𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, October 04, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Tue 5 Oct 02:40:09 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/2021/10/04/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmSDxEDkdmunKoZmMNVwhKaEKpJYVPqrdqPnbEGhNadE9g QmU3Cc6hMhpsNzFQ82J5uqhtgrCrh67mKLmWhYadentK2o QmQacCjdmHDTi18CHZHhTZoQaq1qFiasj5iWoMZ8Fehf5q QmPWMxYuC9jpqYMEsNWeqP6frZMUpZi99XXbWkJNBJUKoi QmVJRjPH1YsZzKy3abfyBSCWdBy7Pfm7cEB8d1g1cQQyfd QmNUSEXDbUxbW6m6ooyVZNdN7ZyhMjh1q1VNUXyw4WUQ3i QmXigVXDZA7wuFXWn1ieyB6Z3Vz1jBDVuLsbFcmJW29g7k QmPEfsYcyS2TDHQVY6rC6oShWGQQA9zzKSLEsWg34fRiPT QmZvjyhZs3sJdozDCTLX1fbmAMdwoGgJqcPT97hYdb4eS8 QmP3ZqUhWLtsoNk9e1XZbKMU4hB7Z4XET8rdm3utr2x9y9 QmRJGaosMaTsLMaPkXt42c3eUm2cmGbMQsiWbqwfSj4rFV QmVpm9hDw5gu77p5GNGaG5DU2W7uzy83mFBbqknJREAU3w QmV3rmUZyHKRZr4HLVsZHXH3SyMh5Xz6dwshz5vRFuVMAD QmSoYJzJX4ejm4LRdPXhN6F7YBjLvbCRnrxdhaDSj8iaNC QmbpQyjzfhZNaWnZ1L6GHyRzDA6B5RojnHgAGKGeJKMiyn QmZjNRnDnEWPhNuhKXBvuyovU32qnjESR1UG1T8emS6oy2 QmSjHyfej3iKcBfRyB2EGPkqcfwQ3z51X2Qz89CbQ1D5GX QmRXKRPosZ7Bz2MggcSzikrb6U91AxeDNghC3nQk4eD4fh QmXTYTLpzWBYZ5xwWzbbZJAw6K15tUSpUQPiKiZLEsKUUq QmUeuLZQ99vnV24pVDJ9uvHk32tda8NgQW3EpyMCrA9AuB QmZmZwDEJRgqxWPLUg1yQVpFv4YB6HxbHmBdDJg9X68QK2 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ [Meme] Took Longer Than Battistelli’s Presidency (and as Long as False UPC Promises) | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] Attacking the Workers, the Press, and the Law | Techrights ⦿ EPO Collusion | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 03, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] Totally and Perfectly Legal | Techrights ⦿ Matthew Garrett’s Twitter Log Shows Exactly Why We Need to Give Security Theater the Boot | Techrights ⦿ The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part II: A “Unanimous” Endorsement? | Techrights ⦿ Windows Vista Service Pack ’11′ Will Have “Virtualization Based Security” Theater That Slows Down Games Almost 30% and Enables Security Vulnerabilities on Intel Tiger Lake CPUs (Probably Others Too) | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/8-years-injustice/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/epo-attacking-the-workers/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/epo-collusion/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/irc-log-031021/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/klutz-legal-misdirection/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/matthew-garrett-security-theatre/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/non-unanimous-spin/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/windows-vista-service-pack-11-performance/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/gnu-automake-1-16-5/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/lumina-desktop-1-6-1/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 69 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/8-years-injustice/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/10/04/8-years-injustice/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Took_Longer_Than_Battistelli’s_Presidency_(and_as_Long_as_False_UPC Promises)⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 5:55 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Pelosi: 8 years? 2 presidential terms? ...and only then it was declared illegal⦈ So what if Benoît_Battistelli left more than 3 years ago (and left his complicit_buddy in charge)? The EPO is totally fine… Summary: The chaos left by Team Battistelli is more than a decade old and it’s nowhere near resolved; the way things are going, it’s more likely that the EPO will get dissolved for being captured by people who undermine the EPO’s goals/ mission and now attempt_to_do_the_very_same_thing_to_patent_courts_all_across Europe 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Thanks_for_the_information._It_is_even_worth_than_what_one could_expect._Cheating_was_voluntary._This_is_lobbying_at_its_best,_and_the politicians_were_too_happy_to_fall_for_it!_The_rule_of_law_should_not_be degraded_as_it_would_be_should_the_UPC_start!_It_makes_one_want_to_puke_at_such duplicity!⦈_ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣍⠛⢿⣿⡿⠋⠁⠀⠈⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⡝⣿⣻⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡁⢠⣀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠉⠉⠉⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢾⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣻⣽⣧⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠙⣿⠿⣿⣇⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢣⣤⣶⣶⣦⡈⢛⢿⣧⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣼⣟⣿⡿⣿⣿⡟⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣷⠘⣶⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 176 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/epo-attacking-the-workers/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/10/04/epo-attacking-the-workers/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Attacking_the_Workers,_the_Press,_and_the_Law⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 4:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Battistelli_and_Klutz/Lutz:_So_you_travel_to_China_for patents?_No,_we_travel_there_for_advice_on_crushing_'pesky'_people_and neutralising_workers⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Ch..._urnalism⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_plebs!