any dramatic effect on expanding vaccine output, especially over the near term – it is important to explore alternative or complementary strategies. With this background, we respond to Reddy and Pai’s post and address those who ask “what’s the point of a TRIPS waiver?” ‘Simply put, there is no shortage of voluntary licensing agreements for COVID vaccines, for countries that have the capacity to manufacture vaccines’, say Reddy and Pai and from this deduce that IPRs are not barriers to production. Yes, licenses have been granted to Indian companies but it is also true that there is considerable underuse of capacity because other facilities do not have licenses. If IP restrictions were lifted and pharmaceutical companies were willing to share more of their know-how, how much more vaccine could be made worldwide? It is hard to know. # ⚓ [Older]_New_COVID-19_Vaccine_Patent_Database Launched_::_Pink_Sheet [Ed: Building monopolies and fences around a pandemic instead of actually putting an end to it. Nobody doubts this, not even patent lawyers (deep inside): patents have only exacerbated the pandemic because monopolies devalue lives.]⠀⇛ As part of its drive to maximize global access to coronavirus vaccines, the Medicines Patent Pool has developed a publicly accessible resource giving information on the patent status of approved and candidate vaccines. # ⚓ Pfizer_Is_Upholding_Global_Vaccine_Apartheid. Today_We_Risk_Arrest_to_Stop_It.⠀⇛ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ VVC_FRAND_royalty_report_by_Charles_River Asso._estimates_lower_rates_because_of_AV1 adoption⠀⇛ Unified is pleased to announce the release of its report over the estimate of the aggregate FRAND royalty burden for the SEPs covering the video codec standard H.266, also called Versatile Video Coding (VVC). The report is a part of Unified’s Video Codec Zone whose goal is to provide objective, independent evidence refuting unsubstantiated Standard Essential Patents (SEP) licensing demands. VVC (H.266) constitutes the latest installment in a series of video codec standards released by the ITU and ISO/IEC and is regarded as the direct successor to HEVC (also H.265). The fragmented licensing landscape for HEVC with three different patent pools has resulted in a significant degree of uncertainty about HEVC’s licensing terms and very high aggregate royalties. The issues revolving around its licensing have not only significantly hampered HEVC’s adoption but also likely have further boosted the significant momentum around royalty free video codecs like AV1. Against this background, the future uptake of VVC will strongly depend on whether the VVC SEP holders will be able to set clear and transparent licensing terms and royalties that are not excessive, but FRAND. VVC’s estimated FRAND royalty rates range from $0.05 for cellular devices to $0.17 for streaming devices. # ⚓ IP_Analytics_–_MedTech [Ed: When they use the buzzword “MedTech” they_typically_mean unlawful_software_patents]⠀⇛ Development in medical technology (MedTech) has seen steady growth for at least the past decade. This growth has been driven in part by the ageing population and the need for technical solutions to ease the pressure on struggling healthcare systems around the world. Healthcare, health monitoring and treatment are now moving away from traditional realms where a patient is seen by a medical professional. Instead, new, innovative and cost-effective solutions are needed to supplement the more traditional solutions in order to meet the growing demand. # ⚓ Network-1_Expands_Its_Foreign_M2M/IoT Patent_Portfolio_With_Three_New_Granted Patents [Ed: EPO granting bogus software patents again]⠀⇛ …Decision to Grant European Patent No. EP3111689 (Embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card Supporting Two-Factor Authentication), which is being published today in the European Patent Bulletin of July 14, 2021. In addition, the UK Intellectual Property Office issued Intention to Grant letters for Applications GB1608573.0 and GB2100530.1 (both entitled Set of Servers for “Machine-to-Machine” Communications Using Public Key Infrastructure). The UK applications are expected to be granted shortly after July 9, 2021 and August 9, 2021, respectively. The claims in these granted foreign applications are generally directed towards authentication of a module including an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) with a mobile network and supporting secure communication between the module and the mobile network. # ⚓ Network-1_Expands_Its_Foreign_M2M/IoT Patent_Portfolio_With_Three_New_Granted Patents⠀⇛ # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ General_Court_rules_that_shape_of_Guerlain’s Rouge_G_lipstick_case_can_be_registered_as_a trade_mark⠀⇛ Can the shape of a lipstick case function as an indicator of commercial origin? The answer is yes when such case is the iconic and immediately recognizable (at least to lipstick lovers!) one of Rouge G de Guerlain… [...] In 2018, Guerlain applied to register the 3D sign represented above (left- hand side) for “lipsticks” in Class 3. The EUIPO examiner rejected the application considering that the sign would lack distinctive character, in accordance with Article 7(1)(b) EUTMR. The subsidiary claim of the applicant under Article 7(3) EUTMR (acquired distinctiveness) could be examined once the decision became final. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ VPN_Hosting_Company_Asks_Court_to_Dismiss Piracy_Lawsuit⠀⇛ Cloud hosting and DDoS protection company Sharktech has asked a Colorado federal court to dismiss a ‘frivolous’ piracy liability complaint. Through a lawsuit, several independent film companies hold Sharktech liable for the infringing activities of the subscribers of some customers that offer VPN services. # ⚓ Spotify_Blocks_Users_For_“Improperly Downloading”_Tracks_With_Third-Party_Software⠀⇛ Spotify has reportedly blocked the accounts of several customers after they “improperly” downloaded tracks from the service using a third-party software tool. Audials Music exploits Spotify to stream music to users at breakneck speed while recording tracks locally as MP3 files. This was noticed at Spotify and has resulted in users being suspended from the service for abuse. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4148 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.15.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_16/7/2021:_Proxmox_Mail_Gateway_7.0,_Valve_on_GNU/Linux,_PinePhone News⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Google’s_latest_Chromebook_update_is_safe_to_install_again, leaving_the_Chromebook_Pixel_stranded ⠀⇛ The latest incremental Chrome OS 91 update caused quite some woes, with far too many people reporting that their Chromebooks were locked up due to extremely high CPU usage. Google had to pull the update, causing more problems in the process, but it looks like now, it’s finally solved the underlying issues. The incremental update is rolling out again, and everyone is happy — except for Chromebook Pixel users. As Chrome Unboxed reports, Google is rolling out the incremental update to v91.0.4472.147 again. While the version number is still the same as the one for the problematic update, it looks like Google fixed whatever caused the problems under the hood, as there are no longer any reports about slowed Chromebooks using this Chrome OS release. # ⚓ Microsoft_just_blew_up_the_only_reason_you_can’t_use_a Linux_desktop [Ed: ZDNet’s “Linux” section is all IBM and Microsoft, not Linux. You can easily tell ZDNet is run by/for IBM and Microsoft… they bribe_it_for_PR_in_‘news’_clothing basically. Latest 7 stories in “LINUX” section: Microsoft, IBM, IBM, Microsoft, IBM, anti-Linux FUD, Microsoft…]⠀⇛ Microsoft, yes, Microsoft now promises that you can run Windows on your Linux PC. We don’t know exactly how they’re going to do that. It might be by using a native Remote Desktop application or by a web browser. I’ll bet that on Linux — and probably on iPads, Macs, and Android devices — it will be done over a web browser. After all, the Linux-powered Chrome OS has already shown that you can do most of your enterprise work on just a browser alone. Indeed, Microsoft’s entire move to a subscription, cloud service-based desktop was foreshadowed by Google’s Chromebooks. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Coreboot_on_the_ASRock_E3C246D4I⠀⇛ I wanted to play around with OpenBMC on a physical board and this article led me to the ASRock E3C246D4I. It’s a not overly expensive Intel Coffee Lake board featuring an Aspeed AST2500 BMC. So the first thing I did was to compile OpenBMC. My computer was in for a quite a chore there. It needed to download 11G of sources and compile those. Needless to say this takes a long time on a notebook computer and is best done overnight. I flashed the image via the SPI header next to the BMC flash. I used some mini crocodile clips to do this at first. # ⚓ ASRock_Rack_Has_One_Of_The_Best,_Most_Open-Source_Firmware x86_Server_Motherboards⠀⇛ For those wanting to get into open-source firmware development or even just to have a small SOHO x86_64 low-cost Intel server platform that is as open as possible, ASRock Rack happens to now boast one of the best solutions. The ASRock Rack E3C246D4I has happened to work its way into a unique position of having both OpenBMC support for open-source BMC support as well as Coreboot support for open-source system firmware while being a relatively young platform (compared to many open-source Coreboot ports to AMD Opterons or other old systems) while being less expensive than say the POWER9 wares from Raptor. # ⚓ Ubuntu_Pro_launches_on_Google_Cloud⠀⇛ The “hardened” version of the open source Linux OS comes with added security features # ⚓ Kubernetes_Spotlight_on_SIG_Usability⠀⇛ Are you interested in learning about what SIG Usability does and how you can get involved? Well, you’re at the right place. SIG Usability is all about making Kubernetes more accessible to new folks, and its main activity is conducting user research for the community. In this blog, we have summarized our conversation with Gaby Moreno, who walks us through the various aspects of being a part of the SIG and shares some insights about how others can get involved. Gaby is a co-lead for SIG Usability. She works as a Product Designer at IBM and enjoys working on the user experience of open, hybrid cloud technologies like Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, and Cloud Foundry. [...] SIG Usability hosted a KubeCon talk about studying Kubernetes users’ experiences. The talk focuses on updates to the user study projects, understanding who is using Kubernetes, what they are trying to achieve, how the project is addressing their needs, and where we need to improve the project and the client experience. Join the SIG’s update to find out about the most recent research results, what the plans are for the forthcoming year, and how to get involved in the upstream usability team as a contributor! o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu_Podcast_from_the_UK_LoCo:_S14E19_–_Twin_Pages_Slug⠀⇛ This week we’ve been playing chess and trying to play DOOM Eternal. We round up the news and goings on from the Ubuntu community and our favourite picks from the wider tech news. It’s Season 14 Episode 19 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain. # ⚓ The_TRUTH_about_Software_on_Linux⠀⇛ Maybe you want to try Linux, but you’ve heard there’s no popular software. You’ve also heard that installing software on Linux is hard. Let’s get to the truth in our 2nd Linux Myth Busting video! # ⚓ BSDNow_411:_FreeBSD_Deep_Dive⠀⇛ Unix System Architecture Evolution, Deep Dive into FreeBSD’s Strengths, how developers chose names, OPNsense 21.1.7 released, Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3), vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder, OpenBSD’s IATA airport code file, and more o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Linux_Upskill_Challenge [Ed: A lot of this is GNU rather than Linux]⠀⇛ A compact and previously paid course is now free and open source. It teaches everything someone needs in order to transition to Linux. The range of subjects covered includes a treat for everyone;from setting up your own lab on a VPS and accessing it, to installing software, exploring the file structure, working with the CLI and its commands, to more advanced subjects like scripting ??on bash. The lessons are divided in 21 days, each day focusing on a separate subject, and although it’s self-paced it requires a daily commitment of 1- 2 hours each day for a month. # ⚓ Memory_Folios_Updated_A_14th_Time_For_Improving_Linux Memory_Management⠀⇛ Matthew Wilcox of Oracle has sent out his 14th revision to the memory “folios” patch-set for this new struct that aims to improve Linux’s memory management code and ultimately better performance. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Display_Stream_Compression_Prepped_For_Qualcomm’s_MSM DRM_Driver_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Patches have been posted for wiring up Display Stream Compression (DSC) support for the Qualcomm MSM Direct Rendering Manager driver. The VESA-backed Display Stream Compression standard for offering visually lossless, low- latency compression between the host and display panels via DP/eDP/DSI/HDMI interfaces may finally see support within the Qualcomm MSM DRM kernel driver. Qualcomm SoCs support DSC within its DPU hardware block but the mainline kernel driver hasn’t yet had the necessary software pieces in place for this display bandwidth savings. # ⚓ AMD’s_Modern_Graphics_Driver_In_Linux_5.14_Exceeds 3.3_Million_Lines_Of_Code⠀⇛ It was just four years ago the AMDGPU kernel driver was nearly one million lines of code and earlier this year began nearing three million lines. Now with Linux 5.14-rc1 released this week it is at over 3.3 million lines for this kernel graphics driver. Curiosity got the best of me with the ballooning size of AMDGPU so when running cloc on the “drivers/gpu/drm/amd” off Linux 5.14-rc1, it’s now measuring in at 3.32 million lines of code. AMDGPU continues to by far be the largest driver within the mainline Linux kernel. That 3.3 million lines is made up of 2.86 million lines of “code”, 332k lines of comments, and some 127k blank lines across 1,715 files. Of course, as longtime Phoronix readers will know, much of the ballooning size of AMDGPU is due to automated register header files that are added to the tree with each new GPU being supported. Those automatically generated header files based on AMD’s internal documentation lead to the explosive growth and is sort of AMD’s form of public documentation these days. Thankfully unused portions of these header files are eliminated by the compiler at build time. As measured by cloc, within the gpu/drm/amd code there is some 2.4 million lines of header files and then 427k lines of code detected C code. # ⚓ Ricardo_Garcia:_Linking_deqp-vk_much_faster_thanks_to lld⠀⇛ Some days ago my Igalia colleague Adrián Pérez pointed us to mold, a new drop-in replacement for existing Unix linkers created by the original author of LLVM lld. While mold is pretty new and does not aim to be 100% compatible with GNU ld, GNU gold or LLVM lld (at least as of the time I’m writing this), I noticed the benchmark table in its README file also painted a pretty picture about the performance of lld, if inferior to that of mold. In my job at Igalia I work most of the time on VK-GL-CTS, Vulkan and OpenGL’s Conformance Test Suite, which contains thousands of tests for OpenGL and Vulkan. These tests are provided by different executable files and the Vulkan tests on which I’m focused are contained in a binary called deqp-vk. When built with debug information, deqp-vk can be quite large. A recent build, for example, is taking 369 MB in my drive. But the worst part is that linking the binary typically takes around 25 seconds on my work laptop. # ⚓ AMD_releases_FidelityFX_Super_Resolution_source code⠀⇛ As promised when AMD revealed their answer to NVIDIA’s DLSS, FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is now officially open source and available under the MIT license. What actually is it? AMD say “FSR uses super- optimized spatial upscaling technologies to help boost your framerates and deliver high- quality, high-resolution gaming experiences, without having to upgrade to a new graphics card.”. It works on both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs too, so it’s not locked to a vendor. The idea is to give “practical performance” for more costly rendering operations like Ray Tracing. # ⚓ AMD_Posts_FidelityFX_Super_Resolution_Source_Code⠀⇛ After AMD posted FidelityFX Super Resolution last month with various initial launch titles, the source code to this NVIDIA DLSS alternative is now publicly available. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Output/redirect_content_to_a_file_in_Nushell⠀⇛ And another short tip about Nushell – I promise that those will be less frequent the more I get used to it. # ⚓ Wisdom_Tree_–_A_Focus_And_Productivity_App_For_Linux_– OSTechNix⠀⇛ Distracted often while working or studying? You might want to try a focus and productivity app named Wisdom Tree in Linux. # ⚓ Disable_Startup_Manufacturer_Logo_&_Show_Boot_Message_in Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Since Ubuntu 20.04, it shows your computer manufacturer logo on startup. It’s however easy to remove it, as well display the blank and white boot text message. The Grub boot-loader offers option to toggle the settings in its configuration file. You can either manually edit the file or using a graphical tool called Grub Customizer. # ⚓ How_to_Fix_“Repository_Does_Not_Have_Release_File”_Error⠀⇛ As you work with various Linux distributions, you will need to install software repositories, including third-party repositories such as Ubuntu PPAs. In most cases, the installations will work out okay. However, you may encounter the “repository does not have a release file” error as you install some software. # ⚓ How_to_Set_Up_a_LAMP_Environment_With_XAMPP_on_Ubuntu Linux⠀⇛ Want to develop PHP-based applications on your Ubuntu machine? Here’s how to configure a LAMP environment with XAMPP. This guide will show you how to set up a LAMP Server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) for developing PHP-based web applications on Ubuntu Linux using XAMPP. You can use the XAMPP stack to develop PHP applications powered by frameworks such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, PrestaShop, etc. # ⚓ How_to_Change_a_Username_and_Other_Account_Details_on Linux⠀⇛ Need to change a username and home directory in Linux? Here’s how to change usernames, display names, and directory names. Linux is a multi-user operating system. And with this feature comes the responsibility of managing every user on the system. The administrator needs to ensure that each user has proper permissions, distinct user IDs, unique user names, etc. But what if you want to change the information associated with a particular user? Does Linux allow anyone to modify such sensitive details easily? The usermod command is the answer to all these questions. This article will demonstrate how you can change your username on Linux, along with a detailed guide on modifying the user ID and home directory of a user. # ⚓ Download_this_free_Linux_Cheat_Sheet_Bundle_by_MakeUseOf⠀⇛ # ⚓ Can_You_Make_Skype_Calls_on_Chromebook? [Ed: Doubling the very invasive surveillance (Google+Microsoft)]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Getting_Started_With_Cockpit,_a_Web-Based_Linux_Server Administration_Tool⠀⇛ Cockpit is a web-based Linux server administration tool for managing and monitoring your servers remotely. Cockpit allows you to see your server in a web browser and perform system tasks using both graphical and terminal tools. Also, you can use Cockpit to manage containers, administer storage, configure networks, and inspect system log messages. # ⚓ Cockpit_Project:_CI_Metrics_and_Error_Budgets⠀⇛ The Cockpit project literally lives and dies together with our integration tests and the CI machinery to run them. We notice this the hard way whenever there is an outage; that’s why we invested quite some efforts to run tests on at least two different clouds, and fall back to Amazon EC2 when needed. But there is a wholly different version of that pain: When tests or the infrastructure slowly become worse. At first it’s just a single “oh, a red test, this is unrelated, let’s just retry”, and before you know it it takes a day to get a pull request to green, and developers get frustrated and even afraid of touching tests. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Streets_Of_Rage_4_–_Mr._X_Nightmare_rolls_out_with_a_free update_for_all_players_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Today is the day! Streets Of Rage 4 – Mr. X Nightmare is out now expanding the beat ‘em up with a bunch of new content, plus there’s a free upgrade for all players. Currently, the Steam page doesn’t list Linux on the DLC but the big update to the base game did enable it and according to the porter Ethan Lee you should be good to go. Mr. X Nightmare adds in Estel Aguirre, Max Thunder and Shiva, a new survival mode and leaderboard, new moves and weapons plus new music tracks. # ⚓ Valve_Unveils_Steam_Deck_Gaming_Handheld_Powered_by_Arch Linux_and_KDE_Plasma⠀⇛ Steam Deck promises to put your entire Steam library in your pocket so you can play your favorite games wherever you go. The device is powerful enough to run the latest AAA games, and the best part is that it can also act as a controller if you connect it to a big screen TV for an immersive gaming experience. With Steam Deck, your entire Steam gaming library is there, so you won’t have to worry that some games are designed only for a certain platform like macOS or Windows, thanks to Valve’s Proton compatibility layer. # ⚓ Valve_has_formally_announced_the_Steam_Deck,_a_portable handheld_console_with_SteamOS⠀⇛ Well today is the big day. Valve has now formally revealed the Steam Deck, a portable handheld gaming console powered by a new version of their Linux- based SteamOS operating system. “We think Steam Deck gives people another way to play the games they love on a high-performance device at a great price,” says Valve founder Gabe Newell. “As a gamer, this is a product I’ve always wanted. And as a game developer, it’s the mobile device I’ve always wanted for our partners.” # ⚓ Valve’s_gaming_handheld_is_called_the_Steam_Deck_and_it’s shipping_in_December⠀⇛ Valve just announced the Steam Deck, its long- rumored Switch-like handheld gaming device. It will begin shipping in December and reservations open July 16th at 1PM ET. It starts at $399, and you can buy it in $529 and $649 models as well. The device has an AMD APU containing a quad-core Zen 2 CPU with eight threads and eight compute units’ worth of AMD RDNA 2 graphics, alongside 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM. There are three different storage tiers: 64GB eMMC storage for $399, 256GB NVMe SSD storage for $529, and 512GB of high-speed NVME SSD storage for $649, according to Valve. You can also expand the available storage using the high-speed microSD card slot. # ⚓ Valve_Announces_Steam_Deck_As_Portable_SteamOS_+_AMD Powered_Portable_PC⠀⇛ Following months of rumors about new gaming hardware from Valve, today they announced Steam Deck as a new handheld PC gaming device starting at $399. The Steam Deck is an all-in-one portable PC with a custom AMD SoC and, of course, running SteamOS. Steam Deck is focused, of course, for running Steam but also advertised as an “open PC” that can run other software too. # ⚓ Steam_Deck_revealed:_Handheld_gaming_PC_from_Valve_lets_you game_anywhere⠀⇛ In what could be the biggest surprise of 2021, Valve just announced a new handheld gaming console. The Steam Deck looks like a Nintendo Switch crossed with a Sega Game Gear. The device will allow you to play your entire Steam library from anywhere. It is not a cloud-based system: the hardware inside runs games on-device. This is possible through custom AMD hardware. Valve says it is powerful enough to run the latest AAA games with high power efficiency. # ⚓ Valve_Making_Linux_Anti-Cheat_a_Reality_for_Steam_Deck Launch⠀⇛ Valve’s newly-announced Steam Deck has a nice bonus for Linux gamers — it’s helping to improve Linux anti-cheat by working with Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye to provide Proton support for their software. The Steam Deck was announced earlier today as a new handheld gaming PC from Valve. Aiming to launch later this year, it looks like a pretty powerful little device. However, there’s one important problem that’s not immediately evident to most gamers: it uses a Linux-based operating system and many anti-cheat solutions do not work on Linux. That means that you would have a hard time playing some of your favorite games, but worry not — Valve is working on a solution. # ⚓ Valve’s_Steam_Deck_is_7-inch_Handheld_Linux_Gaming_PC⠀⇛ Today Valve announced the Steam Deck, a handheld Linux gaming PC that’s loaded with a custom-built AMD chip for top-tier AAA gaming action. And it looks pretty frickin’ special! Companies like GPD, oDroid, and Nintendo have proven there’s a viable market for powerful handheld gaming. And Valve, makers of Steam, were clearly paying attention. # ⚓ Crypto_Is_Dead_is_the_next_title_from_The_Moon_Pirates that’s_a_bit_like_Papers,_Please_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Crypto Is Dead, well, not quite but it’s a fun name for a game. In development by The Moon Pirates (Don’t Forget Me), it’s inspired somewhat by Papers, Please. It’s a mix of simulation and puzzle game in which you will have to make your bank grow during 30 days. To do so, you will have to check some bills and find out if they are genuine or fake. During your month of work, you will accumulate money, pay taxes and keep up with the central bank by updating your tools. On Twitter, the developer confirmed Linux support. # ⚓ American_Truck_Simulator_and_Euro_Truck_Simulator_2_get_an online_Convoy_mode⠀⇛ SCS Software has released the latest big free upgrades now for both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator which includes the new online Convoy mode. In this new multiplayer mode players can set up and host their own private sessions (password optional) to drive with their friends or other fellow truckers. There is currently support for synchronized AI traffic, time and weather, and the ability to take the same job as other players. However, there’s a number of things not currently supported like mods, AI vehicles may vanish when a player leaves, lifting bridges aren’t yet synchronized and Steam invites only work through the Overlay. It”s a very fun sounding start though and a natural evolution for both games. # ⚓ Steam_on_a_Chromebook_could_be_closer_than_we_think,_with an_AMD_dGPU_model_coming_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Thanks to new info spotted by Chrome Unboxed, we’ve seen more hints of a more powerful Chromebook coming which would make for a reasonable gaming unit. We’ve known for some time now that Google has been planning to get Steam on Chromebooks properly, however most existing models would lack the power needed. In the new report it seems Google are working towards a new Intel and AMD powered Chromebook with an AMD Vega 12 discrete graphics card unit (dGPU). This would definitely change things and if it arrives in time for Google’s wider Steam plans, it means there would be another Linux- based device out there from a huge company capable of Linux gaming (either native Linux games or with Steam Play Proton). # ⚓ SkateBIRD_returns_with_another_demo_available_until_July_18 for_PAX_Online_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Want do you get when you cross skateboarding with cute little birds flapping around? SkateBIRD is the answer. Funded on Kickstarter originally back in 2019 with close to $70K, it’s a promising and somewhat hilarious skating game and now you’ve got a fresh chance to try it out. The demo has once again returned, and it seems to give been updated too since last I played it. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME_41_–_New_Features_&_Release_Date⠀⇛ We summarize the available information for GNOME 41 release here and brief you about the new features, schedules. # ⚓ Jordan_Petridis:_GNOME_Nightly_Annual_ABI_Break⠀⇛ It’s that time of the year again. We’ve updated the base of the GNOME Nightly Flatpak runtime to the Freedesktop-SDK 21.08 beta release. This brings lots of improvements and updates to the underlying toolchain, but it also means that between yesterday and today, there is an ABI break and that all your Nightly apps will need to be rebuilt against the newer base. # ⚓ Ivan_Molodetskikh:_GSoC_2021:_Selection_Editing_and Window_Selection⠀⇛ I spent the most time adding the four corner handles that allow you to adjust the selection. GNOME Shell’s drag-and-drop classes were mostly sufficient, save for a few minor things. In particular, I ended up extending the _Draggable class with a drag- motion signal emitted every time the dragged actor’s position changes. I used this signal to update the selection rectangle coordinates so it responds to dragging in real-time without any lag, just as one would expect. Some careful handling was also required to allow dragging the handle past selection edges, so for example it’s possible to grab the top-left handle and move it to the right and to the bottom, making it a bottom-right handle. # ⚓ ArcMenu_GNOME_Extension_Adds_New_Windows_11_Layout [Ed: Joey Sneddon has found another reason to highlight Microsoft vapourware]⠀⇛ A new version of the ArcMenu GNOME extension is available for download, and it’ll be of particular interest to those who want to make Ubuntu look like Windows 11. The latest update to Arc Menu includes a pair of new menu layouts: ‘Launcher’ and ‘Eleven’. The latter of these is inspired by the redesigned ‘Start Menu’ set to ship in Windows 11 when released later this year. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_overview_|_Solus_4.3⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of Solus 4.3 and some of the applications pre-installed. # ⚓ Solus_4.3_released_with_refreshed_apps,_desktop environments_and_new_hardware_support⠀⇛ Solus, the independent Linux distribution with their own Budgie desktop has a big new release out with Solus 4.3. Coming hot off the code with the Linux Kernel 5.13.1, you can expect a fair bit more hardware support with this release including AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, 6800, 6800 XT and 6900 XT cards, the Sony PS5 DualSense controller support, hardware monitoring for the NZXT Kraken X42/X52/X62/X72 all-in-one CPU liquid coolers and plenty more. It also brings in Mesa 21.1.3 with has improved gaming support, performance improvements and plenty of fixes too. There’s a lot more that was upgraded too including Firefox 89.0.2, LibreOffice 7.1.4.2, Thunderbird 78.11.0, bluez 5.60 for better Bluetooth support, ffmpeg 4.4, Budgie 10.5.3, GNOME 40.2, MATE 1.24 and the Plasma Desktop 5.22.2. # § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾ # ⚓ Makulu_Unity_–_First_Look_!_–_MakuluLinux⠀⇛ # § Fedora and IBM/Red Hat⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Community_Outreach_Revamp_@ Nest:_Docs_session⠀⇛ The force behind the Fedora Community Outreach Revamp Objective is organizing a hackfest type documentation session for Nest with Fedora. The main goals of the session will be updating/reviewing/pushing new documentation for the various outreach teams to Docs. The co-leads for this effort and myself would like raise awareness and also invite the community to join us at Nest this year. If you are interested in what we are up to or joining us for the session, read on! # ⚓ Red_Hat_Advanced_Cluster_Management_For_Kubernetes 2.3_Helps_Accelerate_Hybrid_Cloud_Automation⠀⇛ Red Hat has announced Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.3, the latest version of the company’s enterprise- grade Kubernetes management offering. The integration between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management is designed to accelerate the automation and cohesion between cloud- native clusters, virtual machines and traditional infrastructure with streamlined tooling and coordination. # ⚓ 4_steps_to_create_Linux_users_from_a_csv_file_with Ansible⠀⇛ Ansible has made automation simple and it has become the universal automation language. By now, the benefits are well-known in the IT community. Like all good technologies, however, there can be challenges to face or approaches to combine. Consider using comma- separated value (CSV) files and Ansible to create Linux user accounts. In this article, the goal is to automate user creation using Ansible. A list of users can be passed via an external variable file using vars_files or directly into the playbook using a loop. The problem arises when the list of users to be created is only available in a format like CSV while the Ansible developer is more comfortable using a YAML list. I personally have experienced situations where a user list including passwords is provided in a CSV file with the requirement to create those users on multiple Linux machines using an automation tool such as Ansible. # ⚓ Build_your_own_tool_to_search_for_code_sequences_in binary_files⠀⇛ This article shows you how to create a scanning tool that can search for specific sequences of instructions inside binary files. Such searches are commonly required to verify that a compiled executable meets certain criteria, usually related to security. For example, Intel’s Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) extension mandates that all functions start with an ENDBR instruction. Verifying this requires a special tool specifically designed to search for instructions inside the binary. [...] Sometimes the exact instructions you are searching for are unknown. Instead, you have to locate an effect or specific behavior. To handle these cases, you can extend the scanner to simulate the target binary file instead of just disassembling it. This process, of course, is much more complex. The scanner sources include two examples of this kind of advanced scanning, although neither is built by default. You can use the file annocheck/makefile.rop to build them, although you’ll have to edit it to provide some necessary information. These scanners use the headers found in the binutils sources as well as the simulator code that is part of the GNU Debugger (GDB) project. The advanced scanners in the sources both have the same job: Examining binaries to see whether they are vulnerable to exploits via a return-oriented programming (ROP) attack. One scanner examines AArch64 binaries and the other examines x86_64 binaries. Multiple instruction sequences are vulnerable to this kind of attack, so the scanners simulate the execution of instructions and look for characteristics that are of use to an attacker. Since the attacker can, in theory, start execution at any point in the binary, the scanners have to run lots of simulations, looking for any possible vulnerable entry point. # ⚓ IBM_releases_first_machine-learning_end-to-end pipeline_starter_kit_within_the_IBM_Cloud_Native Toolkit [Ed: IBM joins the fight to further dilute the term "end to end" (as the so-called 'Linux' Foundation does)]⠀⇛ Artificial Intelligence and machine learning have sparked innovations that most of us use daily — from cognitive chatbots to product recommendations in our social media feeds to automated language translations and more. Integrating AI and machine learning technologies with cloud-native environments is an increasingly common scenario, driven by use of microservices and the need to scale rapidly. Developers are faced with the challenge to not only build machine learning applications, but to ensure that they run well in production in cloud-native and hybrid cloud environments. Today, IBM is announcing a new machine- learning, end-to-end pipeline starter kit to help developers build machine-learning applications and deploy them easily and reliably in a cloud-native environment. The starter kits are part of the IBM Cloud-Native Toolkit, an open source collection of assets that provides an environment