𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Wednesday, August 04, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Thu 5 Aug 02:39:58 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/2021/08/04/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmTEc55i2525TPe47yzXhgGhNWewFBdj8FCkg3pJ7X8J9T QmYq2ZBtL883eCzUWS8dtrNRWXtEiJaBV5RgeXHMrp1Wqt QmZMMJb74WX7Ypaf2H127WPnDK2VpTcXakHN3ZXbrzvQya QmRGU5iwsjUHJB4EjXfazgsqgHzHK6412gKq55LburtW48 Qmd8WHahN5nzwDSCrEbZUPPxjJGgqkyDBtKNuMAVUn7FfC QmazVkrVDCoAotDdNyXHtw8rnnwuE32LKJi9Y43UU1tZ8C QmPbs4kN1GHeAEUEUWtCVVhT8zRVM7LcHdvAnAsqczstvA QmdngEJ8etJ4zrerS5iXUUtfJk9kJTK9S2oDFMkDvT7NYm QmZka1ezCX6Jq1bqJcd8DAopjUggU4MUpZGXkMw5m4Z4ZN QmP8RifZKvqinSSG2CZnUUzTMGP1P4jkMknygd8T11oZKh QmX8ZpmiXYbSrmwypsB2cg64GZppWcud7Wm37qBiBdDZST QmRVH4rgisQJw7tfjpSYpE4grUeGzk3WqhpWLXXgXgR23v QmQnCr2nU4WxQKHW7E1rNeJT8h2q1DppwFTCxNdPbJsKVu QmXorFxCY8x9KkgemX183bprQUQRvqqbxBBZppkyzunwtY QmQoYA3rtYhK4AhVVweyrKCMnCpdqN6saCz8cj1d9f9MXX QmYPuxGxUuA2otUfB7HDtRmTpivWTUWAabpcpCcCWUjDPe QmTWNbUkuvdmDn7t3Fk2bJVTcpy7AaW5viHLRpUMPZqPmN QmYLHQ18BUjsoqQrYh2hfAARNThKQwcJMPEWNrHSRDqpbJ QmNSNxDGf8uW24qwfnLjXrvXVvHmUMuSgb1HJu756yHhud QmRS9PeWnJkwSM9uFwhXg9oWnWvAdJYnqn5BvY4mFwyNtW Qmeww9N1YnQ2Znw5A9zRvL5cLmS649Q6VCiDCx91X2ZJqo ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ The Free Software Community Needs Solidarity and Stronger Resistance Against Corporate Oligopolies With Their Overlapping Interests | Techrights ⦿ Destroying Freenode Was Not the Objective, But That’s Just What Happened | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 03, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ GNU/Linux Users, Developers and Advocates Being Painted as Unruly and Rude by Corporate Media Looking to Undermine Software Freedom | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/08/04/coup-of-overlapping-interests/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/04/freenode-future/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/04/irc-log-030821/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/04/rude-corporations/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/08/04/audacity-as-spyware/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/04/links-482021-mesa-21-2-and-kaisen-linux-rolling-1-8/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/04/more-ibm-downtimes/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 58 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/04/coup-of-overlapping-interests/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/04/coup-of-overlapping-interests/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ The_Free_Software_Community_Needs_Solidarity_and_Stronger_Resistance_Against Corporate_Oligopolies_With_Their_Overlapping_Interests⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, IBM, Kernel, Microsoft at 1:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Don’t be fooled by the cabal of large and usually monopolistic corporations, which generally pursue back doors and government/military_contracts, especially when they rear their ugly heads through their_abusive_operatives (social engineering with pseudo-ethical arguments) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Krusty Krab Vs Chum Bucket: GNU/Linux Freedom⦈ “Userbase” or “useds” is not what we’re meant to be; Corporate overlords want us all to be their "slaves" Summary: Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman (RMS) do not have to be idolised (“cult of personalities”) but they definitely need to be defended from a longstanding and ongoing corporate coup, which the corporations seek to justify using nicer-sounding terms like “security” (that’s how they justify added complexity_such_as_Rust) or “safe space” (they’re collectively_insulting_the community_as_if_only_employees_of_monopolies_can_help_combat_bigotry) Richard Stallman (RMS) has not publicly spoken since_May (in his_latest appearance he asked people so sign a petition in support of him being reinstated inside the FSF’s Board) and there has been no update for weeks in the_pro-RMS_petition. No new signatures added or at least none displayed. Is that stalled? Is the maintainer of this petition now doing that addition in larger batches (that seems to have been true before), more so after the 6,800th signature was registered and displayed? Some readers might say, “who cares!” or “why does that even matter?” “It has now been over 40 days since an IBM employee changed the anti-RMS hate letter (removing a signature), but the defamation is still fully in tact inside of that letter.”It does not matter all that much, it might even be largely symbolic, but a similar situation happens in Linux, the kernel, where Torvalds nowadays more willingly accepts Microsoft patches that he previously blasted for their poor quality (bad coding standards, and not for the first time either; Greg K-H publicly complained about that in the distant past). It has now been over 40 days since an IBM_employee changed the anti-RMS/hate letter (removing a signature), but the defamation is still fully in tact inside of that letter. It continues to do harm by spreading false accusations. They just change the names at the bottom of of the letter. Bully de Blanc, who played a key role in it, has since been rendered unemployed. That was around the time of the last edit (21 June 2021). “Large corporations want them out of the way because leadership vacuums give way for more corporate domination over otherwise-grassroots projects/ movements.”It is very_important_that_we_defend_the_likes_of_Torvalds_and Stallman, even if we do not like them or agree with them much of the time. Because they’re being targeted (they still are! It’s thinly-veiled). Large corporations want them out of the way because leadership vacuums give way for more corporate domination over otherwise-grassroots projects/movements. They want shareholders rather than a moral compass in charge. Similarly, EPO staff has been in urgent of defending the union and staff representatives, even when (or if) some of their actions were harder to support. We know what the lesser evil is; we know what the greater evil is, as we_noted_in_passing_yesterday. Interests intersect; not ours. █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Now Available: SQL Server 2019 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 in AWS Marketplace⦈ Yesterday: Red Hat (IBM) happy for people to ‘buy’ Microsoft’s proprietary software (which does not even truly run on GNU/Linux) while it’s actively attacking/undercutting_the_FSF ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣯⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢳⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣜⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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█▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Destroying_Freenode_Was_Not_the_Objective,_But_That’s_Just_What_Happened⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 10:35 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Killing_Freenode:_Alright_Gentlemen_We_Need_A_New_Idea_to destroy_communities:_Ruin_their_IRC_network;_Ban_anonymous_access,_require registration⦈_ Just because enemies of Free software stand to benefit from it doesn’t mean they did it Summary: Killing Freenode was certainly not what Andrew Lee wanted, but Lee will be remembered as the person whose takeover basically led to the end of Freenode; it’s in disarray THIS Web site joined Freenode in earlier months of 2008. I still remember that day. Keith and I needed to set up ChanServ and a bunch of other things; many Free software groups were already on Freenode, so it was like a natural choice. I initially used XChat, but in later years I’d experiment and use a variety of other IRC clients. Freenode was like a default choice in some of them. Back then, one could say “Freenode is FOSS” and almost suggest that “Freenode is IRC”. “The way things are going, our plan of having two networks in tandem has been undermined by the SSO requirement.”But sadly that’s no longer the case. Many communities got scattered to several other networks and some left IRC altogether. The new maladministration of Freenode has managed to harm IRC as a whole, not just Freenode. Last week (apparently around Wednesday) Freenode decided to put an end to anonymous access, which means it’s unfit for purpose; they also reject registration with ‘throwaway’ E-mail accounts, so basically it’s like a phishing expedition exploiting the old reputation of Freenode to make a catalogue of people. And considering the top-level ownership of current Freenode (notorious_Kape and some_‘casino’_entity on top of it) it would be reckless to supply them with any such data. We cannot recommend that people follow through and feed their SSO. We cannot advise EPO whistleblowers to use today’s Freenode under any circumstances. We heard from a PIA client (Ryan from our IRC channel) that even PIA now routes traffic through some dodgy entity, possibly a honeypot, at least for American clients. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Kape⦈ Thankfully, by now we’ve come to the point where over 95% of communications happen in our self-hosted network and not any other network (there is a #techrights channel in several other networks but hardly any activity). The way things are going, our plan of having two networks in tandem has been undermined by the SSO requirement. There’s no parity among the networks, albeit a bridge remains in place. We’re not sure what to advise people who still use our channel (#techrights) at Freenode; but we certainly don’t advise giving them any personal information at this stage. This rapid destruction of Freenode has certainly benefited several companies which loathe Free software communities, but we dare not conclude this was planned or intended. It’s just very unfortunate and we need to find ways to move on. Self-hosting has once again proven its advantage; people should be in control of their communities and projects rather than outsource to companies like Microsoft (GitHub), which will inevitably do something similar to what Freenode did in 2021. Those are ticking time bombs because they don’t truly care about communities. They’re just “numbers” or some “commodities” to them. █ ⣭⢉⡉⡩⠍⡉⠭⠍⡉⠍⡉⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⡉⡉⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⢭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⢉⢩⠭⠭⠭⠍⠭⠭⠭⠭⠍⡉⠍⡉⠭⠭⠭⠍⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠭⢭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⡄ ⡟⡼⣿⠀⡇⡇⠏⡇⡏⡇⡇⠸⣹⢘⡃⡏⡇⡏⡇⣟⡃⣿⢹⢸⣻⢸⢹⠘⢸⣾⣿⣻⠀⡏⡇⣟⠂⣟⢸⣸⠀⣍⡇⢸⢹⢸⡳⢸⣷⡇⡇⣇⡇⣟⡇⣽⠄⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣶⣄⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣭⣵⣶⣶⣶⣬⣥⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡐⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣶⣶⠂⣴⣶⣶⣿⠿⣟⢛⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣛⣷⡀⠀⠸⡛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢰⣛⣩⣭⣭⡭⣽⢋⣿⣶⣚⣛⣛⣛⣻⣷⣀⢾⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡁⣉⡟⢋⣉⠻⣿⣿⡿⢋⣉⠀⣿⠛⣉⡙⢿⠛⣉⡙⣏⠀⣹⠉⣉⡿⢋⣉⠛⡏⢻⣿⠋⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣯⣥⣶⣾⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⢃⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡀⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⠀⣇⠨⣭⡥⣼⢦⣬⡉⢿⠀⣿⠀⣿⡇⢺⣿⠀⣿⡀⠏⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⡸⠟⡩⠿⠿⢮⣙⢿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣷⣤⣥⣾⣿⣿⣿⣤⣥⣦⣿⣦⣬⣴⣿⣦⣭⣴⣿⣤⣼⣤⣿⣷⣤⣥⣴⡿⠗⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⠸⢛⣭⣶⣶⣶⡿⠿⢒⣠⣷⣿⡿⣸⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⠿⠇ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⣿⣿⡟⢳⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢡⣶⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⢿⣯⣦⣟⣛⣩⣭⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⢛⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⣿⡿⢋⣉⠻⡟⢉⣉⠻⡏⢙⣉⠙⣉⠙⣿⠉⣉⠙⢋⡉⢻⠋⣿⣿⢹⡏⢙⣉⠙⡏⢹⡁⢈⡏⢹⠟⣉⡉⢻⠟⣉⣉⢻⣿⣿⢸⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡌⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢟⣃⢛⡻⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⣿⡇⢸⣿⠿⡅⢿⣿⠀⡇⢸⣿⠀⣿⡇⣿⠀⣿⡇⣿⡇⢸⡀⣿⡿⢸⡇⢸⣿⠀⡇⢸⡇⢸⡇⢸⠀⣭⣭⢼⠷⣤⡍⢻⣿⡟⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣭⣬⣍⣉⠉⣭⡍⠀⠀⠻⣿⡄⢻⣿⣷⣶⣦⣭⣛⡻⠇ ⣿⣿⣦⣤⣾⣷⣤⣤⣾⣧⣼⣿⣤⣿⣧⣿⣤⣿⣧⣿⣧⣼⣷⣤⣴⣼⣧⣼⣿⣤⣷⣼⣷⣤⣧⣼⣷⣤⣤⣾⣷⣤⣤⣾⣿⢃⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢋⣵⡆⡘⡇⡀⠀⢰⣦⣅⣀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⡛⢛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣘⣛⡛⠛⢛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣋⣐⣛⣛⢓⣑⣀⣛⣂⣈⣛⣛⣛⣘⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⠃ ⢨⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⡭⠭⢍⣉⣭⣭⣤⠩⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣥⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⡅⡏⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⠭⢉⣩⣥⣤⣤⣬⣭⣭⢭⣭⣭⣍⢭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⠉⠉⠁⠀⢀⣀⣭⣭⣭⣭⡍⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣛⣻⣭⣽⣶⣾⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⡿⣋⣵⣾⣿⠿⣛⣩⠵⢞⣻⣿⡎⣿⠿⢿⡜⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠆⣴⣒⣫⡭⣶⣿⣿⡏⣿⣷⠀ ⢸⣿⠿⠿⣛⣋⣭⣥⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⢿⡿⣛⠣⢹⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⡌⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⡎⣿⣫⣥⡶⢿⢷⣶⣧⢻⣿⣿⣷⣠⡿⠘⠃⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⡇⣿⢸⣿⣷⢸⣿⠀ ⣴⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⠿⠿⢿⣧⢸⡐⣦⢡⣐⣊⣦⣷⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣎⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⣇⢫⣭⣴⡎⣿⡜⣿⢿⣧⣹⣿⠙⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣴⣾⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣾⡆⢿⣿⣷⣿⠀ ⣷⣿⣿⡟⣋⡍⢛⢻⡍⡌⡆⢿⣘⣿⣦⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⢫⡌⠣⢿⣿⣧⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⣿⡌⣿⣿⣿⣜⡽⣌⢷⣭⣭⣎⠀⢀⣠⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣛⣛⣭⣿⣦⣄⢀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣮⡴⠿⠹⠀ ⢿⣿⣿⣷⠨⣤⣙⣬⣥⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⠙⡙⡍⠃⢀⠻⢂⣆⣷⣼⣶⣿⣿⣷⡹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⣿⣷⢹⣽⣛⣭⣾⣿⣿⠿⢛⣛⡀⢸⣛⣛⡩⠍⣿⢹⣿⣯⣥⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣾⡇⢹⣿⠛⣡⣶⣿⣷⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⢟⣛⣻⣿⡉⣥⢡⠨⠄⣇⣳⣤⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡘⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⢻⣿⣿⡞⣟⣵⣾⣿⣿⣧⠘⣯⣴⣶⣿⣿⡸⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⡞⣿⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣷⡎⣏⠰⠖⣹⡘⠿⠟⣿⣧⣽⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡌⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣎⢻⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣧⣭⡾⠿⢿⣾⣿⣿⣿⡇⣾⣧⡛⠛⣛⡉⠁⠀⠀ ⢸⣿⣷⠸⣌⣿⣮⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡜⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢡⣙⡻⠿⠿⠿⠛⢋⡁⢆⢻⣿⣿⣯⡿⣫⣵⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⣿⡟⠁⠀⢸⢱⡄⠀⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡘⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⡅⢸⡆⠀⡘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠡⣾⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢾⠇⠀⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢹⡇⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⣧⡝⢿⡿⣣⣾⣿⡌⢃⡇⠀⠹⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢛⣫⣴⠀⣦⣤⣤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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Deception, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 6:05 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum d9454d6683def04335771df0b30595a9 http://techrights.org/videos/corporate-coup-linux.webm Summary: Corporate media, funded by companies that nonchalantly oppress people, would have us believe there’s something wrong with people who reject corporate masters in their computing; reality, however, suggests that it is a wholly false narrative induced or cemented by endless repetition, so this framing ought to be rejected outright THE potential power of projection tactics is often underestimated at peril or risk to ourselves; yesterday we showed how scammers_claim_to_be_the_victims_of "scammers", and in the context of GNU/Linux we habitually see accusations against its users (or developers) that shamelessly distract from the accusers’ own behaviour. To give just one example, which is probably recent enough to remember, IBM claims_to_be_saving_lives when IBM is in fact partly responsible for history’s worst genocides and racism against blacks. Where does IBM summon this audacity to accuse anybody of racism??? 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Why are Free software activists so rude? That's Just Something Abusive Coprporations Say⦈ In the previous_post (“The Free Software Community Needs Solidarity and Stronger Resistance Against Corporate Oligopolies With Their Overlapping Interests”), which is discussed in the video above, we show the extent/lengths to which this sort of spin can go; they have money and they dominate the media (using the media’s thirst for cash), so they get to control some ‘coin-operated’ liars in ‘journalist’ clothing. They shame grassroots communities while hailing racist corporations. When they’re confronted over their lies they proceed to claim to have been “trolled” by some “rude” people. Who provoked who? “Their goal is to scuttle anything that’s not serving their sponsors.”This is a very common strategy of narrative inversion; the abuser, which is well rewarded financially for the abuse, claims to be the victim of “abuse”; we oughtn’t fall for it. Because if we do, then they will split us apart and spit into our well. Their goal is to scuttle anything that’s not serving their sponsors. We could go on and name some of the culprits (publishers, authors, etc.) but keeping the description generic enough is probably beneficial as it averts unneeded controversy and sidesteps accusations of ad hominem attacks (which is actually what those culprits themselves are doing). Spotting the projection tactics is always worthwhile because it makes responses/rebuttals a lot easier. In due course, if liars walk away because they’re rebutted effectively, they may refrain from doing more of the same, as guilt and shame tend to accompany dishonesty. I’ve been doing advocacy for Free software since my early twenties and I’ve seen plenty of these liars (or corporate spinners) walking away, vanishing abruptly or gradually. We hardly hear the name “Enderle” anymore and publication volume in sites like ZDNet is decreasing. The thing about chronic lying is, overdoing it diminishes the impact and over time the incentive to do that just isn’t there anymore. Our hope is that the likes of IBM will quit trolling_the_community and defaming people; we see what proxies (if not employees then media that they pay) engage in defamation, and the financial harm caused by retaliation from communities may beget cessation. In Microsoft’s case, they’ve become more clever in the way they attack or belittle GNU/Linux because they’ve come to realise that FUD is detrimental to sales (many of their customers also use GNU/Linux). Vigilance certainly goes a long way and pointing out errors discourages repetition of these errors (or intentional lies). One way to help the Free software cause is to respond and correct; if claims are being made of all sorts of “isms”, then we need to examine the underlying evidence and if there’s insufficient evidence we can talk about it. A lot of the time we may find hypocrisy and double standards from the accusers (projection) and talking about it publicly can certainly discourage repetition. It really does work! Remember that 15 years ago we focused on responding to lies told by Microsoft and Novell. Over time they shifted the targets, moved the goalposts, and changed their story. At the end Novell simply collapsed and Microsoft’s dream of universal “Linux tax” didn’t work out. It only temporarily worked to a certain extent and now they’re incapable of suing companies over patents in relation to “Linux” because it would cause a massive backlash and customer exodus. Microsoft still hates Linux, but it cannot say so publicly. Microsoft still fights against the GPL (see_Copilot), but it is paying_the_SFC to infiltrate events about copyleft and hijack keynote slots. There is an extensive campaign of deception and we should be too wise to fall for it. The better we prepare to confront the deception, the less likely this deception is to recur. At some point it goes away completely. 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What started as a student project by a young man studying computer science at the University of Helsinki, has become an operating system that enterprise businesses around the globe depend on. It’s massive. It’s crucial. And without Linux, most businesses wouldn’t be nearly as agile, flexible, and reliable. Huzzah! But that’s not what I want to talk about right now. I want to make this a bit more personal. Why? Because Linux changed my life. Sounds like hyperbole. It’s not. Let me explain. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_5.13.8⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 5.13.8 kernel. All users of the 5.13 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.13.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.13.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ Linux_5.10.56⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_5.4.138⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_4.19.201⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_4.14.242⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_4.9.278⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_4.4.278⠀⇛ # ⚓ Happy_30th_Birthday,_Linux! [Ed: Happy_38th_Birthday_for GNU/Linux] ⠀⇛ Enrolled in the University of Helsinki, a young Linus Torvalds had gotten his hands on a 386 computer — state of the art in its day. It was Intel’s first 32 bit processor, and he wanted to be able to unlock its potential. There was a Unix operating system available for free, but only for educational purposes. It was called Minix. Its creator would not allow its source code to be altered, and largely ignored user requests for features. Minix featured, among other things, a modular kernel, in the belief that it would be easier to maintain. Unfortunately, it was only a 16 bit design, and its creator was reluctant to make a 32 bit version. All other Unix systems available for the new 32 bit platform were prohibitively expensive for regular, individual users. Thus, Linus Torvalds set out to make his own free kernel. At first, he built Linux on a computer running Minix, but ensured that Linux was free of proprietary Minix code. The rest of the story has been told and retold over the years, and is easily found on the internet. # ⚓ Linux_celebrates_30_years_of_open_source_goodness [Ed: Wait a second. 1. Open Source started 23 years ago. 2. GNU+Linux started 38 years ago. Linux Foundation pays this site (same company as ZDNet) to lie about history.]⠀⇛ o § Benchmarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Arch_Linux,_Clear_Linux,_Fedora_Compete_On_The_ASUS_ROG Strix_G15_(Ryzen_9_5900HX)⠀⇛ Following last month’s look at the ASUS ROG Strix G15 AMD Advantage laptop with Ryzen 9 5900HX processor and some of the initial hurdles seen on Ubuntu, readers were curious about how well other Linux distributions fared compatibility wise or if offering better performance elsewhere. Here are some tests across Arch Linux, Clear Linux, Fedora Workstation, and Ubuntu 21.04 for reference. When it comes to compatibility, each tested distribution worked fine when going through all available updates and getting to Linux 5.13 (or at least the latest Linux 5.12 point release on Clear Linux). The latest linux-firmware.git is also necessary if not shipped by the distribution in order to have working WiFi. The support criteria is basically what was laid out in the prior article on the ASUS ROG Strix G15. Basically, the newer the software components, the better. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 25_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Music_Players⠀⇛ There’s a huge raft of free and open source music software available on the Linux platform which is both mature and sophisticated. Linux has many music tools which offer enhanced functionality and integration with internet music services. With most desktop environments having several audio players, together with cross-platform applications, integrated media players, there is a plethora of music players to choose from. Like many types of software, the selection of a favorite music player is, to some extent, dependent on personal preferences. Nevertheless, we are confident that the applications featured in this article represent the most appealing music players. # ⚓ Audacity:_Now_Considered_Spyware⠀⇛ Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water … Over the last couple of months, the FreeNode IRC network has detonated or imploded (take your pick of which word to use, depending on your point of view), as we reported on last month. FreeNode was the IRC “home” of many FOSS projects. Prior to that, we were embroiled in (and reported on) another “scandal” where the new owners of LastPass made the popular password manager a subscription-based service, after being a free service ever since its inception. FOSS projects have taken a beating in 2021, and the year isn’t but two-thirds done yet. # ⚓ Apps_for_daily_needs_part_3:_image_editors⠀⇛ Image editors are applications that are liked and needed by many people, from professional designers, students, or for those who have certain hobbies. Especially in this digital era, more and more people need image editors for various reasons. This article will introduce some of the open source image editors that you can use on Fedora Linux. You may need to install the software mentioned. If you are unfamiliar with how to add software packages in Fedora Linux, see my earlier article Things to do after installing Fedora 34 Workstation. Here is a list of a few apps for daily needs in the image editors category. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Inkscape_Tutorial:_New_Release_Highlights⠀⇛ Inkscape 1.1 was released on May 24, 2021. It’s the latest major Inkscape release. Let’s look at some of the new features. — A Welcome dialog, which is different. Choices for a new document’s size or file to open are available. In the left column under “Time to Draw” are: Existing Files – This is self-explanatory; your previously created files would be listed here, Print – You can choose the page size you want when starting a new project, Screen – This gives you choices for your monitor resolution, Video – Lets you choose the type of video you want to create, Social – This contains pre-formatted templates for items to be uploaded to social media sites like Facebook, Snapchat, LinkedIn, etc., Other – This includes preformatted templates for icons and name tags. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Configure_ELK_Stack_on_Ubuntu_and_Debian –_VITUX⠀⇛ ELK stack consists of a set of applications for retrieving and managing log files. In the software development industry, log files play a vital role to identify the problem and troubleshoot the issue. ELK stack is a collection of different open-source application tools such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash. ELK can be used to collect, search and visualize the logs generated from any source in any pattern using a query. In this article, we will learn how to install and configure the ELK stack on Ubuntu and Debian. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Configure_Caddy_Web_Server_with_PHP_on Fedora_34_/_CentOS_8⠀⇛ Caddy is an open-source web server written in the Go language. It provides HTTP/3 support, TLS v1.3, automatic SSL configuration with Let’s Encrypt, reverse proxy, and supports multiple plugins to extend its functionality. It has the advantage of all its configuration being served from a single file no matter how many sites you need to host. This tutorial will cover installing and configuring Caddy and PHP on Fedora 34 and CentOS 8 based servers. We will cover how to host single and multiple sites and how to use reverse proxy along with few other security features. # ⚓ Installing_Packages_From_External_Repositories_in_Ubuntu_ [Explained]_–_It’s_FOSS⠀⇛ You have some ideas about installing packages in Ubuntu with apt command. Those packages come from Ubuntu’s repositories. How about third-party or external repository? No, I am not talking about PPA here. Sooner or later, you’ll come across installation instructions that goes in at least four lines. You install something called ‘apt-transport-https’ and then do something with gpg and sources list. After that, you install the package. # ⚓ How_To_Install_Postman_on_CentOS_8_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Postman on CentOS 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Postman is basically used for creating, testing, and managing the APIs(Application Programming Interface). Postman is largely available on many operating systems and is used for API integrations. The collections in Postman make it easy to use and it is compatible with Linux as well. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by- step installation of the Postman on a CentOS 8. # ⚓ How_to_Change_or_Set_User_Password_in_Linux⠀⇛ As a regular user, you have a password that safeguards your account, and this account contains all your personal settings and files and therefore requires important protection. Hence, it is a good practice to change your password consistently to decrease the possibility that someone else gets to recognize your password and can use your credentials to authenticate. # ⚓ How_to_Get_Information_About_Other_Linux_Users⠀⇛ On your personal computer at home, you are most likely the only user who is connected to your Linux system. However, if you are a user at the Linux server in your company there can be other users as well. In this case, it is good practice to know the information about other users who are currently connected to the same Linux machine using several commands. # ⚓ How_to_install_and_use_fping_command_on_Linux_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts. fping has a very long history: Roland Schemers did publish a first version of it in 1992 and it has established itself since then as a standard tool for network diagnostics and statistics. Fping stands for fast ping, and its main differentiation with the regular ping is that it gives you the ability to scan a list of hosts (either coming from a file, an IP range, or a subnet) and tells you which ones are alive. Other than that, it can do pretty much everything the good old ‘original’ ping can do in terms of latency, configuring payload, IPv4/IPv6, etc. # ⚓ How_to_install_phpMyAdmin on_Rocky_Linux_8_with_Apache_– Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Managing MySQL or MariaDB using a web-based GUI application – PhpMyAdmin is a lot easier than using the command line. Hence, if you want to install PhpMyAdmin on Rocky Linux 8 then here is a tutorial to help you with that. phpMyAdmin is free to use PHP-based application distributed under open source licenses and one of the popular tools on various web hosting to manage MySQL databases. It allows the users to perform create, delete, export, import, creating PDF graphics of the database layout and more database- related tasks but with GUI and with a few clicks of the mouse. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Help_a_not-so-average_clown_find_their_lost_dog_in_Ayo_the Clown_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Ayo the Clown is a new release from developer Cloud M1 where you assume the role of a not-so-average clown who sets off on an adventure to find their lost dog. “You play as Ayo, your not-so-average clown, in search of his best friend and beloved dog who has mysteriously disappeared. What happened to Bo? Will they ever juggle together at the park again? Or set up that circus act they’ve always planned? You’ll find out along this incredible adventure as you strive to reunite clown and dog. Like all good adventures, you won’t be all on your own. Ayo’s world is full of friendly people and interesting creatures that are willing to lend a helping hand.” # ⚓ A_fan_for_the_Valve_Index?_Consider_it_an_essential_upgrade purchase_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ It’s Summer here in the UK, it’s bloody hot and that has meant that playing VR has turned into a very sweaty experience. There will be jokes of course from plenty of people about the UK, because of course many countries are hotter and a lot of them have that heat all of the time. However, the UK and houses / offices here really aren’t built for it. Pretty much anything other than a little rain and cloud or a tiny bit of sun and we’re just not prepared. So we come to my moaning and groaning about playing VR in the hot temperatures we’ve had recently. I was not ready for it — not at all. Hilariously underprepared you might say. I don’t think I’ve ever sweat that much doing anything. When you’re in a room that’s already around 27C and you add the heat from a VR HMD right on top of you’re head – you’re just turning yourself into a sweat machine. # ⚓ Kingdoms_and_Castles_gets_an_Alpha_version_with_AI_Kingdoms |_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Kingdoms and Castles is a medieval fantasy city- builder that’s getting closer to a colossal-sized update, and now you can try the Alpha version with AI factions. Currently, the game is just you building up a big castle and seeing how long you can hold out. Over time it has expanded with new options to build and new threats but now the AI Kingdoms update is coming. As the title suggests, it gives you the ability to (it’s optional) add in AI enemies who will build their own cities. This makes the game far more like a traditional RTS, although with a little more depth to the building systems. # ⚓ CodeWeavers_announce_CrossOver_21.0_is_out_now_with_Wine 6.0_and_DXVK_1.7⠀⇛ CodeWeavers, the company the sponsors the Wine project and employs multiple of the developers has announced the release of their CrossOver 21.0 release. CrossOver is a helpful application that helps you manage installing Windows applications and games across Linux and other platforms (macOS / ChromeOS). If you’ve heard of or used the likes of Lutris before, it gives you the same idea but focuses directly on Wine. By buying CrossOver you’re supporting Wine development directly, plus you’re also getting access to their support lines if you need professional help. # ⚓ Get_your_country_to_be_the_first_to_the_moon_in_Moonshot_– The_Great_Espionage⠀⇛ Back when the space race was at its peak, the USA and Russia were trying to be first but what about if there was another behind the scenes trying to get the crown? That’s the idea in Moonshot – The Great Espionage. You work for a fictional country Ustria, as it becomes a three-way battle for space supremacy. You’re part of the Ustrian Secret Service and get front-row seats in this stealth puzzle-platformer as you infiltrate the competition and try to access secret plans to help push Ustria forwards. # ⚓ Draft_of_Darkness_is_a_deckbuilder_like_nothing_else_with_a horror_theme_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Could this be your next 100 hour deckbuilder? Dark of Darkness has freshly released into Early Access on Steam. Mixing together exploration roguelike mechanics with a deckbuilder isn’t new, however throwing a dark atmosphere into it with a horror theme definitely makes it feel more unique than many others. The combat is about what you would expect giving you a turn-based card-throwing event but everything else makes it unusual, including the gloomy exploration you get to do. # ⚓ Humble_Choice_for_August_includes_Superliminal,_ENCODYA, Bloodstained_and_more_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Looks like the line-up for the monthly Humble Choice for August is actually pretty good, with a bunch of quality indie games included so it’s not one to miss. This is the bundle that replaced Humble Monthly, where you pay for whatever tier you feel is the best value to get access to the Humble Trove (a ton of DRM-free games), a discount at the Humble Store and the ability to claim Steam keys for multiple top titles. # ⚓ Steam_Deck’s_popularity_could_be_getting_more_gamers_to_try Linux⠀⇛ Linux usage is spiking upwards according to the latest stats from Steam, and it seems likely that this is down to the Steam Deck driving interest in Linux gaming. The freshly released Steam hardware survey for July shows that Linux now represents a full percentage point of all those gaming on Valve’s platform. Now, 1% might sound like a tiny amount – and it is obviously just a drop in the overall gaming ocean – but it’s a telling milestone for Linux to reach. # ⚓ Steam_on_Linux_Finally_Hits_1%_User_Share_for_First_Time_in Years⠀⇛ According to the Steam Hardware Survey, this is the first time that the tracker has shown above an 1% Linux share since at least September 2018. Linux has always been a popular operating system for a certain kind of user, but it’s always presented complications if you want to play a wide variety of games. It might not be an operating system that is in the mouths of every gamer in the world. Now, however, the number of monthly active Steam users running Linux has risen to 1%, according to the Steam Hardware Survey. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Maui_Report_14⠀⇛ Having the stable release scheduled just a few weeks away, this will be the last progress report listing important changes, the next blog post will be for the announcement of the stable release including only important bug fixes to issues and regressions found in this short Beta stage. This cycle introduces new components to the frameworks and paper-cut fixes to the group of applications, shaping a better convergent experience. With this post, there are Beta APK packages for wide testing, so if you feel adventurous you can install them on your Android device, and if you find issues, bugs, or have feature requests you can open and fill a ticket the corresponding Invent repository. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Reviewing_my_first_OpenBSD_port,_and_what_I’d_do differently_10_years_later⠀⇛ The first port I ever sent was Beret, a 2D puzzle-platformer game. I guess even from the beginning I was helping out thfr@ in his #PlayOnBSD project. I cannot find the very first attempt at it, as it seems I linked a tarball from a server that has since gone to the great bitbucket in the sky. So I have the first tarball I posted instead. # § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Streaming_From_PCLinuxOS_To_Your_Smart_TV⠀⇛ Watching DVDs these days has become an exercise in patience. Either the new smart TVs no longer have composite video inputs, or the DVD players are broken, and, many times, it doesn’t even pay to have them repaired. But for those who have a reasonably sized DVD collection (as I do), it is not worth getting rid of them, after all, they are like books, physical pieces of artistic content that belong to you. Yes, I will still write about the war on physical media, but in the meantime I will give you a tip on how you can watch your entire DVD collection on your Smart TV with the help of PCLinuxOS. [...] With this tip, I was able to play converted DVD files without problems, and since there is no decoding involved, since Darkhttpd only sends the file over the network, the limit will be your bandwidth, to be able to run files of higher resolutions, such as Blu Rays and even other media. I have not tested with more than one TV at the same time, but in theory, it should be possible. And, with a web server, you can even stream to cell phones, tablets, and other mobile devices. # ⚓ PCLinuxOS_Short_Topix_Roundup⠀⇛ WHO BETTER TO DESIGN NEW AI COMPUTER CHIPS THAN AI? An article at WIRED highlights just that approach. Computer chips, often smaller than a fingernail, contain billions of components. Each and every decision made on the arrangement of those components has the potential to affect the speed and efficiency of the resulting chip. So, to place a billion transistors on a small computer chip, who better to do it than AI? While attempts to have computers help design computer chips in the past have fallen short, new advances in AI have made such matters within reach. Remember when you were told that the data being collected from your cell phone was being anonymized? Well, you were being lied to, even if it’s a lie by omission. According to an article on Vice, they are FAILING TO TELL YOU ABOUT AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY THAT OPERATES IN THE SHADOWS, and who’s sole business model is to collect the unique cell phone ID and mobile advertising IDs produced by various apps (called MAIDs), and linking them to personally identifiable information. The article, to say the least, is eye opening and quite disturbing. According to an article that appeared on Reuters, THE GERMAN DATA PROTECTION OFFICER GAVE MINISTRIES UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR TO CLOSE THEIR FACEBOOK PAGES, after discovering that Facebook had failed to comply with German and European Union privacy regulations. Commissioner Ulrich Kelber said it was impossible to run a fan page in such a way that followers’ personal data was not transmitted to the United States. Under EU law, personal data can only leave the EU for a jurisdiction with equivalently strict data protection rules, something that is not the case for the United States. An article on Lifehacker LISTS SOME OF THE MORE NOTABLE CHANGES IN FIREFOX 90. Those include the ability to store credit card numbers, SmartBlock 2.0 working with Facebook to block the tracking Firefox users across the web, and the removal of the ability to download from FTP servers via a FTP. JustTheNews published an article describing how Erik Finman, the youngest Bitcoin millionaire, has CREATED THE FREEDOM PHONE, WHICH PROTECTS USERS’ PRIVACY WHILE PROMOTING FREE SPEECH AND PREVENTING CENSORSHIP. Built on top of a version of Android that has been “de-Googled,” it even has its own app store. Privacy activist Edward Snowden, in an interview with The Guardian, warned that no mobile phone is safe, considering the revelations about the clients of NSO. He has CALLED FOR A SPYWARE TRADE BAN in the wake of the NSO revelations. NSO Group manufactures and sells to governments advanced spyware, branded as Pegasus, that can secretly infect a mobile phone and harvest its information. Emails, texts, contact books, location data, photos and videos can all be extracted, and a phone’s microphone and camera can be activated to covertly record the user. Now this one is a bit funny. A lot of attention was being paid to Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos as he made his 10 minute flight into space aboard Blue Origin’s inaugural crewed flight. But the best part of the story (it was widely reported, and I saw it on Gizmodo and Reuters) may have been from Oliver Daemen, the 18 year old from the Netherlands. He not only MADE HISTORY AS THE YOUNGEST PERSON TO GO INTO SPACE, BUT HE ALSO MADE HEADLINES FOR SOME “SMALL TALK” HE MADE WITH BEZOS. He told Bezos that he had never bought anything off of Amazon. Bezos’ response was as priceless as it was true: “Oh, wow, it’s a long time ago I heard someone say that.” Additional history was made on the flight, with 82 year old female pilot Wally Funk becoming the oldest person to fly into space. # ⚓ [PCLinuxOS]_Screenshot_Showcase⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linuxera:_A_Former_Forum_Admin_Could_Use_Our_Help⠀⇛ Back in 2006, when I registered on the forum, there were some wonderful people here! Texstar was here of course, along with some that are still here: The Heat Exhausted Cranky Zombie, davecs, JohnW_57, wayne_1932, tuxalish and many more who are no longer around. Others registered shortly after I did, including parnote. In the fifteen years since I started visiting, I have come to feel that many of these people, whether I had ever met them or not, were good friends. We’ve shared many ups and downs. A very knowledgeable lady whose handle was Linuxera was here as well. She was an admin even then, and helped to keep us all in line. She was also a tester, and experimented with creating ISO’s of Enlightenment, and talked me through creating a backup ISO of my system years ago. She had lived in many places, including Florida and Oregon, but moved to Alabama a few years ago. Her first house in Alabama was really close to a river area that had some flooding, so she moved a bit north where the river wasn’t in her backyard. Sometime after 2012, for reasons unknown to me, she deleted her user profile in the forum. We’ve chatted and emailed sporadically since then. I found out her name is Cindy Solis. She is an Air Force veteran, and is now eligible for Social Security. She’s shared photos of her chickens and her dog and how she cleaned up the property where she lived, and I shared photos of my area and some of the activities I am involved in. # ⚓ Welcome_From_The_Chief_Editor⠀⇛ One of the things that stands out about PCLinuxOS is the sense of community that PCLinuxOS forum visitors find among its users. Time and time again, I see it mentioned in the forum. Even though we all come from different backgrounds, walks of life, professions, and have varied interests, one thing ties us all together: our love of Texstar’s creation, PCLinuxOS. In many ways, those friends we make in the forum become lifelong friends, and perhaps even extended family members. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu’s_New_Desktop_Installer_Is_Now_Available_for Public_Testing,_Here’s_How_to_Test_It⠀⇛ In early March, I took a first look at the Ubuntu’s new Desktop Installer as Canonical provided web-based designs of the new installer ahead of its initial release as part of the Ubuntu installation images, but now the installer written in Flutter is finally available for public testing in the latest daily build images of Ubuntu 21.10. The biggest changes in Ubuntu’s new Desktop Installer, besides the modern design that applies to all of the installer’s pages, is a brand-new “Try or Install” page that includes a “Repair Installation” option to help you repair a broken Ubuntu system, the ability to turn off Intel RST (Rapid Storage Technology) if you’re installing Ubuntu alongside Windows, a new page to allocate disk space, and a new page to choose between Light and Dark themes. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Intel_Core_i5-1135G7_Tiger_Lake_mini_PC_with_12GB_RAM_sells for_$700_and_up⠀⇛   Minisforum TL50 is a mini PC based on Intel Core i5-1135G7 Tiger Lake quad-core/octa-thread processor that ships with 12GB RAM, and optional 256GB and 512GB SSD preloaded with Windows 10 Pro. The mini PC also features two 2.5 Gbps Gigabit Ethernet ports, two 2.5-inch SATA drives, one M.2 slot for NVMe SSD, and supports 8K and 4K monitor setups through HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB-C video outputs. It was announced a few months ago, but it’s now available for sale for $699.99 and more on Banggood depending on storage options. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Exploring_how_culture_and_computing_intersect⠀⇛ # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ With_Android_12_right_around_the_corner,_the_Nokia 5.3_is_only_just_getting_Android_11⠀⇛ # ⚓ Asus_Zenfone_7_and_7_Pro_get_Android_12-like_one- handed_mode_with_new_update_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ I_installed_Android_11_on_a_Samsung_Galaxy_S2,_and_it was_better_than_I_expected_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_officially_abandons_Android_2.3.7:_Users_will not_be_able_to_log_in_-⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Pixel_6_could_be_the_best_Android_phone_yet_— and_finally_beat_Samsung_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Unroot_your_Android_phone_in_quick_and_easy steps⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_transfer_information_between_Android_phones when_buying_a_new_one⠀⇛ # ⚓ Xiaomi’s_next_Android_flagship_will_be_unveiled_on August_10_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_S21_Series_Starts_Receiving_August 2021_Android_Security_Patch:_Report_|_Technology_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ One_of_Lenovo’s_best_Android_tablets_will_soon_get_a major_upgrade_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_App_Uses_Teeth_Biometrics_for_Authentication –_Mobile_ID_World⠀⇛ # ⚓ Current_phishing_scams._Notes_on_Vulture_Android malware.⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9_not_to_miss_security_settings_in_your_Android smartphone_|_Gadgets_Now⠀⇛ # ⚓ Top_9_Best_Collage_Maker_Android_Apps_–_2021⠀⇛ # ⚓ Snapchat_Dark_mode_for_Android_phones:_Here’s_how_to get_the_feature⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_clear_your_cache_on_Android_|_Laptop_Mag⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Change_The_Audio_Source_On_Android_12?⠀⇛ # ⚓ DotOS_teases_a_new_Android_12-like_theming_system_for its_next_release⠀⇛ # ⚓ ASUS_ZenFone_7_update_brings_the_Android_12-like_one- handed_mode⠀⇛ # ⚓ Road_To_Android_12:_The_Progress_So_Far⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia_5.3_is_getting_official_Android_11_in_selected countries_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Free_Fire_OB29_update:_APK+OBB_download_links_for Android_devices⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_ultimate_guide_to_customising_your_Android smartphone_part_2:_launchers,_icon_packs,_wallpapers, widgets_and_more⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vivaldi_4.1_for_Android:_stay_in_browser_feature_and tab_stacks_support_–_gHacks_Tech_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nasty_new_Android_malware_is_watching_EVERYTHING_you do_on_screen_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_bundles_Android_and_web_authentication_APIs under_one_banner_|_IT_PRO⠀⇛ # ⚓ HTC_may_be_close_to_launching_a_cheap_Android_tablet –_PhoneArena⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Many_Interesting_Talks_On_Deck_For_The_X.Org_Developers Conference_2021⠀⇛ The program/schedule for this year’s XDC21 X.Org Developers’ Conference was posted this week ahead of the event occurring in mid-September. There are many interesting talks about X.Org and beyond, which in recent years largely revolve around Mesa and Wayland. The 2021 X.Org Developers Conference is once again being a virtual event given the pandemic. Intel folks are again organizing much of the event as well as Intel being the sole platinum sponsor of the event… [...] - David Edmundson with KDE will talk about ongoing work and an early proof-of-concept for increasing Wayland robustness so should the compositor crash it doesn’t bring down the entire session. # ⚓ Full-Time_Open_Source⠀⇛ Adam: Hello, and welcome to Corecursive. I’m Adam Gordon Bell. Each episode someone shares the story of a piece of software being built. Today’s show, How to Quit Your Job and Work on Open Source Full Time. This story has it all, balancing open source work and full-time employment, building up enough supporters and enough savings to leave your job. The hardest part to me which is explaining leaving your job to your significant other and to your family and friends. And then, also what do you do if your project succeeds, and then someone forks it and builds a commercial business around it? There’s a lot more as well dealing with hacker news feedback, how to improve upon the C programming language and how to be super ambitious without seeming arrogant. And my guest is this guy. # § FSF⠀➾ # § Licensing/Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ It_looks_like_a_product_but_is_secretly_a subscription⠀⇛ In any given scenario, a company (or person) will want to buy or rent something they need and they should decide carefully which to do. It’s fair to say that the answer to that question is the total subject of corporate finance. Companies rarely succeed based on good corporate finance alone but there is a kind of upside-down corporate finance that can really help: to make your suppliers and customers do bad corporate finance. An example, very of-the-moment, is to turn what would otherwise be a single purchase of a software package into a long-term rental – a “SaaS”. This happened with Adobe Photoshop, which was happily a thing you could buy a copy of for decades until Adobe realised that they could really start cooking with gas if they only made it available for an ongoing fee. For Adobe’s subscribers, the lock-in is considerable as access to their existing bank of files and documents is contingent on continued payment. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ 10_Factors_Behind_the_Popularity_of_Microservices: Part_2⠀⇛ I have shown in this series that microservices happily bring together several trends in computing from the past couple decades. There are many precedents for each of the traits developers associate with microservices. And these programming tools and processes are sure to evolve further. Microservices may soon join many of the other terms in this article that once larded programmers’ discussions, only to be denigrated later as obsolete. But the historic role played by microservices will continue to be recognized. # ⚓ Asynchronous_QtQuick_UIs_and_their_implementation: The_Toolbox⠀⇛ This blog post goes over the set of tools you have to work with when doing QtQuick UIs that need to perform something asynchronously. # ⚓ Staying_Sane_in_ML:_Fixing_Your_Terrible_Data_Science Tools_to_Improve_the_Research_Experience⠀⇛ While machine learning research has made incredible theoretical advances, the day-to- day tools most researchers use are… poorly optimized, to say the least. And much knowledge is locked up in people’s private .bashrc files or wikis. This post aims to shed light on some very useful tools for beginning researchers. Expected audience: people, likely undergraduates, who are starting to do CS research that is vaguely in the “AI/ML” space. You have joined a Slack and gotten authentication credentials for this thing called a “cluster,” and are probably using Python with Jupyter Notebook. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ What’s_Next_for_Object-​Oriented_Perl?⠀⇛ Overall I’m satisfied with Object::Pad and by extension some of the syntax that Corinna will introduce. I’m going to try porting the rest of dbcritic and see if I can work around the issues I listed above without giving up the kwalitee improvement tools I’m used to. I’ll post my find­ings if I feel it merits another blog. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Utilities_Governed_Like_Empires⠀⇛ Whether it’s “bringing the world closer together” (Facebook), “organizing the world’s information” (Google), to be a market “where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” (Amazon) or “to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual” (Apple), the founding missions of tech giants reveal a desire to become indispensable to our digital lives. They’ve succeeded. We’ve entrusted these companies with our sensitive data, from family photos to finances to correspondence. We’ve let them take over our communities, from medical and bereavement support groups to little league and service organization forums. We’ve bought trillions of dollars’ worth of media from them, locked in proprietary formats that can’t be played back without their ongoing cooperation. These services often work great…but they fail very, very badly. Tech giants can run servers to support hundreds of millions or billions of users – but they either can’t or won’t create equally user-centric procedures for suspending or terminating those users. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Cell_Phones_Still_Somehow_Get_The_Entirety_Of_The_Blame_For Teen_Depression⠀⇛ For years now a strong narrative has emerged that the increase in teen depression (and suicides) is almost single handedly being caused by social media and cell phone use. Though quite often when you look a little more deeply at the studies in question you’ll find they’re a bit undercooked, tend to make overly broad assumptions about trends, and are often contradicted by other studies. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ I_Want_to_Start_School_So_I_Can_Learn_to_Write_Letters_to My_Dad_in_Prison⠀⇛ # ⚓ Fading_Beacon⠀⇛ If America ultimately cedes its place as the world leader in international education, that will affect diplomacy, the economy, and the health of colleges and universities nationwide. This moment represents a “rupture,” says Stephanie K. Kim, a scholar of international and comparative education at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies. # ⚓ People_of_the_pandemic:_The_French_teacher_who_became_a lockdown_YouTube_star⠀⇛ After a few rehearsals, the team took the plunge. They invited the parents of the class’s 26 pupils by email to follow the new programme, “La maîtresse part en live” (a rather fortuitous play on words that can mean either, “The teacher goes live” or “The teacher spins out of control”). [...] What she hadn’t foreseen was that thousands of her YouTube channel subscribers would join forces and launch a petition arguing that the programme was in the “public interest”, demanding that she continue. In the end, at the request of the rector of the Rennes academy, her school district office, Letoqueux extended her digital adventure until the end of the school year, July 3. The petitioners won, as did children whose schools hadn’t reopened. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Cracking_into_the_Sun_Ray_General_Dynamics-Tadpole_M1400⠀⇛ That brings us back to the zombified Tadpole under General Dynamics (I’ll call it “GD-Tadpole”). The MIPS Sun Rays were very power-efficient (again, a topic for a future post when we look at the Accutech Gobi systems) and performed well in laptops and even several Sun Ray tablets, but the chips weren’t available in volume and didn’t have the economies of scale of low-end PC laptops. So GD-Tadpole chose … a low-end PC laptop, specifically the Taiwanese Compal FT01, fitted it with Sun Ray software and a custom BIOS, and released that as the Tadpole M1400 in 2008. And here are two, one so new the sticky protective plastic cover picked up hairs: [...] # ⚓ Apple,_Affirm_to_launch_buy-now-pay-later_program_for Canadian_purchases:_Bloomberg_News⠀⇛ In the United States, Australia and Europe, buy now, pay later is marketed as an alternative to credit cards. The service has soared in popularity during the pandemic as consumers seek other options to make purchases that are easier on their wallets. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ As_US_Hits_Biden’s_70%_Vaccination_Goal,_World’s_Poor Nations_Barely_Over_1%⠀⇛ Exposing stark global vaccine inequity amid a fast- spreading delta variant, White House officials said Monday that at least 70% of U.S. adults are now at least partly vaccinated against the coronavirus—compared to just barely over 1% when it comes to the world’s poorest nations. White House Covid-19 data director Cyrus Shahpar marked the milestone—reached nearly a month after President Joe Biden’s July 4 70% goal date—on Twitter: # ⚓ ‘Stunning’:_Democrats_Considering_Major_Cuts_to_Future Pandemic_Preparedness⠀⇛ Although President Joe Biden has called for investing $30 billion in pandemic preparedness, congressional Democrats are reportedly considering slashing such proposed funding by $25 billion in forthcoming legislation, alarming public health advocates and prompting critics to ask if lawmakers have learned anything from the ongoing coronavirus disaster. “Prevention is always better than treatment, and the fact that, after an event as significant as Covid, we have to fight for this $30 billion defies belief.”—Gabriel Bankman-Fried, Guarding Against Pandemics # ⚓ ‘Dangerous_and_Deadly’:_Biden_CDC_Under_Fire_for_Preserving Trump-Era_Migrant_Expulsion_Policy⠀⇛ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an updated order late Monday extending a Trump-era policy that allows the federal government to quickly expel migrants on public health grounds, a move that rights groups decried as both illegal and morally unconscionable. “Forcefully expelling migrants without due process does not protect public health, and it won’t slow the spread of the Delta variant.”—RAICES # ⚓ NYC_Restaurants_&_Gyms_Will_Require_Proof_of_Vaccination Amid_Rising_COVID_Cases⠀⇛ # ⚓ NYC_to_Become_First_US_City_to_Mandate_Proof_of_Vaccination for_Certain_Indoor_Activities⠀⇛ New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that the city will soon require proof of vaccination against Covid-19 for patrons of restaurants, gyms, and other indoor spaces. The rule will go into enforcement in mid-September after a transition period starting August 16, in which the public and the owners of restaurants, gyms, and theaters will be educated about the mandate. # ⚓ A_Covid_Surge_and_Record_Heat_Have_Created_a_Cursed_Olympic Games⠀⇛ Even for the casual observer of the Olympics, it was clear way back in March 2020 that the International Olympic Committee was peddling phantasmagoria. In announcing its decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics, the IOC said the Games would still be called “Tokyo 2020” even though the event would transpire in 2021. These days, such a willful suspension of reality is required to blind oneself to the ghoulish self-interest that has foisted the Olympics on an unwilling population during a health pandemic. # ⚓ As_Biden_Touts_110+_Million_Vaccine_Donations_to_the_World, US_Urged_to_Go_Much_Further⠀⇛ As the Biden administration on Tuesday touted the more than 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses it has sent abroad, public health and justice advocates continued to highlight the dramatic disparity between inoculation levels in rich and poor nations and demand the United States government go much further in order to save lives and help bring the global pandemic to an end. “Every dose helps. Yet 100 million doses amount to only one one-hundredth of the current global need,” said Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines program. # ⚓ “Death_by_DeSantis”_Threatens_Florida_as_Covid_Numbers Spike⠀⇛ Florida reported a jaw-dropping 21,683 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, the highest single-day total since the pandemic began. The new figure is 10 percent higher than for the previous worst day, January 7, 2021, which occurred at the peak of last winter’s devastating surge. # ⚓ Seniors_Would_Cross_Party_Lines_to_Back_Candidates_Who Support_Medicare_Negotiating_Drug_Prices:_Poll⠀⇛ A survey released Tuesday by the Alliance for Retired Americans finds that seniors overwhelmingly support allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies—so much so that a sizeable percentage would cross party lines to vote for a candidate who backs the proposed reform. “Even in today’s polarized political environment, a significant percentage of senior voters of both parties would cross party lines over this issue.”—Richard Fiesta, Alliance for Retired Americans # ⚓ Covid_pandemic_linked_to_increased_nearsightedness_in kids⠀⇛ An analysis of eye test data from nearly 2,000 Hong Kong school-age children revealed that the rate of nearsightedness that developed during the pandemic more than doubled what was found in a pre-pandemic study of children the same age, according to the report in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. # ⚓ Paul_knocks_YouTube_for_removing_video_he_posted,_points users_to_competitor⠀⇛ When reached for comment, a YouTube spokesperson said: “We removed a video from Senator Paul’s channel for including claims that masks are ineffective in preventing the contraction or transmission of the virus, in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies.” # ⚓ Antibiotics_in_Early_Life_Could_Lead_to_Brain_Disorders⠀⇛ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Biden_Warns_That_The_Next_Kinetic_War_Will_Be_The Result_Of_A_Cyberattack,_Which_Is_Stupid⠀⇛ The cyberwar hype has been going on for nearly a decade now. And, while it is very much the case that cybersecurity to defend from international actors is very much a real need, it’s also true that dangling the threat of cyberwarfare over the public’s heads has been purposefully done to excuse governmental power grabs at the military and intelligence agency levels. It’s also been true throughout this hype-fest that the US government has been practically begging for there to be a cyberwar in the first place… except that other nations mostly seem to play with this at the most minimal levels. And, in the past, the American government has indicated that real shooting wars may result from cyberwar activities. # ⚓ Could_Ransomware_Attacks_Ultimately_Benefit Consumers?⠀⇛ That said, it’s worth noting that ransomware attacks are no different from the typical security attacks that we’ve been reading about for years. There’s nothing novel about the technology they rely on. What is novel, though, is that they’re attacking companies rather than consumers, and that’s changing the economics of data security. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Serious_flaws_in_widespread_embedded_TCP/IP stack_endanger_industrial_control_devices⠀⇛ Coordination for the disclosure INFRA: HALT vulnerabilities lasted almost a year, much longer than the 90 days that’s standard for software vulnerabilities. Forescout and JFrog Security Research contacted HCC Embedded about the flaws in September 2020 and worked with the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), the German Federal Cyber Security Authority (BSI), and the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) that’s part of the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Even so, identifying the potentially impacted devices and vendors has been very hard and is an ongoing process. Using queries on the SHODAN search engine, the researchers found around 6,400 publicly accessible devices that run NicheStack. Using its own proprietary database with millions of device fingerprints, Forescout identified 2,500 potentially vulnerable devices from 21 vendors with the most affected industry verticals being process manufacturing, retail, and discrete manufacturing. Around half the identified devices were energy and power industrial control systems. # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (asterisk, libpam-tacplus, and wordpress), Fedora (buildah and podman), openSUSE (thunderbird and webkit2gtk3), Oracle (kernel and varnish:6), SUSE (kernel, kvm, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (libdbi-perl and php-pear). # ⚓ It’s_time_to_improve_Linux’s_security_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ Is Linux more secure than Windows? Sure. But that’s a very low bar. Kees Cook, a Linux security expert, Debian Linux developer, and Google Security Engineer, is well aware that Linux could be more secure. As Cook tweeted, “We need more investment in bug fixers, reviewers, testers, infrastructure builders, toolchain devs, and security devs.” # ⚓ Qualys_partners_with_Red_Hat_to_improve_Linux and_Kubernetes_security_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ Everyone in the Linux and cloud world knows Red Hat. Everyone who pays attention to security knows Qualys. Now, the two are joining forces to bring Qualys’s Cloud Agent to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) CoreOS and Red Hat OpenShift to better secure both systems. # ⚓ Google:_Linux_kernel_and_its_toolchains_are underinvested_by_at_least_100_engineers_•_The Register⠀⇛ Google’s open security team has claimed the Linux kernel code is not good enough, with nearly 100 new fixes every week, and that at least 100 more engineers are needed to work on it. Kees Cook, a Google software engineer who has devoted much of his time to security features in the Linux kernel, has posted about continuing problems in the kernel which he said have insufficient focus. “The stable kernel releases (‘bug fixes only’) each contain close to 100 new fixes per week,” he said. This puts pressure on Linux vendors – including those who support the countless products which run Linux – to “ignore all the fixes, pick out only ‘important’ fixes, or face the daunting task of taking everything,” he said. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Amazon_Wants_You_To_Give_Them_Your_Palm Print_For_A_$10_Credit⠀⇛ So folks, if you ever wondered just how much companies value your biological information, it seems the answer comes in the form of a crisp $10 bill. Oof. # ⚓ Amazon_will_give_you_a_whole_$10_for_your palm_print⠀⇛ Many have expressed concerns about a company like Amazon in particular collecting such data. The firm has been criticized in the past for pushing new technology in uncomfortable ways: selling biased facial recognition algorithms and aggressively expanding its network of police- connected home surveillance cameras. # ⚓ Data_exfiltration_in_Keepa_Price Tracker⠀⇛ Usually, the vendor will claim to anonymize all data, a claim that can rarely be verified. Even if the anonymization actually happens, it’s really hard to do this right. If anonymization can be reversed and the data falls into the wrong hands, this can have severe consequences for a person’s life. Today we will take a closer look at a browser extension called “Keepa – Amazon Price Tracker” which is used by at least two million users across different browsers. The extension is being brought out by a German company and the privacy policy is refreshingly short and concise, suggesting that no unexpected data collection is going on. The reality however is: not only will this extension extract data from your Amazon sessions, it will even use your bandwidth to load various Amazon pages in the background. # ⚓ Your_Facebook_Account_Was_[Cracked]. Getting_Help_May_Take_Weeks_—_Or_$299⠀⇛ This has been happening to a lot of people lately, and the experience has left many users nearly as frustrated with the social network as they are with the hackers. In July, NPR received 19 emails from listeners complaining that their Facebook accounts had been hacked or disabled. People share similar tales of woe on Reddit forums and Twitter every day. # ⚓ Europe’s_Data_Retention_Saga_and_its Risks_for_Digital_Rights⠀⇛ In 2014, the CJEU brought down the Data Retention Directive in the Digital Rights Ireland decision for its incompatibility with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. That Directive had required providers of electronic communications services to retain metadata about its customers’ communications, i.e. data (“communications data”) that identify the “who”, “where” and “when” of those communications rather than their content. The Directive was controversial with many digital rights organisations which argued that communications data provided just as much information about an individual as content data and that the Directive, therefore, interfered with individuals’ right to privacy. The 2014 decision concerned two cases (later merged by the court) brought by EDRi’s members DRI and a large number of complainants organised by Austrian organisation AK Vorrat (now called epicenter.works). The court’s reasoning set out in this ruling was confirmed and reinforced in Tele2/Watson two years later, when the court held again that any indiscriminate data retention obligation on telecommunications providers was unjustified in a democratic society. # ⚓ Twitter_teams_up_with_the_AP_and_Reuters to_address_misinformation⠀⇛ Twitter Inc. announced today that it has begun a new partnership with the Associated Press and Reuters in a collaborative effort to tackle the spread of misinformation. The company explained in a blog post that up until now its curation team has been responsible for adding to topics that are “noteworthy, controversial, sensitive, or may contain potentially misleading information.” That means adding context to stories, giving people trusted sources when they search for various topics, and of course, labeling posts if they fall into the category of misinformation. # ⚓ Apple_&_Its_Mysterious_Privacy_Policy⠀⇛ After having delved into Microsoft’s 1243 pages long “Privacy Guide”, we could not forget its concurrent, the stylish and high-end electronics manufacturer Apple. If the several and different privacy policies of Microsoft could be compared to a rainforest jungle, then Apple’s could be perhaps like a desert. Their Privacy Policy, if downloaded in PDF format, is nine pages in length, of which only three effectively describe what is collected and how they use it. “Great!”, you could say, “That proves that Apple collects less data from its users.” Well, not exactly. Let’s take a look. They start lecturing on how they care about you and your data, and that all Apple customers in the world will be treated equally regarding their privacy rights. This indeed is very nice, because not all countries have strong privacy regulations like the European Union or Canada, but it is also a pragmatic approach, because it is cheaper to keep one single worldwide policy by their legal department than dozens of them. Apple also has a “Privacy Governance”, where it is stated that they are “committed to respecting human rights, including the right to privacy and freedom of information and expression.” Unfortunately, despite the nice wording, equality of treatment and respect of human rights is not necessarily what is practiced by Apple, according to a December 2020 joint letter signed by a coalition of 154 activist groups and rights organizations representing Tibetan, Uyghur, Southern Mongolian, Hongkonger, Taiwanese, and Chinese people. [...] It is not very comfortable to know that company with access to more than 1.65 billion active devices in the world (of which one billion are active iPhones) operates under such opacity. Its tortuous privacy policy gives the impression that their practices behind their facade of a privacy- loving company could not be so nice. Other elements shed some light on this: the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce stated, in February 2021, that Apple’s App Store privacy labels are “highly misleading or blatantly false. [...] that approximately one third of evaluated apps that said they did not collect data had inaccurate labels.” Anyway, they have made some great efforts on de-identification and on processing much of the data inside your own device, instead of doing it on their servers. But they still have access to most of your data stored in the iCloud because it is not encrypted end- to-end, and they still make data collection in several apps an opt-in by default, which is not compliant with the “privacy by default” principle, present in many data privacy regulations. Microsoft, on the other hand, does not seem to be embarrassed at all about collecting consumers’ data, as we saw in our past article about Microsoft’s privacy policy and their hundreds of pages describing everything they get from users. But I must acknowledge at least one thing: they are pretty clear that they are picking up your data. And a lot. They won’t come with all this frothy language on how they care about you and the like. With Apple, one simply doesn’t know. Their practices are shrouded under such a mystery that you have no idea about what they are doing with your data. And here is the big deal: with Apple, you are paying a premium for devices and services that should be more privacy-respecting. But if they decline to tell you what they do with what they know about your life, would you keep trusting them? Apple keeps a “trust score” about every single user, but it seems it is theirs that is near zero. # ⚓ Email_Self_Defense:_A_Guide_To_Fighting Surveillance_With_GnuPG_Encryption⠀⇛ Bulk surveillance violates our fundamental rights and makes free speech risky. This guide will teach you a basic surveillance self-defense skill: email encryption. Once you’ve finished, you’ll be able to send and receive emails that are scrambled to make sure a surveillance agent or thief intercepting your email can’t read them. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection, an email account, and about forty minutes. Even if you have nothing to hide, using encryption helps protect the privacy of people you communicate with, and makes life difficult for bulk surveillance systems. If you do have something important to hide, you’re in good company; these are the same tools that whistleblowers use to protect their identities while shining light on human rights abuses, corruption, and other crimes. In addition to using encryption, standing up to surveillance requires fighting politically for a reduction in the amount of data collected on us, but the essential first step is to protect yourself and make surveillance of your communication as difficult as possible. This guide helps you do that. It is designed for beginners, but if you already know the basics of GnuPG or are an experienced free software user, you’ll enjoy the advanced tips and the guide to teaching your friends. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Thinking_about_“traceability”⠀⇛ I don’t plain to weigh in on whether this policy is a good idea or viable on the merits, nor is it in my wheelhouse to say whether the Indian government is being forthright in their reasons for demanding this capability. (I will express a very grave degree of skepticism that this approach will catch any criminal who is remotely malicious and takes steps to cover their tracks.) In this post I mostly want to talk about the technology implications for encrypted messaging services, and what tracing features might mean for end-to-end encrypted systems like WhatsApp. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_What_Americans_Don’t_Want_to_Hear_About_Our_Moral Crimes_of_War⠀⇛ This summer, it seemed as if we Americans couldn’t wait to return to our traditional July 4th festivities. Haven’t we all been looking for something to celebrate? The church chimes in my community rang out battle hymns for about a week. The utility poles in my neighborhood were covered with “Hometown Hero” banners hanging proudly, sporting the smiling faces of uniformed local veterans from our wars. Fireworks went off for days, sparklers and cherry bombs and full-scale light shows filling the night sky. # ⚓ Afghanistan:_As_US_“Withdraws”_Airstrikes_Intensify_and More_Civilians_Die⠀⇛ At least 40 Afghan civilians have been killed, according to the United Nations, as the U.S. Air Force launched renewed overnight airstrikes to combat a Taliban offensive aimed at capturing the southern provincial capital from Afghanistan’s government forces. # ⚓ Medals_to_Honor_Police_Who_Protected_Congress_in_Capitol_ [Insurrection]⠀⇛ The Senate has voted to award Medals of Honor to the Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department for protecting Congress during the January 6 insurrection, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden for his signature. Under the bill, which passed by voice vote with no objections, four medals will be displayed at the Capitol Police headquarters, the Metropolitan Police Department, the U.S. Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution. # ⚓ How_kidnap-for-ransom_became_the_“most_lucrative_industry in_Nigeria”⠀⇛ Not only has Bukarti studied violent extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa, including Boko Haram, for over a decade, he also hails from the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, just a mile away from where Boko Haram originated. So I called him up to find out more about why the Nigerian government has failed to rein in these bandits and stop the kidnappings and what, if anything, the international community can do to end the crisis. Our conversation, edited for length and clarity, is below. # ⚓ India’s_Afghanistan_quandary⠀⇛ America has cut and run. Pakistan and China are rubbing their hands in glee waiting to move in to fill the vacuum in Afghanistan left by the United States. Russia and Iran, although wary of the Taliban, are happy that the US has been shown up as a colossus with feet of clay despite the gloss being put by Washington on what amounts to a humiliating retreat. The only country with a major stake in the future of Afghanistan that is unhappy with the American decision is India—and for very good reasons. India has already pumped US$3 billion since 2001 in developmental assistance into Afghanistan in order to prevent the exact scenario that is emerging now. # ⚓ Islamic_State_Group_Smuggling_Boys_to_Desert_Training Camps⠀⇛ In particular, the report warned that despite a series of crackdowns by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, IS, also known as ISIS or Daesh, retains significant influence in many of the camps, as well as freedom of movement, allowing it to target “the most susceptible” for recruitment. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Jailing_of_Craig_Murray:_Another_Move_to_Snuff_Out Independent_Journalism⠀⇛ Murray is also the first person to be jailed in Britain for contempt of court in half a century – a period when such different legal and moral values prevailed that the British establishment had only just ended the prosecution of “homosexuals” and the jailing of women for having abortions. # ⚓ No,_Cormac_McCarthy_Isn’t_on_Twitter._Don’t_Be_Fooled_by the_Check_Mark.⠀⇛ It was not clear how long the account had been verified. Twitter did not answer questions about how the mistake happened. Going forward, the company said, it would require the account to comply with its policy that parody or fan accounts have labels. Twitter itself once selected the accounts of famous people to be verified. The check marks have become somewhat of a status symbol on the social media platform and are intended to distinguish celebrities from impersonators. Now, users can apply to have their accounts verified. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Dear_Evan_Greenberg,_Climate_Leaders_Don’t_Insure Tar_Sands_Pipelines⠀⇛ Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline is an environmental and human rights disaster. It transports tar sands, one of the world’s dirtiest fossil fuels, from Alberta to Vancouver, across the territories of Indigenous Peoples who have made their opposition to the pipeline clear. Its 85 spills to date have poisoned lands and waters. And the proposed Trans Mountain expansion would triple the flow of oil and substantially increase the risk of catastrophic spills, particularly in the fragile Burrard Inlet. # ⚓ The_Science_Museum’s_‘Gagging_Clause’_is_the_Tip_of_the Iceberg_When_it_Comes_to_its_Flawed_Approach_to_Climate Change⠀⇛ By Chris Garrard and Jess Worth, Co-directors of Culture Unstained Something is seriously wrong at the Science Museum Group (SMG). Last week, Channel 4 News reported on Culture Unstained’s latest investigation into the museum’s controversial sponsorship deal with the oil giant Shell.  Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # ⚓ Civilization-Ending_Climate_Change_Is_Knocking_On_Our Door⠀⇛ I’ll never forget the day the trucker called into my radio show. It was probably around 14 years ago, and he identified himself as a long-haul trucker who regularly ran a coast-to-coast route from the southeast to the Pacific Northwest dozens of times a year. “Used to be when I was driving through the southern part of the Midwest like I am right now,” he said, “I’d have to stop every few hours to clean the bugs off my windshield. It’s been three days since I’ve had to clean bugs off my windshield on this trip. There’s something spooky going on out here.” # ⚓ Groups_Welcome_Biden_Review_But_Demand_Congress_Permanently Protect_Arctic_Refuge_From_Drilling⠀⇛ Indigenous and environmental groups on Tuesday welcomed the U.S. Interior Department’s decision to review the Trump administration’s controversial move opening up previously protected land in Alaska to drilling despite threats to local communities and wildlife as well as the global climate. “What is needed most is an act of Congress to permanently protect this special place from destructive drilling.”—Mike Scott, Sierra Club # ⚓ Bipartisan_Infrastructure_Bill_‘Doubling_Down_on_Support for_Carbon_Polluters’_With_$25_Billion_in_Subsidies,_Critics Warn⠀⇛ While Democratic leaders have described the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill as “a significant down payment” toward addressing the climate emergency, environmental justice advocates are warning that the proposed legislation—which reportedly includes billions of dollars in potential new subsidies for dirty energy projects disguised as solutions—threatens to prolong the life of the planet-wrecking fossil fuel industry. “The Senate is proposing that we spend tens of billions of dollars propping up fossil fuel corporations.”—Mitch Jones, Food & Water Watch # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Line_5_pipeline_between_U.S._and_Canada_could_cause ‘devastating_damage’_to_Great_Lakes,_say environmentalists⠀⇛ Line 5, a 1,000-kilometre-long pipeline owned by Calgary-based Enbridge, carries up to 540,000 barrels of oil and natural gas liquids a day from Wisconsin to Sarnia, Ont., where it is shipped to other refineries in Ontario and Quebec. It’s at the centre of a politically charged dispute between Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who’s ordered what she calls the “ticking time bomb” to be shut down, and Canadian officials, including Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who’ve sided with Enbridge in insisting it’s safe to keep running. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Need_for_Wild_Bison_Restoration⠀⇛ Due to behavioral and other differences, domestic livestock are no substitute for bison. Bison were critical to the horse-mounted bison hunting culture of the plains Indians and to their demise by the 1880s.  The disappearance of the vast herds of bison shocked or alarmed the American public and helped to foster new wildlife protection policies. # ⚓ The_stampede_into_national_parks⠀⇛ So to accommodate the crush, parks have been responding with innovative solutions. Visitors are being reminded that the worst crowding is happening at just a couple of dozen iconic places (think Yellowstone, Zion, the Grand Canyon, etc.) in a system of more than 400 parks. Visiting a lesser-known park may provide a little more elbow room. Parks are employing timed-entry reservation systems and shuttle services to cut the number of vehicles clogging their roads. And nearby businesses, which depend on park tourism, are jumping in to share their local knowledge and help visitors plan a more pleasant stay. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Taxing_Lifetime_Gains_Serves_Different_Fairness_Goal_Than Estate_Tax⠀⇛ We’re now witnessing this phenomenon once again in the struggle over the Biden administration’s move to eliminate one of the most gaping loopholes in our tax system, the so-called “basis step-up” that lets wealthy people avoid paying any income tax whatsoever on lifetimes of investment gains. Consider Jeff Bezos, the richest American. As ProPublica has reported, Bezos has paid little more than trifling amounts in income tax over the years even as his Amazon shares have appreciated over $100 billion. In several years, Bezos paid no tax at all. # ⚓ The_Politics_of_Spectacle:_On_Eviction_Moratorium,_The Squad_Talks_the_Walk⠀⇛ Members of Congress departed for a seven-week vacation at the same time that the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) national eviction moratorium expired on July 31. The Squad, a subset of members of the House of Representatives who espouse Bernie Sanders’ policy agenda, gathered at the Capitol building to demand that Congress come back to work and hold a vote to renew the moratorium. Cori Bush, Jamal Bowman, and other Squad members slept on the Capitol steps overnight as part of the ongoing protest. Critics on social media pointed out that the rally was too little, too late while others remarked that the low attendance of the rally, comprised mainly of political surrogates, rendered the action nothing more than a photo opportunity for the Squad. # ⚓ Global_Britain_Slashes_International_Aid⠀⇛ The United Kingdom is certainly such a case. For years, governments of different stripes praised the political importance of the aid programme.  “Development has never just been about aid or money, but I am proud that Britain is a country that keeps its promises to the poorest in the world,” British Prime Minister David Cameron told the United Nations General Assembly in a 2012 speech. This all started changing in 2020.  The merging of the Department of International Development with the Foreign Office was a signal that pennies would be in shorter supply.  On November 25, 2020, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced that the government would not spend 0.7% of gross national income on official development assistance in 2022.  The allocation would fall to 0.5% of GNI – £10 billion in monetary terms.  Relative to the 2019 budget, this would amount to an effective cut of around £4 to 5 billion.  Aid had very much become a matter of money. # ⚓ Biden’s_Infrastructure_Bill_Shouldn’t_Undermine Cryptocurrency_Infrastructure_In_The_Process⠀⇛ There was a reasonable uproar from the cryptocurrency community this weekend as it appeared that the long fought for Biden infrastructure bill would change some definitions to create a mess for the wider cryptocurrency space. # ⚓ The_Saving_Rate_is_Still_High:_Evidence_on_the_Post- Pandemic_Economy⠀⇛ For those not familiar with this economic concept, the saving rate is the percent of after-tax income that is not spent. To be clear, not spent means literally that people did not use it on consumption. If they used their income to pay for rent, buy a car, pay for their college, this would all be counted as consumption. By comparison, if they put their money in their checking account or savings account, bought a government bond or shares of stock, this would be counted as saving. It would also be counted as savings if they used some of their money to pay down credit card or student loan debt. # ⚓ Democrats_Took_Millions_From_Real_Estate_Interests_Before Allowing_Eviction_Moratorium_to_End⠀⇛ As the homes of millions of renters across the U.S. were threatened this week by the White House’s and Congress’s refusal to extend the eviction moratorium put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Democrats’ inaction was directly benefiting some of the party’s biggest backers in the real estate industry. “It’s not shocking, because we have seen this pattern again and again. What is shocking is that millions of people are at risk of not just becoming homeless, but also getting a deadly disease.”—Sara Myklebust, Georgetown University # ⚓ ‘Give_the_Money_Back,’_Demands_Tlaib_After_Revelation_of_$1 Million_Donation_to_House_Dems_From_Real_Estate_Titan⠀⇛ Following the revelation Tuesday that House Democrats received $1 million from the chairman of an apartment rental company weeks before they let the nationwide eviction moratorium expire, Rep. Rashida Tlaib led calls to return the money—and extend the federal eviction moratorium. “Democrats were bought off for leaving six million Americans without an eviction moratorium.”—Jackie Fielder, Daybreak PAC # ⚓ Billionaires_Take_Up_Space⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Nina_Turner:_A_Champion_of_the_People_Redeeming Our_Frayed_Democracy⠀⇛ The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed once again the awesome power of the Federal Government.  Much as in 2008, when the U.S. and international financial systems imploded, the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve stepped in and took unprecedented measures to draw upon a seemingly unlimited pool of funds and bail out the existing economic order. Fortunately, these resources were extended more broadly this time, saving countless lives. # ⚓ Inside_the_Magaverse⠀⇛ Support independent cartooning: join Sparky’s List—and don’t forget to visit TT’s Emporium of Fun, featuring the new book and plush Sparky! # ⚓ Opinion_|_Is_Biden_Doing_Enough_to_Fight_Off_the_GOP’s Relentless_Assault_on_Democracy?_I_Fear_Not⠀⇛ The following remarks were presented as a lecture at the closing session of the 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, New School for Social Research. # ⚓ The_Fall_of_Tunisia,_Last_of_the_Arab_Spring_Nations⠀⇛ That tomorrow moved even further into the future this week when a coup displaced the last surviving democracy to emerge from the Arab uprising of 2011. Appropriately, it took place in Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began a decade ago after a vegetable seller burned himself to death in a protest against the actions of the corrupt and dictatorial regime. On 25 July, Kais Saied, the Trump-like populist president of Tunisia, sacked the prime minister, suspended parliament and declared himself prosecutor general. As with Donald Trump, he had spent the years since he was elected in 2019 blaming members of parliament, critical media and government institutions for the dire state of the country. Polls show that many Tunisians believe him. # ⚓ Kucinich_is_Back…in_Cleveland⠀⇛ Understanding power, this reviewer believes, has long escaped the attention of most people (especially the powerless, and I include women in this category) because they have been kept from it, or they steer clear of it because they know that power corrupts. Kucinich’s book is a welcome primer, told in very human, easily understood terms. It is centered around a David v. Goliath struggle to save a municipally-owned utility company from corporate predators and their devious efforts to increase utility rates to improve their profits. Fast-paced and well documented, it’s also essential reading for anyone who wants to enter the fray with the aim of challenging Old Boy networks in order to bring about essential changes that meet the needs of the people. To a certain degree, Kucinich had street smarts going for him. Growing up in the inner city, he easily recognized “the hustlers, the practiced deceivers“ in his neighborhood. But once he got involved in city politics, he soon discovered a whole new level of skullduggery. # ⚓ Sacrificing_Truth_to_Stay_in_Power⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘He_Should_Be_Impeached’:_State_Probe_Finds_Cuomo_Sexually Harassed_Multiple_Women⠀⇛ New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo “violated multiple state and federal laws” by groping, kissing, and hugging current and former government employees without their consent; making inappropriate sexual comments; creating a toxic work environment; and retaliating against at least one former staffer who went public with her story. “No man—no matter how powerful—can be allowed to harass women or violate our human rights laws, period.”