⦈_ Summary: Benoît_Battistelli‘s “Système_Lamy” brought Klutz/Lutz to Paris while the EPO broke the law and the_German_government_looked_the_other_way; also, while Battistelli constantly flirted with China (Ernst, a friend of Klutz, still travels there a lot) he imitated_many_of_their_methods_of_silencing_the press (missing in action for years now, never covering any EPO scandals) ⣿⠛⣛⣛⠛⣛⡛⠛⡛⣛⢛⣛⠛⣛⣛⠛⢛⣛⣛⣛⡛⢛⣛⢛⡛⣛⢛⣛⢛⡛⠟⣛⣛⢛⣛⠛⠟⣛⡛⢛⡛⡛⣛⢛⡛⣛⢛⣛⠛⢛⣛⠛⣛⡛⣛⣛⠛⢛⣛⡛⢛⣛⢛⣛⣛⣛⣛⡛⣛⣛⣛⡛⣛⡛⢛⣛⠛⣿ ⣿⠀⢿⣍⢸⡏⡇⠀⢿⡏⢸⢹⡇⣿⣿⠀⠈⣿⢹⡯⣟⢸⢻⡜⣧⣿⢸⣯⢸⡇⠀⢹⡏⢸⢹⡇⢰⡏⠛⢸⣧⡇⣿⢸⣷⣿⣼⢻⠀⢸⣯⢸⡏⡇⣿⢽⡃⢸⣯⡇⣿⣿⠈⣿⢹⣯⣽⣿⣿⠉⣿⠹⢧⡁⣛⣸⡇⣿ ⣿⠀⠻⠿⠘⠷⠇⠀⠸⠇⠸⠾⠃⠻⠿⠀⠀⠿⠸⠇⠿⠿⠹⠇⠿⠏⠸⠷⠸⠷⠀⠸⠇⠸⠾⠃⠈⠷⠟⠸⠇⠇⠿⠸⠏⠿⠿⠹⠇⠸⠇⡘⠷⠇⠿⠸⠇⠸⠇⠀⠿⠻⠄⠿⠸⠷⠞⠇⠿⠀⠿⠘⠧⠟⠿⠈⠀⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⡗⣠⣴⣤⣄⢳⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣦⣴⣶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡟⠀⠂⣥⣤⣠⣾⣷⣶⡆⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⢂⣤⡀⠀⢸⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣟⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢿⣷⣿⡷⣿⢡⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠗⠀⢸⣿⣿⡴⡃⢼⠀⢸⢹⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⡇⠀⢀⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣧⣺⡇⠀⠀⠙⢺⣿⣿⠀⠹⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠈⠉⠙⠛⠏⠀⠀⢸⠁⠀⣴⣿⣯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⡋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣧⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⢿⣇⡀⠀⠀⠛⠻⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠩⠽⠃⠀⠀⠐⠉⢠⠄⣴⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ 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⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿ ⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠚⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿ ⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢻⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣶⣶⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 312 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/epo-collusion/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/10/04/epo-collusion/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ EPO_Collusion⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 9:46 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum a9aa2b5943014518bb4913514bae45a2 http://techrights.org/videos/strike-series-kicked-off.webm Summary: Today we officially kick-started the latest EPO series; the subject of the series is no longer shrouded in mystery/secrecy and the video above is an interjection of more personal views, put aside from the series with its objective, verifiable claims THIS is the first video of many. Part_one was published just after midnight today and every day around midday we’ll try to make a video on the subject of this series, which will run until the end of this month. It’s about Vichyite "Strike_Regulations" of a Vichy-connected Conservative politician, Benoît Battistelli, attacking EPO judges and refusing to obey judges/courts outside the EPO, looking to endlessly exploit diplomatic immunity like the_son of António_Campinos. When they realise they cannot dodge every single court on this planet they resort to delay/stall tactics, knowing that the "Haar question"_would_take_years_to_come_up_and_be_dealt_with (even then the stacked tribunals can be relied on to avoid even dealing with the question). Similarly, Team UPC (there’s overlap with Team Battistelli — same handlers) thinks it can force-feed us the UPC (with the legality of UPC challenged after its start, which can take years as the video above notes). Remember that it took 8 years to stop an unlawful regulation passed in a hurry under false pretenses. 8 years to undo a month(s)-long conspiracy to violate the human and labour rights of law-abiding EPO staff. We thank EPO staff upfront. Many courageous workers are willing to stand up and fight against what they correctly perceive to be a rogue employer. That takes guts and personal sacrifice. █ “One strategy that Microsoft has employed in the past is paying for the silence of people and companies. Charles Pancerzewski, formerly Microsoft’s chief auditor, became aware of Microsoft’s practice of carrying earnings from one accounting period into another, known as “managing earnings”. This practice smoothes reported revenue streams, increases share value, and misleads employees and shareholders. In addition to being unethical, it’s also illegal under U.S. Securities Law and violates Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (Fink).” –2002 story about Charles Pancerzewski, Microsoft ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 380 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/irc-log-031021/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/10/04/irc-log-031021/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Sunday,_October_03,_2021⠀✐ Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:35 am by Needs Sunlight Also available via the Gemini protocol at: * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights- 031021.txt * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-031021.txt * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-031021.txt * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes- 031021.txt 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Software Treachery Award for it from the joke that the FSF has turned into. “Bootkits just really aren’t much of a problem on desktop GNU/Linux…”Now on his Twitter log, he shows us some of the mess he has caused. See, if you have “Secure” Boot turned on, and you shouldn’t, but if you do, you’ll see the Linux kernel complain that it is disabling hibernation support, and while that alone really isn’t a huge problem because as long as you can suspend and resume (which still is far from given these days even though we were lied to and told uEFI would be better, over ten years ago), it really shows where we’re at now. Bootkits just really aren’t much of a problem on desktop GNU/Linux, and I doubt they were ever a real problem on much of anything involving a competently- administered GNU/Linux systems, except maybe embedded hardware, where they can lock it down all they want, but those people don’t care about security. If some asshole at Netgear can make a cable modem based on a Linux 2.6 kernel, you’d better believe they’ll do it. After all, you probably won’t know if your modem is compromised. In reality, I strongly suspect that even on the Windows side, Security Theater Boot was implemented to make it harder to crack Windows using a boot activation exploit. While it’s true that Microsoft laid off the locking people out of their computer over activation failures, for now, the truth is that