𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, September 25, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sun 26 Sep 02:39:59 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/2021/09/25/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmVBf9Bmz3JivTW38Gq44pXRkh6W4noQBtoFameFgXZ8DU QmWGNG7373TNKDtEYo1q57qkgigkeBH51AH8LfDuQhET94 Qmd1j5aPQfEXy7BPbGLFEauDF57nERBXCoCyByfVV29jwD QmQArT4hGt9DGbzeQe46houAtDEoRgo6yuyQNTYhu4fUWa QmRQrMxBHfwwYFakm7kaFrHCGe51siakxNU6w9Z1SnmmSD QmcMxMu1mpdqgj3DsyKreqYUhQWgSSuXM2hkpD8u5qhFQx QmUnQ1KgLk5TqpmioRpKSTQMgTjk8uPKTKhNxDBwtV545z QmUPLCS39mA6XaZmdzwh1WbF8ry8hiVAzuaf4P9A1AmKbd QmNdAU6bFwZMUbnvK1m3e7aSwoHNFY97JdqWjpMVzvVT6V QmSDxEDkdmunKoZmMNVwhKaEKpJYVPqrdqPnbEGhNadE9g QmU3Cc6hMhpsNzFQ82J5uqhtgrCrh67mKLmWhYadentK2o QmQacCjdmHDTi18CHZHhTZoQaq1qFiasj5iWoMZ8Fehf5q QmPWMxYuC9jpqYMEsNWeqP6frZMUpZi99XXbWkJNBJUKoi QmVJRjPH1YsZzKy3abfyBSCWdBy7Pfm7cEB8d1g1cQQyfd QmNUSEXDbUxbW6m6ooyVZNdN7ZyhMjh1q1VNUXyw4WUQ3i QmXigVXDZA7wuFXWn1ieyB6Z3Vz1jBDVuLsbFcmJW29g7k QmPEfsYcyS2TDHQVY6rC6oShWGQQA9zzKSLEsWg34fRiPT QmZvjyhZs3sJdozDCTLX1fbmAMdwoGgJqcPT97hYdb4eS8 QmP3ZqUhWLtsoNk9e1XZbKMU4hB7Z4XET8rdm3utr2x9y9 QmRJGaosMaTsLMaPkXt42c3eUm2cmGbMQsiWbqwfSj4rFV QmVpm9hDw5gu77p5GNGaG5DU2W7uzy83mFBbqknJREAU3w ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ The Corporate Coup Against the Soul of the Free Software Community Is Not Over | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] When the EPO Watches Everything (’Dissidents’, Media, Etc.) and Isn’t Being Watched by Anybody | Techrights ⦿ Reminder: GNU Turns 38 This Monday Around Midday (When GNU’s Founder Gives Talk in Poland) | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 24, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ Virtual Oversight | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/coup-gnu-linux/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/epo-watches-everything/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/gnu-turns-38-monday/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/irc-log-240921/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/virtual-epo-oversight/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/wine-6-18/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/wine-staging-6-18/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 60 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/coup-gnu-linux/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/09/25/coup-gnu-linux/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.25.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_Corporate_Coup_Against_the_Soul_of_the_Free_Software_Community_Is_Not Over⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Kernel at 9:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 7aae2b19743ecec30dc69a131f5871dd http://techrights.org/videos/gnu-linux-coup-status.webm Summary: The erosion of community role in the development of GNU/Linux is a growing problem; part of the problem is that large corporations target technical and philosophical (perceived) leaders in coordinated_smear_campaigns, led by media_they_own THE operating system many people who read Techrights are using was developed in the mid 80s. It was developed initially by a man in his 30s, who recently embarked on a visit_to_eastern_Europe_to_give_talks in spite of all the_mobbing from_the_media, mostly distracting from actual_Epstein_enablers_and_allies_such as_Bill_Gates. In the early 90s a young student from Finland developed an operating system kernel known as Linux. Together with the former, GNU, it adds up to a solid operating system with many pertinent programs, including GNU core utilities (new_major_release_yesterday). “Just like the Web, which was captured by large and monopolistic corporations that eventually put DRM in it, Linux is being captured by some of those same corporations and their agenda is similar.”These two gentlemen and their friends spent decades developing a system which some have dubbed “revolution OS” — an operating system (OS) which gradually replaces proprietary ones in every sector, whether it’s servers or small devices (like phones). With locked-down things like handheld consoles and Chromebooks — not that they advance freedom in any meaningful way — this “revolution OS” (GNU/Linux) is fast becoming the de facto standard everywhere. It’s not too shocking that the big corporations are trying to control both GNU and Linux. But in order to accomplish this they’ve been trying to implement coups, a slow process by which they gradually weaken a community role or ownership (Linux_Foundation is all about passing ownership to its sponsors). “The trouble started when it [the Linux Foundation] cancelled the community representation…”       –Techrights AssociateThe video above is inspired by a chat we had this morning. since doing this video the total number of known (to Lupa) Gemini capsules jumped a couple more to 1,668. We’ll exceed 2,000 some time soon, maybe in a couple of months. Just like the Web, which was captured by large and monopolistic corporations that eventually put DRM in it, Linux is being captured by some of those same corporations and their agenda is similar. We need to resist the coup. This means we_need_to_support_the_founders,_even those_we_don't_always_agree_with. Power vacuums are almost always being filled by corporations, which sometimes_themselves_engineer_those_vacuums_based_on false_pretexts. This accurately describes what has been done to Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux. “That CoC crap did its job in distracting from the infiltration and destruction. Heck, they even signed Linus up for unnecessary treatment.”       –Techrights Associate“Linus needs to take his trademark, fork the code, and walk,” an associate of ours notes. “I hope he has at least given the idea consideration. I presume that regardless of his inclinations he is afraid of the huge amount of administrivia and financing required to start anew. The trouble started when it [the Linux Foundation] cancelled the community representation [...] the removal of community representation was a huge warning [as] the corruption arrived quickly. What could be done to ensure a slower takeover of a replacement institution? A lot of it comes down to the individuals participating and their integrity. However, they are supported in staying on track by sound guidelines and maybe the right charter. That CoC crap did its job in distracting from the infiltration and destruction. Heck, they even signed Linus up for unnecessary treatment.” “In Business Insider,” I’ve noted, “they stated_clearly_that_he_had_been_signed for_therapists_as_if_he_was_mentally_ill. Smacks of Communist Russia. I regard that a form of self-humiliation and degradation, akin to what was done to Assange to demoralise him [and] the stallman.org site has not been the same. RMS-lite, Linus-lite. That’s how the authorities like it. Self-censorship. Lithuania says that China now enforces this using ‘phones’.” “With Assange lies and disinformation still circulate. And some of those who were actively spreading those lies are still around in FOSS circles…”       –Techrights AssociateThe associate says that “inappropriate, wrong, and unnecessary medical treatment was / is used as a form of torture.” “With Assange lies and disinformation still circulate. And some of those who were actively spreading those lies are still around in FOSS circles…” It may sound like it’s all just “old news”, but it is not. “The important thing is to show both that it has been a long-term problem and that it is highly relevant in the current environment,” the associate stresses. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 183 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/epo-watches-everything/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/09/25/epo-watches-everything/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.25.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_When_the_EPO_Watches_Everything_(‘Dissidents’,_Media,_Etc.)_and_Isn’t Being_Watched_by_Anybody⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 11:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇AC,_EPO,_IU,_EC,_Justice,_best_in_the_world!⦈_ Summary: The EPO is taking Europe for a wild ride; Everything is a vehicle for the very same agenda, with nobody left to hold it accountable or ask any tough questions… (even the_media_is_in_the_EPO's_back_pocket_or_back_seat) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠋⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢉⣤⣾⠟⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣰⣾⠀⣉⢻⣟⠇⣀⠻⣻⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡖⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⠀⡋⣶⡦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣽⣷⣄⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⠀⠷⠀⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡸⠿⠘⠿⣾⠿⢰⣶⣶⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢁⣴⡾⠋⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⠿⢰⣿⢿⣮⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢤⢸⣿⣿⠿⢋⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⠋⢀⣴⠟⠋⠀⠀⢀⣈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡖⢙⡇⣿⣿⠶⢸⣿⢘⣛⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢨⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠋⠀⠾⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⡞⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣇⣿⣿⣤⢸⣿⣼⡿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣿⡏⠛⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣧⣤⢠⡄⣀⡀⣀⣀⡴⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣼⠊⢻⣿⣷⣽⣿⣿⣌⡿⠿⣈⣿⣯⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿ ⣿⢹⣿⣾⣇⣿⢸⣯⡻⣾⣿⣟⢻⡿⣽⡶⣯⢻⣭⡽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⣾⣿⡿⠟⠙⣯⠉⠁⠀⢨⣿⣿⣟⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇ ⡏⢾⢇⢿⣿⡿⢴⣟⣿⠙⣿⢿⣾⡇⣿⢟⣛⣸⡿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⣻⣟⣻⣁⡀⠘⣧⣄⠰⡿⣿⢿⢿⡏⢿⠋⣬⠀⠀⠉⠉⣩⣿⠓⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠗ ⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⢿⣿⣯⣽⣧⣿⣼⣟⣧⣻⣾⣯⠿⢷⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣙⣯⣇⣈⣀⠀⢸⣏⠀⠹⡏⠽⣿⠇⠀⢀⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠁⠙⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣟⠻⡟⢉⣟⠙⣏⣻⠉⣏⠻⡏⢙⣿⡟⠻⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⣀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⡆⢸⣿⠀⣿⣿⠀⣿⢀⡇⢸⣿⣽⠀⢿⣦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢟⣛⣫⣭⣭⣭⣛⣛⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⠈⣶⡿⣶⡝⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠏⠉⠀⠀⣿⣿⣷⣿⣷⣾⣷⣶⣷⣿⣶⣷⣿⣷⣾⣷⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⡿⣫⣴⣾⣿⡿⣿⣿⡻⣿⢻⣿⡿⣷⣮⡻⢿⣿⡇⣿⣏⣿⢸⣿⠓⠛⢣⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢟⣛⡛⢋⣉⠉⠉⠉⣉⡋⠻⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠛⠛⣼⣿⣿⣿⣻⣧⢯⣿⣆⣿⣼⣻⣧⣿⣿⣿⡜⠋⢱⣿⢻⣿⡼⣿⣼⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠛⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡟⣿⡆⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣟⣽⣿⡿⣿⣿⣷⣇⣿⡟⣿⡇⣾⡶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣽⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠃⣿⣿⠿⠃⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⣿⡾⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠍⣉⣀⣀⣈⣹⣿⣿⡇⠀⢠⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⡘⢿⣿⣼⣿⣷⣿⣯⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠟⣠⡀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠿⠿⠶⠿⠿⠀⠀⠻⠷⠿⠃⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠾⠷⠺⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⢸⠁⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠦⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢛⣥⣶⣾⡏⢹⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⡏⣿⣿⣶⣖⣐⣰⣂⣂⡀⢰⣐⡀⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠛⠃⢠⠀⣛⣿⣃⣭⣭⣤⣤⠢⠟⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣶⠶⣒⣠⣤⡀⠀⠀⠁⠘⠃⢴⣶⣶⣤⣼⣿⣭⣿⣷⣿⣧⣿⣿⣟⣃⣠⣤⣤⣤⣯⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⠠⢤⢤ ⠤⢤⣤⣤⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡠⠼⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣋⡇⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡏⠊⠁⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠯⠻⡟⠙⠛⠟⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠻⠤⠤⠤ ⠲⠶⠶⠆⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠹⣿⣧⣬⣽⣛⣰⠋⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠁⠀⣠⣶⣶⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠚⠋⠿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠋⠀⠛⠁⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢼⣷⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠋⠁⠀⢀⣠⣶⣽⠇⠀⠁⠀⢰⣿⣿⣷⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠰⠄⠀⠀⠻⠿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣎⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠤⠄⠀⢴⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡄⠀⠰⠾⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠸⢿⣿⠟⠊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠁⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠛⠀⠀⠀⠂⠁⠀⠤⠤⠤⣤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣠⡠⣠⣄⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 242 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/gnu-turns-38-monday/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/09/25/gnu-turns-38-monday/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.25.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Reminder:_GNU_Turns_38_This_Monday_Around_Midday_(When_GNU’s_Founder_Gives Talk_in_Poland)⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux at 3:42 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Of relevance: Richard_Stallman_to_Speak_(in_Person)_in_Poland,_Dedicate_the Talk_to_Medical_Professionals 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNU/Linux_turns_38⦈_ Summary: With media and Torvalds speaking again about anniversaries (this_has gone_on_for_the_past_week_because_Torvalds_wrote_about_it_yet_again), it is important to recall the announcement that got the ball rolling and basically started it all (the GNU/Linux operating system) because it_was_in_1983,_not 1991. We reproduce in full the announcement. From CSvax:pur-ee:inuxc!ixn5c!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxi!eagle!mit-vax!mit- eddie!RMS@MIT-OZ From: RMS%MIT-OZ@mit-eddie Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.usoft Subject: new Unix implementation Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 12:35:59 EST Organization: MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Free Unix! Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and give it away free(1) to everyone who can use it. Contributions of time, money, programs and equipment are greatly needed. To begin with, GNU will be a kernel plus all the utilities needed to write and run C programs: editor, shell, C compiler, linker, assembler, and a few other things. After this we will add a text formatter, a YACC, an Empire game, a spreadsheet, and hundreds of other things. We hope to supply, eventually, everything useful that normally comes with a Unix system, and anything else useful, including on-line and hardcopy documentation. GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical to Unix. We will make all improvements that are convenient, based on our experience with other operating systems. In particular, we plan to have longer filenames, file version numbers, a crashproof file system, filename completion perhaps, terminal-independent display support, and eventually a Lisp-based window system through which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen. Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages. We will have network software based on MIT's chaosnet protocol, far superior to UUCP. We may also have something compatible with UUCP. Who Am I? I am Richard Stallman, inventor of the original much-imitated EMACS editor, now at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. I have worked extensively on compilers, editors, debuggers, command interpreters, the Incompatible Timesharing System and the Lisp Machine operating system. I pioneered terminal-independent display support in ITS. In addition I have implemented one crashproof file system and two window systems for Lisp machines. Why I Must Write GNU I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement. So that I can continue to use computers without violating my principles, I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free. How You Can Contribute I am asking computer manufacturers for donations of machines and money. I'm asking individuals for donations of programs and work. One computer manufacturer has already offered to provide a machine. But we could use more. One consequence you can expect if you donate machines is that GNU will run on them at an early date. The machine had better be able to operate in a residential area, and not require sophisticated cooling or power. Individual programmers can contribute by writing a compatible duplicate of some Unix utility and giving it to me. For most projects, such part-time distributed work would be very hard to coordinate; the independently-written parts would not work together. But for the particular task of replacing Unix, this problem is absent. Most interface specifications are fixed by Unix compatibility. If each contribution works with the rest of Unix, it will probably work with the rest of GNU. If I get donations of money, I may be able to hire a few people full or part time. The salary won't be high, but I'm looking for people for whom knowing they are helping humanity is as important as money. I view this as a way of enabling dedicated people to devote their full energies to working on GNU by sparing them the need to make a living in another way. For more information, contact me. 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will that ever change and will oversight be restored at EPOnia, Europe’s second-largest institution? THE ‘sofa surfers’ from dozens of nations will ‘meet’ again in a few weeks to discuss the EPO. Don’t expect António_Campinos to be criticised for his mishandling of Benoît_Battistelli‘s unlawful “strike regulations”. Don’t expect them to bring up patent quality either (while the EPO grants loads of European software_patents using the excuse of “Hey Hi” or “4IR” or whatever). “Europe is under attack by a cabal of self-serving interest groups that prey on scientists and imperil science.”We’ll soon commence another series and we’re still in contact with political offices in Europe. Many people will be watching the actions — or inaction — of the misadministrative council (maladministration). As we noted yesterday, "The_EPO_Must_Forsake_Its_Diplomatic_Immunity_and_Quit Pretending_It’s_About_Patent_Law_(or_Any_Law)" because as of this moment, with the constant lobbying for an unconstitutional UPC, the EPO comes across as little but a front group of litigation companies and multinational monopolies, neither scientists nor Europe. In the process, the perception and practice of law in Europe rapidly erodes. There are many comments to that effect here, and to quote one little portion: “For EPLA, its promoters asked the opinion of CJEU. We all know the result: not conform to Union law, cf. C 1/09. And EPLA was dead.” Europe is under attack by a cabal of self-serving interest groups that prey on scientists and imperil science. How many scientists are even in the panels below? Not many. █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_calendar⦈_ It’s all “eMeetings” for ‘essential services’ like monopolies ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠣⣾⢟⡛⢻⢛⢟⢟⠻⢻⠛⡛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡑⠊⠀⠀⠉⢠⠈⠉⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠘⠋ ⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⢿⡿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣇⣤⣹⣀⣇⣢⣀⣇⣨⣀⣿⣘⡀⣂⣐⣈⣀⣖⣀⣄⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.25.