—Letitia James, New York Attorney General # ⚓ ‘I_Think_He_Should_Resign’:_Biden_Joins_Chorus_of_Demands for_Cuomo_to_Step_Down⠀⇛ U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday joined the growing chorus of people calling for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to step down after a state probe concluded that the Democrat “engaged in conduct constituting sexual harassment under federal and New York state law.” “I think he should resign,” Biden told reporters after being asked about the findings Tuesday afternoon, citing his earlier comments when multiple women accused Cuomo of sexual harassment earlier this year. # ⚓ Cori_Bush,_Progressive_Lawmakers_and_Activists_Hailed_for New_CDC_Eviction_Moratorium⠀⇛ Pressure from progressive lawmakers and grassroots activists to extend the expired federal eviction moratorium paid off Tuesday when the Biden administration took action to shield most—but not all—U.S. renters at risk of losing their homes. “We saw what it’s like when one of the lowest- income Americans ever elected to national office challenged a Congress that is half made up of millionaires.”—Alexandra Rojas, Justice Democrats # ⚓ Andrew_Cuomo_Is_the_New_Crown_Prince_of_Denial⠀⇛ On Tuesday, State Attorney General Letitia James released her much-anticipated report into the sexual harassment allegations brought against Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York. James, a fellow Democrat, was unequivocal: Cuomo had harassed multiple women, including current and former government workers, breaking state and federal laws. However, James said that holding the governor legally accountable would be a civil, not a criminal, manner. # ⚓ Lawyers_say_Paul_Whelan,_American_national_jailed_in Russia,_hasn’t_been_heard_from_in_a_month⠀⇛ American national Paul Whelan, who is serving a 16- year sentence in Russia on espionage charges, hasn’t been in touch with his family or the U.S. Embassy in more than four weeks, his lawyer Olga Karlova told Interfax. # ⚓ Paving_a_Pathway_to_Citizenship_Also_Means_Paving_a_Pathway to_Recovery⠀⇛ # ⚓ Navalny’s_Anti-Corruption_Foundation_fined_over_lack_of ‘foreign_agent’_disclaimers⠀⇛ A Moscow court has fined Alexey Navalny’s Anti- Corruption Foundation (the FBK) for failing to include “foreign agent” disclaimers on its website “ECHR Search.” # ⚓ “I_Alone_Can_Fix_It”:_Book_Details_Trump’s_Last_Year_&_the Military’s_Fear_He_Would_Stage_a_Coup⠀⇛ A new book by two Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters provides fresh details on former President Trump’s response to the pandemic, his campaign to overturn the 2020 election results, and the events surrounding the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The book, “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year,” details how the country’s top general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, feared Trump would wage a coup after losing the November election, among other revelations. We speak with co-authors Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, who say their reporting unearthed “a lot of things that made our jaws drop to the ground.” In an interview for the book, Trump said his only regret during his last year in office was not deploying the military against Black Lives Matter protesters. “He wanted to use active-duty troops on the streets of America’s cities to combat American protesters who were exercising their First Amendment rights,” says Rucker. # ⚓ A_Trump_Bombshell_Quietly_Dropped_Last_Week._And_It_Should Shock_Us_All.⠀⇛ On Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27 December telephone call from Trump to then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, in which Trump told Rosen: “Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.” The notes were taken by Richard Donoghue, Rosen’s deputy, who was also on the call. # ⚓ Biden’s_Call_for_“Out-Organizing”_Voter_Suppression_Is Insulting,_Say_Activists⠀⇛ # ⚓ Facebook_Disables_Accounts_Tied_to_NYU_Research_Project⠀⇛ Facebook Inc. has disabled the personal accounts of a group of New York University researchers studying political ads on the social network, claiming they are scraping data in violation of the company’s terms of service. # ⚓ Tencent_Boss_Loses_$14_Billion_in_Crackdown,_More_Than_Jack Ma⠀⇛ In a twist that has upended conventional wisdom on the political pecking order of China’s business elite, Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s mild-mannered boss, Pony Ma, has lost more paper wealth over the past nine months than Jack Ma, the combative co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Ant Group Co. # ⚓ Why_spite_could_destroy_liberal_democracy⠀⇛ As communism imploded in 1989, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama asked if liberal democracy was “the end of history”, being the form all societies were destined to take. The past decades have suggested not. Illiberal democracies and hybrid democratic-authoritarian regimes continue to emerge. Fukuyama foresaw this possibility. He felt that citizens dissatisfied with liberty and equality could destabilise liberal democracy – restarting history as it were. One way they could do so, I realised while writing a book about spite, is if such dissatisfaction led to spiteful acts. I therefore believe defenders of liberal democracy must understand the danger of spite. # ⚓ ‘He_had_a_bad_feeling’:_Ukrainian_police_launch_murder investigation_after_missing_Belarusian_activist_is_found_dead in_Kyiv⠀⇛ Ukrainian police have opened a murder investigation after finding missing Belarusian activist Vital Shyshou hanged in a Kyiv park on the morning of August 3. Shyshou, who left Belarus in the fall of 2020, was reported missing a day earlier after he went out for a morning jog and never returned. Ukrainian police suspect his death was a suicide or a murder framed as suicide. However, Shyshou’s colleagues and loved ones believe he was killed. Fellow activists from the NGO “Belarusian House in Ukraine” (BDU), which Shyshou founded to help Belarusians fleeing political persecution, said that his face showed signs of having been beaten. BDU also said that sources in Kyiv and Belarus told its members about a network of Belarusian KGB agents allegedly working in Ukraine, and warned about the possibility of “kidnappings and liquidations.” A week before his death, Vital Shyshou noticed that he was being followed and asked friends to “take care” of his loved ones. # ⚓ Belarus_Activist_Vitaly_Shishov’s_Death_Investigated_as Murder_Disguised_as_Suicide⠀⇛ Shishov had led the Belarusian House in Ukraine group, which assists Belarusians to find jobs, legal advice and accommodation. # ⚓ Exiled_Belarus_activist_found_hanged_in_Ukraine,_police open_murder_case⠀⇛ Police said they had launched a criminal case for suspected murder, including investigating whether killers tried to disguise the crime as suicide. # ⚓ Vitaly_Shishov:_Head_of_Belarus_exiles_group_found_dead_in Ukraine⠀⇛ Police said that they had recovered Mr Shishov’s mobile phone and personal items from the scene. # ⚓ Cognitive_Confinement_In_Narrative_Prisons⠀⇛ After writing a whole book about [Internet] and narrative control, I want to share what I personally do, in my own limited ways, to try not to get stuck in bubbles. The book covers a lot of ground on this used up road, especially in the last part, but let’s be practical instead. This isn’t meant to be didactic but only informative of my reflection on how I attempt to achieve this and the issues I’ve encountered. o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Understanding_Overlapping_Corporate_Disinformation Campaigns_is_Critical_to_Telling_the_Full_Story_About_Science Denial⠀⇛ Bayer, which now owns Monsanto, announced at the end of July that it will remove the harmful pesticide glyphosate — a “probable carcinogen” — from its Roundup herbicide products by 2023, as it continues to face mounting pressure from lawsuits about the product’s health impacts.  # ⚓ Algeria_revokes_accreditation_of_Saudi_channel_Al-Arabiya over_allegedly_spreading_misinformation⠀⇛ Algerian authorities should immediately reverse their decision to revoke the accreditation of Saudi news channel Al-Arabiya and ensure that the channel can operate freely in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On July 31, Algeria’s communications ministry withdrew Al-Arabiya’s press accreditation for allegedly spreading misinformation while failing to respect journalistic ethics and practicing manipulation, according to news reports and the state-run news agency Algérie Press Service. None of the reports specified what the channel allegedly published to earn the revocation and neither the communications ministry nor Al-Arabiya returned CPJ’s emailed requests for comment. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Social_Network_GETTR,_Which_Promised_To_Support_‘Free Speech’_Now_Full_Of_Islamic_State_Jihadi_Propaganda⠀⇛ When last we checked in on GETTR, the latest in the Gab-Parler trend of very naive people setting up a new social network they hope will become the “MAGA central” social network by claiming, ridiculously, that they “won’t censor,” it was overrun by furry porn and My Little Pony porn. The site, that is run by former Trump spokesperson Jason Miller, has struggled to understand how content moderation actually works, and is now facing yet another new kind of content moderation challenge: jihadi propaganda from the Islamic State. # ⚓ President_Of_France_Sues_Citizen_Over_Billboard_Comparing Macron_To_Hitler⠀⇛ Some countries still have laws that forbid insulting political leaders. But you kind of assume enforcement of these laws will be left to the Erdogans and Dutertes of the world. # ⚓ Facebook,_Google,_Twitter_Register_to_Lobby_Congress_on Section_230⠀⇛ Since the Capitol [insurrection], a number of proposals have been put forward to amend — in some cases completely repeal — the provision to address what some Republicans are calling outright censorship by social media companies. Even Florida tried to take matters into its own hands when it made law rules that penalized social media companies that banned politicians. That law has since been put on hold by the courts. The social media giants, and its allies in the industry, have pressed the importance of the provision, which they say have allowed once- fledgling companies like Facebook to be what it is today. And some representatives think reform of the law could lean more toward amendment than outright repeal. But lawyers have warned about a shift in attitude toward those liability protections, as more judges in courts across the country hold big technology companies accountable for harm caused by the platforms. # ⚓ Why_X-rated_masterpiece_The_Devils_is_still_being censored⠀⇛ The late film director Ken Russell was the embodiment of outrageous cinema. From his early documentaries and biopics about famous composers for the BBC to feature films such as Women in Love (1969), The Music Lovers (1971) and Tommy (1975), Russell became one of Britain’s most unique screen artists. Today, one film of his above all others is still considered controversial: 1971′s The Devils. Based on real events that occurred in a 17th-Century French town, it caused more than a few sleepless nights for the censors. # ⚓ [Old] Big_Tech_is_a_big_threat_to_political_speech⠀⇛ Big Tech has big power over freedom of expression— and that is a big problem. Over the last several months, it has become quite apparent that Facebook and Twitter exercise an inordinate amount of control over the news and ideas we are exposed to. In the wake of the Capital Hill riots by the far-right, Big Tech companies took the unprecedented step of deplatforming the sitting President of the United States and ramping up their powers of censorship. Now, no one should feel bad for Donald Trump or the far-right. But the increased powers nakedly wielded by Big Tech companies are a major cause for concern for the left. Those of us who are engaged in political struggles that seek to upend the structures of racism, imperialism and inequality often are advocating ideas outside the mainstream – a term which powerful Big Tech companies increasingly define. Thus, a crackdown on political expression that seeks to reign in ill-defined “extremism” inevitably means attacking the political expression of those who challenge existing power structures in our society. And this is a very dangerous thing. # ⚓ Freedom_of_Speech:_A_Vulnerable_Right⠀⇛ Social media has undoubtedly become the dominant form of communication in our society. Sixty-eight percent of U.S. adults identify themselves as Facebook users. Statistics show that people on average spend 2.5 hours per day on social networks and messaging. Also, 49 percent “of consumers depend on influencer recommendations on social media.” Social media boosters claim that this success shows that Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other platforms are fulfilling their promise to help build an interconnected world of free expression and solidarity in diversity of thought. But is this true? o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Body_of_Danish_Siddiqui_was_mutilated;_shot_16_times,_head brutally_crushed⠀⇛ According to reports in the media, Siddiqui was hit by shrapnel and rushed to a neighboring mosque for treatment. The news of his stay spread, forcing Taliban gunmen to attack the mosque, which a local investigation determined was only done because the Taliban knew the photojournalist was sheltering there. # ⚓ Belarusian_Journalist_Sentenced_To_18_Months_In_Prison_For ‘Insulting’_Lukashenka⠀⇛ The verdict in the case against Syarhey Hardzievich, 50, comes as part of a massive government crackdown in Belarus on independent media, human rights defenders, and activists. # ⚓ Belarus_Sends_Reporter_to_Prison_Over_Deleted_Chat Messages⠀⇛ A court in Belarus convicted a journalist of insulting the president in messages in a deleted chat group and sentenced him to 1 1/2 years in prison, the Belarusian Association of Journalists said Monday. The verdict in the case against Siarhei Hardziyevich, 50, comes as part of a massive crackdown that Belarusian authorities have unleashed on independent media and human rights activists. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ CoJiT:_The_“Anti-Extremism”_Think_Tank_Started_by_Sons_of Israeli_Superspy_Robert_Maxwell⠀⇛ If you have not heard of Combating Jihadist Terrorism and Extremism (CoJiT), you are probably not alone. The London-based think tank does not go out of its way to advertise itself. Yet it appears to be having an outsized effect on domestic British policy towards terrorism and surveillance, pushing for more all-encompassing measures against Muslims in the name of fighting terrorism both at home and worldwide. # ⚓ Why_Carlson’s_Alliance_With_Hungarian_Fascism_Matters⠀⇛ The Daily Beast’s report (8/3/21) that Fox News host Tucker Carlson would speak at “MCC Feszt, a far-right conference in Budapest that is backed by Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orbán,” may just be one item on the host’s long list of potentially racist and fascist-friendly acts. But it stands out as an international incident, casting his range beyond American politics. # ⚓ Refugees_Continue_to_Face_“Extreme_Danger”_in_Mediterranean Sea_as_Aid_Groups_Scramble_to_Respond⠀⇛ The number of refugees trying to reach European soil continues to grow due to worsening poverty, violence and the climate crisis, and over 1,100 refugees have perished crossing the Mediterranean so far this year, according to the United Nations. We speak with Laurence Bondard of SOS Méditerranée, a humanitarian group that rescues migrants at sea, who says there is a severe shortage of search-and- rescue resources in the area to address the crisis. “The people that are actually fleeing via the sea that are on tremendously unseaworthy dinghies — most of the time without life jackets, without enough food or water — are in extreme danger, and they cannot always be rescued,” Bondard says. # ⚓ Palestinians_Reject_Deal_That_Turns_Settlers_Into_Landlords in_Sheikh_Jarrah⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘We_Are_the_Owners’:_Palestinians_Refuse_to_Concede_Land Rights_to_Israelis_in_Sheikh_Jarrah⠀⇛ Palestinian families facing ethnic cleansing from their Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday rejected a so-called “compromise” offer from Israel’s Supreme Court, which would allow them to remain in their homes if they recognize as rightful owners the Israeli settler group trying to steal the properties. Under the Israeli high court proposal, four Palestinian families and dozens of others threatened with forced expulsion from the Sheikh Jarrah area would remain in the neighborhood as “protected tenants” who could not be evicted, as long as they acknowledged that Nahalat Shimon Company—a right-wing settler organization dating back to the early years of Zionist colonization of Palestine—as the lawful owner, and paid it NIS 1,500 ($465) in annual rent. # ⚓ Palestinians_Reject_Israeli_Court’s_Deal_That_Would_Put Them_at_“Mercy_of_Settlers”_in_Sheikh_Jarrah⠀⇛ The Israeli Supreme Court this week offered Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah a compromise in their ongoing fight to block Jewish settlers from forcibly expelling them from their own homes. The high court proposed that Palestinian families could stay in their homes for now if they begin paying rent to the Jewish settler group that claims ownership over the properties — a deal the families rejected, insisting they are the legal owners. The planned evictions in East Jerusalem helped spark the last war in Gaza in May and have galvanized international support for Palestinians facing dispossession from settler groups and the state. The United Nations has described the planned evictions as a possible war crime. Palestinian writer and poet Mohammed El-Kurd, whose family is among those facing eviction in Sheikh Jarrah, says the Israeli Supreme Court is “evading its responsibilities” by refusing to make a ruling, offering a face-saving compromise instead that will not ultimately benefit the families. “We would be living at the mercy of settlers, paying rent to live in our own homes and dealing with all kinds of arbitrary policies,” he says. # ⚓ Announcing_the_Winners_of_the_Keeley_Schenwar_Memorial Prize⠀⇛ # ⚓ Restricted_freedom_Opposition_politician_Lyubov_Sobol handed_parole-like_sentence_in_the_‘Sanitary_Case’⠀⇛ After months spent under house arrest and restrictive pre-trial measures, Russian opposition politician Lyubov Sobol was given a 1.5-year parole-like sentence on August 3, as part of the so-called “Sanitary Case.” State investigators launched the criminal case against Sobol and nine other well-known activists and politicians back in January, in connection with a demonstration in support of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny. According to the investigation, the defendants in the case called on Navalny’s supporters to attend the rally and thereby incited violations of public health regulations amid the coronavirus pandemic. Sobol’s lawyer says his client — who is already on probation in connection with a felony trespassing case — plans to challenge the verdict. # ⚓ Justice_Ministry_takes_St._Petersburg_bar_association_to court_over_its_refusal_to_expel_prominent_lawyer_Ivan Pavlov⠀⇛ The St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Justice Ministry is taking the city’s bar chamber to court over its refusal to take disciplinary action against prominent human rights lawyer Ivan Pavlov. # ⚓ The_Fiction_of_Meaningful_Work⠀⇛ An illusion has been abandoned before Kikuko Tsumura’s There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job begins. Work, once central and all-consuming for Tsumura’s unnamed narrator, a 36-year-old woman in Japan, has grown stale—something she wishes to minimize, since, sadly, toil cannot be avoided. The narrator reveals only scant details at first as to how she came to this shift. She quit her last job because of burnout, moved in with her parents, and has resolved to find the least exciting, least emotionally taxing job possible. # ⚓ Oklahoma_Deputies_Steal_$141,500_From_Men_Trying_To_Buy Land,_Manage_To_Make_$10,000_Of_It_Disappear⠀⇛ Some regular, everyday highway robbery committed by an Oklahoma law enforcement agency is getting some airtime and additional scrutiny, which certainly isn’t going to be beneficial to the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office. (via Reason) # ⚓ End_of_Moratorium_Could_Fuel_Wave_of_“Invisible_Evictions,” Organizers_Warn⠀⇛ # ⚓ I_Was_Thrown_in_Solitary_at_14._My_Jailers_Added_a_Day_Each Time_I_Fought_Back.⠀⇛ # ⚓ A_New_Suit_Seeks_to_Turn_Arbitrations,_a_Tool_of_Big Corporations,_Against_a_Top_Customer_Service_Provider⠀⇛ Arise Virtual Solutions violates the rights of customer service agents around the country, a lawsuit filed last week in federal court asserts. The company, the suit claims, gets away with “flagrant legal violations” by keeping “its workers in the dark about their rights.” The suit is attempting to turn one of Arise’s biggest legal advantages — that its workers agree to individual arbitration, which prevents them from taking coordinated legal action — against the company. Shannon Liss-Riordan, the plaintiffs’ lawyer bringing the suit, has asked the court to order Arise to provide her the names and contact information of the company’s customer service agents. (Its CEO said last year that Arise has about 70,000 agents.) That could allow Liss- Riordan, who has tangled with Arise for years in court and private arbitration, to notify those workers of their potential legal claims. If she signs up enough agents as clients, she could unleash a wave of arbitration filings against Arise in what could become a war of attrition. # ⚓ Amazon_Pressured_Alabama_Workers_to_Vote_Against Unionization,_Labor_Board_Finds⠀⇛ # ⚓ With_Amazon_Accused_of_Cheating,_NLRB_Official_Says_Workers Should_Get_Another_Union_Vote⠀⇛ An official at the National Labor Relations Board on Monday formally recommended tossing out the results of a closely watched union election at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, potentially giving workers there a chance to hold another vote as the e-commerce giant faces accusations of unlawful misconduct. “We support the hearing officer’s recommendation that the NLRB set aside the election results and direct a new election.”—Stuart Appelbaum, RWDSU # ⚓ A_Prison_Guard_Raped_Me_and_Threatened_My_Life._Now_I_Fight for_Others’_Lives.