after Windows 11 requires Security Theater Boot, OEMs may just make it mandatory and stick you with it, and then Microsoft could decide at any time to stop signing shim, and there’s no way to boot GNU/Linux on a PC anymore. The minute they think they can, they will. The only reason you could turn it off up until now was that they had legacy software and hardware in support, but that’s going away. “But in exchange for false security which doesn’t gain us anything, we’re forced to deal with no hibernation…”It’s part of the “Up yours, buy new stuff!” theme of Windows 11 where lots of expensive computers won’t run it because they’re 36 months old. (But switching to GNU/Linux on these is probably an option for you.). But in exchange for false security which doesn’t gain us anything, we’re forced to deal with no hibernation, an entire “kernel_lockdown” (unauthorized access… by you, the owner of the machine) patch set whose entire goal was to remove the user’s control over kernel settings from userspace (which Microsoft didn’t even publicly demand in exchange for signing the shim bootloader after Red Hat and Canonical bent the knee instead of filing lawsuits), and has left us unable to extend the kernel that runs our own machines with out-of-tree drivers that we feel like running. Since people can delete tweets and make them unavailable for critical comment, here’s what this sanctimonious asshole has been up to lately. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇UEFI troll tweet⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇UEFI troll tweet⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇UEFI broken⦈ Yes, that FAMOUS GNU/Linux bootloader, “Windows Bootloader”. There it is, under P:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\en-us. I’d recognize it anywhere! He guesses and gets it into the kernel, and you get to wonder if your OS will work later. He also exaggerates, misdirects, and misleads. (see above) But that’s what carnival barkers do. That is sort of what happens when you have a failed biologist implementing Security Theater from Microsoft. Getting money from them by proxy to do it with. The company that brought you Windows. The operating system that goes “Herr! Derr! Here you go, have some files dumped on this here flash drive because the letter belonged to your portable hard disk earlier! Here’s some Microsoft_Defender, don’tcha know!?”. Anyway, I really do wish I had all day to read his Twitter blogs where he pontificates about how the police who protect him from the rioters are evil murderers. But I’ve thought about him too much for one day just for this post. Anyway, enjoy Windows 11. 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/non-unanimous-spin/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/10/04/non-unanimous-spin/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_II:_A_“Unanimous”_Endorsement?⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Europe, Law, Patents at 4:18 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Series parts: 1. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_I:_Let_the_Sunshine_In! 2. YOU ARE HERE ☞ A “Unanimous” Endorsement? 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇EPO President Benoît Battistelli, Principal Director Elodie Bergot, Vice-Presidents Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz⦈ The EPO senior management team responsible for the drafting of the “Strike Regulations”. Clockwise from top left: Office President Benoît_Battistelli, Principal Director Elodie Bergot, Vice-Presidents Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz. Summary: Battistelli’s illegal “Strike Regulations” didn’t materialise without help from other people; looking back, we learn how those unlawful provisions came about and who’s accountable for them The EPO “Strike Regulations” which were recently struck down by the ILOAT were drafted by Battistelli’s “Human Resources” management team. At the time in question the EPO’s HR Department was controlled by the notorious duo of Principal Director Elodie Bergot and Vice-President Željko Topić. “…this meeting of the Council was also used by Battistelli to present the delegates with the outcome of an “internal investigation” conducted for the purpose of whitewashing his Croatian bulldog, Željko Topić.”But it’s important to realise that the “Strike Regulations” drafted by the EPO’s senior management team would never have come into effect without the complicity of the Administrative Council at its 136th meeting which took place in Munich on 26 and 27 June 2013. By a curious coincidence – as previously_reported by Techrights back in 2015 – this meeting of the Council was also used by Battistelli to present the delegates with the outcome of an “internal investigation” conducted for the purpose of whitewashing his Croatian bulldog, Željko Topić. “These documents allow us to obtain a better picture of what went on at the meeting, in particular the details of the deliberation and vote on the proposed “Strike Regulations”.”At the time in question, Topić was the subject of a series of allegations connected with his former position as head of the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office. A lot of awkward questions were being asked about his EPO appointment and Battistelli was keen to silence the critical voices. The 2015 Techrights posting about Battistelli’s whitewash of Topić includes copies of the official_minutes [PDF] of the June 2013 Administrative Council meeting and the associated “Summary_of_Decisions”. [PDF] These documents allow us to obtain a better picture of what went on at the meeting, in particular the details of the deliberation and vote on the proposed “Strike Regulations”. The composition of the Administrative Council as of May 2013 – i.e. directly prior to the 136th meeting – was published in the EPO’s Official Journal (OJ). In some cases the delegates listed in the OJ did not attend the meeting but were replaced by their alternates. This is normal practice when delegates have conflicting engagements. The