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_25/9/2021:_Wine_6.18_and_Chromium_Complier_Woes⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Ultimate_Off-Site_Setup_|_Self-Hosted_54⠀⇛ Alex is abroad and uses the opportunity to build out not one but two ultimate self-hosted off-site servers. We share the hardware, software, and networking details. Plus, how Chris built a Nest-type thermostat using parts he already had. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Android_is_shifting_to_an_“upstream_first”_development model_for_new_Linux_kernel_features⠀⇛ But what’s coming next is even more important, and is arguably the most important part of Google’s long-term strategy. When we pointed out earlier how Treble modularized Android by separating the OS framework from the vendor implementation, we included the “device-specific Linux kernel fork” as part of that vendor code. Anyone who’s familiar with Linux on desktops will recognize a problem there: Why is it lumped in with closed-source vendor code? The problem is that while Android devices do ship with the Linux kernel, that kernel features a lot of out-of-tree code. # ⚓ Google_plans_to_bring_Android’s_kernel_closer_to_the_Linux upstream⠀⇛ Google has spent nearly half a decade attempting to make it easier for OEMs to keep their devices updated, most notably with the introduction of Project Treble in 2017. The company has previously proposed efforts to bring Android closer to the Linux kernel, something it’s finally attempting with the upcoming release of Android 12. At this week’s Linux Plumbers Conference, Google laid out how it’s planning to accomplish its lofty goal. As reported by Ars Technica, Android is moving to a new “upstream” model and away from the traditional forked layout that can cause software delays. Before a device is upgraded, the Linux kernel goes through multiple forks — from Linux into “Android common,” then into the SoC-specific version, before finally reaching its device-specific iteration. That’s a ton of work for every company involved, and it’s one of the main contributing factors to Android’s fragmentation issue. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_To_Install_Apache_Maven_on_AlmaLinux_8_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache Maven on AlmaLinux 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Apache Maven is an open-source software project management and builds a tool that is tailored specifically for Java projects, but due to its plugin-based architecture, it can be used for C#, Ruby, C, C++, etc projects. Apache Maven projects are build around Project Object Model (POM) and use an XML file (pom.xml) to describe its software project configurations. 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 Apache Maven on an AlmaLinux 8. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux. # ⚓ How_to_install_Darktable_on_a_Chromebook_in_2021⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Darktable 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_Brave_Browser_AlmaLinux_8_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. Brave is a privacy-focused Internet web browser, which distinguishes itself from other browsers by automatically blocking online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings. Brave has claimed its browser puts less strain on your computer’s performance than Google Chrome, regardless of how much you ask of it. Even with multiple tabs open at once, Brave uses less memory than Google Chrome-like, up to 66% less. # ⚓ How_To_Install_Gparted_on_CentOS_8_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Gparted on CentOS 8. For those of you who didn’t know, GParted is a free partition manager that enables you to resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss. Furthermore, it provides many features such as one partition mirroring with others. It is to be noted that Gparted supports several filesystems such as btrfs, ext2/ext3/ext4, fat16/fat32, lvm2, ntfs and xfs. Also, you can use a variety of storage devices such as SATA/IDE/SCSI, Flash memory, SSD and RAID with GParted. 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 Gparted partition manager on a CentOS 8. # ⚓ How_to_Install_MariaDB_10.6_on_AlmaLinux_8_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ MariaDB is one of the most popular open-source databases next to its originator MySQL. The original creators of MySQL developed MariaDB in response to fears that MySQL would suddenly become a paid service due to Oracle acquiring it in 2010. With its history of doing similar tactics, the developers behind MariaDB have promised to keep it open source and free from such fears as what has happened to MySQL. MariaDB has become just as popular as MySQL with developers, with features such as advanced clustering with Galera Cluster 4, faster cache/ indexes, storage engines, and features/extensions that you won’t find in MySQL. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install MariaDB 10.6 on AlmaLinux 8. # ⚓ How_to_Disable_Strict_Host_Key_Checking_in_SSH_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ The SSH server has default enabled the strict host key checking. When the key checking is enabled, the SSH client connects only those hosts, that valid host keys are stored in the known host’s file. You can find the fine at ~/.ssh/known_hosts. Once you are connected to a remote host file time via SSH, the SSH clients check for the host key file under the known_hosts file. If the key is found, you will be connected to a remote server after authentication, but if key doesn’t found in the known_hosts file, the command will show a warning message and a prompt to accept or reject the connection request. Once you accepted the by typing “yes”, the key is added in the known_hosts file. Here is an example to of command: ssh ubuntu@remote-host Output The authenticity of host ‘remote-host (123.45.67.89)’ can’t be established. RSA key fingerprint is 9f:48:89:f5:68:2f:cd:b3:19: 95:40:43:98:09:0a:1a. Are you sure you wanThe SSH server has default enabled the strict host key checking. When the key checking is enabled, the SSH client connects only those hosts, that valid host keys are stored in the known host’s file. You can find the fine at ~/.ssh/ known_hosts. Once you are connected to a remote host file time via SSH, the SSH clients check for the host key file under the known_hosts file. If the key is found, you will be connected to a remote server after authentication, but if key doesn’t found in the known_hosts file, the command will show a warning message and a prompt to accept or reject the connection request. Once you accepted the by typing “yes”, the key is added in the known_hosts file. Here is an example to of command: ssh ubuntu@remote-host Output The authenticity of host ‘remote-host (123.45.67.89)’ can’t be established. RSA key fingerprint is 9f:48:89:f5:68:2f:cd:b3:19: 95:40:43:98:09:0a:1a. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/ no)? But in some situations, like shell scripts, we need to disable the strict host check. Continue to read this article to understand the way to disable strict host check in the SSH clients on Linux systems.t to continue connecting (yes/no)? But in some situations, like shell scripts, we need to disable the strict host check. Continue to read this article to understand the way to disable strict host check in the SSH clients on Linux systems. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Node.JS_14_LTS_/_16_&_NPM_on_Debian_11 Bullseye_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8 engine to build fast and scalable network applications and back-end APIs. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking IO module that makes it very lightweight and practical. It is a fantastic choice for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. NPM is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language maintained by NPM, Inc. NPM is the default package manager for the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js and is arguably the most available repository for Node.JS packages. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Node.JS in various ways from the app stream and the node source repository on Debian 11 Bullseye. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Latest_Nginx_Mainline_on_AlmaLinux_8_– LinuxCapable⠀⇛ For those using AlmaLinux 8, you might have noticed that installing Nginx directly from its Appresteam does not install the latest stable or mainline version. It is pretty far behind where Nginx is stable, and Mainline is at the current time of its development. For most, using the default Nginx that comes bundled with AlmaLinux Appstream will be preferred. Still, the following tutorial will cover the steps needed for those wanting to use newer versions for the latest features. # ⚓ ACENET_Basics:_Introduction_to_Linux⠀⇛ This core session is designed to help new users at ACENET and Compute Canada get up and running. # ⚓ How_to_Remove_Firefox_Snap_from_Ubuntu_(21.10_+)⠀⇛ Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri makes Firefox Snap as a default browser. If you don’t like Snap, this is how you can remove it and use the stock version. o § Wine or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Wine_6.18_Announcement⠀⇛ The Wine development release 6.18 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - Shell32 and WineBus libraries converted to PE. - Unicode data updated to Unicode version 14. - Mono engine updated to version 6.4.0, with COM improvements. - More work towards Dwarf 3/4 debug support. - HID joystick enabled by default. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/6.x/wine- 6.18.tar.xz http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/6.x/wine- 6.18.tar.xz Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on https:// www.winehq.org/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details. Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list. # ⚓ Wine_6.18_Released_With_HID_Joystick_Enabled_By_Default⠀⇛ Wine 6.18 has been popped as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software that allows Windows applications and games to run under Linux and in turn what also powers Steam Play’s Proton. Wine 6.18 ships with its HID joystick driver enabled by default, which improves the joystick support for usage under Windows games. Wine 6.18 also continues work on improving the debug support, updates against the Mono 6.4 engine, and other changes. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenBSD_on_the_Vortex86DX_CPU⠀⇛ This is the OpenBSD counterpart of my article about running NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU, and its purpose is mostly to archive a dmesg entry and various benchmarks for this machine. I should note that with only 256MB of RAM, the machine is too constrained to do kernel and libraries relinking in a timely manner, due to swapping. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ The_brains_behind_the_books_–_part_IX:_Meike Chabowski_|_SUSE_Communities⠀⇛ Linux and I share the same birthday – it probably was just kismet that we met. No wonder that I seized my chance when I saw a job opening from SUSE in the newspaper – they were looking to hire somebody into the Marketing /PR department for press relations. I applied for the job, and got it – strike! This was in 2000 – more than 21 years ago. The first 6 weeks I worked as PR manager, and published my first press release about SUSE Blinux, a Braille screen reader developed by our former colleague Marco Skambraks. In the meantime, we had got a new Marketing director. And one fine day, he asked me if I would move over from PR to Product Marketing. Quite overrun, I said “why not, let’s try it”. And for the next 16 years, I worked as a product marketing manager on many different and interesting topics. I am very proud that, in 2000, I was among those that brought the very first Enterprise Linux server to market – it all started in 2000 with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390 (IBM mainframes). The mainframe (today IBM Z and LinuxOne) was my first love, but I also was responsible for High Performance Computing for a very long time, and I am still addicted to this technology area, as HPC is so much impacting our daily life without us realizing it. Other topics I worked on were UNIX to Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in general, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, and also SUSE Manager. Already during my time in Product Marketing, I wrote technical feature guides, and together with subject matter experts, technical whitepapers focussing on many different topics (A NUMA API for Linux from Andi Kleen, for example, is still out there, and regularly referred to). o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ RetroPie_Cyberdeck_|_HackSpace_#47⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern_Tube_Tester_Uses_Arduino_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ There was a time when people like us might own a tube tester and even if you didn’t, you probably knew which drug store had a tube testing machine you could use for free. We aren’t sure that’s a testament to capitalistic ingenuity or an inditement of tube reliability — maybe both. As [Usagi] has been working on some tube-based projects, he decided he needed a tester so he built one. You can see the results in the video, below. The tester only uses 24V, but for the projects he’s building, that’s close to the operation in the real circuits. He does have a traditional tube tester, but it uses 100s of volts which is a different operating regime. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Beatstar_is_THE_new_mobile_rhythm_game_for_Android that_you_need_to_try_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ TangleBot_Malware_Reaches_Deep_into_Android_Device Functions_|_Threatpost⠀⇛ # ⚓ This_Android_malware_steals_mobile_banking_data; Here’s_how_to_stay_safe_|_HT_Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_app_deals_of_the_day:_Dwarf_Journey, more_–_9to5Toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ Xiaomi_Mi_TV_5X_review:_Technology-rich_Android_smart television_on_budget_|_Business_Standard_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Realme_Pad_review:_Low_price,_limited_ambitions_– Android_Authority⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ 6_open_source_tools_for_orchestral_composers⠀⇛ As an avid amateur musician, I’ve worked with many different software programs to create both simple and complex pieces. As my projects have grown in scope, I’ve used composition software ranging from basic engraving to MIDI-compatible notation to playback of multi-instrument works. Composers have their choice of proprietary software, but I wanted to prove that, regardless of the need, there is an open source tool that will more than satisfy them. When my needs were simple and my projects few, I used the excellent resource Lilypond, part of the GNU project, for engraving my music score. Lilypond is a markup language used to create sheet music. What looks like a mass of letters and numbers on the screen becomes a beautiful music score that can be exported as a PDF to share with all your musical acquaintances. For creating small snippets of a score, Lilypond performs excellently. # ⚓ 11_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Matrix_Clients⠀⇛ Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. It can be used to power Instant Messaging, VoIP/ WebRTC signalling, Internet of Things communication – or anywhere you need a standard HTTP API for publishing and subscribing to data whilst tracking the conversation history. The standard can integrate with standard web services via WebRTC, facilitating browser-to- browser applications. # ⚓ Bespoke_shenanigans⠀⇛ A bit over a week ago, I found a DAW called Bespoke. It features a rich set of composable audio and modulation modules that can be freely instantiated and connected (and I thought Reaper’s routing was cool). More importantly, there’s a scripting module. It offers note, pulse and modulation inputs, note outputs, and api-based integration with other Bespoke modules. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Chromium_compiled_for_15_hours_before_failing⠀⇛ Ha ha, the saga continues! Yesterday’s post: https://bkhome.org/news/202109/ chromium-compiled-for-12-hours-before- failing.html This time, using Chromium version 93.0.4577.82. Running EasyOS 3.0pre, Lenovo PC with Intel i3 CPU and 8GB RAM. The build is happening on an external USB3 500GB SSD. There is a swap partition, 24GB internal HDD. Failure point looks like the same place. It is trying to create ‘libblink_platform.so’. Normally, the build is configured to create static libraries and there is a massive final link creating a huge single binary. However, I have used the “is_component_build=true” configure option, which causes a smaller final binary with lots of shared libraries. # § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Big_Book_of_Computing_Pedagogy⠀⇛ In this issue, you’ll find: Techniques for fostering program comprehension Advice for bringing physical computing into your classroom Introductions to frameworks for structuring your lessons # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Python_as_a_build_tool⠀⇛ Normally, when starting a Java project (or any other programming project, really), you don’t want to reinvent the wheel. You go with the de-facto build system, folder structure, environment etc. The ones that rest of the world is using. Yet, both Skija and JWM are built using Python scripts instead of more traditional Ant/Maven/Gradle/SBT. Why? Let’s find out! o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ In_a_setback_for_Apple,_the_European_Union_seeks_a_common charger_for_all_phones.⠀⇛ The European Union unveiled plans on Thursday to make USB-C connectors the standard charging port for all smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices sold across the bloc, an initiative that it says will reduce environmental waste but that is likely to hit Apple the hardest. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Daniel_Foote’s_Resignation_Resounds_Like_Thunder⠀⇛ Finally, the machine is breaking down. For 10 years (and many more), the United States has been directing and controlling a destructive and corrupt political steamroller in Haiti that the embassy in Port-au-Prince has dared to call electoral democracy. o ⚓ The_Camera_is_the_Rifle:_an_Interview_With_Oliver_Stone⠀⇛ Like most of Stone’s film work, Chasing the Light is up- close and personal.  It’s a deep dive into his complicated New York childhood, his decision to volunteer for combat in Viet Nam, and his struggle to overcome a drug habit. Stone’s powerful new memoir confronts the struggles and up-hill battles behind the making of such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface.  