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Turkey:_Arbitrary_Arrests,_Kidnappings,_Torture_in_Prison⠀⇛ A human rights advocate group called “The Hunger Strikes Monitoring and Follow-up Coordination” — which includes organizations such as Diyarbakır Medical Chamber, the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, Human Rights Association, Lawyers Association for Freedom, Association for Solidarity with and Aid for the Families of Prisoners and the Union of Health and Social Services Workers — visited prisons in Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Urfa, Bayburt, Erzincan, Malatya and Maraş and reported on the violations of rights in April, May and June 2021. According to the report, political prisoners are often subject to torture, assaults, insults, threats, and other forms of ill-treatment in those prisons. Some of the abuses include: [...] # ⚓ Saudi_Arabia_launched_‘relentless_crackdown’_after_G20, Amnesty_says⠀⇛ Amnesty International accused Saudi Arabia on Tuesday of launching a “relentless crackdown” on dissidents in the kingdom after the end of its G20 presidency. Riyadh led the global forum for the world’s wealthiest countries for all of last year and pushed through some changes, claiming to have scrapped the death sentence for minors and banning public floggings. But a new report by the London-based human rights organization said authorities “have brazenly intensified the persecution of human rights defenders and dissidents and stepped up executions over the past six months.” o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Canadian_Government_Continues_Its_War_On_Internet_Freedom With_New_‘Online_Harms’_Legislation⠀⇛ A few months ago, we wrote about the Canadian government’s attempt to give its broadcast regulators sweeping new powers to regulate social media via Bill C-10 — a massive piece of legislation that seemed to only get worse over time thanks to unclear, ever-shifting provisions and a rushed, secretive amendment process before being passed by the House of Commons in the middle of the night. That bill is now in limbo in the Senate, and Canadians are waiting to see if it will come back in the September session or be preempted by an early federal election. Unfortunately, the stalling-out of Bill C-10 hasn’t put a stop to the ruling Liberal government’s efforts to create unprecedented new powers of internet regulation, and now their ongoing campaign is continuing with a technical paper outlining plans for more new legislation to address “harmful online content”. # ⚓ Telecom_Lobbyists_Easily_Weakened_Language_In_‘Bipartisan’ Broadband_Infrastructure_Bill⠀⇛ So we’ve already noted how the broadband component of the “bipartisan compromise” infrastructure bill was still helpful, but much weaker than many wanted it to be (pretty much the common theme across the infrastructure package). While there are some useful grant funds for underserved “middle mile” and other networks — as well as the continuation of a helpful but flawed COVID broadband discount program — the proposal itself doesn’t really do much of anything about the core reason US broadband is so expensive: namely, regional telecom monopolization or the corruption that protects it. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Spotify_Tests_Ad-Supported_Subscription_Tier_for_$0.99_a Month⠀⇛ Called Spotify Plus, the subscription tier is a fraction of the price of Spotify Premium, the $9.99/month ad-free offering. It is currently being tested with a “limited number of users,” according to the spokesperson, at a variety of price points — including $0.99 a month. # ⚓ Spotify_is_testing_a_less_restrictive_ad-supported_tier costing_$0.99_a_month⠀⇛ Spotify’s free tier has existed in its current form since 2018. It doesn’t let users skip more than six tracks per hour, and only lets them pick and listen to specific tracks from 15 select playlists, ranging from editorial-selected playlists to algorithmically generated collections like “Discover Weekly” and “Daily Mix.” Outside of these playlists, free users can only listen to shuffled tracks. The new Spotify Plus tier is a relatively cheap way to reduce some of those restrictions. # ⚓ Home_Depot_plans_to_foil_shoplifters_with_power_tools_that won’t_work_if_they’re_stolen⠀⇛ The home-improvement chain is unveiling power tools that won’t work unless they’re properly scanned and activated at the register via Bluetooth technology. If a thief managed to smuggle a power drill out of the store without paying, the drill simply wouldn’t turn on. # ⚓ Sell_This_Book!⠀⇛ The very role and meaning of libraries relies on their right to own books, because books that can expire are books that can disappear permanently—books that can be taken away. There is a cultural, a political, even a civilizational danger in this vulnerability that can’t be overestimated. “Sourcing is the glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together,” as Jonathan Zittrain wrote last year in The Atlantic in an article about the Internet’s weaknesses as a cultural archive. When a link disappears, when an online publisher goes out of business, readers, researchers, and scholars will hit a dead end—unless digital libraries are given the same power to archive that traditional libraries have had for centuries. Digital media is recklessly burning its own record to ash behind it, so we need institutions and systems to affirmatively protect and preserve 21st-century knowledge. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ European_Commission_investigates_Facebook_Kustomer_deal_on competition_grounds⠀⇛ The European Commission has launched an investigation into Facebook Inc.’s acquisition of customer service firm Kustomer Inc. on the grounds that the purchase may hurt competition. Facebook purchased Kustomer in December for a figure believed to be just over $1 billion. Kustomer, founded in 2015, offers a software-as- service customer relationship management platform that is pitched as centralizing the entire workflow. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Results_of_user_consultation_on_EPO_Guidelines [Ed: Consultation with litigation firms, not the European public. The EPO is compromised and is run by crooks who undermine Europe and break the law for personal gain.]⠀⇛ The EPO has published a summary of the responses to its recent online user consultation on the EPC and PCT-EPO Guidelines 2021. The consultation, the second of its kind and part of the EPO’s annual Guidelines revision cycle, attracted almost 200 responses, many of them focussing on biotechnology issues and the EPO’s practice regarding the adaptation of patent application descriptions. # ⚓ Pfizer_and_Moderna_Hike_EU_Vaccine_Prices_as_Rich Countries_Oppose_Patent_Waiver⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Copyright_Vindication:_Supreme_Court_Confirms_Access Copyright_Tariff_Not_Mandatory,_Lower_Court_Fair Dealing_Analysis_Was_“Tainted”⠀⇛ Access Copyright has spent much of the past decade arguing that the 2012 reforms undermined payments for educational copying, but the reality is that those reforms had little to do with the flawed fair dealing analysis from the federal court and nothing to do with the status of their tariff. The collective will undoubtedly accelerate its lobbying campaign for copyright reforms designed severely limit fair dealing for education, but after two decades of litigation that has consistently affirmed the education community’s analysis of the law, perhaps it is time for Access Copyright to compete within the system, not waste millions of creator dollars on lobbying and failed litigation. # ⚓ Open_Minds_Podcast:_Albert_Wenger_of_Union_Square Ventures⠀⇛ Our guest on this episode is Albert Wenger, managing partner at Union Square Ventures, a thesis-driven venture capital firm based in New York City. USV has invested in over 100 companies that use the power of the internet to re-shape markets, including Twitter, Etsy, Stripe, Tumblr, Meetup, and Kickstarter, among others. Earlier this year, USV announced a new $162 million Climate Fund focused on investing in “companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis.” In this episode, we delve into the topic of Climate Change, from what the average person can start doing today to the importance of openness and cross-sectoral collaboration and partnership to find effective solutions. # ⚓ US_Lawmakers_Suggest_That_Piracy_is_Part_of_Twitter’s Business_Model⠀⇛ A group of bipartisan U.S. House Representatives has sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, urging the company to take copyright infringement seriously. While Twitter seemingly complies with the law, the lawmakers say that the company’s actions suggest that piracy is part of Twitter’s business model. # ⚓ Y2Mate:_Massive_YouTube-Ripping_Service_Blocks_US_& UK_Visitors⠀⇛ With an estimated 128 million visitors per month, Y2Mate is probably the world’s largest YouTube-to-MP3 ripping site. Intriguingly, the platform is currently showing a shutdown message to millions of users, noting that the service has completely shut down. That is not the case. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4222 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_4/8/2021:_Mesa_21.2_and_Kaisen_Linux_Rolling_1.8⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:38 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ MATE_is_not_a_complete_desktop_environment…_MATE Applications_tour⠀⇛ It’s time to continue our trip down memory lane with MATE. As I’ve said in a previous video, I spent a lot of time on GNOME 2 when it was the default on Ubuntu, and I know most of its default apps like the back of my hand. It’s been 10 years since I’ve used GNOME 2 though, and MATE has evolved past that, so let’s see you get out of the box, and if that’s any good. # ⚓ Co-op_News_Punch_Podcast_–_Episode_31⠀⇛ Has it really been months since our last episode? Woops. We’re back! Introduction the Co-op News Punch Podcast – Episode 31. Apologies on this being away from a while but it’s finally here. The podcast features myself and contributor Samsai, having a very chilled-out chat about various Linux and Linux Gaming topics across different fields. # ⚓ Ruby_in_the_Rough_|_Coder_Radio_425⠀⇛ Big promises are being made in Ruby land, Tech Crunch says Open Source is dead, and we have thoughts to share about both! We also discuss Google’s Time Crystals. They have the power to fundamentally change our lives, but what the heck are they? # ⚓ Makulu_Shift_Update_–_Most_Detailed_look_yet_!⠀⇛ # ⚓ mintcast_366.5_–_Protect_Your_Bits⠀⇛ 1:56 Linux Innards 33:35 Vibrations from the Ether 49:15 Check This Out 59:02 Announcements & Outro In our Innards section we talk OpenVPN, Wireguard and staying safe online And finally, the feedback and a couple community choices o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_641:_The_Open_Anniversary_–_30_Years_of Linux⠀⇛ This show is a special date in open source history: the one we share with Nick Vidal, creator and alpha maintainer of Open Anniversary. Through the whole show, Nick schools Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on the important timelines of major and soon-to-be- major open source movements, the cool ways those are being recognized, discussed and celebrated—and how, in the open source way, anyone can contribute new timelines, improvements to existing ones, and ways of celebrating their anniversaries. # ⚓ Intel_Proposes_Linux_Kernel_Driver_Allow/Deny_Filtering⠀⇛ As part of their work around Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) support for Linux, Intel engineers are proposing a driver filter option for Linux to be able to set allow or deny lists of driver(s) that can or cannot be loaded by the booted kernel. In order to reduce the attack surface within guest virtual machines while still wanting to be able to use the same kernel build between a host and guest, Intel engineers are looking to add this driver filter support to the kernel. When booting the guest, via the kernel command-line they can just specify the specific drivers to allow to be loaded by the kernel or alternatively setting a list of specific drivers that shouldn’t be allowed to be loaded by the system. # ⚓ Oracle_Working_On_BPF_CO-RE_Support_For_GCC_To_Easily_Run BPF_Programs_On_Any_Kernel⠀⇛ Running eBPF kernel programs continues to be increasing popular and used for a variety of use- cases in production environments but one of the challenges is around needing to compile the (e)BPF programs for a given kernel while BPF CO-RE has been working to change that. The LLVM Clang compiler already supports the ability for BPF “Compile Once, Run Everywhere” while now Oracle engineers are working to bring the same level of support to GCC. # ⚓ AMD_PTDMA_Driver_Revised_Ahead_Of_Its_Possible_Inclusion For_Linux_5.15_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ One of the AMD patch series that has been in the works for more than one year is the PTDMA driver providing pass-through DMA engine support on Linux. The driver is now up to its eleventh revision but the mainlining might happen soon. The AMD PTDMA Linux driver effort dates back to September 2019 for enabling their PTDMA controller in performing high bandwidth memory-to-memory and I/O copy operations. Modern AMD CPUs support multiple PTDMA controllers, the PTDMA driver hooks into the kernel’s direct memory access (DMA) subsystem and is intended to be used with AMD Non- Transparent Bridge (NTB) devices but not for general purpose peripheral DMA. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mesa_21.2.0⠀⇛ Hi list, I'd like to announce Mesa 21.2.0 final is now available. This has been a pretty smooth release cycle so far, and we've had very few release-blocking issues, as such We've actually released on time with no additional RCs! As usual, this is a .0 release, and those of you seeking stability over features likely want to wait 2 weeks for 21.2.1. Cheers, Dylan # ⚓ Mesa_21.2_Released_With_New_Intel_Crocus_Driver, PanVK,_Early_M1_Code⠀⇛ Mesa 21.2 is out as the latest quarterly update to this open-source Linux graphics driver stack for user-space, most notably providing the Intel and Radeon OpenGL/Vulkan drivers among others. Mesa 21.2 was a very smooth cycle and has debuted without needing any extra release candidates. # ⚓ Mesa_21.2_Released_with_New_Features,_Improved Support_for_Many_Games⠀⇛ Mesa 21.2 has been in development for the past three months and it brings a plethora of new features to the RADV (Radeon Vulkan) driver in the form of several Vulkan extensions to improve support for Vulkan apps/games, as well as OpenGL ES 3.1 support on GT21x hardware and the Panfrost driver, wideLines support on lavapipe, a new Asahi driver for Apple’s M1 chip, and DRM format modifiers on Zink. # ⚓ Dave_Airlie:_crocus_misrendering_of_the_week⠀⇛ The bottom image is crocus vs 965 on top. This only happened on Gen4->5, so Ironlake and GM45 were my test machines. I burned a lot of time trying to work this out. I trimmed the traces down, dumped a stupendous amount of batchbuffers, turned off UBO push constants, dump all the index and vertex buffers, tried some RGBx changes, but nothing was rushing to hit me, except that the vertex shaders produced were different. However they were different for many reasons, due to the optimization pipelines the mesa state tracker runs vs the 965 driver. Inputs and UBO loads were in different places so there was a lot of noise in the shaders. I ported the trace to a piglit GL application so I could easier hack on the shaders and GL, with that I trimmed it down even further (even if I did burn some time on a misplace */+ typo). Using the ported app, I removed all uniform buffer loads and then split the vertex shader in half (it was quite large, but had two chunks). I finally then could spot the difference in the NIR shaders. # ⚓ X.Org_Server_Adds_“Fake_Screen_FPS”_Option⠀⇛ The X.Org Server has picked up a new “- fakescreenfps” option to help with VNC and other remote display scenarios. Currently when any main hardware screen is powered off, the X.Org Server initializes the fake screen to a one second update interval. The X.Org Server will keep to that one second update interval for fake screens even if VNC or other remote viewing software is running, until the physical display is powered on. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘Mousai’_is_Song_Recognition_App_for_Linux⠀⇛ Next time you want to identify a song you hear in a TV show, movie, or other video give Mousai a go. Mousai by SeaDve is a song recognition app for Linux desktop (and named after the ancient Greek Goddess of song and music). Built in GTK and leveraging the AudD song recognition API, Mousai is basically Shazam for Linux. Open Mousai, hit the ‘listen’ button, play the song you want to identify (ideally in vague proximity to your laptop’s microphone) wait a few seconds, and bam: it tells you the song name and who performs it. # ⚓ Best_File_&_Disk_Encryption_Tools_for_Linux⠀⇛ As we rapidly transition to an increasingly digital society, data protection is a greater concern than ever before. Encryption is one of the most effective and widely used methods of securing senstive information from unauthorized parties. In this article, we’ll introduce you to eight open- source file and disk encrytion tools we love to help you safeguard critical data and protect your privacy online. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_install_the_Opera_Browser_on_Linux_Lite_5.4⠀⇛ Today we are going to look at how to install the Opera Browser on Linux Lite 5.4. As seen in the video, a person downloads Opera, from the official site, and then installs it with the built-in installer. Enjoy! # ⚓ How_To_Install_Play_Framework_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Play Framework on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Play Framework is a framework that allows us to make web applications with Java and Scala in a fast and easy way. These applications are based on scalability and the possibility that they can be adapted to many different needs. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Play Framework on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ How_to_Fix_Sudo_Command_Not_Found_in_Debian_10⠀⇛ Sudo also called “superuser do” is a command in Linux that allows you to run high-privilege admin commands as a root user. It asked to enter your personal password and confirms your requests by checking a sudoers file. After a fresh Debian 10 installation, you could not execute the privileges tasks by running the sudo command. You will get the error ‘sudo command not found in Debian 10′. The reason for this error is the sudo command isn’t included in Debian 10 by default. In this post, we will show you how to fix sudo command not found in Debian 10 VPS. # ⚓ How_to_Replace_a_Variable_in_a_File_Using_SED⠀⇛ Want to know the tricks of replacing a variable in a file using the SED command? This article will give you an overview of replacing a variable value in a file using SED. Before replacing a variable in a file using SED, you need to understand what SED is, the syntax of SED, and how SED works. I’ll also show how to perform delete operations using SED. This will come after the variable value replacement part. If you’re looking for that, you can directly jump onto that, and skip the rest. So, let’s begin the guide. # ⚓ How_to_Transfer_Files_Between_Linux,_Android,_and_iOS_Using Snapdrop⠀⇛ Cross-platform file sharing has never been easy. Of course, you have services like AirDrop, Nearby Share, and Quick Share, but they only work within their ecosystems. As a result, if you want to transfer files from Linux to an Android/iOS device or vice-versa, you need a cross-platform file sharing service. Even though you do have a few different options in this regard, Snapdrop is the most effective file-sharing service of the lot. # ⚓ What_to_do_when_your_Chromebook_is_no_longer_supported⠀⇛ Recently, my Chromebook Pixel 2015 found itself no longer supported. I really loved that Chromebook. The two of us wrote several novels together and the keyboard/screen was unmatched. To this day I’ve yet to experience a better keyboard/trackpad combo. But, as they say, all things must end. So, when I received the notification that my Chromebook Pixel would no longer be receiving updates, I felt a tinge of sadness. Sure, I had a Pixelbook as a backup device, but it just wasn’t the same. It had a nice keyboard, but it was nowhere near that of the Pixel. And the screen? There was zero comparison. I had a choice: Continue using the Pixel, even though it would no longer be receiving upgrades, or do something about it. # ⚓ Using_the_udp-balancer()_source_of_syslog-ng_PE⠀⇛ UDP-based log collection is so last century. We had TCP-based log collection for decades and TLS encryption to secure connections. Still, UDP is in wide use, especially at large companies and industrial automation, where every change is slow. In most cases, UDP logging is used by networking devices, but sometimes it is just left there from ancient times and people are reluctant to change it. In either case, at higher message rates it can lead to performance problems and thus to message loss. Originally, the udp() source of syslog-ng was single-threaded. That does not scale well with typical multi-core CPUs with slower cores. There are many tricks to enhance UDP performance in syslog-ng. Combining those with the udp-balancer() source of syslog-ng PE gives the most reliable solution. # ⚓ What_is_Docker?_The_spark_for_the_container_revolution⠀⇛ Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in isolation from one another. While containers have been used in Linux and Unix systems for some time, Docker, an open source project launched in 2013, helped popularize the technology by making it easier than ever for developers to package their software to “build once and run anywhere.” # ⚓ The_Evolution_of_Digital_Data_Loggers⠀⇛ Digital data loggers have come a long way over the years. Data loggers are small digital devices that are used to record, store, and sometimes transmit large amounts of data that is gathered through sensors. Like many other kinds of technology, the design and construction of digital data loggers has been altered and improved over the years. [...] It should come as no surprise that this simple piece of technology has come such a long way in the last 100-plus years. When the first chart recorder for environmental monitoring was patented, the first transcontinental phone call was also placed. Now, we have high-tech computers in our pockets that we call phones; data loggers have made the same technological leaps. The move from chart recorders to data loggers was a massive step forward, but those early devices are a far cry from what today’s digital data loggers are capable of doing. Above are listed just a handful of the benefits the latest data loggers provide. Depending on your organization, data loggers may well have even more specific advantages. The main point is, if your organization is not using the latest version of this great technology, it is missing out. There is no excuse in 2021 for not at least considering what a modern digital data logger can do for you and how it can affect your manufacturing, storage and transportation processes, your compliance with regulations and standards and, ultimately, your bottom line. # ⚓ Deescalating_Tensions⠀⇛ One of the great attributes of SVG is that its text nature lends itself to be easily version controlled. Inkscape uses SVG as its native format (and extends it using its private namespace). Unfortunately it uses the documents themselves to store things like canvas position and zoom state. This instantly erases one of the benefits for easy version control as every change instantly turns into unsolvable conflict. Luckily you can at least give up the ability to store the canvas position for the greater good of not having merge conflicts, if you manage to convince your peers to change its defaults. Which is what this blog post is about 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ # ⚓ Move_files_in_the_Linux_terminal⠀⇛ To move a file on a computer with a graphical interface, you open the folder where the file is currently located, and then open another window to the folder you want to move the file into. Finally, you drag and drop the file from one to the other. To move a file in a terminal, you use the mv command to move a file from one location to another. # ⚓ Install_OpenVPN_on_your_Linux_PC_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ OpenVPN creates an encrypted tunnel between two points, preventing a third party from accessing your network traffic. By setting up your virtual private network (VPN) server, you become your own VPN provider. Many popular VPN services already use OpenVPN, so why tie your connection to a specific provider when you can have complete control? The first article in this series demonstrated how to set up and configure a Linux PC to serve as your OpenVPN server. It also discussed how to configure your router so that you can reach your VPN server from an outside network. This second article demonstrates how to install the OpenVPN server software using steps customized from the OpenVPN wiki. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Godot_Engine_–_Release_candidate:_Godot_3.3.3_RC_1⠀⇛ While we’re busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0 and 3.4 releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4 beta 2 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 branch regularly for maintenance releases (see our release policy). Godot 3.3.2 was released in May, and a number of useful fixes have been queued in the 3.3 branch since then, so now’s a good time to push them in production. As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3.2-stable and can be used in production if you need one of the fixes it includes. # ⚓ Get_your_bag_packed_for_some_exploration_in_the_Humble Remarkable_Roguelikes_Bundle_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Love your roguelikes? Humble have a nice little package waiting for you to pick up with the Humble Remarkable Roguelikes Bundle that’s now live. Following on from the rather good Humble Choice for August, and the also quite good Humble RPG Heroes Bundle they’re back again. It certainly seems like Humble have recently started putting out some better game bundles. # ⚓ Steam_sees_Linux_share_increase_riding_the_Steam_Deck wave⠀⇛ Steam hardware surveys always make for fun reading, especially in recent times seeing how many of those scalped graphics cards actually made it into gaming PCs. But right now there’s a more interesting milestone to look at. Thanks to the folks at GamingonLinux who keep a close watch on such things, Linux use on Steam has spiked in recent weeks. It now accounts for 1% of all Steam users, or, doing rough maths based on 120 million people earlier this year, about 1.2 million Steam players are on Linux. This still absolutely pales in comparison with Windows, as you would expect. But of the 0.11% increase in share Linux has seen recently, 0.08% of that came from Windows, with the rest coming from Mac. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Offsite_backups_for_KDE_servers⠀⇛ Most of KDE’s servers are hosted in Hetzner in Germany. We also have a storage box there where we store backups for most servers (including those outside Hetzner). When the OVH datacenter fire happened, everyone who managed servers but didn’t use OVH still got worried about their own data and backups. Including the KDE Sysadmin team; we wondered if KDE’s data would be protected if a similar disaster happened at Hetzner. We can know in which specific datacenter a server is, and even choose the DC when ordering a new server. However, it turns out we can’t know or choose the datacenter for storage boxes. I asked Hetzner support and they said they don’t give that information, and “that may even change” (I guess they reserve the right to transfer the storage to another DC according to internal needs). # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ A_quick_update_on_libadwaita’s_animation_API⠀⇛ Last time we left on the general API design. Since then I’ve been refactoring the existing animation-related code so we can reuse it for our public API. Part of that refactoring has been converting the current boxed-type adwaita animation code into a gobject class. I’ve learned a lot of how GObject works under the hood by doing so, so I expect to be a lot quicker implementing the next milestones. [...] I quickly prototyped a demo page for said timed animations (which is highly WIP, from design to phrasing): o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ EndeavourOS_Development_in_full_throttle⠀⇛ In our previous article, we informed you we removed the Indian mirror Ghead due to technical issues. Unfortunately, we still haven’t received any updates on the progress of the issues and we will inform you as soon as we received any news from the mirror admin. For our Indian community, we recommend using the Freedif mirror located in Vietnam as the nearest server or the Tuna mirror in China. The Dutch mirror admin for Easylee announced that the content moved to a new server, also located in The Netherlands with a whopping 10Gbit connection, widening the reach of this server. The server also is an Arch mirror and is called https:// mirror.erickochen.nl, so those who want to rank it on top can use it also for the mainstream Arch updates. If your system is up-to-date and you have run eos-pacdiff, the mirror has already replaced the Easylee mirror in etc/pacman.d/endeavouros- mirrorlist . If you’d looked in that script, you also noticed we gained another German mirror https:// mirror.moson.org, thanks to our community member @moson. Thank you for offering us space on your server and improving our user experience with that. # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Kaisen_Linux_Rolling_1.8_Release_Notes⠀⇛ New revision of the rolling. Real final 1.x release. Revision of the NETINST ISO. Codename: Rolling This release is in fact a “1.7.1″. There are no changes to the distribution except for some updates and additions and updates to the default profile. When updating the tasksel tool which allows here to integrate the selection of tools as well as the deactivation of services directly in the installer, the configurator was removed and “broke” some things offered by the old configurator (launched post- installation). The disabling of services as well as the complete installation of guests and the activation of VirtualBox at startup if installed, can no longer be done via the tools provided for Kaisen unless you update the ISO, which is done here. This is the only reason and the only change since 1.7. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Brains_Behind_the_Books_–_Part_VIII:_Julia Faltenbacher⠀⇛ My name is Julia, I was born in Bremen. This beautiful old Hanseatic city is situated in the north of Germany, close to the North Sea. When I was six years old, my parents and I moved to Rosenheim in Bavaria, which is on the southern end of Germany. Rosenheim is a rather small city, close to the Alps. I consider this my first “experience abroad”, as Bavarian people are very different to the Northern German people. They have a very strong accent and a special dialect. It took me years to understand the Bavarian dialect, and I still can’t talk like them. And still, I am learning new Bavarian words I have never heard before. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Opening_black_boxes_with_statement_tracing_|_Red_Hat Developer⠀⇛ Imagine you’re a programmer with a problem: Your code is linked to a library that you’re unfamiliar with. The code should work, but it doesn’t. It almost works, but something is wrong inside the library. Another program works correctly with the same part of the same library. So, now what? It’s probably a silly problem, but how will you locate it? In a scenario like this one, you could be in for some serious source code gazing, documentation digestion, and mailing list archaeology. If that fails, it’s time to reach out to human experts and hope for the best. Or, you could try to save time with a clever tool. I was recently hit with several code traps like this one. Fortunately, I’m familiar with SystemTap. # ⚓ Managing_stateful_applications_with_Kubernetes Operators_in_Golang_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ You can use Kubernetes Operators to set up automatic resource management for services in your applications. In a previous article, I described this pattern and how to create an operator in the Go language. In this article, we will continue to explore the pattern, this time by creating a Kubernetes Operator in Go to keep a WordPress site up to date. I recommend reading or reviewing the earlier article before starting this one. # ⚓ Cockpit_Project:_Cockpit_250⠀⇛ Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from Cockpit 250 and cockpit-machines 249: # ⚓ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Community_Blog_monthly summary:_July_2021⠀⇛ In July, we published 12 posts. The site had 2,979 visits from 1,931 unique viewers # ⚓ Using_Amazon_EFS_with_Podman_running_on_RHEL_EC2⠀⇛ Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system. In this post, I will create a photo gallery running in a Podman container on a RHEL Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance, where the photos displayed by the website are stored on the EC2 instances connected to AWS Elastic File System (EFS) across multiple Availability Zones (AZs). Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system that can be used with AWS cloud services and on-premise resources. It’s built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications. Amazon EFS helps eliminate the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth. # ⚓ Improve_Linux_performance,_trigger_Ansible_with_Git push,_and_more_tips_for_sysadmins_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ July 2021 was a record-breaking month for Enable Sysadmin. We published 25 articles and received over 660,000 page views from over 450,000 unique visitors. Today, we are looking back at our top 10 articles to give readers a chance to catch up on any of the great content they might have missed. In this list, you will see various topics covered, and we are confident that some, if not all, will be of interest to you. # ⚓ Hybrid_work_by_the_numbers:_14_stats_to_see_|_The Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ By at least one measure, people are returning – or planning to return – to the traditional office in 2021. A Deloitte survey of 275 executives conducted in April found that more than two-thirds of respondents (67 percent) were still fully remote at the time. But 64 percent expected their organization to return to the office at some point in 2021, and another 25 percent said they’d already reopened. In spite of some high-flying predictions – and high-profile company announcements – about long-term shifts to working from home, just two percent of the executives in the Deloitte survey said their organizations would remain permanently remote. # ⚓ IT_hiring:_5_ways_to_evolve_your_strategy⠀⇛ COVID-19 has fundamentally changed how we work – and how we think about work – today and well into the future. As a result, it has prompted a reboot of how organizations recruit and onboard new employees. The struggles of the past year have also prompted many workers to rethink their career priorities, quitting their jobs in extraordinary numbers – with a record 4 million people doing so in April alone, according to the U.S. Labor Department. This has ushered in an era some pundits are calling “The Great Resignation,” creating a higher-than-usual demand for workers. And this has many employers – especially those in high-demand technology settings – scrambling to find adequate talent to fill the many job openings. CIOs in particular are struggling to accelerate digital transformation and ensure the latest technologies are available, a requirement for attracting tech-savvy workers – and of course, the customers they are striving to please. # ⚓ IBM_is_hiring_1,000_Customer_Success_Managers_to accelerate_Red_Hat_and_IBM_Hybrid_Cloud_Adoption_|_WRAL TechWire⠀⇛ # ⚓ IBM_to_set_up_software_lab_in_Kochi_–_Times_of India⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2021_Most_Influential_Executive_Arvind_Krishna:_‘I Bleed_Blue’⠀⇛ IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has been named the No. 1 Most Influential Executive on CRN’s 2021 Top 100 Executives list. # ⚓ Special_thanks_to_Nest_Platinum_Sponsor_Amazon_AWS [Ed: With sponsors such as this, no wonder Fedora_has in_effect_been_outsourced]⠀⇛ It takes a lot of work to put on our annual contributor conference. Special thanks this year to Amazon AWS for their platinum sponsorship! We really appreciate their generosity, as well as the support and resources for Fedora Cloud, Fedora CoreOS, and more. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Cinelerra_Enters_Sparky_Linux⠀⇛ Cinelerra is one of the most advanced, open- source non-linear video editors and compositors for Linux. Turn your Linux box into a complete audio and video production environment. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ The_JingPad_A1_is_a_Linux_tablet_that_(kind_of)_runs Android_apps⠀⇛ There have been many attempts to create tablets running Linux, and even a few ones with ARM processors, like the Pine64 PineTab. However, another company is now giving it a shot, with an ARM Linux tablet that looks remarkably like an Apple iPad. It’s called the ‘JingPad,’ and at least on the surface, it seems like it could be a great device for anyone interested in Linux on a tablet. The JingPad is currently available for pre-order at Indiegogo, but don’t let its status as a crowdfunding project scare you away — the manufacturer has already sent out pre-production units to a few tech reviewers and news outlets. Early videos show off the tablet working as advertised, though there are a few software issues still being worked out. # ⚓ Tiger_Lake-H_modules_include_Nano-ITX-sized_COM-HPC_Client B_model⠀⇛ Congatec announced “Conga-HPC/cTLH” (COM-HPC Client B) and “Conga-TS570” (Basic Type 6) modules with up to octa-core Tiger Lake-H CPUs. The Conga-HPC/cTLH offers up to 128GB DDR4, optional NVMe, 20x PCIe Gen4, 2x 2.5GbE, 2x USB 4.0, and 8K support. # ⚓ Intel_Core_i5-1135G7_Tiger_Lake_mini_PC_with_12GB_RAM_sells for_$700_and_up⠀⇛ Minisforum TL50 is a mini PC based on Intel Core i5-1135G7 Tiger Lake quad-core/octa-thread processor that ships with 12GB RAM, and optional 256GB and 512GB SSD preloaded with Windows 10 Pro. The mini PC also features two 2.5 Gbps Gigabit Ethernet ports, two 2.5-inch SATA drives, one M.2 slot for NVMe SSD, and supports 8K and 4K monitor setups through HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB-C video outputs. It was announced a few months ago, but it’s now available for sale for $699.99 and more on Banggood depending on storage options. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ An_open_source_desk_to_showcase_your_projects, complete_with_swappable_panels_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Almost every maker has run into the problem of not being able to find a convenient display or power source for their project prototype, and thus leading to minor delays and some frustration. However, YouTuber Another Maker has come up with an open source desk concept that makes finding these things simple. The system he built uses a large grid of swappable panels that can simply slide into place within a wooden frame. Behind these are a few devices for both power and connectivity, such as power strips, an Ethernet switch (with PoE capabilities), and an HDMI switch for changing between a Raspberry Pi and a PC. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_Has_Lost_Another_50_Million_Users⠀⇛ As time goes on nothing changes with Mozilla, Firefox continues to slowly die and at this point I really don’t know what can actually be done to address. I would not be surprised if come 5 years from new Mozilla barely remains to exist. # ⚓ Advancing_advertising_transparency_in_the_US Congress [Ed: Mozilla needs to block ads/ advertisers, not suck up to them, but Mozilla is funded by Google and Google profits a lot from targeted (spying-based) advertising, so we get blog posts like these; do what users of Firefox want, not sponsors]⠀⇛ At Mozilla we believe that greater transparency into the online advertising ecosystem can empower individuals, safeguard advertisers’ interests, and address systemic harms. Lawmakers around the world are stepping up to help realize that vision, and in this post we’re weighing in with some preliminary reflections on a newly- proposed ad transparency bill in the United States Congress: the Social Media DATA Act. # ⚓ Privacy_analysis_of_SWAN.community_and_United ID_2.0 [Ed: Mozilla is again posing_as_privacy proponent]⠀⇛ Earlier this summer, we started a series of blog posts analyzing the technical merits of the various privacy-preserving advertising proposals out there. Our goal is to advance the debate and help break down this complex topic. In this new addition to this series, we look at the SWAN.community and United ID 2.0 proposals. We have conducted a detailed analysis and this post provides a summary. # ⚓ Why_Facebook’s_claims_about_the_Ad_Observer_are wrong [Ed: Mozilla_hires_managers_from Facebbok]⠀⇛ Recently the Surgeon General of the United States weighed in on the spread of disinformation on major platforms and its effects on people and society. He echoed the calls of researchers, activists and organizations, like Mozilla, for the major platforms to release more data, and to provide access to researchers in order to analyze the spread and impact of misinformation. Yet Facebook has again taken steps to shut down this exact kind of research on its platform, a troubling pattern we have witnessed from Facebook including sidelining their own Crowdtangle and killing a suite of tools from Propublica and Mozilla in 2019. Most recently, Facebook has terminated the accounts of New York University researchers that built Ad Observer, an extension dedicated to bringing greater transparency to political advertising that was critical for researchers and journalists during the presidential election. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ [LibreOffice]_Tender_to_implement_support_for_editing and_creation_of_a_Dynamic_Diagram_feature_(#202108- 02)⠀⇛ The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice. We are looking for an individual or company to implement support for editing and creation of Dynamic Diagrams. The work has to be developed on LibreOffice master, so that it will be released in the next major version. The task is to solve the following problem: Our existing “SmartArt” import uses the fallback stream in OOX files (and has some issues). It therefore gives us only the draw shapes that are imported, so we lose the original layout. Additionally, in older file versions we don’t have the cached shapes, and therefore can’t render anything. The solution we seek, and as such the scope of this tender, is to have a schema driven diagram layout as a core feature. This should be interoperable with OOX (at least MSO2016) and have suitable extensions for ODF. It should layout interoperability, and allow editing of the underlying data, and selection of a schema. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Over_25%_Of_Professional_Developers_Use_Linux:_Stack Overflow_Developer_Survey_2021⠀⇛ Recently, we covered the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem survey. According to the survey, around 47% of developers said they use Linux, whereas over 61% voted for Windows. Here we are with another survey, but this time by Stack Overflow, over 80,000 developers were asked the same question. For starters, Stack Overflow is one of the largest developer portals where people, irrespective of their experience, can ask programming-related questions or even answer others’ questions. In this year’s survey, developers were asked a variety of questions, but in this article, we’re going to have a brief look at the current state of Linux among the developers. # ⚓ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_x13binary_1.1.57-1_on_CRAN:_New Upstream,_New_M1_Binary⠀⇛ Christoph and I are please to share that a new release 1.1.57-1 of x13binary, of the X- 13ARIMA-SEATS program by the US Census Bureau (with updated upstream release 1.1.57) is now on CRAN. The x13binary package takes the pain out of installing X-13ARIMA-SEATS by making it a fully resolved CRAN dependency. For example, when installing the excellent seasonal package by Christoph, then X-13ARIMA-SEATS will get pulled in via the x13binary package and things just work. Just depend on x13binary and on all major OSs supported by R you should have an X-13ARIMA-SEATS binary installed which will be called seamlessly by the higher-level packages such as seasonal or gunsales. With this the full power of the what is likely the world’s most sophisticated deseasonalization and forecasting package is now at your fingertips and the R prompt, just like any other of the 17960+ CRAN packages. You can read more about this (and the seasonal package) in the Journal of Statistical Software paper by Christoph and myself. This release brings a new upstream release as well as binaries. We continue to support two Linux flavours (theh standard x86_64 as well as armv7l), windows and for a first time two macOS flavour. In addition to the existing Intel binary we now have a native built using the arm64 “M1” chip (with thanks to Kirill for the assist). # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Lang_team_August_update⠀⇛ This week the lang team held its August planning meeting. We normally hold these meetings on the first Wednesday of every month. We had a short meeting this month, just planning and scheduling the design meetings for the remainder of the month. After each meeting, we post an update (like this one!) with notes and meeting announcements. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Petter_Reinholdtsen:_Mechanic’s_words_in_five_languages,_English, Norwegian_and_Northern_Sámi_editions⠀⇛ Almost thirty years ago, some forward looking people interested in metal work and Northern Sámi, decided to create a list of words used in Northern Sámi metal work. After almost ten years this resulted in a dictionary database, published as the book “Mekanihkkársánit : Mekanikerord = Mekaanisen alan sanasto = Mechanic’s words” in 1999. The story of this work is available from the pen of Svein Lund, one of the leading actors behind this effort. They even got the dictionary approved by the Sámi Parliament of Norway as the recommended metal work words to use. Fast forward twenty years, I came across this work when I recently became interested in metal work, and started watching educational and funny videos on the topic, like the ones from mrpete222 and This Old Tony. But they all talk English, but I wanted to know what the tools and techniques they used were called in Norwegian. Trying to track down a good dictionary from English to Norwegian, after much searching, I came across the database of words created almost thirty years ago, with translations into English, Norwegian, Northern Sámi, Swedish and Finnish. This gave me a lot of the Norwegian phrases I had been looking for. To make it easier for the next person trying to track down a good Norwegian dictionary for the metal worker, and because I knew the person behind the database from my Skolelinux / Debian Edu days, I decided to ask if the database could be released to the public without any usage limitations, in other words as a Creative Commons licensed data set. And happily, after consulting with the Sámi Parliament of Norway, the database is now available with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license from my gitlab repository. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Plumbers_Conference:_Android Microconference_Accepted_into_2021 Linux_Plumbers_Conference⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce that the Android Microconference has been accepted into the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference. The past Android microconferences have been centered around the idea that it was primarily a synchronization point between the Android kernel team and the rest of the community to inform them on what they have been doing. With the help of last year’s focus on the Generic Kernel Image[1] (GKI), this year’s Android microconference will instead be an opportunity to foster a higher level of collaboration between the Android and Linux kernel communities. Discussions will be centered on the goal of ensuring that both the Android and Linux development moves in a lockstep fashion going forward. # ⚓ Vaccines_+_Masks_for_Safe_In-Person Events_–_Read_About_All_On-Site Safety_Protocols [Ed: Linux Foundation_discriminates_and_is_not inclusive. “A vaccine verification app will be used to confirm vaccination status” means that Linux Foundation now mandates_surveillance devices_with_back_doors_for_all attendees. This is antithetical_to_a lot_of_Free_software;_they_do_not accept_paper_proof. There_are commercial_interests_in_the_mix]⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation is ecstatic to return to in- person events next month; we know how important these face-to-face gatherings are to accelerating collaboration and innovation in the open source community. [...] As announced previously, in-person attendees will be required to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. A vaccine verification app will be used to confirm vaccination status. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ FluBot_malware_spreads_to_Australia⠀⇛ The FluBot strain of Android banking malware, which was initially observed in Spain in late 2020 before spreading more widely across Europe over the following months, is now targeting Australian banks. Once installed, FluBot periodically sends a list of apps installed on the device to one of its command-and- control servers. The server responds with a list of apps the malware should overlay. Upon one of these apps being launched, FluBot immediately displays an overlay on top of the legitimate app. The overlays impersonate the legitimate apps and are designed to collect the victim’s online banking credentials, which are sent to the criminals operating FluBot via the command-and-control server. # ⚓ Bits_relating_to_Alpine_security_initiatives_in July_–_Ariadne’s_Space⠀⇛ Another month has passed, and we’ve gotten a lot of work done. No big announcements to make, but lots of incremental progress, bikeshedding and meetings. We have been laying the ground work for several initiatives in Alpine 3.15, as well as working with other groups to find a path forward on vulnerability information sharing. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5744 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_4/8/2021:_More_IBM_Downtimes_and_Firefox_Losing_Many_Users⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:50 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⠀➾ # ⚓ Win_a_$10,000_Thelio_Major_Workstation!⠀⇛ The computer and operating system are the most powerful tools in existence. The Launch into Learning season encourages STEM and creative professionals like you to hone their craft, learn a new skill, or make something they’re proud to share. This year, we’re empowering one lucky user with a $10,000 Thelio Major workstation. The complete package includes a Launch keyboard, an MX Master 3 wireless mouse, a 27” 1440p IPS display, and a decked-out Thelio Major. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ 5_hidden_details_about_the_Steam_Deck.⠀⇛ From the virtual keyboard to the subtle hints of a new first-party title from Valve, here are 5 things you might have missed about the Steam Deck. # ⚓ Manjaro_Cutefish_Pre-Release⠀⇛ Today we are looking at a pre-release of Manjaro Cutefish. It comes with Linux Kernel 5.13, based on Arch, and uses about 800MB to 1G of ram when idling. Enjoy! # ⚓ Manjaro_Cutefish_Pre-Release_Run_Through⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at Manjaro Cutefish Pre-Release. # ⚓ Forking_Software_Isn’t_Always_A_Solution⠀⇛ Forking an application is one of the amazing benefits of using FOSS and while a lot of applications can certainly be managed there’s a lot of other applications which while you can fork it actually maintaining that fork is completely unreasonable. # ⚓ Run_Every_Distro_At_Once_|_LINUX_Unplugged_417⠀⇛ Yabba Dabba Distro! Run every major distribution on one native host. How we hijacked a Fedora install and turned it into the ultimate meta Linux box. Plus Valve and AMD team up to improve Linux performance and the duct-tape solution holding our server together. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Top_5_Software_Tools_for_Linux_with_Data_Encryption⠀⇛ Data encryption is a must-have feature in today’s world of cybersecurity. It allows you to encode your data making it unintelligible to someone who doesn’t have the authorized access. To be more secure online, it might be a good idea to opt for software that comes with this useful feature by default. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_automount_volumes_for_Docker_containers⠀⇛ There are so many reasons you want to use volumes for your container deployments. The primary reason is to ensure persistent storage. Say, for example, you’re deploying a WordPress instance via a Docker container. Not only do you want to give that container enough storage space to house all of the data it will require (especially as it scales), you want to make sure that data remains in play, even after the container is stopped or restarted. For that, you would use volumes. # ⚓ How_to_install_Adrift_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Adrift on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_Telnet_on_Ubuntu_20.04_– LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Telnet is a protocol that allows you to connect to remote computers (called hosts) over a TCP/IP network using a client-server protocol to establish a connection to Transmission Control Protocol port number 23 In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Telnet on Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04. # ⚓ How_to_Install_phpMyAdmin_on_Rocky_Linux_8⠀⇛ phpMyAdmin is a web app for administering MySQL or MariaDB. With phpMyadmin, you can perform various database management tasks, and execute SQL queries from a graphical interface via a web browser. It is free, open-source, and written in the PHP language. # ⚓ Junichi_Uekawa:_Wrote_a_tool_to_parse_/sys/block/*/stat.⠀⇛ Wrote a tool to parse /sys/block/*/stat. It’s probably impossible for a human brain to appreciate the numbers so I made a web page that you can paste the contents and parse it from JS to emit some processed numbers. Probably iostat is the tool you want, but hey, sometimes you need this kind of stuff. # ⚓ All_zip_and_unzip_File_Operations_on_Linux_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ This tutorial explains all zip and unzip operations under Linux with practical examples and easy function descriptions. # ⚓ How_to_find_all_failed_ssh_login_attempts_in_Ubuntu_–_Linux Hint⠀⇛ One of the normal tasks of administrators is to keep track of successful and failed login attempts to ensure that the environment is free of unwanted and illegal intrusions. Administrators can also look through the logs to see if there have been any security problems on the servers. A log file is created whenever someone tries to log in to a server using SSH. You may see the requested login date, timestamp, user account, and IP address. SSH was created as a protocol for creating connections between two systems that rely on a client/server architecture, allowing administrators and users to access the server or computer remotely. This protocol is most commonly used by the system and network administrators and anyone who wants to administer a computer remotely. One of the most prominent benefits is that it is in charge of encrypting the link session to improve security by prohibiting attackers from reading unencrypted passwords. The rsyslog daemon in Linux keeps track of every attempt to login to an SSH server and records it in a log file. Combining, showing, and filtering log files is the most basic approach for listing all failed SSH login attempts on Ubuntu. In this article, we will find all failed ssh login attempts in Ubuntu 20.04 Linux system. # ⚓ How_to_install_a_specific_Python_version_on_Ubuntu_–_Linux Hint⠀⇛ It is often the case that we install a program on our system, and it turns out that it’s the wrong version. This can lead to compatibility and performance issues since it may not communicate with third-party modules properly. Similar is the case with Python, and as vigilant programmers, we must figure out the correct version that we need. Therefore, in this guide, we will show you how to install a specific version of Python on your Ubuntu system. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Now_Has_a_1%_OS_Market_Share_As_Demand_for_Steam_Deck Increases⠀⇛ The latest Steam Hardware Survey now has the open- source OS gaining a 1% market share in a market dominated by Windows and MacOS. According to PCGamer, this is the first time Linux has earned a market share number of about 1% in years. Many experts believe this is due to the upcoming release of the Steam Deck handheld console from Valve. The system is running SteamOS, which is based on Linux. According to some industry insiders, the growing popularity of the Steam Deck might be causing an uptick in Linux users, considering it’s free software. This climb in Linux usage comes after a slight drop that stemmed from the temporary release of Proton. According to Tom’s Hardware, it was designed to enable Linux users to play Windows games but can’t due to compatibility issues. During that time, the open-source software’s market share was as high as 2%, but eventually fell back down to around 0.8 to 0.9%, where it remained until now. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Nitrux_1.5.1_is_Here_and_Comes_with_A_Whole_Host_of Updates_and_Fixes⠀⇛ Nitrux have just released a new update to their 1.5 series of distributions bringing us up to version 1.5.1. Here is what’s new. Nitrux is a free and open-source Debian-based distribution with a focus on beauty, user efficiency, and portable universal app formats. It is more-or-less a desktop Linux distribution pre-configured with decent defaults and a bunch of cool custom applications. Nitrux is based on Debian unstable branch and uses the Calamares installer. One of the really interesting things that kind of differentiates Nitrux from the hundreds of other Debian-based distributions out there is that Nitrux actually ships with AppImage and Snaps by default. Many of the programs on the system out of the box are actually AppImages rather than native packages installed through the APT package manager. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_breaches_where_working_from_home_is_involved are_costlier,_claims_IBM_report⠀⇛ Firms looking to save money by shifting to more flexible ways of working will need to think carefully about IT security and the additional cost of breaches linked to staff working from home. That’s according to the latest annual “Cost of a Data Breach Report” conducted by Ponemon Institute along with IBM Security, which found that the average total cost of a remote-working data breach was more than $1m higher than cyberattacks where remote working wasn’t a factor. # ⚓ IBM_Cloud_took_the_evening_off_–_23_services_were hard_to_provision_for_eight_hours⠀⇛ IBM cloud has experienced a significant Severity One outage – the rating Big Blue uses to denote the most serious incidents that make resources in its cloud unavailable to customers. The impact was indeed severe: IBM stated that users might not be able to access its catalogue of cloudy services or provision affected services. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Vecow_unveils_Intel_Atom_x6211E_based_fanless_Box_PC_& Pico-ITX_motherboard⠀⇛ Vecow EPBC-1000 2.5-inc/Pico-ITX single board computer powered by an Intel Atom x6211E Elkhart Lake processor, and found in the company’s PBC-1000 ultra-compact fanless embedded box PC, is designed for edge applications such as intelligent control, energy management, M2M, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), factory automation, and any AIoT or Industry 4.0 applications. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ This_massive_five-axis_CNC_machine_is_3D-printable_| Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ CNC (Computer Numerical Control) mills, routers, and lathes are indispensable manufacturing tools. If you need a part that adheres to tight tolerances, you turn to a CNC machine. Industrial CNC equipment is usually large, heavy, and very expensive. But small models exist for light-duty hobby jobs. This DIY device designed by Brian Brocken stands out because it is huge, has five axes, and is 3D-printable. # ⚓ Hacking_an_old_Nintendo_Zapper_into_a_wireless_remote |_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Those of us who have experienced the Nintendo Zapper while playing games such as Duck Hunt will probably have fond memories of it. However, with the rapid disappearance of CRT TVs and the aging of the physical mechanisms, YouTuber DuctTape Mechanic wanted to give an old Zapper a new lease on life. His modification integrated a small RF transmitting module into the top of the device, allowing it to be switched on by the trigger’s microswitch. With everything in place inside the Zapper, he moved onto the receiver. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S7_FE_5G_Review:_XXL-Android tablet_with_S_Pen,_but_weaknesses_in_everyday_use_– NotebookCheck.net_Reviews⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia_400_Android_feature_phone_that_never_made_it, spotted_in_video_–_Android_Community⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Add_Movies_&_TV_Shows_To_Your_Watchlist_on Android_TV⠀⇛ # ⚓ Run_Android_11_on_Walmart’s_cheap_Android_TV_devices with_LineageOS_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Chuwi_HiPad_Pro:_Android_11_tablet_is_now_purchasable with_a_detachable_keyboard_and_pen_–_NotebookCheck.net News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_introduces_Play_and_Watch_with_Google_TV Package_for_Stadia_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Realme’s_MagSafe_Charging_Alternative_for_Android_Is Here⠀⇛ # ⚓ Snapdragon_Wear_5100_could_power_the_next_wave_of Android_smartwatches_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_Lost_Almost_50_million_Users:_Here’s Why_It_is_Concerning⠀⇛ Mozilla’s Firefox is the only popular alternative to Chromium-based browsers. It has been the default choice for Linux users and privacy-conscious users across every platform. However, even with all benefits as one of the best web browsers around, it is losing its grip for the past few years. To be honest, we do not even need a stat to say that, many of us have switched over to Chromium-based browsers or Chromium itself instead of Firefox or Google Chrome. # § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ Machine_learning:_Free_Software_Foundation_targets GitHub_Copilot⠀⇛ The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched a call for white papers on GitHub Copilot. The papers submitted are intended to analyze the effects of the machine learning assistant on the free software community, which is associated with numerous questions. The appeal blog post promises that the organization will read all submitted white papers and pay a reward for every $ 500 published. At the same time, the article makes it clear that, from the point of view of the FSF, Copilot is “unacceptable and unjust”, since the use with Microsoft products Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code requires software that, in their view, is not free / libre software. At this point it should be mentioned that the source code editor Visual Studio Code is free and essentially open source, but far from free software in the understanding of the FSF. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ C++_Vector_Iterators_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ The main iterators in C++ are Input Iterator, Output Iterator, Forward Iterator, Bidirectional Iterator, and Random Access Iterator. Reverse Iterator is not really an iterator; it is an iterator adaptor. There are some variants to iterators, like a constant iterator. An iterator is an elaborated pointer. Like a pointer, it points to objects of the same type in memory at different times. All iterators are dereferenceable, except for the output iterator that is dereferenceable only for a set of types. Dereferenceable means the value pointed to by the pointer or iterator can be obtained using the indirection operator, *. An integer can be added to some iterators in the same way, and for the same purpose, the integer would be added to a pointer. The questions for this article are: What are these iterators? Which of these iterators are used with the C++ vector? How are these iterators used with the C++ vector? This article answers all these questions in a simplified way. At the end of this article, when all these questions would have been answered, C++ vector iterators will be intuitive and natural (for the reader). * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Computer_security_personnel_need_tools,_training_to_assist survivors_of_intimate_partner_violence⠀⇛ Survivors of intimate partner violence who experience tech abuse often reach out to computer security companies for help. But the customer support personnel at these companies are not sufficiently prepared to handle such cases, research from the University of Michigan School of Information finds. # ⚓ New_Portal_Aids_Discoveries_To_Reverse_Hearing_Loss⠀⇛ The tool enables easy access to genetic and other molecular data from hundreds of technical research studies involving hearing function and the ear. The research portal called gene Expression Analysis Resource (gEAR) was unveiled in a study last month in Nature Methods. It is operated by a group of physician-scientists at the UMSOM Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) in collaboration with their colleagues at other institutions. The portal allows researchers to rapidly access data and provides easily interpreted visualizations of datasets. Scientists can also input their own data and compare it to other datasets to help determine the significance of their new finding. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ One_in_four_border_officials_in_isolation_as_Covid_brings chaos_to_Heathrow⠀⇛ As airports prepare for a surge in arrivals due to travel restrictions easing, “more than one in four border staff” were off work over the weekend at the UK’s busiest airport due to coronavirus regulations, The Times reports. Of the 300 Border Force officials working at the airport, 80 were absent with Covid, while dozens more were forced into self-isolation because they had been in close contact with their colleagues. The delays were exacerbated when a new security database caused hold-ups at automated gates, with the Daily Mail reporting that the Home Office’s £372m new security computer system was “crashing repeatedly” throughout the weekend. The software failure meant all passengers were rejected by the E-gates in Heathrow’s arrivals halls and had to be checked manually by immigration officers. Passengers reported long queues and complained that a lack of social distancing risked spreading the virus to thousands of arrivals. # ⚓ Nature_Can_Boost_Health_of_People_in_Cities⠀⇛ The research shows how access to nature in cities increases physical activity, and therefore, overall health. Lack of physical activity in the US results in $117 billion a year in related health care costs and leads to 3.2 million deaths globally every year. It may seem like an intuitive connection, but the new research closes an important gap in understanding how building nature into cities can support overall human well-being. # ⚓ Procter_&_Gamble_hires_away_Nestlé’s_top_lobbyist⠀⇛ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ U.S._medical_entities_fall_prey_to_Pysa_threat actors,_but_many_haven’t_disclosed_it_–_at_least,_not yet.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Damage_control:_Microsoft_deletes_all_comments_under heavily_criticized_Windows_11_upgrade_video⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ UK’s_Ministry_of_Defence_coughs_up_bug_bounties for_crowdsourced_pentesting_•_The_Register⠀⇛ The Ministry of Defence has paid out the first bug bounties to ethical computer hackers who probed web- accessible systems for vulnerabilities, according to a cheery missive from HackerOne. A month-long “hacker security test” culminated in a couple of dozen folk being handed unspecified rewards – and marking the first public confirmation of HackerOne’s UK government partnership. # ⚓ Google_revamps_bug_bounty_program_•_The Register⠀⇛ Google has revealed that its bug bounty program – which it styles a “Vulnerability Reward Program” – has paid out for 11,055 bugs found in its services since 2010. 11,055 bugs seems like a lot, but it’s not out of step with other vendors. Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday packages regularly fix over 100 flaws, while Oracle’s quarterly patch collections often contain well more than 300 pieces of corrective code. Across 11 years, the two abovementioned vendors would also produce over 11,000 bugs. # ⚓ Linux_Kernel_Security_Done_Right_(Google Security_Blog)⠀⇛ Over on the Google Security Blog, Kees Cook describes his vision for approaches to assuring kernel security in a more collaborative way. He sees a number of areas where companies could work together to make it easier for everyone to use recent kernels rather than redundantly backporting fixes to older kernel versions. It will take more engineers working on things like testing and its infrastructure, security # ⚓ Linux_Kernel_Security_Done_Right⠀⇛ As we approach its 30th Anniversary, Linux still remains the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing. The huge community surrounding Linux allows it to do amazing things and run smoothly. What’s still missing, though, is sufficient focus to make sure that Linux fails well too. There’s a strong link between code robustness and security: making it harder for any bugs to manifest makes it harder for security flaws to manifest. But that’s not the end of the story. When flaws do manifest, it’s important to handle them effectively. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Ever_wondered_how_much_data_web_giants generate?_Singaporean_super-app_Grab_says 40TB_a_day_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Singapore-based mega-app Grab has revealed that it generates 40TB of data a day. All that data is clearly valuable: Grab has also announced record profits. The Southeast Asian company, which bought out Uber in Singapore and since expanded into e-commerce, payments, and financial services, did not disclose what it does with the data, nor how it is protected. But it did disclose [PDF] that it has 23.8 million monthly transacting customers, who collectively generated a record US$507 million adjusted net sales in its first quarter, boasting that the company saw a 39 per cent increase in adjusted net sales despite a COVID-related hit to its mobility services. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Canada_is_waging_an_all-front_legal_war_against_Indigenous people⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Upcoming_USPTO_Director? [Ed: Patent extremists bankrolled by the litigation industry drooling_over prospects_for_another_mole_like_Iancu_and_Kappos_in charge_of_the_USPTO]⠀⇛ A new president makes a lot of appointments. Although the Patent Office Director is an important position, it is still a fair way down the list in terms of urgency. One reason–that most PTO management decisions are not highly political (especially in the R vs D sense). Unlike for some agencies, President Biden has not vowed to reverse course on any particular USPTO policy. We also have a long tradition of career PTO employees stepping-up and capably leading the agency as Drew Hirshfeld is doing now. But, it is time for a nomination, and I expect that we’ll see one within the next month or so. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 6553 ➮ Generation completed at 02:40, i.e. 47 seconds to (re)generate ⟲