list of actual attendees at the 136th Council meeting can be found in the official_minutes [PDF] of the meeting. It’s worth mentioning in passing that António_Campinos also attended the meeting as an observer in his capacity as then head of the EU’s_trademark agency_OHIM/EUIPO_in_Alicante. From the minutes of the meeting it can be seen that one senior member of Team Battistelli played a key role in persuading the Council to vote in favour of the proposed “Strike Regulations”. “It’s worth mentioning in passing that António Campinos also attended the meeting…”This was the Vice-President Raimund Lutz who was head of the Directorate of International and Legal Affairs. Lutz was regularly_used_by_Battistelli for the purpose of duping the Council delegates into rubber-stamping all sorts of questionable measures and at the same time dissuading them from asking too many awkward questions. So it was very much “business as usual” when Lutz was wheeled out at the 136th Council meeting in June 2013 in order to assure the delegates that the proposed “Strike Regulations” were good to go and could be waved through without the need for any further discussion. Lutz informed the delegates that the new regulations “had been proposed considering general legal principles, European rights and ILOAT standards”. “Lutz was regularly used by Battistelli for the purpose of duping the Council delegates into rubber-stamping all sorts of questionable measures and at the same time dissuading them from asking too many awkward questions.”It’s worth pointing out that he never actually claimed that the proposed measures were in conformity_with “general legal principles, European rights and ILOAT standards” – he only said that these principles, rights and standards had been “considered” when drafting the regulations! It is not without reason that Lutz has been described as a "veritable_virtuoso of_legal_sophistry". 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Role of EPO's Vice-President Raimund Lutz⦈ The EPO’s “virtuoso of legal sophistry”, Vice-President Raimund Lutz, helped to “persuade” the Council delegates to rubber-stamp the proposed measures. Both the official minutes and the “Summary of Decisions” contain a record of the vote on the adoption of Battistelli’s “Strike Regulations”. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Record of the Administrative Council vote⦈ Record of the Administrative Council vote on the adoption of Battistelli’s “Strike Regulations”. From this it can be seen that out of a total of 38 delegations, only 35 actually voted. This means that 3 delegations did not even bother to take part in the vote. “…3 delegations did not even bother to take part in the vote.”Of the 35 delegations that participated, 28 voted in favour and 7 abstained. Article_35_(4) of the European Patent Convention specifies that abstentions “shall not be considered as votes”. “In the coming parts we will take a closer look at the members of the delegations…”This means that – according to the official narrative – the proposed measures were adopted “unanimously” with 28 votes in favour. In the coming parts we will take a closer look at the members of the delegations and how they did – or did not – vote on that occasion. █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣴⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣷⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣷⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣀⣀⡀⠄⠠⠤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣷⣶⣼⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡏⠈⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⢀⠄⠹⣿⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢰⣦⠀⠁⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣄⣰⣿⣿⣟⣸⣿⢣⠛⠈⠀⠀⠀⣿⠛⠛⢻⣿⣎⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣼⣿⣿⣿⣯⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡄⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠠⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡷⢃⣿⣿⣿⣷⡟⠋⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠻⣿⣿⡇⠀⢀⡾⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⡛⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⡇⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠉⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⣸⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣼⣿⣿⣷⣤⣶⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣶⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡤⠤⠶⠾⡛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠾⠀⠀⡆⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⡰⠗⠀⠂⢀⣣⢶⣿⠻⠽⢿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⢀⢁⣀⢄⣾⡿⣿⣯⠛⠀⠀⠈⠼⢰⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⢰⣿⠃⠀⠀⢀⢻⣿⣷⠂⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣧⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢸⣿⣿⣧⡈⢻⣿⣭⡃⠀⢸ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢼⣥⣖⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣠⣸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⢤⣤⣤⣤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣶⣾⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣦⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣥⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⢿⡦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠤⠙⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣍⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣷⣿⣿⣛⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢫⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡿⣿⡿⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣦⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣷⣼⡵⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢀⣠⠂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡎⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡶⠛⣿⡅⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠠⢄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡘⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⡿⢿⢿⢿⣿⡿⠋⠊⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⣰⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠘⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⢯⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⡧⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⠀⢰⣿⣿⡇⠀⠶⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⡷⠖ ⣿⣿⡏⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀ ⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡟⠟⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢭⣁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣇⣸⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣿⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⢿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⠻⠿⣟⠟⠻⠿⢿⠛⠻⠿⠿⠻⠻⠿⠟⣿⡛⢟⢻⠟⣿⠿⠿⣿⠿⠿⢻⠛⠿⢿⡿⠿⡿⠿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠻⢿⠿⢻⠛⡿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠻⢿⠿⠻⠿⢿⠿⠿⠟⢿⡿⠟⡟⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠶⠶⠿⠾⢶⢶⣾⡚⡛⠶⢶⠒⠲⠶⠷⠻⠲⠷⠾⢶⠿⠶⠞⡾⢶⠶⠾⠶⠷⡾⠷⠾⢰⠶⢿⠶⡶⡶⠶⡶⠶⠞⠶⠾⢷⡿⡾⠟⡖⠲⠶⣾⠶⠶⠶⠾⠶⠟⠶⡶⠗⡶⠷⡶⢶⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢒⠶⠦⠶⠷⡶⠶⠿⠷⠷⢶⡾⠾⠷⢲⠖⠶⢶⠖⠿⠿⠷⠶⠶⠷⣾⠾⢢⠾⠷⠷⠲⡶⠾⠶⡾⠿⠼⢷⠶⠷⢶⢶⢶⠤⣶⣗⡛⢶⢷⡾⠶⢿⠾⡿⠶⠷⢶⡶⠶⠷⠶⢷⢾⡶⠾⠿⢻⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢾⠾⠤⠶⣾⢶⠶⡶⠶⠷⠿⢧⢾⡾⡾⡶⡷⣼⢿⢷⠶⠶⠶⡷⢿⢿⢷⢾⠶⠿⡶⠶⠷⠾⢾⠿⡶⡶⡶⣦⢾⡷⡶⣼⡧⡾⡿⠷⡷⡼⠿⠶⢶⡾⡿⡶⡤⢶⡷⠾⠷⢵⣿⣼⠿⡦⣾⢾⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣵⢤⣤⣴⢿⣵⣯⢦⣤⣤⣤⣴⣽⣮⣮⣾⣧⣷⣵⣴⣧⣧⣤⣧⣵⣼⣷⣴⣧⣤⣧⣤⣤⣤⣾⣬⣾⣿⣮⣦⣽⣦⣦⣿⣧⣴⣥⣯⣮⣦⣤⣤⣿⣼⣮⣼⣤⣴⣧⣤⣤⣼⣿⣭⣭⣵⣼⣾⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣥⣤⣤⣤⣤⣮⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠩⠫⢻⣿⣿⣿⣯⡍⠛⢻⡯⠝⠛⠟⣟⠟⢹⠻⢻⠟⢟⣿⣛⠛⠛⠛⠋⢛⡟⠛⠙⠛⠋⠛⠛⣿⢟⠛⢻⠋⠛⠛⡽⡿⠙⠛⠋⠻⠻⣿⣿⠻⠛⢻⠛⠛⢹⠙⢻⢉⡙⠛⢹⣿⣟⢟⣽⠭⢏⠋⠉⣍⢿⢹⠹⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠩⣛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢛⡿⡹⣹⣶⢐⠒⣲⠦⢂⣶⠶⡖⠂⣶⣶⠐⡄⣶⣆⠐⡄⣾⢫⠋⡋⣿⢩⡝⣹⡏⡝⢉⣿⣯⢙⡫⣿⢉⣏⣹⡟⣉⠉⣿⣏⡍⣿⢉⢉⢹⡟⡍⢉⢿⡏⠽⠉⣿⣟⣻⡉⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⠚⣿⣿⠛⣿⢺⡛⣻⡞⡞⣿⣷⢻⠺⣲⡗⠟⢛⣿⡟⠞⠛⣿⡗⠟⣓⣿⠺⠚⣷⡗⢛⣾⣷⠛⡓⣳⡞⢲⣛⢷⡟⠓⠞⣶⡗⡒⢛⣶⠳⠻⠻⠳⠚⠚⠻⡳⣻⢺⣶⢳⡿⢾⠛⠟⢻⡟⡛⣾⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⣶⣛⣿⡖⠚⣶⡗⠓⢳⣶⠚⡟⢲⡗⢻⠛⣲⣖⠿⠿⠶⡞⣻⠻⡖⡛⡞⠺⡖⡖⡷⣿⣶⣾⣾⣷⣷⣷⣷⣶⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣷⣷⣷⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣿⣶⣿⣾⣿⣿⣶⣷⣶⣷⣷⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣶⣿⣷⣶⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣷⣶⣮⣷⣾⣶⣽⣯⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣷⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡛⠿⢿⣟⠻⠿⡿⢿⢿⢻⠿⡿⡿⠿⠿⢿⢿⡿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠻⠿⡿⡻⡟⡟⠛⡛⠿⣟⢻⠿⢿⠿⡟⠿⠻⠻⢿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠟⠿⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣮⣮⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣶⣼⣯⣴⣵⣵⣷⣵⣾⣬⣤⣬⣤⣥⣤⣭⣯⣵⣧⣤⣤⣴⣦⣷⣵⣴⣼⣵⣼⣾⣷⣼⣦⣧⣦⣧⣤⣬⣶⣼⣷⣵⣯⣧⣤⣧⣴⣤⣵⣶⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1013 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/10/04/windows-vista-service-pack-11-performance/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/10/04/windows-vista-service-pack-11-performance/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Windows_Vista_Service_Pack_’11′_Will_Have_“Virtualization_Based_Security” Theater_That_Slows_Down_Games_Almost_30%_and_Enables_Security_Vulnerabilities on_Intel_Tiger_Lake_CPUs_(Probably_Others_Too)⠀✐ Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 2:15 pm by Guest Editorial Team Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission from the_original Windows 11 will have “virtualization based security” theater that slows down games almost 30% and enables security vulnerabilities on Intel Tiger Lake CPUs (probably others). According to PC Gamer, “Microsoft_‘will_be_enabling_VBS_on_most_new_PCs_over this_next_year’_and_that_can_tank_PC_gaming_performance_by_around_25%.”. “Nothing Microsoft has ever done has slowed them down for long, and I suspect your svchost will still be svchosting malware in short order.”Where VBS is “Virtualization Based Security”. (Not to be confused with Visual Basic Scripting, which was their scripting language, and what the Melissa and I Love You viruses, along with countless others were written in.) The interesting facts about VBS (the “security” thing, not the virus scripting language) is that it is designed to wall off “critical parts” of the Windows OS so that it’s harder for malware to inject malicious code into them. But I wouldn’t count out those industrious malware authors. Nothing Microsoft has ever done has slowed them down for long, and I suspect your svchost will still be svchosting malware in short order. What it does do is cripple performance, at least gaming. Could be one reason why my games run so much better in Wine on Debian 11. I had turned “VBS” on when I had Windows because it’s in Windows 10, and it didn’t mention anything about performance problems. To get it to even turn on at all required uninstalling a useless incompatible driver meant for Windows 8 that Windows 10 had brought in from the manufacturer of my old WD EasyStore drive. “So to enable VBS “security”, you have to make your system impossible to secure against a speculative execution attack, and then in exchange for this, you get to slow your video games down 28%. Wow, sign me up!”So it appears that pretty much all an attacker needs to do in order to shut it off is manage to get a driver that’s written for an earlier version of Windows installed somehow, which shouldn’t be difficult, and then at least in Windows 10 it’s gone and you don’t get an alert(?). Also, buried in the details are that since this thing relies on Microsoft HyperV, it will stop other virtualization software from running correctly. And if you look in the Event Viewer (sorry, I didn’t take a picture, I should have), you’ll see that Windows lists CVE numbers belonging to Spectre attacks that it isn’t mitigating because they want the “Hypervisor” to perform well and don’t want to get in the way of Intel’s Hyperthreading, which is being used to speed up HyperV, which is running VBS. So to enable VBS “security”, you have to make your system impossible to secure against a speculative execution attack, and then in exchange for this, you get to slow your video games down 28%. Wow, sign me up! “While we are not requiring VBS when upgrading to Windows 11,” explains_the_post, “we believe the security benefits it offers are so important that we wanted the minimum system requirements to ensure that every PC running Windows 11 can meet the same security the DoD relies on.  