The memoir marks the multiple challenges that preceded Stone’s international success with Platoon, in 1986. Oliver Stone was wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the high and low moments of his life: We see meetings with Al Pacino over Stone’s scripts for Scarface, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July ; we see him harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature and then his auspicious comeback: I sat down for a interview with Stone late last week to talk about the memoir and his new soon to be released doc on JFK. o ⚓ #Ballgate,_Ballgown,_Brett’s_Balls_&_Yours⠀⇛ It’s also Self-Love September (SLS), which is good for the bollocks, as well as the female or gender-fluid equivalent. A couple weeks ago, we celebrated Labia Day, so it’s only fair and bonoboësque to honor the boys too. Though, according to the Internet, SLS is more about lofty ideals of self-improvement than the earthy reality of self-pleasure. This may be because it’s only been around a few years (in contrast, May as Masturbation Month goes back to 1994), or because promoting solo sex benefits is still (rather absurdly) taboo. Of course, “self-love” means different things, from hiking to volunteer work to baking yourself an “I Love Me” cake. However, in this not-so-humble sexologist’s opinion, if a little quality masturbation time (which could include the mutual kind), isn’t part of self-love, well, you’re just not fully loving yourself. o ⚓ Not-OK-Corral⠀⇛ o ⚓ “They_Saw_Me_and_Thought_the_Worst”⠀⇛ As Sojourner Gibbs pulled out of her parking space at a Sam’s Club in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, one afternoon last summer, she felt the familiar, sickening symptoms of diabetic shock. Weakness, confusion. She began to sweat and shake uncontrollably. And then, Gibbs said, panic set in. Her car lurched forward a few feet. She slammed on the brakes. The groceries she had just purchased for her family’s Juneteenth barbecue jostled in the back. People started honking their horns. A concerned woman walked up to her car. “I’m a diabetic! I need help!” Gibbs yelled. o ⚓ Twentieth_Century_Europe:_Revolution_and_Reaction⠀⇛ Occasionally however, a text comes along that is meant to counter the dominant narrative. A text that retells our understood history in a manner that emphasizes the role of working people and their lives in the making of the past. Raquel Varela’s A People’s History of Europe: From World War One to Today is just such a book. Varela lives, writes and teaches in Portugal. This in itself provides her with a perspective closer to the periphery of Europe than to that of London, Paris or Berlin. It is her leftist politics, however, that primarily inform the perspective of this text. In other words, this is a history that not only tells the story of Europe’s twentieth century from a working-class perspective, but from a perspective that understands it is the workers and peasantry who decide the course of history, not just the rulers be they aristocrats or the bourgeoisie. Given the understanding that it is the workers and peasants who determine history (and the future), it is only natural that Varela’s point of reference would be the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia. After all, it was this revolution that truly changed all previous history. Not only was the aristocracy that had ruled Russia for centuries overthrown, but so was its budding bourgeoisie. The forces of humanity who had been under the boot of the nobility and the profit-driven world of the capitalist class were in control. It is this fact that determined much of what followed over the next one hundred years, not only in Russia but around the world. Communist movements would be determinants in the economies and politics for much of Europe and beyond. Likewise, the reaction to the successes of the communists would propel capitalist forces into accommodation with or extreme reaction to the masses of people identifying as communist and socialist. The most extreme reaction would be fascism. The more accommodating would be democratic socialism. Both political forms were meant to save the capitalist class. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ A_teenager_on_TikTok_disrupted_thousands_of_scientific studies_with_a_single_video⠀⇛ Scientists doing this sort of research in the United States generally want a pool of subjects who speak English as a first language, are not too practiced at taking psychological surveys, and together make up a reasonably representative demographic sample of the American population. Prolific, most agreed, did a good job providing high-quality subjects. The sudden change in the platform’s demographics threatened to upend that reputation. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Echoes_of_the_Past_Are_Present_in_Texas’_Latest Racist_Attack_on_Education⠀⇛ For a view of the real-life fallout of the far right campaign to stamp out the teaching of the history of U.S. racism and its legacy today, meet James Whitfield. # ⚓ Algorithmic_Employment_Decisions_In_Academia?⠀⇛ A company in ‘Workplace Analytics’ is selling a product called ‘OccupEye’ that tracks employees with movement sensors mounted under their desks. They have partnered with network giant Cisco that uses WiFi routers to derive movement patterns within rooms and buildings. Besides movement detection and text analysis, mouse-clicks and keystrokes (also as suggested by academic publishers) can be analyzed and incorporated into the algorithms as well, in order to, e.g., classify employees as “Low Performer”, “Good Performer” or “High Performer”, as Zalando is doing (p. 135 in the study). Surely, academia would never use performance metrics for their hire and fire decisions? OK, bad joke. # ⚓ Stanford_students_sour_on_big-tech_careers_amid_ethics concerns⠀⇛ A number of Stanford University students and graduates appear to be avoiding or turning down job opportunities with leading technology companies in a bid to force changes in ethics and corporate culture. The newly publicised cases include Hannah Mieczkowski, a doctoral student who declined an interview with Google for an internship this summer over last year’s high-profile firing of a scientist critical of bias in computer algorithms. Far more Stanford students, Ms Mieczkowski said, were expressing similar concerns about technology companies as they neared the point of their own decisions on internships and jobs. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_To_Build_Back_Better,_Congress_Must_(Finally) Invest_in_Black_Caregivers_Like_Us⠀⇛ As Congress is considering making a once-in-a- generation investment in workers and families to enact President Biden’s care infrastructure plan through the Build Back Better Act, our country is at a crossroads. Over the past 19 months, caregivers like us have borne the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, with this time being among the most challenging of our combined 60 years of service within our industry. But our challenges did not begin with the global pandemic. Even before the pandemic, we’ve had to work two or three jobs just to make ends meet and support our families while providing the vital care that millions of older adults, people with disabilities, and their families depend on. # ⚓ A_Little_Radiation_Is_Not_Good_For_You⠀⇛ After six years of deliberation, the NRC’s three commissioners, two Democrats and one Republican, voted unanimously to reject formal petitions submitted in February 2015 urging the agency to adopt a cost-cutting scheme known as “hormesis” which claims that “a little radiation is good for you.” The September 16 decision by the NRC says this “threshold theory posits that “there is some threshold dose below which there is either no radiation-related health detriment or a radiation- related health benefit that outweighs any detriment.” The order then rebukes this concept, finding the petitioners “fail to present an adequate basis supporting the request,” and “Convincing evidence has not yet demonstrated the existence of a threshold below which there would be no … effects from exposure to low radiation doses.” The basis for hormesis had been explicitly rejected ten years earlier, the NRC pointed out, by the National Academy of Sciences in its 2005 report “Biologic Effects of Ionizing Radiation, 7th Ed” or BEIR-VII. The National Research Council summed up its book-length BEIR-7 report saying, “the smallest dose has the potential to cause a small increase in risk to humans.” # ⚓ ‘Hold_My_Pearls’:_Debbie_Dingell_Lets_Marjorie_Taylor_Green Have_It_Over_Abortion_Rights⠀⇛ Congresswoman Debbie Dingell of Michigan exchanged heated words with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia outside the U.S. Capitol building Friday afternoon as Democratic lawmakers gathered to champion passage of sweeping abortion rights legislation. “I was mad. Why do you have to yell at your colleagues on the steps of the Capitol other than to create a scene?” # ⚓ Cisneros_Slams_Cuellar_for_Being_Only_House_Democrat_to Vote_Against_Abortion_Rights⠀⇛ Texas congressional candidate Jessica Cisneros on Friday slammed Rep. Henry Cuellar—the U.S. House member she is aiming to unseat—for being the lone Democrat to vote against legislation that would codify abortion rights into federal law. Shortly after the House passed the Women’s Health Protection Act by a vote of 218-211 Friday afternoon, Cisneros released a video calling out Cuellar for “once again” refusing to “stand up for South Texans’ reproductive freedom.” Every House Republican who was present joined Cuellar in voting no. # ⚓ Is_Australia’s_Anti-Lockdown_Movement_a_Creature_of Corporate_Dark_Money?⠀⇛ In sociology, the process of constructing an exclusionary binary between the known and unknown is called ‘Othering.’ This is a facet of moral panics, or episodes of social hysteria characterised by preoccupations with more or less spurious existential threats. To the anti-lockdown movement, tendencies in ‘mainstream media’ towards what Herman and Chomsky famously called the ‘manufacture of consent’ is the known. The lies of the US government around Iraqi WMDs are one example of mainstream media being complicit in the manufacture of consent, leading to the Iraq War. Epidemiological science is the unknown. # ⚓ Covid-19_Cases,_Deaths_Rising_Among_Children_Across_US⠀⇛ “The risk to children right now is higher than it’s ever been during the pandemic because of the delta variant being more transmissible.”—Rachel Herlihy, Colorado state epidemiologist # ⚓ African_Leaders_Condemn_Vaccine_Apartheid_as_an_‘Indictment on_Humanity’⠀⇛ The leaders of several African nations on Thursday blasted the system of “vaccine apartheid” that rich countries and pharmaceutical giants have created by hoarding doses and refusing to share key manufacturing technology, opting to prioritize profits and patent rights over ending the coronavirus pandemic everywhere. Addressing the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video conference, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared that vaccines are “the greatest defense that humanity has against the ravages of this pandemic.” # ⚓ Big_Ag_Influence_Over_UN_Food_Systems_Summit_Criticised_by Green_Farming_Advocates⠀⇛ The scale of agri-food giants’ influence and greenwash efforts surrounding the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit, held yesterday in New York City, has raised concern among sustainable farming experts.  # ⚓ Scientists_Say_a_Daily_Pill_to_Treat_COVID_Could_Be_Just Months_Away⠀⇛ # ⚓ Biden_EPA_Announces_New_Rule_to_Reduce_Use_of_HFCs,_a Potent_Greenhouse_Gas⠀⇛ # ⚓ Coalition_Sues_Biden_EPA_Over_Approval_of_‘Highly_Toxic’ Pesticide_Linked_to_Parkinson’s⠀⇛ A coalition of groups filed a lawsuit on Friday over the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to renew approval for the toxic herbicide paraquat. “This paraquat registration puts EPA on the wrong side of science, history, and the law,” said Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, a senior attorney at Earthjustice, in a statement. # ⚓ Upcoming_PBS_Doc_“Cured”_About_Gay_Liberation_from Psychiatry…and_Much_More⠀⇛ Cured is the story of how gay activists forced the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1973 to rescind its declaration that homosexuality is a psychiatric illness and, ultimately, to remove it from their DSM manual of disorders. Cured is a powerful piece of filmmaking, and I suspect that even if one has neither a personal reason to be thankful for the bravery of these gay activists nor a personal reason to be appalled by the arrogance and barbarism of psychiatry, one may still well be touched by filmmakers Bennett Singer and Patrick Sammon’s documentary, scheduled to be broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens on October 11 (National Coming Out Day). Barbaric is a strong word, but Cured viewers will not consider it to be an unfair description of psychiatry’s “treatments” for homosexuality, which included talk therapy but did not stop there. Cured graphically details the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), commonly known as electroshock, to “cure” homosexuality,” as filmmakers pull no punches showing just how traumatizing and brain injuring ECT was for its victim patients. Another commonly used “treatment” was “aversion therapy,” in which electric shock to the genitals and/or nausea-inducing drugs were administered simultaneously with the presentation of homoerotic stimuli; and psychiatry also attempted to “cure” homosexuality with castration and lobotomy. # ⚓ Florida_Sen._Manny_Diaz_wants_to_“review”_all_vaccine mandates⠀⇛ Of all the cesspits of anti-science and antivaccine nuttery in the US, Florida has a strong claim to being the most anti-science and nuttiest. First, it has Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose embrace of Great Barrington Declaration-style, “don’t worry, be happy,” “let COVID-19 rip” policies recently led to his appointment of an utter crank to head up the entire medical and public health bureaucracy of the state. This crank, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, was a member of America’s Frontline Doctors, the same group that was pushing hydroxychloroquine a year ago (and is pushing ivermectin now and antivaccine misinformation now) as a miracle cure for COVID-19 and counts among its members a grifting quack and a physician who thinks that demon sperm from sex with demons is responsible for a number of gynecological maladies and was a signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration, which basically advocated letting COVID-19 infect the “healthy” population and using “focused protection” to keep the elderly and others at high risk of serious disease and death safe, neglecting the impossibility of protecting high risk people if the virus is ripping through the population. Unfortunately, Dr. Lapado is not the only crank in charge. Enter Florida State Senator Manny Diaz, whose recent bloviations are remarkable mainly for being utterly honest about what the endgame always was for those resisting COVID-19 mandates: # ⚓ CDC_Head_Sidesteps_Agency’s_Own_Advice,_Pushes_Booster Shots_for_Some_Workers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Activist_goes_to_court_against_government_over_coronavirus certificate⠀⇛ “In the heart of the complaint is the fact that the certificates received after so-called vaccinations do not actually prove the person’s infection safety and, therefore, do not fulfill the goal that it has been put to use in the context of restrictions as,” Vooglaid explained. # ⚓ From_QAnon_to_anti-vaccination,_scholar_Andy_Norman_says_we face_a_scourge_of_“mind_parasites”⠀⇛ We are in the midst of an ignorance outbreak. QAnon’s account of global politics, despite being both irrational and implausible, has enraptured thousands. Specious anti-vaccine rhetoric abounds even among the educated. Everywhere we turn, bad ideas are spreading like a, well, virus. Author Andy Norman takes that problem literally. In his provocative book “Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think,” the director of the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University and founder of the Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative reveals a growing scourge — and explores what we can do to fend it off. As he explains why thinking for yourself is a poor strategy and why everyone is not, in fact, entitled to their own opinion, Norman offers a compelling case for a regimen of mental resistance. Salon talked to the author recently about how to survive an era where misinformation is more common than the flu, and why “humility is a really important, under-appreciated cognitive virtue.” o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Cybersecurity_Threat_Vectors_For_AI_Autonomous_Cars⠀⇛ It might seem puzzling that there is any connection between those pesky possums and the topic of cybersecurity and self-driving cars. As will soon be apparent, the parade of possums that you could suggest “attacked” my house is somewhat analogous to those dastardly human hackers that try to break into computer systems. And when you give this matter some careful thought, it is apparent that a self-driving car is really a computer on wheels. Self-driving cars are chock-full of computers. Computers underpin the AI driving system. These are typically specialized processors especially souped-up to perform lots of computations, something sorely needed to autonomously drive a car. By and large, the computer processing onboard a self-driving car is awe-inspiring and rivals the kind of supercomputers that we used to call supercomputers back in the olden days (to clarify, today’s supercomputers are still many times faster than the computers put into a self-driving car, so my comparison is to the prior eras of supercomputers). But the computers for self-driving purposes are just one instance of computing that is found inside a modern car. # ⚓ The_real_stakes_of_Apple’s_battle_over_remote_work⠀⇛ And those are just the potential consequences in the short term. This fight will have bigger ramifications later on. That this battle is happening at Apple signals a major shift for the company. For the most part, until now, it’s managed to avoid the internal conflicts that have seized other tech companies like Google. Now Apple will need to reckon with internal employee activists who are learning to pressure their employer about issues beyond remote work, like pay parity and gender discrimination. Even when the question of remote work is eventually settled, its employees are now emboldened to push for other demands — and so Apple will likely continue to grapple with this challenge. # ⚓ VMware_vCenter_Server_Vulnerability_CVE-2021-22005 Under_Active_Exploit⠀⇛ On September 21, 2021, VMware disclosed that its vCenter Server is affected by an arbitrary file upload vulnerability—CVE-2021- 22005—in the Analytics service. A malicious cyber actor with network access to port 443 can exploit this vulnerability to execute code on vCenter Server. On September 24, 2021, VMware confirmed reports that CVE-2021-22005 is being exploited in the wild. Security researchers are also reporting mass scanning for vulnerable vCenter Servers and publicly available exploit code. Due to the availability of exploit code, CISA expects widespread exploitation of this vulnerability. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Poorly_patched_flaw_in_Apple_macOS_Finder_still exploitable_•_The_Register⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Three_Former_US_Intelligence_Analysts Fined_$1.6_Million_For_Helping_The_UAE Government_Spy_On_Dissidents_And Activists⠀⇛ Three former US intelligence community employees (two who worked for the NSA) have just agreed to pay $1.68 million in fines for violating export control regulations by providing the United Arab Emirates government with powerful hacking tools that government used to target dissidents, pro-democracy activists, and other perceived enemies of the UAE. # ⚓ Police_turn_to_e-scooter_data_to_trace suspects⠀⇛ Location and other information gathered from rented electric scooters is increasingly being used in police investigations. The relatively new strategy was most recently taken into use on Sunday in the city of Tampere. # ⚓ Total_surveillance_law_proposed_in Serbia⠀⇛ The public debate on the Draft Law on Internal Affairs has officially introduced into legal procedure provisions for the use of mass biometric surveillance in public spaces in Serbia, advanced technologies equipped with facial recognition software that enable capturing and processing of large amounts of sensitive personal data in real time. EDRi’s member the SHARE Foundation has used the opportunity of the Draft Law public debate to submit its legal comments on the provisions regulating mass biometric surveillance in public spaces, demanding from the authorities to declare a moratorium on the use of such technologies and systems in Serbia without delay. # ⚓ An_Overview_of_Threat_Assessments_and Practical_Steps_to_Improve_Privacy⠀⇛ # ⚓ An_Overview_of_Threat_Assessments_and Practical_Steps_to_Improve_Privacy_ (slides)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Adversarial_Makeup:_Your_Contouring Skills_Could_Defeat_Facial_Recognition⠀⇛ Facial recognition is everywhere these days. Cloud servers churn through every picture uploaded to social media, phone cameras help put faces to names, and CCTV systems are being used to trace citizens in their day-to-day lives. You might want to dodge this without arousing suspicion, just for a little privacy now and then. As it turns out, common makeup techniques can help you do just that. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ NY_Times_Advises_China_on_Covid-19:_Abandon_Success,_Try Failure⠀⇛ The recent outbreak of the Delta variant in China “shows that its strategy no longer fits. It is time for China to change tack.” So declared a lead essay atop the New York Times Opinion/Editorial section on Sept. 7 by Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. # ⚓ The_Official_History_of_the_Successful_War_in_Afghanistan⠀⇛ 1. The terrorist organization al-Qaeda was headquartered in Afghanistan at the time of 9/11 and so HAD to be destroyed to prevent further attacks on our Homeland. It was a “war of necessity,” as President Obama said as he continued it. The allied forces succeeded in killing hundreds of terrorists and driving al-Qaeda from Afghanistan. And there has not been another 9/11. It was a success. That’s the MAIN point. 2. The Taliban, the organization governing Afghanistan, had been hosting al-Qaeda and was/is itself a terrorist organization. It had to be toppled also, to prevent future terrorist attacks on the Homeland. The allied forces accomplished this goal successfully too, with ease, within weeks. # ⚓ Here_Are_the_22_Democrats_Who_Voted_Against_Limiting Transfer_of_Military_Gear_to_Cops⠀⇛ In a blow to demilitarization advocates, 22 House Democrats on Thursday joined nearly all of the chamber’s Republicans in voting down an amendment that would have curtailed the flow of military weapons to police departments across the United States. The amendment (pdf) to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), introduced by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), sought to reform the Defense Department’s 1033 program, which has authorized the transfer of more than $1.5 billion worth of “excess” military equipment to local law enforcement agencies since 2013. # ⚓ Dems_Who_Opposed_Pentagon_Cuts_Received_Nearly_4x_More Donations_From_Weapons_Makers⠀⇛ In a bipartisan 316-113 vote on Thursday night, the U.S. House authorized a $778 billion military budget for fiscal year 2022. Every Republican voted against two amendments to reduce Pentagon spending, but Democrats were split, and a new analysis reveals that lawmakers who rejected the proposed cuts received far more campaign cash from the weapons industry than those who supported the cuts. “Our biggest problems can’t be solved by more ships, planes, or missiles.”—Lindsay Koshgarian, IPS # ⚓ Opinion_|_EU’s_Undying_Fealty_to_the_Imperial_US_Leads_to Latest_Humiliation⠀⇛ A “brutal lesson in geopolitics,” is how the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel described the announcement of AUKUS, the new security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The deal is not just a major financial blow to France, whose contract to deliver 12 submarines to Australia for $A50 billion ($36 billion) was unceremoniously ditched in the process. Perhaps even more important was that US President Joe Biden chose to announce AUKUS in a manner that can only be interpreted as a deliberate humiliation of France and, by association, the rest of the European Union. # ⚓ New_Report_On_Predictive_Policing_Shows_How_New_Tech_Is Giving_Us_Little_More_Than_The_Same_Old_Racism⠀⇛ The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has just released an in-depth examination of predictive policing. Titled “Garbage In, Gospel Out,” it details the many ways bad data based on biased policing has been allowed to generate even more bad data, allowing officers to engage in more biased policing but with the blessing of algorithms. # ⚓ Drawdown:_Improving_US_and_Global_Security_by_Closing Military_Bases_Abroad⠀⇛ In other cases, foreign bases are being used and have made it easier for the United States to launch and execute disastrous wars, including those in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya. Across the political spectrum and even within the U.S. military there is growing recognition that many overseas bases should have closed decades ago, but bureaucratic inertia and misguided political interests have kept them open. Amid an ongoing “Global Posture Review,” the Biden administration has a historic opportunity to close hundreds of unnecessary military bases abroad and improve national and international security in the process. # ⚓ Global_Peace_Activists_Warn_of_Dangers_of_US-Led_Anti-China Pacts⠀⇛ Warning against collective defense agreements “which dangerously intensify geostrategic military tensions with China,” a group of international peace advocates on Friday published a letter decrying the new trilateral pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, while calling for “peace, justice, and disarmament.” The letter, whose signatories include peace groups and activists from over a dozen nations, was released as leaders of the United States, Japan, India, and Australia—the Quadrilateral Security Dialog, or “Quad”—met in the White House to share concerns about China. # ⚓ A_Parable_of_(All-American)_Violence:_Accountability_and the_War_on_Terror⠀⇛ The heart-wrenching last days of that war amounted to a cautionary tale about the nature of violence and the difficulty Americans have honestly facing their own version of it. As chaos descended on Kabul, and as the Biden administration’s efforts to evacuate as many Afghans and Americans as possible were stretched to the limit, one more paroxysm of senseless violence took center stage. A suicide bomber sent by the Islamic State group ISIS-K struck Kabul’s airport, killing and maiming Afghans as well as American troops. The response? More violence as a Hellfire missile from an American drone supposedly took aim at a member of the terror group responsible. The U.S. military announced that its drone assassination had “prevented another suicide attack,” but the missile actually killed 10 members of one family, seven of them children, and no terrorists at all. Later, the Pentagon admitted its “mistaken judgment” and called the killings “a horrible tragedy of war.” # ⚓ More_Bad_News_About_the_U.S._and_China⠀⇛ Now of course, amid a sententious hubbub from GOP senators, pundits second guess the general’s bid for human survival over a potential nuclear holocaust. This uproar, the whole debate, is shameless humbug. Milley behaved as a cautious military man in the face of a deranged leader. If he was as amoral as his Republican senate second- guessers, he would have let the Chinese stew, growing more and more alarmed over Trump’s lunacy and possibly concluding they had to launch a preemptive strike. Thankfully for the posterity of the human race, Trump left office. But troubles did not end, because things did not evolve as Chinese leadership clearly hoped. Along came Biden, proclaiming that China is the competitive threat to the U.S. and amplifying naval forays on China’s coast. That was all bad enough. But then on September 15, we learned from the New York Times that the U.S. and the U.K. will “help” Australia deploy nuclear-powered submarines, to counter China in the Pacific. This lousy idea is a threat. That is exactly how China takes it. That is how any country, including and especially the U.S., would take the appearance of a hostile nation’s nuclear-powered submarines not far off its coast. Once upon a time, something rather similar occurred and caused a nail-biting lurch to the precipice of nuclear extinction; it was called the Cuban missile crisis. So now, don’t be surprised that China will likely respond by boosting its nuclear arsenal – definitely NOT what the world needs. # ⚓ Looking_Back:_50_Years_of_Foreign_Policy⠀⇛ During this time I have also learned a fair amount about military matters and various weapons systems, because they cost enormous amounts of money that could be put to much better use than killing and maiming people. But also because it’s hard to resist the absurd: the high performance US F-35 fighter jet–at $1.7 trillion, the most expensive weapons system in US history–that costs $36,000 an hour to fly, shoots itself, and can decapitate pilots who attempt to bail out. There are, as well, the $640 toilet seats, the $7,622 coffee maker, and the fact that the Department of Defense cannot account for $6.5 trillion in spending. I have also become fairly conversant with the major nuclear arms agreements and I know what Article VI of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty says (more on this later). # ⚓ Minnesota_Dept._Of_Public_Safety_Now_Handing_Out_License/ Insurance_Carriers_In_Hopes_Of_Keeping_Cops_From_Killing_More Drivers⠀⇛ Well, here’s something unexpected, delivered in a somewhat tone-deaf fashion. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety has partnered with a mother whose son was killed by a Minnesota police officer to hopefully reduce the number of times people are killed by police officers for following instructions during traffic stops. (h/t @Ktech) # ⚓ Remembering_Paulo_Freire_as_a_Freedom_Fighter⠀⇛ One of Freire’s most important contributions was his politicization of culture. He viewed culture a terrain of struggle that both reflected and deployed power. He rejected the vulgar Marxist notion that culture was simply a reflection of economic forces. Not only did he connect culture with social relations that ranged from producing and legitimating class warfare, ecological destruction, and various forms of privilege, but he also understood that culture was always related to power and was an enormously influential force. This was especially true in the age of social media with its power to define diverse modes of inclusion, legitimate consent, produce specific forms of agency, and reproduce unequal relations of power both within and outside of nation states. He strongly emphasized the role of language and values in struggles over identities and resources and how they worked through different organizations and public spheres such as schools, the media, corporate apparatuses, and other social spheres.  His work on literacy focused on how neoliberal cultural practices put certain forms of commercialized agency in place, defined and circumvented public space, depoliticized people through the language of commands, while commodifying and privatizing everything. Culture and literacy for Freire offered people the space to develop new modes of agency, mass resistance, and emotional attachments that embraced empowering forms of solidarity. For Freire, the terrains of culture, literacy, and education were the terrains on which individuals acquire consciousness of their position, and the willingness to fight for dignity, social justice, and freedom. For Freire, culture was a battlefield, a site of struggle, and he recognized in the manner of Gramsci that every relationship of domination was “pedagogic and occurs amongst the different forces of which it is composed.” Freire first and foremost believed that education was linked to social change and that matters of consciousness and identity were integral to making pedagogy central to politics itself.   For Freire, education and schooling were part of a larger struggle against capitalism, neoliberalism, authoritarianism, fascism, and the depoliticization and instrumentalization of education. Direct action, political education, and cultural politics defined for him both new strategies of resistance and new understandings of the relationship between power and culture and how it shaped matters of identity, values, and one’s understanding of the future.  Pedagogy and literacy were political because they were connected to the struggle over agency, ongoing relations of power, and the preconditions for connecting knowledge and values to the development of  active and engaged critical citizens.  Freire’s great contribution was to recognize that domination was not only economic and structural but also pedagogical, ideological, cultural,  and intellectual and that matters of persuasion and belief were crucial weapons for creating engaged agents and critical subjects. He also refuted the easy escape route for cynics who equated and collapsed domination and power. Resistance was always a possibility and any politics that denied the latter erred on the side of complicity with the most heinous crimes, however unrecognized.  Freire was a transformative public intellectual and freedom fighter who believed that educators had an enormous responsibility to address important social and political problems, to tell the truth, and to take risks, however inconvenient the consequences. Civic courage was essential to politics, and he embodied the best of that conviction. # ⚓ Clear_Away_the_Hype:_The_U.S._and_Australia_Signed_a Nuclear_Arms_Deal,_Simple_as_That⠀⇛ While China was not explicitly mentioned by these leaders at the AUKUS announcement, it is generally assumed that countering China is the unstated motivation for the new partnership. “The future of the Indo-Pacific,” said Morrison at the press conference, “will impact all our futures.” That was as far as they would go to address the elephant in the room. Zhao Lijian of the Chinese Foreign Ministry associated the creation of AUKUS with “the outdated Cold War zero-sum mentality and narrow- minded geopolitical perception.” Beijing has made it clear that all talk of security in the Indo- Pacific region by the U.S. and its NATO allies is part of an attempt to build up military pressure against China. The BBC story on the pact made this clear in its headline: “Aukus: UK, US and Australia launch pact to counter China.” # ⚓ ​​Who_Represents_Afghanistan:_Genuine_Activists_vs_‘Native Informants’⠀⇛ In the US and other Western media, answers were readily available: they were mostly ‘translators’, Afghans who ‘collaborated’ with the US and other NATO countries; ‘activists’ who were escaping from the brutality awaiting them once the Americans and their allies left the country, and so on. Actually, the answer is far more complex than that offered by Western officials and media, which ultimately – although inaccurately – conveyed the impression that NATO armies were in Afghanistan to safeguard human rights, to educate women and to bring civilization to a seemingly barbaric culture. # ⚓ Afghanarchism:_What_American_Radicals_Can_Learn_From_the Pashtuns⠀⇛ You see the Afghan people, in particular the Pashtuns who have made up the bulk of the Taliban, are a people who simply refuse to be ruled by anyone or anything besides their own distinctly stateless culture. The Pashtuns of Afghanistan’s rugged borderlands are essentially anarchists and their successful centuries old resistance to conquest didn’t begin with the Soviets or the British or even Alexander the Great. It began with the first taxman sent by a local emir to those mountains, who was returned riddled with bullets for his trouble. The rugged mountainous region now separated superficially by the Durand Line forming the border between what is now modern day Afghanistan and Pakistan has always been a distinctly wild country populated by hard men who love their rifles and hate being told what to do. This region was traditionally known as Yaghistan which roughly translates to the land of lawlessness and rebellion. But this title was clearly bestowed upon the rural Pashtuns by another simple minded outsider, for even though these people are certainly stateless, they are anything but lawless. # ⚓ Women’s_Rights:_Afghanistan_and_Beyond⠀⇛ Oh my God, we’ve given Afghanistan back to the Taliban! Even George W. Bush found his way back into the news cycle: “I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad and sad.” America, America, the global do-gooder, bringer of civilized values to the Middle East. This is why we’ve hemorrhaged trillions of dollars over the past two decades engaging evil itself. This is why hundreds of thousands of people had to die, millions had to be displaced. We were defending the rights of . . . people we could care less about. # ⚓ Opinion_|_It’s_Been_Two-Hundred_Years,_Not_Twenty:_Targeted Repression_in_the_US_Started_Long_Before_9/11⠀⇛ What comes after the anniversary of a tragedy? Earlier this month, many of us participated in memorials and retrospectives on the changes to American society in the two decades since the attacks of 9/11. We were among the many American Muslims who wrote about the impact of 9/11 on civil rights. As co-executive directors of Muslim Advocates, we were asked to document how the Patriot Act enabled mass surveillance and profiling of Muslims by local and national government, how a Bush-era immigrant registration program (NSEERS) effectively created a Muslim registry, and the many ways that the stereotype of Muslims as terrorists has fueled decades of anti-Muslim hate crimes and bullying. So what comes next? # ⚓ Former_Member_of_Afghan_Parliament_Says_U.S._War_Ushered_in “Another_Dark_Age”_for_Women⠀⇛ The Taliban are already restricting women’s rights in Afghanistan — just a month since they overran the capital of Kabul — by blocking female students from returning to schools and universities, and telling many women workers to stay home. The new Taliban government has closed the Ministry of Women’s Affairs that was established soon after the Taliban were toppled in 2001, and replaced it with the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, charged with enforcing strict Islamic law. Former Afghan Member of Parliament Belquis Roshan calls for international solidarity with the women of Afghanistan and an end to imperial interventions in the country. “International solidarity, we can initiate … by creating harmony and unity and working together — not with governments, but the people,” says Roshan in an exclusive interview with V, the award-winning playwright formerly known as Eve Ensler. V joins us along with Madinah Wardak, a mental health social worker of Afghan descent and founder of the digital platform Burqas & Beer, ahead of a global day of action in support of Afghan women. # ⚓ January_6_Select_Committee_Subpoenas_Trump_Chief_of_Staff Mark_Meadows_and_Other_Top_Aides⠀⇛ The U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 issued subpoenas on Thursday to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and three other allies of former President Donald Trump. # ⚓ Support_for_Nuclear_Ban_Treaty_Is_Rising._Nuclear_Nations Are_on_the_Defensive.