for developing cloud-native applications for deployment within Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes. Assets created with the Cloud-Native Toolkit can be deployed in any cloud or hybrid cloud environment. These starter kits offer an excellent starting point to operationalizing and industrializing AI-powered applications and making them ready for production, using open source and Red Hat OpenShift technologies. The starter kit speeds up the development, deployment, and innovation with a set of opinionated approaches/tools. # ⚓ Japan_at_a_crossroads:_How_open_organization principles_aided_the_country’s_economic_resurgence [Ed: This does not give examples of Japan using Free software and instead it is just mindless openwashing by the Red Hat site]⠀⇛ Meritocracy in these “New Japan” companies is now becoming a function of increased performance transparency. It involves collaboration which impacts on their management and organizational structure, adaptation to a changing world, increased transparency between foreign and Japanese companies and builds a global community to address a wide range of issues. Simply, they had to invest to rapidly put all open organization principles to work. As I mentioned above, change is hard for Japanese companies because of what Schaede calls a “tight culture,” a term she borrows from Michele J. Gelfand’s book, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers. Summarizing it, Schaede writes Tight cultures, such as Japan’s, are characterized by strong norms for what constitutes the “right” behavior, as well as strong mechanisms for ostracizing deviants. In contrast, loose cultures, such as that in the United States, have a much wider definition of what is acceptable and do not sanction noncompliance to nearly the same degree. In this kind of “tight” corporate culture, introducing a more flexible and creative work environment must be done in a highly regimented, methodical way to encourage employees to embrace less structured work approaches. Tight cultures also lend themselves to what Schaede calls “soft law” approaches to regulation, where exposing problems, nudging, and shaming are the primary levers driving activity. For Japan, using social transparency of actions and then applying shaming, exclusion, peer pressure, and what Schaede calls “nudging” are all that is needed for change to occur. # ⚓ 4_ways_IT_metrics_can_motivate⠀⇛ When we talk about metrics in software delivery, developers usually think of execution metrics – things like throughput, delivery, and number of deploys. These are often used to track team performance or determine efficiency, but in reality, these metrics don’t motivate anyone or provide a holistic picture of results – at least not without connecting them to a bigger picture. When developers understand how their day-to- day work directly impacts the company’s goals and vision, they’re able to understand their impact and will want to do better. When they want to do better, they want metrics to get them there. Here are four ways managers can motivate their developer teams to get behind metrics and find the right ones to track. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Proxmox_Mail_Gateway_7.0⠀⇛ Debian 11 “Bullseye”, but using a newer Linux kernel 5.11 SpamAssassin 3.4.6 PostgreSQL 13 GUI enhancements with a more detailed dashboard status panel & APT repository management panel in the ‘Administration’ tab ACME/Let’s Encrypt supports using wildcards API: allow setting LISTEN_IP parameter for pmgproxy Improved Proxmox Installer environment and more… # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_Now_Available_and_Better_Than_Ever⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 (Uma) is now available and it makes a strong case for the best desktop experience on the market. Although the feature list doesn’t include anything that will blow users away at first blush, the performance gains and polish added make this release one of the finest on the market. One of the most impressive features the developers have pulled off lies in the Cinnamon desktop spin and comes in the form of a Memory Limit option. Users can enable this feature and then set a memory limit. If Cinnamon reaches that limit the desktop will automatically restart (without you losing either session or windows). This will ensure you don’t wind up with a desktop that bogs down because of memory leaks or other issues. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Pine64’s_Open_Source_Smartwatch_Goes_on_Sale_for_$27⠀⇛ You can now buy the PineTime smartwatch pre-flashed with the InfiniTime firmware. Since announcing the PineTime back in 2019 both Pine64 and its dedicated developer community have beavered away on making a viable, functional open source smartwatch that non-developers might want to use. Though it’s not an Apple Watch or Fitbit rival (remember: this thing is cheap) its low price and open nature will endear it to FOSS enthusiasts and Linux users alike. # ⚓ PinePhone_Keyboard_will_ship_with_open_source_firmware_ (coming_soon)⠀⇛ The official PinePhone Keyboard has been in development for months, and now it’s almost ready to go. In the Pine64 July 2021 Update, Lukasz Erecinski notes that the hardware design is just about finalized, and thanks to Megi’s work with a pre- production prototype, the PinePhone Keyboard will ship with “fully open” firmware. The keyboard could go intro production within the next month or so, and customers should be able to buy one later this year. # ⚓ ESP32-C3_board_comes_with_16340_battery_holder,_Mini_D1 compatibility_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ It looks like ESP32-C3 floodgates have opened. We’ve just written about several NodeMCU ESP32-C3 boards, and now there’s another board with the RISC-V WiFI & Bluetooth processor. Meet LilyGo TTGO T-OI PLUS equipped with a 16340 battery holder. Getting a battery-powered ESP32-C3 board could prove to be very interesting as ESP32-C3 power consumption is much lower than ESP8266 and ESP32, notably in deep sleep mode, where the RISC- V processor consumes just 5uA, against 20 uA for ESP8266 and ESP32, and the difference is even greater in light sleep mode (ESP8266: 2000 uA vs ESP32-C3: 130 uA). # ⚓ Low-cost_embedded_router_SBC_offers_2.5_GbE,_WiFi_6_through Qualcomm_IPQ5018_SoC⠀⇛ Wallys Communication has been offering Qualcomm- based embedded router boards for several years, including the higher-end DR8072A with dual 2.5GbE and WiFi 6 connectivity, followed by a lower-cost WiFi 6 SBC based on IPQ6010 with Gigabit Ethernet ports. But if you’d like to benefit from the lower cost while keeping WiFi 6 and 2.5GbE, the company has now introduced a new model based on Qualcomm IPQ5018 dual-core Cortex-A53 SoC, also found in Xiaomi Mi AX6000 router, with DR5018 embedded router board. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Researchers_developed_fabric-friendly_NFC_antennas that_can_be_woven_into_furniture_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Near-field communication, or NFC for short, has started popping up everywhere as a way to easily pay, unlock doors, or even start a car. And now it can do one more thing: locate and track objects within a room. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Laboratory for Emerging Wireless Technologies have come up with an ingenious method to integrate NFC antennas into the fabric of pillows, furniture, and carpet to create smart environments. Their system, which they call “TextileSense,” takes advantage of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) antenna arrays to make aimed beams of radio waves that can be measured when they interact with a conductive object, like a hand. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Nokia’s_latest_unlocked_Android_smartphone_are_now_up to_33%_off_starting_at_$130_–_9to5Toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hisense_4K_Android_TV_now_$100_off_for_the_first time,_more_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ A_Whole_Bunch_of_Team_17_Games_On_Sale_for_Android_– Droid_Gamers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Huawei_browser_replaces_Android_UA_logo_with HarmonyOS_logo_-⠀⇛ # ⚓ When_will_my_Samsung_Galaxy_device_get_the_Android_12 update?_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ New_Android_12_Trash_Shortcut_Will_Make_Deleting Items_Easier⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_add_the_mic_and_camera_killswitches_in_Android 12_–_TechRepublic⠀⇛ # ⚓ Should_Nintendo_release_Animal_Crossing:_New_Horizons for_Android_devices?⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_customize_your_phone’s_theme_in_Android_12_| Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_screen_record_on_Android_–_Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ Top_10_Best_Antivirus_Apps_For_Android_–_2021⠀⇛ # ⚓ Xiaomi’s_upcoming_Android_tablet_receives_FCC certification⠀⇛ # ⚓ Apple_POS_vs._Android_POS:_What’s_the_difference_and which_is_best_for_my_business?_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ MediaTek_launches_Helio_G96,_Helio_G88_chipsets_for budget_Android_phones_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sky_Brasil_taps_Technicolor_for_advanced_Android_TV box_–_Digital_TV_Europe⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla_Performance_Blog:_What’s_new_in Perfherder?⠀⇛ Since last “What’s new in Perfherder” article a lot has changed. Our development team is making progresses towards automating the regression detection process. This post will cover the various improvements that have been made to Perfherder since July 2020. [...] We’ve almost automated the filing of the regression bugs. We don’t have to copy-paste anymore the details from the regressor bug but just to input its number in the dialog below and the new bug screen the fields will auto- populate. The only thing that’s left to be automated is setting the Version of the bug, which should be the latest release of Firefox. It is currently set to unspecified. # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ MongoDB_Delivers_the_Future_to_Developers_with MongoDB_5.0_and_Serverless_Atlas⠀⇛ MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB), the leading, modern, general purpose database platform, today announced a series of revolutionary product enhancements from the keynote stage of MongoDB’s annual conference, MongoDB.live. These updates include the launch and General Availability of MongoDB 5.0 with native time series support, the preview of serverless databases in MongoDB Atlas, and the continued evolution of its industry leading application data platform with enhancements to Atlas Search, Atlas Data Lake, and MongoDB’s end- to-end mobile data solution, Realm. # ⚓ MongoDB_5.0_Released⠀⇛ MongoDB Inc. announced the general availability of MongoDB 5.0 at its annual conference recently. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreOffice_flyer_for_schools_and_universities:_extra design⠀⇛ Our LibreOffice New Generation project aims to bring new – and especially younger – contributors into the LibreOffice community. Earlier in the year, we created a flyer for schools and universities, and we’ve sent out printed versions to many people around the world. # § FSF⠀➾ # § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ health_@_Savannah:_MyGNUHealth_maintenance release_1.0.2_is_out!