Microsoft It’s amazing what money can buy. Microsoft bought a Pentagon. Former President Trump was about to hand them “JEDI” to put in their Azure Clown, which has caused so many security disasters for other organizations that we don’t have all day for me to list them. “Microsoft bribes and “lobbying” got the government to ditch them and weaken them so that Windows could get government contracts.”In the 1980s and 1990s, there were these security standards that the US_government_still_used_called the_Rainbow_Books, which pretty much only a UNIX system could provide. Microsoft bribes and “lobbying” got the government to ditch them and weaken them so that Windows could get government contracts. Then in exchange for bringing Windows in, we got the “smart_ship”_stuck_at_port due_to_a_Windows_NT_crash, worm_mess_on_Windows_2000_and_XP (which didn’t even enable the software firewall in the first release and logged everyone in as Administrator or apps broke, and had raw sockets for normal users), Vista LULZ (and their current operating systems are still basically Vista service packs), and everything else that Windows has brought with it but to name a few. It’s time to bring real standards back to computing. Microsoft is better at public corruption than they are with security, as you can no doubt see. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1140 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_4/10/2021:_Linux_5.15_RC4,_GNU_automake_1.16.5⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup, Site_News at 4:08 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⠀➾ # ⚓ Shure_SM7B:_I’ve_Reached_Microphone_End_Game_–_Invidious⠀⇛ I’ve been meaning to upgrade my microphone for quite a while and I’ve now bought the last microphone I’ll ever buy, sure there are other use cases but the shure sm7b is the lst desk mic I’ll ever need. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_5.15-rc4⠀⇛ This release continues to look pretty normal after the initial hiccups. At least going purely by number of commits, we're right smack dab in the middle of the normal range for this time in the release cycle, and the diffstat looks fairly normal too. A bit less driver-heavy than usual, perhaps, but nothing big, and nothing that makes me go "that's strange". One thing standing out in the diffs might be the m68k 'set_fs()' removal - not really a regression fix, but it has been pending for a while, and it turned out that the problems attributed to it were due to an entirely unrelated m68k signal handling issue. So with that fixed, we could get rid of set_fs from another architecture. There's a few more architectures I'd like to see it removed from, but all the actively maintained ones have already removed it, so on the whole set_fs really is a thing of the past, only used by legacy architectures. Anyway, about a third of the diff is drivers (net, sound, rdma, gpu), with the rest being a mix of arch updates (the m68k set_fs stuff and some kvm patches), tooling (mostly selftest updates), filesystem code and core networking. The appended shortlog gives you more details, but if you really want to dig into it, go for the git tree. Go test, Linus # ⚓ Linux_5.15-rc4_Released_–_The_Kernel_Is_Looking_“Pretty Normal”⠀⇛ Linus Torvalds has declared Linux 5.15-rc4 as the latest weekly release candidate of the maturing Linux 5.15 codebase. # ⚓ Kernel_prepatch_5.15-rc4⠀⇛ The 5.15-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Repo_Review:_Bookworm⠀⇛ Bookworm is a lightweight eBook reader application that provides an easy way for you to organize and read your collection of eBooks. It has support for numerous common eBook formats, such as EPUB, MOBI, and PDF. The interface is quite simple and nicely designed, making Bookworm easy to use. Upon opening Bookworm, you’ll be presented with the library page, where you can view and load in your collection of eBooks. To import an eBook, click on the + button down in the lower left corner and select a file to load. To remove a book, simply click on the check mark button down in the corner, select the eBooks that you wish to remove, and then click on the – button. You can choose to arrange the books in list view or thumbnail view, and there’s also a handy search bar at the top to help you find books more easily. If you right-click on a book, you can then edit information such as the title and author, and you can also add a cover image for the book. Simply click on a book to begin reading. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Recording_Audio_Easily_On_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Capturing audio and video on PClinuxOS (and any Linux for that matter) can be a frustrating task. Either the applications don’t work properly with the audio/video capture software, or, the sound server is not compatible with the capture application (or vice versa, a capture application that requires a sound server that is not the default of the installation). Java applications, for example, access the DSP directly and are not as flexible about routing audio as native PCLinuxOS applications. # ⚓ Inkscape_Tutorial:_Common_Inkscape_Mistakes⠀⇛ I’ve subscribed to several YouTube pages, just like many people have. One of the pages I’ve subscribed to is named Logos by Nick. In his channela he has many tutorials for GIMP and Inkscape. In this one, he describes five mistakes that new Inkscape users make. Let’s look: o § Distributions⠀➾ # § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾ # ⚓ Lubuntu_21.10_Beta⠀⇛ Today we are looking at Lubuntu 21.10 Beta. It comes with Linux Kernel 5.13, LXQt 0.17, and uses about 500-600MB of ram when idling. Enjoy! Please take note that this is a beta release, so there might be bugs. # ⚓ Lubuntu_21.10_Beta_Run_Through_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at Lubuntu 21.10 Beta. Enjoy! # § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Welcome_From_The_Chief_Editor⠀⇛ Furthermore, there’s ample evidence that Daylight Savings Time has a negative effect on people’s health. This article on Health.com lists seven ways Daylight Savings Time can have an impact on your health. In a way, we are fooling ourselves with the foolishness of thinking we are gaining more hours of sunlight by messing with the hands on the clock. On any given day, there are a certain number of hours of daylight available. If you want to avail yourself of that daylight, then get up when the sun rises, and go to bed when the sun sets, just like our ancestors did, and just as the other animals on this planet do. Daylight Savings Time has long outlived its usefulness. Let’s just pick one time, whether it’s “Standard Time” or “Daylight Savings Time,” and just stick to it. Personally, my vote is for just maintaining Standard Time all year round. Bouncing the hands back and forth on a clock introduces more chaos and havoc than the meager benefits we receive from doing so. # ⚓ PCLinuxOS_Screenshot_Showcase⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § FSF⠀➾ # § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ automake-1.16.5_released_[stable]⠀⇛ This is to announce automake-1.16.5, a stable release. Thanks to Karl for doing all the real work. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. There have been 18 commits by 6 people in the 10 weeks since 1.16.4. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Akim Demaille (1) Dimitri Papadopoulos (1) Jan Engelhardt (1) Jim Meyering (6) Karl Berry (8) Nick Bowler (1) Jim [on behalf of the automake maintainers] ================================================================== Here is the GNU automake home page: http://gnu.org/s/automake/ Here are the compressed sources: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/ automake-1.16.5.tar.xz (1.6MB) https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/ automake-1.16.5.tar.gz (2.3MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures [*]: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/ automake-1.16.5.tar.xz.sig https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/ automake-1.16.5.tar.gz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/automake/ automake-1.16.5.tar.xz https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/automake/ automake-1.16.5.tar.gz Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums: 8B1YzW2dd/ vcqetLvV6tGYgij9tz1veiAfX41rEYtGk automake-1.16.5.tar.xz B70krQimS8FyUM4J7FbpIdY0OQOUPpnM9ju/ BwXjRgU automake-1.16.5.tar.gz Each SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded, instead of the hexadecimal encoding that most checksum tools default to. [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify automake- 1.16.5.tar.xz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net -- recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. Please report bugs and problems to , and send general comments and feedback to . ================================================================== NEWS * Bugs fixed - PYTHON_PREFIX and PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX are now set according to Python's sys.* values only if the new configure option --with-python-sys-prefix is specified. Otherwise, GNU default values are used, as in the past. (The change in 1.16.3 was too incompatible.) - consistently depend on install- libLTLIBRARIES. * Distribution - use const for yyerror declaration in bison/yacc tests. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ “Static_Linking_Considered_Harmful”_Considered Harmful⠀⇛ Most people install software through their package manager. If the package manager tracks the dependencies between static libraries and their dependents, the package manager could detect changes and run reassmblies as necessary. If we wanted to go further, we could. We could add a mechanism to the OS to be able to discover when the IR files for a library used by a program it launches has changed. We could even have the OS start the compiler and have it exec() into the new binary. This would make sure that even libraries and programs installed by hand are properly updated. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Opinion_|_Michael_Albert’s_‘No_Bosses’:_A_Review_by_Mark_Evans⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘Mad’_Israeli_quest_to_revive_ancient_dates_bears_fruit⠀⇛ With lots of patience and care, she and project partner Elaine Solowey managed to grow date palms from seeds dating back to the Kingdom of Judah which emerged in the 11th century BC. The kingdom was “renowned for the quality and quantity of its dates”, praised at the time for their “large size, sweet taste… and medicinal properties,” the two wrote in an article for Science magazine. Bringing back the ancient variety with Solowey, a specialist in sustainable agriculture, was not just a novelty project, Sallon said, but offered “a beacon of hope” for a planet battling the climate crisis and mass species extinction. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ For-Profit_Remote_Learning_Is_a_Disaster_for_Students_and Teachers_Alike⠀⇛ The pandemic taught us two lessons: in-person learning is optimal, and remote learning is sometimes necessary. We should improve public digital learning infrastructure, or else private companies will corner the market and use it to undermine public education. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Families_of_Color_Warn_About_COVID_Spread_in_Schools. They’re_Being_Ignored.