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jan._6_Committee_Issues_First_Subpoenas,_Seeks_Testimony From_4_Trump_Aides⠀⇛ # ⚓ Missing_Voices_in_Broadcast_Coverage_of_Afghan_Withdrawal⠀⇛ As the US after 20 years finally began its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the story dominated TV news. Just as they did when the war began (Extra!, 11–12/01), corporate journalists overwhelmingly leaned on government and military sources, while offering no clear antiwar voices and vanishingly few perspectives from civil society leaders in either Afghanistan or the United States. # ⚓ Is_Brazil_About_to_Face_a_Military_Coup?_Brian_Mier_on Brazil’s_March_Towards_Fascism⠀⇛ # ⚓ US_Congress_outlines_new_phase_of_economic_attacks_and hybrid_war_on_Nicaragua’s_Sandinista_government⠀⇛ # ⚓ Cece_Jones-Davis_Wants_to_Stop_an_Execution⠀⇛ In 2002, an almost all-white jury convicted Julius Jones in the carjacking and shooting death of Paul Howell, a white businessman in Edmond, Okla. For 22 years, Jones and his family have maintained his innocence, contending that he could not have shot Howell because at the time of his murder he was celebrating his 19th birthday with his mother, father, and sister. Despite the seriousness of the crime, the case languished in obscurity until June 2019, when the ABC docuseries The Last Defense brought renewed attention to it. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Activists_Ramp_Up_Pressure_on_Biden_Administration_Ahead_of UN_Climate_Talks⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scientists_Take_to_Late_Night_to_Warn_It’s_Not_Too_Late_to ‘Unf–k_the_World’⠀⇛ Jimmy Kimmel invited climate scientists that he previously had on the show five years ago to reiterate taking action. “There’s still time to unfuck some stuff,” said one, leading into a montage of experts calling on us to “unfuck the world.” “It seems that we get hit with fallout from the climate crisis every day here in California. Wildfires, floods, landslides — which are all amazing things to hear Stevie Nicks sing about, not something you want to experience in life,” Kimmel said. “And if death and destruction, famine, pestilence, water shortages on a global scale isn’t enough, think about this: Scientists say climate change can severely impact the world supply of beer.” # ⚓ For_the_US,_the_Climate_Plan_is_More_Walls_and_Armed_Agents at_the_Border⠀⇛ Not long into our conversation, the young woman at the migrant resource center in Sasabe, Sonora, told me why she had left her home in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala: floods had ruined her family’s crops. Her name was Flor* and she was 19 years old. Two Category 4 hurricanes battered Central American coasts in late 2020, unleashing intense flooding throughout Guatemala, drowning harvests, and threatening starvation for the coming year. The migrant center, called Casa de la Esperanza, is just two blocks from the US port of entry. Mexican flags fluttered throughout the town on September 15, the day before Independence Day. Flor told me it was exactly a month since she had left home. She was sitting next to her companion, Esmeralda, who was 20 and also from Guatemala. They told me they had already tried to cross into the United States the week before, but were arrested and deported by the US Border Patrol. Earlier that week, the World Bank released a report titled Groundswell, which predicted that, if global carbon emissions are not mitigated, 216 million people will be on the move by 2050 from six different regions, including Latin America, as a direct result of the changing climate. This came a month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s August report delivered a dire warning: unless there are “immediate, rapid, and large-scale reductions to greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to 1.5 degrees celsius will be beyond reach.” Outside the migrant center, you could see the 30-foot wall going up the hill; it had been constructed by the Trump administration in late 2020, around the same time Flor’s crops were being submerged by catastrophic flooding. The red, rusty wall left a wide scar of razed land visible from miles away. # ⚓ Climate_Question⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hundreds_of_Thousands_Take_to_Streets_Worldwide_for_‘Uproot the_System’_Climate_Strikes⠀⇛ Young people by the hundreds of thousands took to the streets across the globe on Friday to deliver a resounding message to world leaders: The climate crisis is getting worse, and only radical action will be enough to avert catastrophe and secure a just, sustainable future for all. “As emissions and inequalities increase, we rise up and demand climate justice.” # ⚓ U.S._Militarism’s_Toxic_Impact_on_Climate_Policy⠀⇛ But the U.S. is not a leader when it comes to saving our planet. Yahoo News recently published a report titled “Why the U.S. Lags Behind Europe on Climate Goals by 10 or 15 years.” The article was a rare acknowledgment in the U.S. corporate media that the United States has not only failed to lead the world on the climate crisis, but has actually been the main culprit blocking timely collective action to head off a global existential crisis. The anniversary of September 11th and the U.S. defeat in Afghanistan should be ringing alarm bells inside the head of every American, warning us that we have allowed our government to spend trillions of dollars waging war, chasing shadows, selling arms and fueling conflict all over the world, while ignoring real existential dangers to our civilization and all of humanity. # ⚓ Water_Protectors_Challenge_Minnesota_AG_Keith_Ellison’s Silence_on_Line_3_Pipeline⠀⇛ Water protectors fighting to stop Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline expansion interrupted a Thursday evening speech by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge the Democrat’s silence on the multi-billion-dollar project, which violates Anishinaabe treaty rights while endangering local ecosystems, Indigenous communities, and the global climate. “What will you do about the frivolous charges brought against over 800 people drawing attention to Line 3′s climate impacts and civil rights violations?”—Water protector # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘Coal_Is_Dead’:_New_Global_Pact_Announced_After China’s_Bold_Step⠀⇛ “I call on more countries to come forward and sign up to this compact ahead of COP26, and play their part to limit global warming and keep 1.5 degrees alive.”—Alok Sharma, COP26 # ⚓ Green_Hydrogen’s_Rapidly_Falling_Costs_Undermine_the Gas_Industry’s_Argument_for_Blue_Hydrogen⠀⇛ New research predicts that green hydrogen — a clean fuel produced from water using renewables — will be comparable in cost and likely cheaper than blue hydrogen by 2030. This is much sooner than what the blue hydrogen industry is estimating when advocating for the natural gas-based fuel to be widely adopted — essentially eliminating the only viable argument to invest in blue hydrogen.  “The True Cost of Solar Hydrogen,” the report from a European research team led by the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics, was published September 7 in the journal Solar RRL and concludes that “during this decade, solar hydrogen will be globally a less expensive fuel compared with hydrogen produced from natural gas with CCS [blue hydrogen].” (CCS is carbon capture and storage.) # ⚓ The_Record-Breaking_Failures_of_Nuclear_Power⠀⇛ After taking a whopping 42 years to build and finally bring on line its Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear power reactor in Tennessee, TVA just broke its own record for longest nuclear plant construction time. However, this time, the company failed to deliver a completed nuclear plant. Watts Bar 2 achieved criticality in May 2016, then promptly came off line due to a transformer fire three months later. It finally achieved full operational status on October 19, 2016, making it  the first United States reactor to enter commercial operation since 1996. # ⚓ Fossil_Fuel_Companies_Want_Governments_To_Pay_$18 Billion_For_Bringing_In_Laws_Tackling_The_Climate Crisis_Largely_Caused_By_Fossil_Fuel_Companies⠀⇛ Back in 2013, Techdirt started writing about the boring-sounding Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system. It was so boring, we decide to use a better term for it: corporate sovereignty. It’s an appropriate name, since this system of secret courts effectively places companies above a government, by allowing them to sue a nation if the latter takes actions or brings in laws that might adversely affect their profits. It was originally designed to protect companies that invested in unstable parts of the world, and to discourage things like expropriation by corrupt officials. But clever lawyers soon realized it was much more general than that, and could be used as a weapon against even the most powerful — and stable — nations. # ⚓ Biden_EPA’s_Clean_Car_Standards_Fall_Short_Even_of 2012_Standards⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_case_for_funding_bike_infrastructure⠀⇛ A recent study found, too, that European cities that expanded their biking infrastructure during the pandemic — when interest in the activity soared — saw up to 48 percent more people taking up biking than those that did not, according to the New York Times. Cities with better biking infrastructure also have much higher proportions of commuters who bike in general: 62 percent of Copenhagen’s workers commute by bike, for instance; domestically, over 20 percent of Davis’s do, compared to just 0.6 percent of commuters in the US overall. Key infrastructural changes can help residents move away from cars as their sole means of transportation, and help address a major source of pollution. As Gabby Birenbaum explained for Vox, curbing this dependence is important, as cities like Dallas are outsize contributors to the pollution that causes climate change: [...] # ⚓ [Old] Keeping_Track_of_Greenhouse_Gas_Emission Reduction_Progress_and_Targets_in_167_Cities Worldwide⠀⇛ Actions in cities shape the outcome of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission mitigation and our climate change response. Accurate and consistent carbon inventories are essential for identifying the main sources of emissions and global comparison of carbon reduction progress and would help inform targeted policies for low-carbon transition. To identify the effectiveness of historical carbon reduction policies, our study conducted energy-related GHG emission inventories for 167 globally distributed cities with information from different sectors, and assessed the city-scale near- term, mid-term, and long-term goals carbon mitigation targets from 2020 to 2050. On this basis, we propose mitigation strategies to achieve local and global climate targets. We found that, although Asian cities are the biggest carbon emitters in totals, the per capita GHG emissions of cities in developed countries are still generally higher than that in developing countries. In terms of sectors, the GHG emissions from the stationary energy uses (such as residential, commercial, and industrial buildings) and transportation sector contributed the most. However, cities in more developed nations have been inclined to set absolute carbon reduction targets before 2050, while intensity reduction target has been largely set for cities at the stage of rapid economic growth and accelerated industrialization. More ambitious and easily-tracked climate targets should be proposed by cities and more effective measures of reducing GHG emissions are required to stay consistent with the global ambition of climate change mitigation. # ⚓ China_deems_all_[cryptocurrency]-related_transactions illegal,_bitcoin_slips_5%⠀⇛ Ten Chinese government agencies, including the central bank as well as banking, securities and foreign exchange regulators, said in a joint statement that they would work closely to maintain a “high-pressure” crackdown on speculative trading of cryptocurrencies. All cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and tether, are not fiat currency and can’t be circulated on the market, People’s Bank of China said on its website. All crypto-related transactions, including services provided by offshore exchanges to domestic residents, are illicit financial activities, the PBOC said in the statement. The regulator will also bar financial institutions, payment companies and [Internet] firms from facilitating cryptocurrency trading, and will strengthen monitoring of risks from such activities. # ⚓ Bankman-Fried’s_[Cryptocurrency]_Exchange_FTX_Leaves Hong_Kong_for_Bahamas⠀⇛ The move comes as regulatory issues become a bigger factor for the cryptocurrency industry. Not only are U.S. officials looking to police the sector more closely, but China’s central bank on Friday declared all crypto-related transactions illegal, furthering a months-long crackdown. Thailand, South Korea and the U.K. are also among countries that have recently been scrutinizing [cryptocurrency] more closely. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Vanishing:_A_Bond_Across_Centuries⠀⇛ # ⚓ Trophy_Hunters_Have_Yellowstone’s_Wolves_in_Their Crosshairs⠀⇛ Restraints that had formerly limited the kill to one wolf in this hunting zone, to reduce the likelihood of harming Yellowstone’s wolves and ecosystems, had recently been wiped away by Montana officials. Within a few days, hunters shot three wolves dead in the zone bordering America’s first national park. We do not yet know if the wolves were adventurous, young males out on their own or if they were critical members of a family of Yellowstone wolves—perhaps even alpha females or males. # ⚓ Opinion_|_A_More_Just_Biodiversity_Framework_Must Build_Better_Bridge_Between_the_Global_North_and South⠀⇛ This month, the leaders of nation states from around the world have been gathered in New York City to attend the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Covid, climate and biodiversity are among the topics they are expected to address. Indeed, on September 21, in his sobering yet passionate address to the assembly, UN Secretary- General António Guterres focused attention on all three crises. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_We_Need_the_$3.5_Trillion_Reconciliation_Bill⠀⇛ I want to focus on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill but before that I want to comment on the looming debt ceiling crisis.  Republican leader Mitch McConnell this morning once again reiterated that the Republican Party will not vote to lift the debt ceiling and in extraordinarily irresponsible manner, will not pay the debts incurred under the Trump Administration. In his statement, as he has done time and time again, Senator McConnell implies that this debt ceiling has something to do with future spending.  It does not.  Like anybody who owns a credit card the payments that are made are for past spending, in this case spending incurred under President Trump.  And let’s be clear: if the United States, the largest economy in the world, defaults on its debt it will plunge not only our country but the entire global economy into a severe economic depression.  That means massive unemployment, higher interest rates, severe reduction in government services and possible cuts in Social Security and Medicare. # ⚓ Even_During_COVID-19_Recession,_Temporary_Assistance_Does Little_to_Reduce_Child_Poverty⠀⇛ The Census Bureau examined the impact of 13 programs on reducing child poverty during 2020. Of the 13 programs, TANF was among the weakest at reducing child poverty. (See Figure.) The Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was more than five times as effective as TANF in reducing child poverty. Unemployment Insurance was nearly seven times as effective. TANF ranked ninth out of the 13 programs in reducing child poverty. But one could argue that even this low rank was inflated by one position. Normally the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is more effective at reducing child poverty than TANF. For example, in 2019, the NSLP was nearly four times as effective in reducing child poverty as TANF. Because schools were closed for at least part of 2020, the NSLP was weaker than normal, and it was slightly less effective than TANF. # ⚓ What_should_we_do_about_the_debt_ceiling,_and_why_should you_care?