⠀⇛ MyGNUHealth 1.0.2 is ready to be downloaded from GNU.org! This maintenance release fixes some issues with global (drawer) menus in MATE, XFCE desktops, as well as in SXMO on the PinePhone. # § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # § Hacking⠀➾ # ⚓ Building_a_Curve25519_Hardware_Accelerator⠀⇛ The “double ratchet” algorithm is integral to modern end-to-end-encrypted chat apps, such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Matrix. It gives encrypted conversations the properties of resilience, forward secrecy, and break- in recovery; basically, even if an adversary can manipulate or observe portions of an exchange, including certain secret materials, the damage is limited with each turn of the double ratchet. The double-ratchet algorithm is a soup of cryptographic components, but one of the most computationally expensive portions is the “Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange”, using Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) with Curve25519. How expensive? This post from 2020 claims a speed record of 3.2 million cycles on a Cortex-M0 for just one of the core mathematical operations: fairly hefty. A benchmark of the x25519-dalek Rust crate on a 100 MHz RV32-IMAC implementation clocks in at 100ms per DH key exchange, of which several are involved in a double- ratchet. Thus, any chat client implementation on a small embedded CPU would suffer from significant UI lag. There are a few strategies to rectify this, ranging from adding a second CPU core to off-load the crypto, to making a full-custom hardware accelerator. Adding a second RISC-V CPU core is expedient, but it wouldn’t do much to force me to understand what I was doing as far as the crypto goes; and there’s already a strong contingent of folks working on multi-core RISC-V on FPGA implementations. The last time I implemented a crypto algorithm was for RSA on a low-end STM32 back in the mid 2000’s. I really enjoyed getting into the guts of the algorithm and stretching my understanding of the underlying mathematical primitives. So, I decided to indulge my urge to tinker, and make a custom hardware accelerator for Curve25519 using Litex/Migen and Rust bindings. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Jonathan_Dowland:_Small_tweaks_to_`git_branch` behaviour⠀⇛ Despite my best efforts, I often end up with a lot of branches in my git repositories, many of which need cleaning up, but even so, may which don’t. Two git configuration tweaks make the output of git branch much more useful for me. # ⚓ PHP_8.1_Performance_Is_Continuing_To_Improve_With Early_Benchmarks_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Each PHP release continues to improve in the department of performance. Even after the sizable performance improvements made with PHP 7, PHP 8 is continuing to further optimize the performance regardless of using its new JIT. While there still are several months to go until the official PHP 8.1 release, here are a few early benchmarks looking at the PHP CLI performance of PHP 8.1 and prior PHP releases. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ On_the_eve_of_CPAN_Testers⠀⇛ Have a look at the CPAN Testers reports for two TRIAL releases of the same module, one from 2 days ago, the other a little over 3 years ago… [...] Last time, reports started coming in within hours of the release; over 60% of the picture was there within a day; some 85% after 2 days; and the first wave of reports lasted a week. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ C++_versus_Python_solving_Problem_#25_of_Demo USE_in_Informatics_2021⠀⇛ Write a program that searches among the integers that belong to the numerical segment [174457; 174505], numbers that have exactly two different natural divisors, not counting the unit and the number itself. For each of the found number, write these two divisors into the table on the screen with a new lines in ascending order of the product of these two divisors. Divisors in the table row must also follow in ascending order. We intend to assembly Python External C++ procedure using 2D vector to solve the the task mentioned above for segment [174457; 184505] without significant performance penalty , which would affect pure Python module runtime * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ How_a_Harlem_Skyrise_Got_Hijacked—and_Forgotten⠀⇛ In 1964, following the unrest in Harlem roused by the police murder of James Powell, age 15, the poet June Jordan received an invitation to write for Esquire. Perhaps the invitation reached her in a manner that would feel familiar to some during our time. That is, perhaps she had been invited to explain. o ⚓ In_Delaware_County⠀⇛ The creators of HBO’s Mare of Easttown, a murder mystery set in a small Pennsylvania town, aimed for verisimilitude. Its main cast studied the phonics and cadence of the Delaware County accent—all the downturned O’s and “water” pronounced to rhyme with “rudder”—which Kate Winslet (who plays the titular Mare Sheehan) described as “amongst the top two hardest dialects I’ve ever done.” The costume designer sent snapshots of people in line at Wawa, the legendary Pennsylvania convenience store, to director Craig Zobel for inspiration. Clothes were distressed with scrubbing brushes, holes added. In terms of its content, the show can occasionally feel like a primer on the problems facing suburban and rural America. Its characters contend with the opioid epidemic, insufficient health care, precarious and low-paying jobs, a lack of support for the elderly, and ambitious young people moving away for college with no plans to return. Crime in Easttown is driven less often by passion or malice than by the desperation of people forced to get by on less. o ⚓ Untethered,_or_The_Year_of_Living_Virtually⠀⇛ New York City—When baseball legend Ted Williams died in 2002, it came to light that he had directed that his body be cryogenically frozen so he and his children would “be able to be together in the future, even if it is only a chance.” At the time, it seemed strange to me, a desire for immortality so intense that one would slow the body’s decomposition to molecular silence, the breath held in wait for the perfect cure. o ⚓ Disabling_Utopia_to_Save_It⠀⇛ Imagining better worlds can help us improve our own, but literary and cinematic utopias often exclude those who don’t fit into what are usually racially and culturally homogeneous societies. And whether it’s 1516 or 2016, utopian thinkers are especially prone to leaving out one group whose experiences and insights should enrich our dreams of the future: the disability community. o ⚓ Shulamith_Firestone_Wanted_to_Abolish_Nature—We_Should,_Too⠀⇛ Teaching an online course about a utopian manifesto from the 1960s is a brutally effective way to illuminate the dystopianism of the pandemic-stricken present, let me tell you. To be sure, great surges of love and rage have hit the streets again and again over the past few years, disrupting the unlivable, carceral, care-poor reality that is, for so many of its denizens, the United States. As these waves of abolitionism crested, for example in the summer of 2020, one could almost catch a glimpse of what it might have felt like in 1968, when everything seemed on the table; suddenly, the restraint of 21st- century radicalism was illuminated. It is especially instructive, I feel, to look at the utopias of that bygone, almost-revolutionary era right now, during the late-stage pandemic. The re-entrenchment of gender cynicism, of nuclear familyism, has lately crept up on so many of us, without us fully noticing.1 o ⚓ Why_Does_Utopian_Architecture_Suck?⠀⇛ Two years ago, the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, along with MIT and Oceanix (a start-up developing new ways to build on water), released a sprawling techno-utopian plan called Oceanix City, a community of 10,000 meant to float off the coast of New York City. Reading the press release is like assembling a collage of eco-technobabble, containing everything from the idea of being “resilient” (which here means “not flooding”) and the use of solar panels to hydroponic farming and a “zero waste” food policy. Of course, Oceanix City, an abstract utopia (meaning a utopia built by technocrats and operating within the existing social framework) assumes an almost entirely consumption-oriented habitat rather than a production-oriented one—meaning that other, less fortunate nations will still be the ones toiling in absentia to bring all the luxuries of everyday life. Ten thousand people, when considering the total population of New York City, is not a lot of people. And while the directive insists that the eco-villages will be affordable, nobody involved quantifies how affordability will be determined or maintained. o ⚓ Utopia_and_Dystopia_Are_Twins—Both_Are_Born_Out_of_Criticism⠀⇛ Utopia and dystopia are twins, born at the same moment from the shared ancestry of social critique. Although remembered as the first modern attempt to systematically imagine an ideal society, Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) began with a stark portrait of a Europe torn apart by war and crushing poverty, with the shocking prediction that if the enclosure of farmland continued, soon sheep would be eating people. This horrifying prospect made it urgent to look for an alternative, which More sketches out as an egalitarian, communal society of shared property.1 o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Does_Technology_Help_Students_Learn_Better?⠀⇛ Should technology be used for learning? It has been one of the most debatable topics in recent times. For years, experts have been assessing the benefits of technology in education against the risks and implications it brings along. Some argue that technology allows you to experiment with pedagogy, decentralize the classroom, and connect with Gen-Y & Gen-Z students. Others stress the adverse effects of technology in this aspect. The COVID-19 pandemic forces educational institutions to make a shift to online learning. Thus, we could not have imagined this transition without technology. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Top_Vaccine_Official_Ousted_in_Tennessee_Says_‘I_Am_Afraid for_My_State’⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘Pandemic_Is_Far_from_Over’:_Largest_US_Nurses_Union_Urges CDC_to_Reinstate_Federal_Mask_Mandate⠀⇛ Declaring Covid-19 vaccines “not enough by themselves to combat the pandemic,” the nation’s largest union of registered nurses on Tuesday called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reinstate the federal mask mandate. “The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over,” the union said in its letter (pdf) to CDC director Rochelle Walensky. # ⚓ Drug_War_Foes_Applaud_Senators’_Bill_to_End_Federal Cannabis_Criminalization⠀⇛ Drug war abolitionists on Wednesday applauded the introduction by three Democratic senators of proposed legislation that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level while allowing states to decide their own cannabis laws. “In 2019 there were more marijuana arrests than all other violent crime arrests combined, and the majority of those were for simple possession. This is a grievous reality; lives are being destroyed every single day.”—Sen. Cory Booker # ⚓ A_powerful_‘motivational_lever’_Meduza_uncovers_how_the Belgorod_region_became_the_most_vaccinated_part_of_Russia⠀⇛ The Belgorod region has the highest coronavirus vaccination rate in Russia — nearly 35 percent of the population, more than half a million people, have received their first dose. By comparison, even Moscow and the Moscow region are lagging behind, with just over 25 percent of their residents vaccinated against COVID-19. What’s more, unlike other parts of the country, the Belgorod region didn’t make vaccination against the coronavirus mandatory. How did they convince so many people to get the jab? Meduza discovered that the key to the Belgorod region’s success is a measure the local authorities aren’t advertising: making additional payments to local doctors for every vaccination. # ⚓ On_“Gain_of_Function”_Research,_COVID-19_and_the Shortcomings_of_the_Biological_Weapons_Convention:_an Interview_with_Laurie_Garrett⠀⇛ Q: Putting aside any suggestion of conspiracy theories, what are your feelings about “gain of function” experiments with pathogens? Are the potential benefits worth the risks? A: For 13 years I ran global health efforts at the Council on Foreign Relations, where (among other things) I worked on policy issues surrounding Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Gain of Function work (GOF). In both cases I wrote several papers and attended many meetings at the National Academy of Sciences and elsewhere. I also went to China to discuss the issues there. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Foundation_Launches_2021_Open Source_Diversity,_Equity,_and Inclusion_Survey [Ed: Racist Linux Foundation is again posing as “diversity” and “equality”. Don’t fall for it [1, 2]. “Linux Foundation Research” just means marketing by people who don’t even use Linux. Don’t let diversity be reduced to mere words in a press release composed by racists and companies that profit by incarceration of people based on their ethnicity (e.g. Microsoft_in_the_case_of_“Linux Foundation_Research”).]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_Announces Keynote_Speakers_for_Open_Source Summit_+_Embedded_Linux_Conference 2021 [Ed: LF keynote by Window Snyder from Microsoft]⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Nguyen:_CVE-2021-22555:_Turning_\x00\x00_into 10000$⠀⇛ For those who appreciate detailed descriptions of how to exploit a kernel vulnerability, this report on a netfilter bug by Andy Nguyen should certainly satisfy. # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Thursday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr and php7.0), Fedora (firefox, mingw-djvulibre, and seamonkey), Gentoo (fluidsynth, openscad, and urllib3), openSUSE (ffmpeg, nodejs12, and sqlite3), Red Hat (firefox), and SUSE (ffmpeg, kernel, nodejs10, nodejs12, nodejs14, and sqlite3). # ⚓ Australian_National_University’s_Critical Coronavirus_Research_Protected_by_KernelCare Enterprise_Deployment⠀⇛ The RSB runs bioinformatics servers that cannot be rebooted frequently due to the nature of the research work. COVID research and genome work can take weeks to months to complete, and breaks for maintenance tasks like patching and rebooting cannot be anticipated. A simple, professional, and affordable solution was needed to keep those systems running and protected, covering Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS. # ⚓ Linux_version_of_HelloKitty_ransomware_targets VMware_ESXi_servers [Ed: VMware is a Linux/GPL violator, but Microsoft booster Lawrence Abrams seems to think it's OK to blame VMware issues on "Linux"]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Josh_Bressers:_The_future_of_DWF⠀⇛ TL;DR – The future of community identifier is going to be the Cloud Security Alliance. See this blog post for more details. A few months ago the Distributed Weakness Filing project (DWF), announced it was coming back to work with some new ideas around how we work with vulnerability identifiers. The initial blog post defines some of the reasons, we won’t rehash them here. It should surprise nobody that the DWF project did not grow to an enormous size in a few short months. Vulnerability identification is a complex and hard problem. We were looking to try out some new ideas and see which were effective and which were not effective. It was to start to build the structure to deal with a future community. Most importantly it was to help figure out what we don’t know we don’t know. One group that has become interested in what we were doing was the CloudSecurityAlliance (CSA). The CSA is focused on, well, security and the cloud, as well as other new and emerging technologies and problems. Traditional vulnerability identifiers have been heavily focused on software as it existed in the past rather than current software and services. The CSA has an interest in helping to define the next generation of vulnerability classification. There are a huge number of potential vulnerabilities and weaknesses that are going untracked, which means they are largely unseen. If we expect the future to be more secure than the past, having a community driven vulnerability classification and freely available databases will be critical. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Content_Moderation_Case_Study:_Twitter Experiences_Problems_Moderating_Audio Tweets_(2020)⠀⇛ Summary: Since its debut in 2007, Twitter hasn’t changed much about its formula, except for expanding its character limit from 140 to 280 in 2007 and adding useful features such as lists, trending topics and polls. Twitter has embraced images and videos, adding it to its original text- only formula, but seemed to have little use for audio. That changed in June 2020 when Twitter announced it would allow users to upload audio-only tweets. Remaining true to the original formula, audio tweets were limited to 140 seconds, although Twitter will automatically add new audio tweets to a thread if the user’s recording ran long. # ⚓ Rights_Coalition_Demands_US_Retailers Reject_Use_of_Facial_Recognition⠀⇛ On the heels of a congressional hearing that highlighted concerns about facial recognition, more than 35 civil rights groups on Wednesday collectively called for retailers to reject the technology in their stores “to protect the privacy and rights of shoppers and staff.” “Retailers should commit to not using facial recognition in their stores so we can champion their decision, or be prepared for an onslaught of opposition.”—Caitlin Seeley George, Fight for the Future o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ America_Doesn’t_Have_a_Gun_Problem⠀⇛ # ⚓ “My_Name_is_Called_Disturbance:”_the_Student_Movement_to Get_Stanford_Out_of_the_Vietnam_War⠀⇛ Siegel takes us back to his Southern California childhood, in the $10,000 “Victory Home,” government-funded thanks to the anti-fascist war, and close to Hughes Aircraft in Culver City. His parents were progressives of the age, not Communists but proud and happy to be on the Left, with so many other lower middle class Jews, at least until the FBI came knocking. They became peaceniks in the early Sixties, proud of their bright and progressive son. By early 1967, Lenny found himself in SDS protesting the appearance of that liberal icon, Hubert Humphrey. Time magazine falsely reported that the demonstrators had thrown bags of urine, and that lie fairly set the tone for the deception engaged in by the university administration. Actually, the Hump had received a worrying disrespect, even anger. Who could possibly be angry about a War? Students themselves began assiduously researching Stanford’s many ties to the war machine. They learned that the notorious Strategic Hamlet plan emerged within the Stanford research umbrella, alongside the Army’s biological and chemical warfare contract work. Pretty soon, Siegel and others were producing antiwar posters about campus administrators, leafletting young men in San Jose, on their way to pre-induction physicals, and providing draft counseling. # ⚓ America’s_Afghan_War_Is_Over,_So_What_About_Iraq_–_and Iran?⠀⇛ The Taliban are rapidly expanding their control over hundreds of districts, usually through negotiations between local elders, but also by force when troops loyal to the Kabul government refuse to give up their outposts and weapons. A few weeks ago, the Taliban controlled a quarter of the country. Now it’s a third. They are taking control of border posts and large swathes of territory in the north of the country. These include areas that were once strongholds of the Northern Alliance, a militia that prevented the Taliban from unifying the country under their rule in the late 1990s. # ⚓ Conflict_or_Cooperation_in_U.S.-China_Relations?⠀⇛ Beginning in 2018, U.S. government policy toward China turned sharply hostile, bringing relations between the two nations to their lowest point in the last four decades. The Trump administration fostered military confrontations with China in the South China Sea, initiated a trade war with the Asian nation, blamed China for the COVID-19 pandemic, and sharply denounced its human rights record. In a July 2020 public address, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for “a new alliance of democracies” to resist China, declaring: “The free world must triumph over this new tyranny.” For the most part, the Biden administration has continued this hard-line policy. Soon after taking office in 2021, U.S. officials stepped up political and military engagement with Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory, while Secretary of State Antony Blinken used his first meeting with Chinese officials to publicly berate China. At the beginning of June, the U.S. Senate passed the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, explicitly designed to compete with China by pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into advanced U.S. technology. This action followed the release of a proposed Pentagon budget that identified China as “the greatest long-term challenge to the United States.” Promising to “prioritize China” as the U.S. adversary, the Defense Department called for heightened funding to upgrade U.S. “forces, global posture, and operational concepts” by “investing in cutting edge technologies that will deliver new warfighting advantages to our forces.” # ⚓ ‘The_Techniques_Rumsfeld_Was_Using_Were_Designed_to_Get False_Information’⠀⇛ The July 9, 2021, episode of CounterSpin included an archival interview with the Center for Constitutional Rights’ Michael Ratner about Donald Rumsfeld. Steve Rendall originally interviewed Ratner for the December 19, 2008 show.  This is a lightly edited transcript. # ⚓ The_Violence_of_Latinx_Erasure_Starts_With_Undercounting Victims⠀⇛ On the night of March 23, 1979, Roberto Cintli Rodriguez lost his ability to dream. Rodriguez, a journalist, was in East Los Angeles reporting for an article in Lowrider magazine about police violence when four baton-wielding LA County sheriffs beat the living dreams out of him. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Case_Is_Made—and_the_Time_Is_Now—for_a_Civilian_Climate Corps⠀⇛ The Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure deal embraced by President Joe Biden appears to be a dud. Instead of taxing the rich to modernize America’s roads, water systems and other infrastructure, it promotes various forms of privatization. A summary released in late June about how new construction will be financed includes so-called “public-private partnerships,” which are essentially high-interest loans to state and local governments that deliver massive returns for Wall Street banks, private equity investors and multinational financial firms. Also listed is a fringe policy idea called “asset recycling,” which would incentivize states and cities to outright sell off public assets. Back in 2009, Chicago leased out its parking meters to investors as far away as Abu Dhabi for at least $1 billion under value, which has forced residents to pick up the tab ever since. Asset recycling is that type of scheme on steroids.  # ⚓ Radical_Political_Action_Is_Our_Only_Hope_to_Stop_Criminal Negligence_of_Climate_Emergency⠀⇛ Planet Earth is on fire because of global warming, yet there are still untold numbers of climate deniers in our midst, including over 130 elected officials in the U.S. Congress, and the global community’s response to the climate crisis continues to be not merely unacceptably slow, but borders on criminal negligence. # ⚓ Youth_Activists_Rally_Outside_Feinstein’s_LA_Office Demanding_Civilian_Climate_Corps⠀⇛ Dozens of climate activists from the youth-led Sunrise Movement rallied outside of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Los Angeles office Tuesday afternoon to demand the inclusion of a key climate measure in federal infrastructure legislation. The climate group’s most pressing demand was that Feinstein (D-Calif.) publicly champion the Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs and Justice Act, co- sponsored by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), which the Sunrise Movement says will “put over 1.5 million Americans to work in good-paying jobs all while combating climate change and building a sustainable future for our generation and many more to come.” # ⚓ A_Climate_View_From_California⠀⇛ I was in Reno last September, so I missed the morning when San Franciscans awoke to apocalyptic orange skies, the air freighted with smoke from burning forests elsewhere in the state. The air then was bad enough even in the high mountain valley of Reno. At that point, we’d already experienced “very unhealthy” purple-zone air quality for days. Still, it was nothing like the photos that could have been from Mars then emerging from the Bay Area. I have a bad feeling that I may get my chance to experience the same phenomenon in 2021 — and, as the fires across California have started so much earlier, probably sooner than September. The situation is pretty dire: this state — along with our neighbors to the north and southeast — is now living through an epic drought. After a dry winter and spring, the fuel-moisture content in our forests (the amount of water in vegetation, living and dead) is way below average. This April, the month when it is usually at its highest, San Jose State University scientists recorded levels a staggering 40% below average in the Santa Cruz Mountains, well below the lowest level ever before observed. In other words, we have never been this dry. # ⚓ ‘Biggest_Story_in_the_World_Right_Now’:_Humanity_Has Flipped_Amazon_From_Carbon_Sink_to_Source⠀⇛ Following years of warnings and mounting fears among scientists, “terrifying” research revealed Wednesday that climate change and deforestation have turned parts of the Amazon basin, a crucial “sink,” into a source of planet-heating carbon dioxide. Though recent research has elevated concerns about the Amazon putting more CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than it absorbs, the new findings, published in the journal Nature, were presented as a “first” by scientists and climate reporters. # ⚓ Australia_Aided_by_‘Fossil_Fuel_Pariah_States’_in_Bid_to Keep_Great_Barrier_Reef_Off_‘In_Danger’_List⠀⇛ Just ahead of a United Nations World Heritage Committee meeting weighing updated classifications for U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization sites, new reporting on Wednesday reveals how Australia is working to thwart the Great Barrier Reef being designated as “in danger.” According to The Guardian, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are co-sponsoring amendments that reject UNESCO’s finding, released last month, that the reef is in danger and would prevent such a designation until 2023 or later. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Critics_Warn_EU_‘Fit_for_55′_Proposal_Could_Raise Energy_Bills_for_Europe’s_Poor⠀⇛ As officials prepare to introduce sweeping legislation aimed at achieving the European Union’s pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 55% from 1990 levels by 2030, environmental and social justice advocates warned Wednesday that the proposed measures could push millions of people into poverty due to high energy costs. Part of the E.U.’s Green Deal, the European Commission says its Fit for 55 package “will enable the necessary acceleration of greenhouse gas emission reductions in the next decade” to meet the 27-nation bloc’s determined contribution under the Paris agreement. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Death_by_Design:_How_the_National_Park_Service Experiments_on_Tule_Elk⠀⇛ The sleek, befurred mammals seem to commune with tourists who stroll a well-traveled trail in the preserve. Tule elk are Yoda- like, with big, brown eyes. They trumpet, munch flowers and make love in harems. According to a 1998 National Park Service brochure, “Given the mild climate and lush habitat of Tomales Point, the elk live in a virtual paradise.” o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_Pay_for_Infrastructure?_Analysis_Says_Tax Billionaires’_$1.8_Trillion_Pandemic_Windfall⠀⇛ A new analysis out Wednesday shows that the 713 billionaires in the United States have seen their collective wealth skyrocket by nearly $1.8 trillion since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic—and, thanks to the nation’s deeply skewed tax system, much of that windfall will likely go untaxed. “Lawmakers should pay for jobs, infrastructure, and investments benefiting working families with targeted taxes on the wealthiest 0.1%.”—Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies # ⚓ We_Can’t_Afford_to_Go_Small_on_Infrastructure⠀⇛ For the past few months, a debate has been unfolding over what it will take to address the country’s infrastructure needs. # ⚓ ‘A_Big_Deal,’_Says_Sanders_as_Dems_Agree_to_Pursue_a_$3.5 Trillion_Reconciliation_Bill⠀⇛ The Senate Democratic leadership agreed late Tuesday to push for a $3.5 trillion legislative package that includes substantial investments in green energy, an expansion of Medicare benefits, universal pre-K, and other priorities, funded by tax hikes on the rich and large corporations. “The wealthy and large corporations are going to start paying their fair share of taxes, so that we can protect the working families of this country.”—Sen. Bernie Sanders # ⚓ ‘$3.5_Trillion_Isn’t_Enough’:_Sunrise_Says_House_Dems_Must Go_Bigger_Than_Senate_on_Climate⠀⇛ The youth-led Sunrise Movement on Wednesday rejected Senate Democrats’ newly unveiled $3.5 trillion spending framework as badly inadequate to the task of combating the climate emergency and urged the House to “go bigger” with its own proposal. “This is the first time since 2009 that Democrats have control of both chambers of Congress and the White House. They cannot afford to waste this opportunity.”—Lauren Maunus, Sunrise Movement # ⚓ Top_CEOs_Made_Nearly_300_Times_More_Than_Average_Employee During_Pandemic⠀⇛ Economic justice advocates on Wednesday amplified calls for a wealth tax and far-reaching pro-worker legislation amid the release of two reports detailing how income and wealth inequality between corporate CEOs and their employees has skyrocketed during the coronavirus pandemic. The AFL-CIO’s Executive Paywatch report examined compensation at S&P 500 companies, revealing that executives were paid 299 times the average worker’s salary in 2020.  # ⚓ The_‘Zuma_Riots’_and_the_Decadence_of_Capitalism⠀⇛ Zuma’s supporters had warned that there would be unrest if he were to be jailed after being sentenced to fifteen months incarceration for contempt of court. The former president’s incarceration followed a recent precedent setting majority judgment handed down by the Constitutional Court, which serves as the country’s court of last instance, for defying that court and refusing to continue his testimony before the Commission of Enquiry to investigate Allegations of State Capture. His subsequent application to a lower court to stay his incarceration was dismissed before he handed himself to an incarceration center. It remains to be seen if a parallel application to the Constitutional Court for it to rescind its judgment will succeed. # ⚓ Democratic_Senators_Call_for_Investigation_of_Tax_Avoidance by_the_Ultrawealthy⠀⇛ Two prominent members of the Senate Finance Committee are calling for an investigation into tax avoidance by the ultrawealthy, citing ProPublica’s Secret IRS Files series. # ⚓ The_Inflation_Bogeyman⠀⇛ You’re hearing a lot about inflation these days. Don’t buy it. Every time the economy gets a bit of wind in its sails and workers get a little wage increase, conservatives scream about inflation and price increases. # ⚓ As_Cuba_Tries_To_Block_Internet_Messaging,_A_Reminder_Of Why_The_Open_Internet_Is_So_Important⠀⇛ I know that the internet is taking quite a beating these days, but we should not forget the promise of the internet, and how it can be used for important movements. The protests in Cuba are a perfect example of this. As you probably know, Cuba has had very limited access to the internet, though it has expanded recently. Twenty years ago we wrote about efforts to build bootleg internet connections in Cuba, and a decade later, Fidel Castro suddenly talked about how important the internet was, noting that he had become something of an internet junkie himself. It’s really only in the last few years that Cuba has made it really possible for people to have internet in their homes, but only via the state operated ETECSA with fairly limited speeds. # ⚓ Washington’s_Weaponization_of_Protests_in_Cuba_Takes_Its Regime_Change_Efforts_to_New_Heights_of_Hypocrisy⠀⇛ Needless to say, the US government, its minions in the corporate-owned media, and, of course, the representatives of the Cuban-American exile brigade have seized on the protests to bolster their case for regime change and the continuation of coercive measures against the beleaguered Caribbean island nation. At the forefront of these calls has been Frances Suarez, mayor of Miami – the hinterland of Cuba-American exile hardliners – who has openly called for direct US military intervention into Cuba. The move comes amidst a growing unwillingness on the part of the Biden administration to roll back some of his predecessor’s policies toward Cuba. The Trump administration had reversed several of the renormalization measures implemented by the Obama administration, in which Biden served as vice- president, in part as an effort to court the support of the Cuban-American community and their representatives, such as senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. # ⚓ “We_Just_Want_the_Basics”:_Rare_Protests_in_Cuba_Amid_Deep Economic_Crisis,_Ongoing_U.S._Blockade⠀⇛ We go to Havana, Cuba, to look at what is behind protests that brought thousands of people into the streets of Havana and other cities in rare anti- government protests denouncing the island’s economic crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuba is facing its harshest phase of the pandemic with skyrocketing infections, and people are scrambling to cope amid shortages of medicine, food and other resources due to catastrophic U.S. sanctions. Thousands of others in Cuba led counterprotests in support of the Cuban Revolution and President Miguel Díaz-Canel. Cuban journalist Daniel Montero, a journalist with the independent news organization Belly of the Beast, says many people were demanding an end to communism on the island, but the protests were not entirely driven by ideology. “We just want more food. We just want medicine. We just want the basics,” he says many protesters told him in interviews. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Democrats_Have_An_Historic_Opportunity_To_Advance_FDR’s Vision_For_Universal,_Guaranteed_Health_Care⠀⇛ When President Biden spoke at the Democratic convention nearly a year ago, he pledged to follow in the footsteps of one of our nation’s greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt. # ⚓ ‘Shameful’:_Biden_DHS_Chief_Says_Haitian_and_Cuban_Refugees Will_Be_Turned_Away_From_US⠀⇛ Human rights advocates on Wednesday condemned the Biden administration for its “shameful” announcement that amid unrest and economic crises in both Cuba and Haiti, refugees from the Caribbean nations will not be welcomed in the United States. At a press conference on Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas—whose own family left Cuba for the U.S. in the early 1960s—said people who attempt to leave Cuba and Haiti via boat will be intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard and either turned back or—if they convince U.S. authorities that they have a credible fear of persecution or torture—sent to a third country for resettlement.  # ⚓ Russian_election_officials_restrict_access_to_polling station_live_streams_for_fall_vote⠀⇛ Russia’s Central Election Commision (CEC) has decided to restrict access to online broadcasts from polling stations for the September elections. # ⚓ ‘This_isn’t_an_argument_about_the_past’:_We_asked professional_historians_to_weigh_in_on_Putin’s_‘historical article’⠀⇛ “Ukrainians and Russians are generally one people,” Vladimir Putin proclaimed during his annual call-in show at the end of June. About two weeks later, the Kremlin published an article authored by the Russian president titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” (it’s now available in Russian, Ukrainian, and English, but you can just read our summary here). In his essay, Putin claims that modern Ukraine is a product of the Soviet era, but he also stretches his argument back to the Middle Ages. For some perspective on Putin’s take, Meduza asked professional historians from Russia and Ukraine to weigh in on the roots of his views. # ⚓ Biden_Is_Not_Meeting_the_Moment_on_Voting_Rights⠀⇛ There’s a sad metaphor in the fact that brave Texas Democrats fleeing Austin to block a voter suppression bill arrived in Washington, D.C., just in time to see President Joe Biden go to Philadelphia to make a heralded speech on voting rights. It wasn’t deliberate; the speech was previously planned. But it symbolized the current mismatch between the urgency of grassroots Democrats and Biden’s go-slower, speechifying approach to solving the crisis of democracy. # ⚓ Report_Card:_Six_Months_Into_Biden’s_Presidency⠀⇛ But it’s not clear Biden will get America back to where it was before Trump. His initial slew of executive orders erased most of Trump’s executive orders, but he hasn’t yet demolished all of Trump’s cruel immigration policies. Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric is gone but Biden hasn’t repaired relations with China. Many of Trump’s tariffs are still in place. And even with a bare Democratic majority in the US Senate, there’s little chance Congress will repeal all of Trump’s tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. # ⚓ Russian_investigators_drop_‘Sanitary_Case’_charges_against municipal_deputy_Konstantin_Yankauskas⠀⇛ The Russian Investigative Committee has dropped the “Sanitary Case” charges against municipal deputy Konstantin Yankauskas, his lawyer informed Mediazona on July 14.  # ⚓ John_Lewis:_‘Never_Be_Afraid_to_Make_Noise…’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dems_Introduce_Bill_to_Decriminalize_Pot,_“Restore_Lives” Harmed_by_Prohibition⠀⇛ # ⚓ Murmansk_court_orders_forced_hospitalization_of_opposition candidate_Violetta_Grudina⠀⇛ A district court in Murmansk has ordered the forced hospitalization of Violetta Grudina, the former head of Alexey Navalny’s local campaign office, who is currently running for City Council. # ⚓ Democrats’_New_Version_of_Infrastructure_Bill_Claws_Back Trump_Tax_Cuts_for_Rich⠀⇛ # ⚓ “We’re_Staying_Out”:_Texas_State_Democrats_Who_Fled_to_D.C. Tell_Congress_to_Pass_Voting_Laws_Now⠀⇛ We speak with two of the Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled to Washington, D.C., to block suppressive new voting laws in their home state and who are calling on Congress to quickly pass legislation protecting voting rights. Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott threatened them with arrest the moment they return to their state and said he would keep them “in chamber” in order to pass the new voting bills, but the fugitive lawmakers say they intend to stay in Washington for as long as necessary. “We’re staying out,” says Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat representing Dallas in the Texas House. “We’re not going to be bullied and intimidated by anybody, including the governor or our colleagues,” adds Trey Martinez Fischer, who represents San Antonio. “We have a job to be the voice of our constituents.” o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Twitter_Reports_Rise_in_Governments_Demanding_Removal_of Journalists’_Content⠀⇛ In a biannual transparency report published on Wednesday, Twitter revealed that the second half of 2020 was marked by a surge in government demands to delete information shared by reporters and news publishers, an alarming trend for advocates of press freedom. The social media giant said that in the second half of 2020, “199 accounts of verified journalists and news outlets from around the world were subject to 361 legal demands” to remove content—a 26% increase from the first half of the year. # ⚓ UK’s_Draft_Online_Safety_Bill_Raises_Serious_Concerns Around_Freedom_of_Expression⠀⇛ EFF and OTI submitted joint comments as part of that consultation on the Online Harms White Paper in July 2019, pushing the government to safeguard free expression as it explored developing new rules for online content. Our views have not changed: while EFF and OTI believe it is critical that companies increase the safety of users on the internet, the recently released draft bill reflects serious threats to freedom of expression online, and must be revised. In addition, although the draft features some notable transparency provisions, these could be expanded to promote meaningful accountability around how platforms moderate online content. The bill is broad in scope, covering not only “user-to-user services” (companies that enable users to generate, upload, and share content with other users), but also search engine providers. The new statutory duty of care will be overseen by the UK Office of Communications (OFCOM), which has the power to issue high fines and to block access to sites. Among the core issues that will determine the bill’s impact on freedom of speech is the concept of “harmful content.” The draft bill opts for a broad and vague notion of harmful content that could reasonably, from the perspective of the provider, have a “significant adverse physical or psychological impact” on users. The great subjectivity involved in complying with the duty of care poses a risk of overbroad removal of speech and inconsistent content moderation. In terms of illegal content, “Illegal content duties” comprise the obligations of platform operators to minimize the presence of so-called “priority illegal content,” to be defined through future regulation, and a requirement to take down any illegal content upon becoming aware of it. The draft bill thus departs from the EU’s e-Commerce Directive (and the proposed Digital Services Act), which abstained from imposing affirmative removal obligations on platforms. For the question of what constitutes illegal content, platforms are put first in line as arbiters of speech: content is deemed illegal if the service provider has “reasonable grounds” to believe that the content in question constitutes a relevant criminal offence. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Rights_Groups_Fight_Back_Against_‘Punitive_and_Unjust’ Anti-Protest_Law_in_Florida⠀⇛ A coalition of civil rights groups on Wednesday filed a motion in a Florida federal court seeking to block the state’s recently enacted anti-protest law—which critics say targets racial justice demonstrators while letting right-wing protesters off the hook. “We use protest as a vehicle for change and not only does this law silence our voices, but it puts our lives in danger.”—Nailah Summers, Dream Defenders # ⚓ Kneeling_against_Racism:_Solidarity_in_EURO_2020_Should_Not be_‘Controversial’⠀⇛ Yet, while some players chose to kneel down, others opted not to, offering flimsy excuses as “players weren’t ready”, and “politics should stay out of football”. Racism in sports is real, though it cannot be separated from racism within society. In fact, the reactions to the moral stances taken by some players were reflections of how rightwing, populist and chauvinistic movements wield such massive influence over various European societies, to the extent that these movements often define mainstream political sensibilities. For example, the French national team, comprising largely black and Muslim French players, came under attack led by rightwing politicians and media outlets to the point that, on June 15, the entire team decided not to take a knee at the start of their matches, likely fearing racist repercussions. # ⚓ County_Officials_in_Texas_Settle_Lawsuit_Alleging Mishandling_of_Sexual_Assault_Cases⠀⇛ Travis County, Texas, officials have settled a lawsuit brought by more than a dozen women who said local law enforcement agencies had failed to properly investigate their sexual assault allegations. # ⚓ Sixth_Circuit_Says_School_Board_Can’t_Boot_People_From Meetings_Just_Because_It_Doesn’t_Like_What_They’re_Saying⠀⇛ Just because government officials may not like the tone of the criticism they’re receiving doesn’t mean they can use their government power to mandate civility. That’s the determination of the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court, which has struck down part of an Ohio school board’s rules of (public) engagement. # ⚓ There’s_Nothing_New_About_Georgia’s_‘New_Vision’_For Parole⠀⇛ As Georgia moves into the next phase of the pandemic, it is becoming clear that the state’s incarcerated population has actually increased despite releases spurred by COVID-19. While state prison officials tout a “new vision” for parole released just earlier this year, underneath it all exists an arbitrary and unfair process in violation of state laws that leaves prisoners with few-to-no prospects for release. On January 21, 2021, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles released a “New Vision Statement.” It isn’t particularly new. Although the 2021 statement has 41 more words than the 2015 version, and includes claims of being “data-driven” and “scientific,” there appears to be little change to its substance.  o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ As_Delta_Variant_Drives_COVID-19_Uptick,_Pfizer Pushes_3rd_Shot_in_U.S._Despite_Global_Vaccination Lag⠀⇛ After months of decline in COVID-19 cases in the United States due in part to widely available vaccines, the number of new cases per day is on the rise again. Pfizer representatives met with U.S. regulators and vaccine experts to seek emergency use authorization for a second booster dose of its vaccine, as health experts are continuing to highlight the growing gap in administered vaccinations between rich and low-income countries. “In the United States, we have access to multiple vaccines,” says Dr. Abraar Karan, an internal medicine doctor and infectious disease fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine. “Many countries have not seen any vaccine at all.” He also says it’s too early to say whether a third vaccine dose is necessary, as Pfizer has insisted. “I hope the science is what guides this, not the financial aspects,” he says. # ⚓ President_Biden,_Please_Persuade_Chancellor_Merkel_to Support_the_WTO_Waiver_and_Save_Lives⠀⇛ President Joe Biden’s White House summit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday will be an epic moral failure unless it ends Germany’s blockage of an emergency World Trade Organization (WTO) waiver to facilitate greater production of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments necessary to save millions of lives. # ⚓ ‘Merkel’s_Delay_Could_Kill_Us_All’:_Protesters_Demand Germany_Stop_Obstructing_Patent_Waiver⠀⇛ Ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s White House visit, global justice campaigners marched to the German Consulate and Pfizer’s headquarters in Manhattan on Wednesday to demand that Germany and Big Pharma stop blocking a proposed patent waiver for Covid- 19 vaccines, which public health advocates say would facilitate greater worldwide manufacturing of sorely needed doses. “The pandemic can only be defeated globally. It requires global effort and global solidarity. No one is safe until everyone is safe.”—Marian Lieser, Oxfam Germany # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Registration_for_the_Virtual_2021_CC_Global_Summit_Is Now_Open⠀⇛ It’s a special year because Creative Commons is turning 20! The 2021 CC Global Summit is shaping up to be one of our biggest, boldest events yet, so join us 20-24 September for a week of discussion, collaboration, creativity and community building. Whether you are new to the community or a long-time contributor, the Summit has something for you!  # ⚓ Japanese_Police_Arrest_Man_For_Selling_Modded_Save Files_For_Single-Player_Nintendo_Game⠀⇛ We’ve already written a few times about how Japan’s onerous Unfair Competition Prevention Law has created what looks from here like a massive overreach on the criminalization of copyright laws. Past examples include Japanese journalism executives being arrested over a book that tells people how to back up their own DVDs, along with more high-profile cases in which arrests occurred over the selling of cheats or exploits in online multiplayer video games. While these too seem like an overreach of copyright law, or at least an over-criminalization of relatively minor business problems facing electronic media companies, they are nothing compared with the idea that a person could be arrested and face jail time for the crime of selling modded save-game files for single player game like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 7123 ➮ Generation completed at 02:40, i.e. 53 seconds to (re)generate ⟲