⠀⇛ # ⚓ “Our_Health_or_Our_Homes”:_Tenants_Facing_Eviction_Help Introduce_New_“Keeping_Renters_Safe_Act”⠀⇛ As the Delta variant continues to surge across the United States, so too has the housing and eviction crisis, with more than 11 million households now behind on rent. Most of those evicted are Black or Latinx, and the majority are single women with children. We speak with a single mother and a high school student who have faced eviction and went to Washington, D.C., this week to help Congressmember Cori Bush and Senator Elizabeth Warren introduce the Keeping Renters Safe Act to reinstate the federal pandemic eviction moratorium. “We need the eviction moratorium and the National Tenant Bill of Rights,” says Vivian Smith, a tenant activist with the Miami Workers Center. We also speak with Faith Plank, a 17-year-old housing activist in Morehead, Kentucky, who was evicted in March and says she has felt “the pain of that eviction” every day since. “I can’t focus on school when I’m worried about how I’m going to go to bed tonight,” says Plank. # ⚓ Tenants_Facing_Eviction_Help_Introduce_New_“Keeping_Renters Safe_Act”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Central_Bank_Digital_Currency⠀⇛ Central bank digital currency: the future starts today, a speech by Benoît Cœuré, Head of the Innovation Hub at the Bank for International Settlements identifies a number of problems that central banks face: [...] # ⚓ 83_Percent_of_Rental_Assistance_Still_Undisbursed_as Millions_May_Face_Eviction⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The_China_Initiative,_a_Flawed_and_Dysfunctional_Policy⠀⇛ Many people may not be aware that the opposite policy once had equally strong support across the political spectrum with respect to educational and scientific exchanges with China. Approximately 370,000 students and scholars from China are in the US, nearly a third engaged in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) research. But now, as relations with China have deteriorated, Democrats and Republicans alike view Chinese graduate students and researchers, especially those in science and technology, with suspicion and even hostility. Sadly, many Chinese students are no longer feeling welcome. # ⚓ David_Moore_on_Manchin’s_Conflict,_Jim_Naureckas_on_Covid and_Media⠀⇛ # ⚓ Republican_Representative_Lauren_Boebert_Goes_Full Blunderbuss⠀⇛ Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert was recently spotted at a Staten Island GOP fundraiser palling around with a couple of the insurrectionists who stormed the US Capitol on January 6. She was joined at the New York City fete by fellow Trump throne- sniffer Lee Zeldin, the Long Island congressman who, like Boebert and Staten Island Representative Nicole Malliotakis, were among the cohort of coup supporters who did not vote to certify the 2020 election results—and are now fundraising off a presumptive “Trump’s Majority” in advance of next year’s midterms. # ⚓ Glenn_Greenwald_is_Not_Your_Misunderstood_Left_Comrade⠀⇛ Don’t disparage Glenn Greenwald in left media unless you are ready for an inbox eruption. The leading complaint in these messages is that I failed to acknowledge that Greenwald was being facetious and that he shares my Marxist critique AOC’s faux-radical stunt. A repeated theme can be summarized as follows: “You’re on the same side, give the man a break! Why must the Left always engage in self-destructive internecine warfare?” # ⚓ Noam_Chomsky_on_the_cruelty_of_American_imperialism⠀⇛ It turns out that was not far from the doctrine of Donald Rumsfeld, America’s then defence secretary, when the Taliban offered surrender in 2001, a stance now being acknowledged 20 years too late. If there were reason to apprehend Osama bin Laden (which was not obvious—he was just a suspect then) the right procedure would have been a police operation, probably with Taliban co-operation: they wanted to get rid of him. But America had to show its muscle—as it has been doing in recent weeks by sending an armada into the South China Sea. It goes on and on: there is little new in imperial history. # ⚓ Biopic_on_Reality_Winner,_Who_Leaked_NSA_Report_on_Russia’s Election_Interference,_in_the_Works⠀⇛ A biopic is in the works on the life of Reality Winner, a former American intelligence contractor who was arrested for leaking a classified report about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and charged with the first criminal leak case in President Donald Trump’s administration. The project, titled “Winner,” was announced on Tuesday by producers Big Beach, the production team behind “The Farewell” and “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” Susanna Fogel, the co-writer of “Booksmart” and director of “The Spy Who Dumped Me,” is set to direct from a script by Kerry Howley. Howley is the author of an article in New York Magazine from 2017 called “Who is Reality Winner?” that also serves as the basis of the screenplay. # ⚓ [Old] Emily_Davis_Doesn’t_Do_Impressions⠀⇛ Is This a Room, by Tina Satter and her company, Half Straddle, has wended its way from the performance-art space the Kitchen to Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre and now will open at the Lyceum on Broadway in September. With a script drawn entirely from the FBI recording of Reality Winner’s arrest at her house in Georgia, the show balances on the extremely downtown, never-before-on-Broadway star Emily Davis as Reality. We spoke in mid-August. # ⚓ Corporate_America_Cashed_In_on_9/11⠀⇛ Corporations large and small have left the financial feast of that post-9/11 surge in military spending with genuinely staggering sums in hand. After all, Pentagon spending has totaled an almost unimaginable $14 trillion-plus since the start of the Afghan War in 2001, up to one-half of which (catch a breath here) went directly to defense contractors. The political climate created by the Global War on Terror (GWOT), as Bush administration officials quickly dubbed it, set the stage for humongous increases in the Pentagon budget. In the first year after the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, defense spending rose by more than 10 percent and that was just the beginning. It would, in fact, increase annually for the next decade, which was unprecedented in American history. The Pentagon budget peaked in 2010 at the highest level since World War II—over $800 billion, substantially more than the country spent on its forces at the height of the Korean or Vietnam Wars or during President Ronald Reagan’s vaunted military buildup of the 1980s. # ⚓ EU_‘denounces’_Russian_malicious_cyber_activity_aimed_at member_states⠀⇛ A top European Union (EU) official on Friday called out Russia for its involvement in recent hacking efforts directed towards the governments of multiple member states, describing these efforts as “unacceptable.” # ⚓ Trump_opposes_YouTube_change_of_venue_request_in_platform ban_case⠀⇛ Former President Trump in a late Thursday court filing expressed opposition to YouTube’s motion to move the case regarding the former president’s removal from the platform from Florida to California. The filing, submitted on behalf of Trump and others opposing the decision by YouTube to suspend him from the platform in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, argued that YouTube’s Terms of Service, including its clause on appropriate forums to resolve disputes, “do not apply to government entities,” including Trump himself. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Inexorable_Push_For_Infrastructure_Moderation⠀⇛ I’m grateful to Techdirt and the EFF for this series. There are so many legitimately difficult issues around content moderation at the application layer—that is, on (and usually by) platforms like Facebook and Twitter. And they can crowd out the problems around the corner that are at least as difficult: those of code and content moderation at the infrastructural level, such as the wholesale platforms (such as Amazon Web Services) that host websites; domain name registries that support the use of domain names; and app stores from Apple and Google that largely determine what applications users can choose to run. # ⚓ Texas’_Unconstitutional_Social_Media_Censorship_Bill Challenged_In_Court,_Just_As_Texas_Joins_The_Legal_Fight_For Florida’s_Unconstitutional_Social_Media_Bill⠀⇛ Texas and Florida. Florida and Texas. Two states with governors who have decided that culture warrioring and “owning the libs” is way more important than the Constitution they swore to protect and uphold. As you’ll recall, last month Texas Governor Greg Abbott decided to use the internet services he hates to livestream his signing of the clearly unconstitutional HB20 that seeks to block social media sites from moderating how they see fit. # ⚓ Censorship_Is_OK_When_Transphobes_Do_It⠀⇛ An interview in the Guardian (9/7/21) made waves—not because of something it said, but because of something it didn’t say. # ⚓ Lithuania_looks_to_ban_‘untrustworthy’_phones_after_Chinese censorship_concerns⠀⇛ The censoring capability in Xiaomi’s (1810.HK) Mi 10T 5G phone software has been turned off for the “European Union region” but can be turned on remotely at any time, the country’s National Cyber Security Centre said in a report on Tuesday. read more # ⚓ Top_Republican_torches_LinkedIn_for_censoring_Americans_at the_request_of_China⠀⇛ A top Republican has become the first member of Congress to call out LinkedIn, the only major American social media platform that operates in China, for censoring American users on behalf of the ruling Communist Party. Rep. Jim Banks, chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee in Congress, sent a letter Friday to Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, criticizing them for bowing down to the Chinese government by blocking the profiles of Americans who refer to the Asian superpower in a critical fashion. There are at least 100 Americans whose LinkedIn profiles have anecdotally been found to have been banned by China in the past few months for allegedly anti-China content in the “Education” or “Experience” sections of their LinkedIn profiles. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ These_Cities_and_States_Are_Fighting_the_Tide_and_Expanding Abortion_Access⠀⇛ On September 15, two weeks into a near-total ban on abortion in Texas, the city commission of Portland, Ore., voted to vastly expand abortion access by granting $200,000 to the Northwest Abortion Access Fund. # ⚓ Trumpism_with_a_Biden_Face:_US_Haitian_Policy⠀⇛ Instead, we have had secret diplomacy culminating in the trilateral security pact of AUKUS, one reached unbeknownst to allies in Europe, Asia and the Indo-Pacific.  And we have had a particularly ugly spectacle concerning Haitian refugees, with many being bundled into planes to be sent back to their country, having been taken from the burgeoning border camp around a bridge in Del Rio, Texas. Having been blooded in the mass evacuation exercise from Afghanistan, the Biden administration was now doing the reverse in an exercise of expulsion, promising the deportation of 14,000 Haitians over a period of three weeks.  The jarring contrast was not lost on Nicole Melaku, executive director of the National Partnership for New Americans.  “When you contrast the welcome mat that was rolled out for many Afghan refugees who are deserving – of course – of our support and resettlement, with the deplorable treatment of Black migrants on our home soil, it is just an unfathomable contrast.” # ⚓ Roaming_Charges:_When_the_Whip_Comes_Down⠀⇛ The blackness of the Haitians crossing the Rio Grande, fleeing their quake-ravaged nation, a country whose elected leader was just assassinated by hired killers trained by the US Army and on the dole of the DEA, strikes deep historical chords of anxiety and guilt that dates back to its slave-led revolution, a revolution that has never been forgiven, an example the US has spent the last 230 years trying to suppress and punish. Usually this retribution takes place off camera, in a country the press rarely visits and never stays in for long. Haiti is a state where failure has been manufactured repeatedly by the US and then blamed by the US government for the destitution it has wrought, just as those anguished people at the border, chased down by horse patrols and whipped into submission, are transformed into the perpetrators of their own misery. Our leaders–Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, and Harris–wash their hands before they’ve even spilled blood of lives they consider insignificant. They’re willing to spend more on detention camps (including for separated children), prisons and deportation flights than it would cost to house, cloth and feed them. In the US, the door is closed most firmly in the faces of refugees from countries our economic and foreign policy has helped to ruin. When things go badly wrong, no one is held accountable. It’s the system, they say. And, of course, that much is true. But it’s a system politicians like Biden helped to program. It’s a system that administration after administration refuses to change, a system as inhumane as it is terrifying. We are meant to believe that the system runs on autopilot, where each past failure is replaced by a new crueler upgrade. The US is whipping people on the border to preserve a democracy that is incapable of changing a system most of its citizens find morally abhorrent. # ⚓ One_Year_on_Since_the_Farm_Laws_–_India’s_Farmers’_Struggle Set_to_Intensify⠀⇛ In November 2020, a nationwide general strike took place in support of the farmers and in that month around 300,000 farmers marched from the states of Punjab and Haryana to Delhi for what leaders called a “decisive battle” with the central government. But as the farmers reached the capital, most were stopped by barricades, dug up roads, water cannons, baton charges and barbed wire erected by police. The farmers set up camps along five major roads, building makeshift tents with a view to staying for months if their demands were not met. # ⚓ Senate_Filibuster_Final_Obstacle_After_House_Dems_Pass ‘Historic’_Abortion_Rights_Bill⠀⇛ With Roe v. Wade at risk and abortion access under assault by GOP state lawmakers, nearly all Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives came together Friday to pass federal legislation that would ensure the right to abortion, free from medically unnecessary restrictions, nationwide. “Now the Senate must act or the current crisis on abortion access in Texas could reverberate across large swaths of the nation.”—Nancy Northup, CRR # ⚓ US_Envoy_to_Haiti_Resigns,_Citing_Political_Intervention and_“Inhumane”_Deportation_Policy⠀⇛ The resignation comes as the Biden administration pushes forward with one of the largest mass expulsions of asylum seekers in decades. At least 12 flights have transported an estimated 1,400 individuals from Texas to Haiti in the past four days, and such flights are expected to nearly double throughout the week. The Biden administration has pledged to totally close the Del Rio, Texas border camp, where some 14,000 people had gathered last week hoping to apply for asylum in the United States. Though the administration has stated it is prioritizing single adults for deportation, flight manifests show that a significant portion of those sent to Haiti are families with young children. The head of Haiti’s migration office, Jean Negot Bonheur Delva, has personally called for a moratorium on the flights. Delva, however, said the government was not in a position to make a formal request. “We need to understand that this is a relationship between a big and a small country,” he told the Washington Post. # ⚓ Rep._Maxine_Waters:_Biden_Admin_Must_End_“Inhumane” Deportation_&_Whipping_of_Haitian_Asylum_Seekers⠀⇛ Longtime diplomat Daniel Foote, the U.S. special envoy to Haiti, has resigned in protest over the Biden administration’s mass deportation of Haitian asylum seekers and meddling in Haiti’s political affairs. The resignation comes days after U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback were filmed chasing, grabbing and whipping Haitian asylum seekers who had gathered in a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas. “I am outraged,” says Maxine Waters, a Democratic congressmember from California who is a longtime advocate for the rights of people in Haiti. She says refugees must be able to seek asylum in the U.S. without such “inhumane” treatment, and urges the Biden administration to do more to protect vulnerable people. “The United States can do better than this,” Waters says. # ⚓ Opinion_|_Imagine_US_Border_Agents_on_Horses_Whipping Swedish_Immigrants⠀⇛ The Texas side of the Rio Grande was alive with the sound of cruelty earlier this week. On Sunday, shouts of outrage in Creole mingled with orders barked in southern accents by American border patrol agents on horseback warning Haitian migrants and asylum seekers to turn back to Mexico. # ⚓ Biden_Decries_‘Outrageous’_Treatment_of_Haitians_at Border—But_Keeps_Deporting_Them⠀⇛ After several days of global outrage over footage of mounted U.S. agents using their horse reins as whips and menacing Black migrants at the southern border, President Joe Biden on Friday finally condemned the conduct, while his administration continued mass deportations to Haiti. A reporter asked the president whether he takes responsibility for the “chaos that’s unfolding” at the border and if he was failing to deliver on his campaign promise to restore the moral standing of the United States, in part by ending the Trump administration’s immigration policies. # ⚓ How_the_Kaepernick_Effect_Reached_Small-Town_Iowa⠀⇛ It can be a struggle for antiracist activist- athletes in a city or even a liberal college town. Now imagine doing it in Storm Lake, Iowa, an area known as “Steve King country” after the former white supremacist congressman who was voted out of office in 2020. Alyssa Parker, hailing from the comparatively big city of Des Moines, took a knee at tiny Buena Vista University, in Storm Lake. Copyright © 2021 by Dave Zirin. This excerpt originally appeared in The Kaepernick Effect: Taking A Knee, Changing the World, published by The New Press. Reprinted here with permission. # ⚓ Erasing_Women_To_Suck_Up_To_Trans_Activists⠀⇛ Set aside your view of abortion, because it’s about that. The issue is the ACLU joining in the ridiculous push to contort how we describe women to remove being born female from the equation. # ⚓ SCOTUS_Asked_to_Find_Texas_Abortion_Ban_Unconstitutional_as GOP_States_Copy_Bill⠀⇛ # ⚓ I_am_[person],_hear_me_roar_—_the_ACLU’s_Orwellian_editing of_RBG_to_erase_women⠀⇛ It’s Orwellian, to rewrite history and remove inconvenient but real references. Yet even the statists and authoritarians of “1984” understood that women existed and were unique from men. It’s grotesque to write women out of history as if we don’t matter. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Apple,_John_Deere_Investors_Pressure_Companies_On_Their Backwards_Repair_Policies⠀⇛ For years we’ve noted how both Apple and John Deere have become the face of the kind of obnoxious repair restrictions that have fueled the growing “right to repair” movement. Apple has long been criticized for bullying independent repair shop owners, attempting to monopolize repair, and generally being terrible from an environmental standpoint when it comes to waste and repair. John Deere has been equally criticized for obnoxious DRM and draconian repair policies that force many rural tractor owners to spend thousands of dollars, and sometimes drive thousands of miles, just to get essential agricultural equipment repaired. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Corporate_Cartels_are_Back⠀⇛ Cartels or trusts are back and with an equal vengeance.  In 2017, Lina Khan, then at the Yale Law School and now chair of the Federal Trade Commission, published a critical essay, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” in the Yale Law Journal.  She provocatively stated: “Amazon is the titan of twenty-first century commerce.”  And added: She then raised a deeper concern, noting that “the current framework in antitrust — specifically its pegging competition to ‘consumer welfare,’ defined as short-term price effects — is unequipped to capture the architecture of market power in the modern economy.” Going further, she argued, “We cannot cognize the potential harms to competition posed by Amazon’s dominance if we measure competition primarily through price and output.” # ⚓ SHOP_SAFE_Is_Another_Attempt_to_Fix_Big_Tech_That_Will Mostly_Harm_Small_Players_and_Consumers⠀⇛ Think about trying to sell something used online. Think about having a wool sweater that’s still in great condition but just doesn’t make sense for you anymore. Maybe you moved from Denver to Miami. So, as many of us do these days, you list your sweater online. You put it on eBay or Facebook Marketplace. Or a friend says they know someone who wants it and puts you in touch via email. You exchange the sweater for some cash, and everyone’s happy. Now imagine that before you can make that sale, you have to send eBay (or Facebook, or your email provider) a copy of your government ID. And verify that you took “reasonable steps,” whatever that means, to make sure the sweater isn’t a counterfeit. And state in your listing where the sweater was made, or if you don’t know, tell the platform all the steps you took to try and figure that out. And carefully word your listing to avoid anything that might get it caught in an automated trademark filter. At this point, you might reasonably decide to just chuck the sweater in the trash rather than jump through all these hoops. That’s the regime SHOP SAFE threatens to create. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Probe_of_Secret_Vaccine_Talks_Finds_‘Access_for_All Was_Never_a_Priority’⠀⇛ An investigative media outlet’s probe of closed-door negotiations between European officials and pharmaceutical companies indicates that ensuring equitable, universal access to coronavirus vaccines worldwide was never a top priority of the talks, despite political leaders’ repeated claims to the contrary. After speaking with current and former negotiators, United Nations representatives, NGO officials, and politicians, Investigate Europe reported Thursday that “access for all was never a priority” in initial vaccine procurement talks, which set the stage for the present inoculation gap between rich and poor countries. Of the more than 6 billion coronavirus vaccine doses that have been administered globally to date, just 2.2% have gone to people in low-income nations. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Italy_Vows_To_Bring_Entire_Government_To_Bear_To Oppose_Croatian_‘Prosek’_Trademark⠀⇛ We’ve written a couple of times about the Consorzio di Tutela della Denominazione di Origine Controllata Prosecco, whom I have nicknamed “The Prosecco People” because I’m not typing that every time. This organization with the sole goal of protecting the “Prosecco” name from being used, or nearly used, by anyone else has taken this mission to extreme lengths historically. Serving as examples were such times as The Prosecco People opposing a French company’s non- alcoholic sparkling wine brand dubbed “Nosecco”, as well as bullying a pet treat company that created a drink for pets called “Pawsecco”. In both cases, if you can find any real reason to worry about public confusion as to the source of those goods, you’re a crazy person. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Website_blocking:_No_copyright_liability_for_DNS services!⠀⇛ EDRi’s member Society for Civil Rights (GFF) supports the independent DNS resolver Quad9 in a court case against an interim injunction ordering Quad9 to set up network blocks. The blocking of entire websites is a threat to freedom of information on the [Internet]. Technologically neutral service providers must not bear the costs and risks of enforcing claims for copyright infringements for which they are neither involved in nor aware of. # ⚓ Marvel_Suing_to_Keep_Rights_to_‘Avengers’_Characters From_Copyright_Termination⠀⇛ Disney’s Marvel unit is suing to hold on to full control of Avengers characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, Thor and others. The complaints, which The Hollywood Reporter has obtained, come against the heirs of some late comic book geniuses including Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and Gene Colan. The suits seek declaratory relief that these blockbuster characters are ineligible for copyright termination as works made for hire. If Marvel loses, Disney would have to share ownership of characters worth billions. # ⚓ Disney_sues_to_keep_its_Avengers_copyrights assembled⠀⇛ Termination notices are meant to let creators and their heirs share in publishers’ profits. But Disney’s attorneys argue that Marvel had sole creative control over the characters and comic books in question, saying it paid writers and artists on a work-for-hire basis that precluded any rights to the resulting books. “This case thus involves an invalid attempt, by means of termination notices … to acquire certain rights to iconic Marvel comic book characters and stories,” says the suit against Lieber. # ⚓ ResearchGate_Removes_200,000_‘Infringing’_Files_After Takedown_Tidal_Wave⠀⇛ The academic community platform ResearchGate has removed 200,000 files in response to a wave of copyright complaints from publishers ACS and Elsevier. The takedowns go against ResearchGate’s open-access philosophy but, legally, it saw no other option than to comply. # ⚓ Several_‘SportsBay’_Pirate_Streaming_Sites_Go_Dark_In Wake_of_US_Lawsuit⠀⇛ Several large live streaming sites sued by DISH Network for breaching the anti- circumvention provisions of the DMCA have gone dark. SportsBay, the largest of the quartet, had around nine million visitors per month but an order issued by a Texas court requiring third-parties to hand over details of its operator may have set off alarm bells. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3851 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.25.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_25/9/2021:_GNU/Linux_Recognition_in_Mainstream_Media_and_Wine-Staging 6.18⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:52 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ What_Is_GNU/Linux?⠀⇛ Before diving headfirst into the wonky world of GNU/Linux systems, it’s important to understand how they came about and some of the terms you may encounter while researching and using them. I’ll start with a brief history of the big three: UNIX, Linux, and GNU. UNIX is a proprietary, command-line-based operating system originally developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson (among others) at AT&T’s Bell Labs in the late 1960s and early 1970s. UNIX is coded almost entirely in the C programming language (also invented by Ritchie) and was originally intended to be used as a portable and convenient OS for programmers and researchers. As a result of a long and complicated legal history involving AT&T, Bell Labs, and the federal government, UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems grew in popularity, as did Thompson’s influential philosophy of a modular, minimalist approach to software design. During this period, Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project with the goal of creating “an operating system that is free software.” GNU, confusingly, stands for “GNU’s Not UNIX.” This project is responsible for the UNIX-like GNU OS. Stallman also launched the related Free Software Foundation (FSF) on the principle that “any user can study the source code, modify it, and share the program” for any participating software. o ⚓ PC_Magazine_claims_2021_Is_the_Year_of_Linux_on_the_Desktop⠀⇛ PC Magazine has dusted off an old and much mocked headline and claimed that 2021 Is the Year of Linux on the Desktop. In case you had not noticed it, PC Mag explains that there are millions of machines out there which are using Linux including Chromebooks. So, yeah, that counts right? Chrome OS and Android are both based on the Linux kernel. They don’t have the extra GNU software that distributions like Ubuntu have, but they’re descended from Linus Torvalds’ original work and are the fastest growing segment of the traditional PC market, according to Canalys. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ 1:1_Gestures_and_New_Overview_in_KDE_Plasma:_When!?_– Kockatoo_Tube⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Facebook_Has_Been_Working_On_BOLT’ing_The_Linux_Kernel_For Greater_Performance_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ For several years now Facebook engineers have been working on BOLT as a way to speed-up Linux/ELF binaries. This “Binary Optimization and Layout Tool” is able to re-arrange executables once profiled to generate even faster performance than what can be achieved by a compiler’s LTO and PGO optimizations. One of the latest BOLT efforts has been on optimizing the Linux kernel image. # ⚓ OpenZFS_2.0.6_Released_With_Support_For_Newer_Kernels⠀⇛ While the OpenZFS 2.1 feature release has been available since July, for those still using the OpenZFS 2.0.x series and not yet prepared to make the jump to that big new release with dRAID and other changes, OpenZFS 2.0.6 was released this week. OpenZFS 2.0.6 is another maintenance release for those not migrating yet to the v2.1 series. OpenZFS 2.0.6 most notably brings support for newer versions of the Linux kernel: OpenZFS 2.0.5 supported up through Linux 5.12 while OpenZFS 2.0.6 now supports Linux 5.13/5.14 plus some early 5.15 compatibility patches. # ⚓ Intel’s_User_Interrupts_With_Sapphire_Rapids_Looking_Quite Great_For_Faster_IPC_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Earlier this month Intel engineers posted their initial Linux kernel enablement around x86 User Interrupts with this feature premiering with Xeon “Sapphire Rapids” CPUs. As implied by the name, the User Interrupt functionality allows for interrupts to bypass the kernel for more efficient, low- latency, low-utilization interrupts being received by other user-space tasks. Intel talked more about User Interrupts this week at LPC2021. # ⚓ Linus_Torvalds_Recognizes_Linux’s_‘True’_30th_Anniversary Date⠀⇛ While it’s been argued that Linux has four different “birthdays,” last Friday saw the 30th anniversary of Linux’s very, very first release — version 0.01. That special first release “was never publicly announced, and I only emailed a handful of people in private about the upload,” Torvalds remembered on the Linux kernel mailing list. He no longer has copies of those announcement emails, “so there’s no real record of that. The only record of the date is in the Linux-0.01 tar-file itself, I suspect.” # ⚓ 30_years_since_the_Linux_0.01_release⠀⇛ This is just a random note to let people know that today is actually one of the core 30-year anniversary dates: 0.01 was uploaded Sept 17, 1991. Now, that 0.01 release was never publicly announced, and I only emailed a handful of people in private about the upload (and I don't have old emails from those days), so there's no real record of that. The only record of the date is in the Linux-0.01 tar-file itself, I suspect. Alas, the dates in that tar-file are for the last modification dates, not the actual creation of the tar-file, but it does seem to have happened around 7:30pm (Finnish time), so the exact anniversary was technically a couple of hours ago. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ XWayland_GLX_Path_Enables_sRGB_Support⠀⇛ Another item is now crossed off the XWayland TODO list with OpenGL sRGB support wired up. Merged this week into the XWayland GLX code is enabling of sRGB frame-buffer configurations when the underlying OpenGL driver support allows GL_FRAMEBUFFER_SRGB. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Bat_is_Like_the_cat_Command_in_Linux,_But_Super-Charged_and Written_in_Rust⠀⇛ Bat is a cat command clone with advance syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages. Despite the title of this article, we’ll not talk about cats and bats here, but about the cat and bat commands in Linux. As you know, the cat (short for concatenate) command is a utility in Linux. One of its most commonly known usages is to print the content of a file onto the standard output stream. But given more time spent in the command line, features like syntax highlighting come in very handy. # ⚓ How_To_Install_pgAdmin_on_Debian_11_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install pgAdmin on Debian 11. For those of you who didn’t know, pgAdmin is a free and open-source web-based tool that provides a friendly web interface to fully manage PostgreSQL databases, and it includes several features that can help you administer and maintain databases with ease. It’s written in Python and supports many operating systems such as Linux, Windows, and macOS. 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 pgAdmin on a Debian 11 (Bullseye). # ⚓ How_to_configure_your_Raspberry_Pi_OS_to_use_it_for_the first_time_–_LinuxStoney⠀⇛ Whether it is to set up a personal server, to play retro games, or simply out of curiosity and to learn programming, today we can all get a Raspberry Pi . This microcomputer has earned a great reputation within the IT sector thanks to its construction based on free hardware, the considerable power it offers and, above all, its price. We can install a wide variety of operating systems (especially Linux) on it. But, whatever system we install, we may have to make some configuration to adapt it to our needs. And here the problems can begin. Raspberry Pi OS is the official operating system for this microcomputer. This system is based on Debian, and it comes specially prepared and optimized to work in an optimized way on this device. However, depending on the use that we are going to give it, we may have to configure some aspect of it as soon as we start it up. In this way, we find two ways to configure this Raspberry Pi OS to adapt it to our needs. # ⚓ rpm2cpio_utility_fixed⠀⇛ I downloaded a Fedora rpm file, and was unable to open it. Hmmm, we had this problem ages ago, see this blog post in 2011: https://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/201106/busybox- 39rpm2cpio39-fails.html And a fix for Xarchive in 2018: https://bkhome.org/news/201812/fix-rpm-extraction- in-xarchive.html EasyOS has the busybox ‘rpm2cpio’ applet, and that is still broken. The ‘exploderpm’ script doesn’t seem to work either. # ⚓ Fixing_choppy_video_and_chunky_font_quality_in_Firefox installed_via_Flathub_in_openSUSE⠀⇛ f you’ve installed the Firefox browser using flatpak on openSUSE, you probably have noticed these two issues: - poor video quality with lags (e.g videos on Twitter) - funky font display on some pages (e.g Facebook) Firefox comes with the ffmpeg extension enabled but the libs need to be installed. At the time of writing this post, the extension for ffmpeg version 20.08 was enabled in the following file if you installed Firefox using the –user flag with Flatpak. # ⚓ How_To_Install_osTicket_on_AlmaLinux_8_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install osTicket on AlmaLinux 8. For those of you who didn’t know, osTicket is a free and open-source customer support ticketing system and is widely used globally. It is a simple lightweight web-based application that allows one to organize, manage and archive support requests. 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 osTicket support ticketing system on an AlmaLinux 8. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux. # ⚓ Choose_Audio_Devices_in_Ubuntu_System_Tray_Menu_via Extension_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ For laptop and desktop PC with more than one audio input and output devices, it’s possible to switch between audio devices quickly with upper right corner system tray menu. It’s a common situation that users have more than one audio devices connected to the computer. GNOME, the default Ubuntu Desktop Environment, provides Sound settings to choose which input and/or output device to use. To make life easier, a Gnome extension is available to integrate the settings into system tray status menu under volume control slider. So users can quickly choose a speaker, HMDI, microphone or other input device via few clicks. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Enlightenment_Desktop_in_Arch_Linux_ [Complete_Guide]⠀⇛ This guide explains the steps you need to install Enlightenment Desktop in Arch Linux. This guide has two parts. The first part deals with installing the base Arch system. The second part is installing the complete Enlightenment desktop environment on top of Arch Linux. o § Wine or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Wine-Staging_6.18_Released_With_616_Patches_Atop_Upstream⠀⇛ Building off yesterday’s Wine 6.18 development release is now the next Wine-Staging installment that has more than six hundred extra patches on top. Wine-Staging 6.18 has 616 patches on top of the upstream Wine code-base. This comes after a number of patches were recently upstreamed around NTOSKRNL, Shell32, PSAPI, and other components. # ⚓ Wine_6.18_and_Wine_staging_6.18_released⠀⇛ An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI – Wine 6.18 has been released . Since the release of version 6.17 , 19 bug reports have been closed and 485 changes have been made. [...] The new release provides synchronization with the Wine 6.18 codebase. 7 patches related to ntoskrnl.exe, IRP, unixfs support in shell32 and implementation of the K32GetModuleBaseNameW, K32GetModuleInformation and K32GetModuleBaseNameA functions have been transferred to the main Wine composition. Added 4 patches with the ability to integrate Token objects into sapi and support for the FltBuildDefaultSecurityDescriptor and ISpObjectToken-CreateInstance functions. The updated patch has been plat-streaming-support . o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Godot_Engine_–_Multiplayer_in_Godot_4.0:_RPC_syntax, channels,_ordering⠀⇛ Howdy Godotters! Time for another update on Godot 4.0′s multiplayer networking. We have been really busy working on the foundation of the networking and multiplayer classes lately, and there are quite a few new features to talk about. In this post, we’ll start by showing some of the new RPC syntax and features. # ⚓ Reimplenting_the_Wolfenstein_3D_renderer_|_mcomella.xyz⠀⇛ When I was young, I was told that games like Wolfenstein 3D use “fake 3D” and ever since I’ve been wondering what they meant by that. I recently satisfied my curiosity by reading through Fabien Sanglard’s very enjoyable book, Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, which explains how Wolfenstein 3D was built. While reading, I realized, “Hey – I can do that!” and set about reimplenting the renderer: specifically, the algorithm that generates and textures the walls in a 3D perspective. Here’s the result with a texture and a map I generated myself: # ⚓ Steam_Deck_can_be_used_as_a_PC_controller_and_run_multiple systems⠀⇛ We already knew that the Steam Deck was going to be more than just a typical handheld game console. In a new section of frequently asked questions, Valve has answered some of the doubts that its potential buyers may have, and, at the same time, has confirmed some of its added capabilities. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that it can be used as a controller for games on PCs. All that needs to be done is to connect the Steam Deck to a personal computer via Remote Play and configure it as a controller. Sounds really good. # ⚓ Valve_confirms_Steam_Deck_can_be_used_as_PC_controller, does_not_support_external_GPUs⠀⇛ We already know that the Steam Deck will have more features than your typical handheld gaming console, and Valve has just revealed another of its functions: the ability to be used as a PC controller. But one thing it won’t have is support for external GPUs, which was pretty much expected, admittedly. In a new FAQ, Valve answers what it says are the 20 most popular questions about Steam Deck. Probably the most interesting revelation is confirmation that the handheld can be used as a controller for your PC games. All you have to do is connect the Steam Deck to your computer via Remote Play. # ⚓ Valve_Posts_Official_Steam_Deck_FAQ:_Supports_MicroSD Booting,_Remote_Play_for_PC⠀⇛ Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck gaming console is set to start shipping in December of this year, and interest is high for the handheld gaming console. Steam Deck buyers have a lot of upfront questions, though, so Valve has posted a frequently asked questions (FAQs) page to share some more details about the new system. As a reminder, the Steam Deck gaming console is Valve’s attempt to enter the handheld gaming market, and it wields a custom AMD APU. Featuring four cores and eight threads of Zen 2 core IP, the chip runs at 2.4–3.5 GHz clock speeds. It also features an RDNA 2 graphics engine with eight compute units running at 1.0–1.6 GHz. The APU is rated for a thermal power budget of anywhere from 4W to 15W, and it connects to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM running at 5500 MT/s. For external storage, there’s a high-speed microSD card slot. This is all tied together by a custom Arch Linux-based operating system with Valve’s Steam UI on top of it. # ⚓ AMD’s_new_Linux_CPU_driver_for_the_Steam_deck_is_showing promising_results⠀⇛ No one really knows when you’ll be able to get your hands on a Steam Deck, with shipping dates slipping into the second quarter of 2022. In the meantime, Valve and AMD are working to squeeze more performance out of the Zen 2 SoC inside the new handheld console, as well as improve its energy efficiency. Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck will be able to run Windows 11 for those who want it, but the majority of users will likely stick with the company’s own Arch Linux-based SteamOS 3.0, which uses the Proton compatibility layer to run games that don’t run natively on Linux. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ This_week_in_KDE:_Plasma_on_the_move⠀⇛ Plasma 5.23’s beta period is half over, and we’re busy fixing issues found by our wonderful users. One thing to note is that I don’t mention fixes for regressions that never shipped to users in final releases, and this includes beta versions. If I included those, the list below would be much longer! Because rest assured, we have been fixing tons and tons of the bugs and regressions that all your faithful QA has caught during the beta period. All those bug reports are really valuable. So please do keep filing them! Bug reporting isn’t a black hole! In the Plasma Wayland session, KWin now supports “DRM leasing”, which allows us to re-add support for VR headsets and let them achieve optimal performance (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.24) KWin now lets you optionally set a global keyboard shortcut to move a window to the center of its screen (Kristen McWilliam, Plasma 5.24) # ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.24_On_Wayland_To_Support_DRM_Leasing_For VR_Headsets⠀⇛ With the KDE Plasma 5.23 release quickly approaching, feature development is already heating up for Plasma 5.24 while concurrently driving many fixes into the v5.23 codebase. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap for the open-source desktop project. It’s been a busy week of new KDE Plasma 5.24 feature code landing plus further stabilizing Plasma 5.23 and related components — including the ongoing push of Wayland fixes. Highlights for the week are… o § Distributions⠀➾ # § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾ # ⚓ Zorin_OS_16_|_Why_THIS_Is_Better_Than_Windows_11?_ (NEW)_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Zorin OS is reborn with Stunning New Features, Impressive Improvements in Design, and a Whole New World of Apps that will TRANSFORM how You Experience your computer. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Growth_of_the_Fedora_Distribution_over_time⠀⇛ There was a conversation in IRC (libera.chat, #fedora-admin) on the amount of disk space that Fedora is using over time. It used to grow astronomically over time, but there was an idea that it might be slowing down.. and then the realization that no one had graphed it. Taking this challenge in hand I decided to look at it. Doing a complete mirror of the data would require me to have a very long time frame and 100+ TB of disk space, but luckily for me, the Fedora mirror system does a du every night and outputs this data to a file, https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/ DIRECTORY_SIZES.txt The file covers all the directories that the main download servers have including the archive trees which are where old releases go to live. It also puts it in a ‘human- readable’ format like… # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Sway⠀⇛ A new desktop has been implemented to APTus AppCenter: Sway o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ SONOFF_Smart_Stackable_Power_Meter_supports_up_to_128_20A relays_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ ITEAD has introduced many smart switches over the year under the SONOFF brand, and their latest SONOFF Smart Stackable Power Meter is DIN mountable and made for larger industrial applications with up to 128 devices. The solution is comprised of the “SPM-Main” WiFi connected main unit controlling up to 32 “SPM- 4Relay” units with 4 relays each using RS485 daisy- chaining. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Toy_Jeep_For_After_The_Apocalypse_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ These toys usually have one or two 12V high- speed motors driving plastic gear trains for the rear wheels. This one is a two-motor model and unexpectedly comes with a steering motor for parental remote control. All its electronics were dead, so rather than do a complete motor upgrade he instead doubled the voltage and installed decent motor controllers with an Arduino sending them instructions. Otherwise it received an upgrade and stiffening of its chassis and steering components, and the kids plastic steering wheel was replaced with a wooden one. # ⚓ Embrace_The_New,_But_Don’t_Forget_The_Old_| Hackaday⠀⇛ We were trading stories of our first self- made PCBs in the secret underground Hackaday bunker, and a couple of the boards looked really good for first efforts. Of course there were mistakes and sub-optimal routing, but who among us never connects up the wrong signals or uses a bad footprint? What lead me to have a hacker “kids these days have it so easy” moment was that all of the boards were, of course, professionally fabbed with nice silkscreens. They all looked great. What a glorious time to be starting down the hardware path! When I made my first PCB, the options were basically laying down tape, pulling out the etch resist pen, or paying a bazillion inflation-adjusted dollars for a rapid prototype board. This meant that the aspiring hacker also had to have a steady hand and be at least casually acquainted with a little chemistry. The ability to just send your files out to a PCB house means that the barrier to stepping up your hardware game from plug-them-together modules is lower than it’s ever been. # ⚓ AugLimb_is_the_extra_arm_you_didn’t_know_you_needed_| Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ As a maker, you probably have a third hand for your soldering station. They come in handy when you need to hold a component, PCB, solder, and soldering iron all at the same time. But an extra hand would be useful for a wide range of other everyday activities. That’s why this team of researchers created a compact robotic third arm called AugLimb. While robotic augmentations aren’t a new idea, they aren’t often as usable as AugLimb. This robotic arm is lightweight and compact, making it comfortable to wear. It can’t lift much weight, but it is very dexterous thanks to seven degrees of freedom and an extendable gripper. It attaches to the wearer’s bicep and folds up when not in use. When it is time for action, AugLimb unfolds and reaches further than the user’s own arm. # ⚓ Classic_Chip_Line-Up_Powers_This_Fun_Dub_Siren_Synth |_Hackaday⠀⇛ There’s a certain elite set of chips that fall into the “cold, dead hands” category, and they tend to be parts that have proven their worth over decades, not years. Chief among these is the ubiquitous 555 timer chip, which nearly 50 years after its release still finds its way into the strangest places. Add in other silicon stalwarts like the 741 op- amp and the LM386 audio amp, and you’ve got a Hall of Fame lineup for almost any project. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Cross_Compile_to_PinePhone_Part_Three⠀⇛ On last part, we managed to generate package by hand. While it works, having a script to do everything for us is even better. So I’ve wrote a small python script to automate the process. Apart from the SDK issue mentioned above, we still need to write proper tutorials on https://develop.kde.org/ about cross compile. I’m happy with the overall result, to be able to cross compile to target platform is essention to mobile development. The major difference between Plasma Mobile and Android/ iOS is apps on Plasma Mobile are neither self-contained or static linked. Together with the updating of system libraries it’s impossible to ship a static SDK, you’ll need to have all the dynamic linked libraries on rootfs. For iOS and Android, the only dynamic linked libraries is system ones, and they don’t change throughout one major version. You can have Android 10 SDK for Android 10, 11 SDK for 11… But for Plasma Mobile Manjaro, it’s a rolling distribution, you’ll also need a rolling SDK. I hope the ablity to cross compiling to PinePhone can improve everyone’s productivity on Plasma Mobile development, however it’s just a small step towards what Android and iOS have. We still lack phone emulator, remote debugging and UI debugging tools. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_and_Hardware_Acceleration_on_Linux⠀⇛ In some Firefox version after 88.0 it looks like they’re enabling WebRenderer by default, and it also looks like my hardware (an Nvidia graphics card with the proprietary driver)[1] isn’t whitelisted, so what Firefox does is enable “software WebRenderer” instead. First things first, I had been trying WebRenderer for some time (more than a couple of month) by force-enabling it, and while it seemed to make things better at first, on the whole the experience was awful, and because WebRenderer, if I understand correctly, uses GPU acceleration, that affected the rest of the desktop, so after a while I disabled WebRenderer (and “Hardware Acceleration” in the preferences tab, and set the processes limit to 2, while I was there), and then things seemed to be better. Due to the iffy state Firefox can be in sometimes, I had decided to skip updates for as long as I can, i.e. I update Firefox, then stick with the version I have until an extension I use no longer works, or there is a really compelling new feature in a new version of Firefox (which, sadly, doesn’t seem to be as often as it was before the “rapid release” schedule Mozilla had adapted…). So here I was using Firefox 88.0, shut the machine down at night, turned it on in the morning, then when I was opening a link, Firefox started and all the tabs had the “your tab crashed” “reload this tab?” message, clicking that button had no effect. So nothing worked, not restoring the previous tabs, disabling all extensions, moving ~/.mozilla and starting anew; a couple of online searches later, still nothing, then I looked at rpm -qa –last | less, now I think the reason is a glibc update, which broke Firefox, probably it would be fixed by rebuilding Firefox against the new glibc. Not really OpenSuse Tumbleweed’s problem because the current version of Firefox in the repos is 92.0… # ⚓ Mozilla_VPN_boosted_with_multi-hop,_blocking and_custom_DNS_features⠀⇛ Mozilla introduced new privacy features to its VPN service, Mozilla VPN, earlier this week. The organization launched Mozilla VPN back in June 2020 in select regions and has expanded the availability since then. Mozilla partnered with Mullvad, a Swedish company, and uses the company’s infrastructure for its own Mozilla VPN product. # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL_JDBC_42.2.24_Released⠀⇛ The JDBC project is proud to announce the latest version 42.2.24 # ⚓ PostgreSQL:_check_pgbackrest_2.1_has_been_released⠀⇛ check_pgbackrest is designed to monitor pgBackRest backups from Nagios, relying on the status information given by the info command. It allows to monitor the backups retention and the consistency of the archived WAL segments. # ⚓ PostgreSQL:_SQLite_fdw_2.1.0_released⠀⇛ We have just released version 2.1.0 of the Foreign Data Wrapper for SQLite. This release can work with PostgreSQL 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. # § CMS⠀➾ # ⚓ GPLKey_Offers_Reliable_And_Affordable_WordPress Themes_For_Businesses_–_Digital_Journal⠀⇛ Important keys for a business to be successful online is to have a professional and attractive, easy to navigate, and affordable website. The themes and plugins a business chooses are important as they directly impact its presence online. With thousands of satisfied customers, GPLKey is an online source for premium themes and plugins for WordPress websites that fit the needs of businesses looking to create a presence on the Internet. Each of the hundreds of products featured on the GPLKey.com website have a full list of features, customization tools and the included plug-ins. # ⚓ GPLPlus_Meets_the_WordPress_Demand_for_Businesses Growth⠀⇛ Companies around the world are increasingly realizing that they need not break the bank for a successful website. This realization has led many organizations into utilizing open-source solutions, with one of those being WordPress as a development model. All features demanded by customers are found on this software which uses an open-source license called GNU General Public License (GPL). The software industry continues to succeed in solving real world problems to individual users and customer-oriented cooperations. All the demanded features have been found to be open-source, which involves the utilization of WordPress as a development model. GPLPlus understands the fact that every web developer deserves the right website, even without breaking the bank. The company has offers WordPress users the ability to excel in their next project through perfect plugin and themes. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_do_programmers_prefer_to_use_Linux?⠀⇛ Windows is the most widely used operating system, both in home and business environments. Most of the programs are created to run on this operating system. However, the people who create these programs (developers, programmers and system administrators mainly) prefer to leave Windows aside and work on another operating system: Linux. Why? What brings you to this? Linux offers a large number of advantages when it comes to working and developing, advantages that range from flexibility to security and system performance. Today, Linux is a perfectly affordable system for any user, since it is not much more complicated to use than any Windows system. However, this OS does not end up gaining popularity within home environments, its main strength being the servers and the computers of the programmers. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Latest_Perl_Introduction_2021_Movie⠀⇛ Perl version 5.36. isa operator. try catch syntax. enable warnings. use v5.36. use v7. The introduction of the members of Perl core team. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Java_17_Release_Promises_Faster_Performance⠀⇛ Java Development Kit 17 and Java 17 are now generally available. JDK 17 was announced by the Open JDK group and Oracle released the new version under a commercial license for those using the Oracle JDK release as part of an Oracle product or service, or for those who want to be able to get commercial support. Java 17 is an LTS (Long Term Support) version and Oracle says Oracle JDK 17 and future JDK releases are provided under a free-to-use license until a full year after the next LTS release. Oracle will also continue providing Oracle OpenJDK releases under the open- source General Public License (GPL), as it has since 2017. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Dyne.org,_RIDDLE&CODE_and_InfoCert’s_Consortium_Appointed to_Take_EBSI_to_the_Next_Level⠀⇛ The consortium formed by Dyne.org, RIDDLE&CODE and InfoCert, has been selected by the European Commission as one of seven contractors to develop the next version of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI). The award is one more milestone in the consortium’s track record of excellence with cryptography and blockchain, after Dyne.org led the flagship H2020 project DECODE, RIDDLE&CODE’s blockchain solutions are deployed in banking and utility markets Europe wide and InfoCert being the largest Certification Authority at European level and eIDAS certified QTSP. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ If_you_install_Windows_11_on_an_unsupported_PC, you_will_not_get_updates⠀⇛ You can always install Ubuntu or Linux Mint Being a Linux evangelist it would be very remiss of me not to at least mention it is an option that you have. Linux Distros like Ubuntu and Linux Mint are quite user friendly and easy to set up. It’s a lot easier to install Ubuntu on your laptop or PC than it is to install Windows. You can even install Ubuntu or Linux Mint alongside Windows and choose which OS you want to boot into during startup. I am always telling people that these days it doesn’t really matter which OS you are using as long as you can install Google Chrome. Most of the stuff we do and need is in the cloud. If you are an accountant for example you can use Sage or QuickBooks in the cloud so there is no need for Windows support. You can use Office 365 or Google Workspace and so much more. Your OS just sits behind the scenes unobtrusively facilitating your desires. There was a time when desktop apps ruled the roost and this was a big reason for you not to install Linux but those days are long gone. Ubuntu 20.04 will be supported for the next 10 years so, 2030 inenge ichipo! Ubuntu will also run much faster than Windows 11 will ever will on your old Hardware. You can do that or just keep Windows 10 which Microsoft has said they will keep supporting and updating. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ NPE_litigation_in_the_US_bounces_back [Ed: Patent trolls-funded_site writes about patent trolls causing more damaging by ‘innovating’… by suing]⠀⇛ # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Champagne_Producers_Toast_CJEU_Decision_Affirming Trade_Mark_Protections_Under_PDO⠀⇛ The body responsible for protecting the interests of champagne producers, Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC), initially brought two opposition claims in the Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas (the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office) against the GB Group (GB), a Spanish entity that operates tapas bars in Spain. GB marketed CHAMPANILLO (a frothy drink) using a sign on its leaflets and social media accounts that portrayed two cups filled with the drink “clinking” together. 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