⠀⇛ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Baby’s_Death_Alleged_to_Be_Linked_to_Ransomware [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Springhill has declined to name the ransomware that was behind the July 2019 attack, but given the timing and the lack of scruples in targeting a healthcare facility, there are plenty of possibilities. # § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Simple_Web_of_Trust_for_Tor_Relay Operator_IDs⠀⇛ Tor users are facing persistent malicious actors repeatedly running large fractions of the tor network’s capacity to exploit them [1] [2] [3]. Detecting all malicious tor network capacity is not practically feasible using active scanners in many cases since attackers have moved from attacking all connections to more targeted approaches where only users of specific domains (that are not necessarily known to defenders) are exploited. Transport level encryption (HTTPS) can defeat many types of attacks by malicious exit relays and the global HTTPS availability has significantly increased over the past years but is still not ubiquitous yet, especially on the first connection. Therefore we propose to publish relay operator trust information to limit the fraction and impact of malicious tor network capacity. # ⚓ [Old] Are_people_really_finding_jobs_on LinkedIn?⠀⇛ [...] I don’t need a Microsoft website to validate my previous professional experiences. The other thing, I wrote about, is the lack of great opportunities there. The copied/ pasted sentences from headhunters that, sometimes, don’t even read your resume piss me off. How many times I got offers for jobs with Windows system when there is not a single line about that OS on my CV. # ⚓ [Old] AirGuard_–_AirTag_tracking protection⠀⇛ With the app you can play a sound on AirTags and find it easily. Afterward, you can view at which locations the device has tracked you. For this we use background location access. All location data never leaves your device. # ⚓ Short_Topix:_Epik_Data_Breach_Impacts Millions,_Customer_&_Non-Customers_Alike⠀⇛ AN EXPOSÉ BY PROPUBLICA details how Facebook has undermined “privacy protections” for its 2 billion WhatsApp users. Despite assuring users that no one can see their posts, Facebook runs an extensive monitoring operation, and even regularly shares personal information with prosecutors. It’s odd typing “Facebook” and “privacy” in the same sentence, as the two are as antithetical as any two words could possibly be. This just illustrates that point perfectly. PROTONMAIL HAS REMOVED “WE DO NOT KEEP ANY IP LOGS” FROM ITS PRIVACY POLICY, according to an article on ArsTechnica. Based in Switzerland, the privacy-focused email provider was forced by Swiss courts to log and disclose a French climate activist’s IP address and browser fingerprint to Swiss authorities. Being a Swiss-based company, ProtonMail was forced to comply with a Swiss court injunction ordering it to log the IP address and browser fingerprint of the particular ProtonMail account. Since then, ProtonMail has changed its privacy statement to users, removing “By default, we do not keep any IP logs that can be linked to your anonymous email account”. The replacement privacy statement is a bit muddier, and makes no mention of logging IP addresses. In more Facebook news, a lawsuit (PDF) by shareholders filed back in August 2021 and just made public against Facebook and Facebook upper management discloses that FACEBOOK PAID $4.9 BILLION MORE TO SETTLE A FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION LAWSUIT FOR THE CAMBRIDGE-ANALYTICA SCANDAL than it had to. And why, you might ask? All to “protect” CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg from being named as a defendant, or to keep him from even having to give a deposition in the case, according to an article on The Guardian. According to a blog entry from the internet security company called Expel, they HAVE IDENTIFIED THE TOP PHISHING KEYWORDS FROM THE LAST 10,000 MALICIOUS EMAILS THEY HAVE INVESTIGATED. Emails with the following words were associated with phishing attempts: Invoice, Message, Required, Request, and Action, among others. Believe it or not, even emails where the subject line was left blank made the list. If you’re concerned about phishing attempts (defined by Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary as a scam by which an Internet user is duped (as by a deceptive email message) into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly), you might want to head on over to the blog entry to see the full article. # ⚓ Customize_Your_Next_Google_Search [Ed: Oh, gosh. This is awful. Some people still recommend spying engines like Startpage and DDG.]⠀⇛ o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter-Revolution_in_Arabia⠀⇛ Following the taxonomy deployed by the legendary Ghanaian revolutionary, Kwame Nkrumah, the Arab states can be divided into two main camps: those which are under the effective control of the former colonial powers and their allies (which he termed ‘neocolonial’ states), and those which are not. In the former camp are states such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE, all of them creations of the British empire and to this day still controlled by the ruling families handpicked by Britain at the height of empire. The consolidation and reinforcement of the relationships between Britain and these families, and the shoring up of their power, is a core part of the role of the British royal family, and much of their time is taken up with hosting and visiting these families. This is especially important at times when their rule is under threat, providing an expression of solidarity at the highest level, an assurance that the British state will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with whatever repression is deemed necessary to hold onto power. To read this article, log in here or Subscribe here. In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. # ⚓ To_Deter_Israeli_Strikes_on_Gaza,_US_House_Reps_Should Prepare_Floor_Fight⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_When_Will_the_US_Acknowledge_its_Secret_Torture Site_in_Poland?⠀⇛ One of the longest-held prisoners in the U.S. global war on terror is finally getting a day in court. Sort of. The prisoner, Abu Zubaydah, who has never been charged with a crime, has been waiting 14 years for a federal judge to rule on his habeas corpus petition that challenges the legality of his detention. But next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on a separate case: Zubaydah’s request that he be permitted to take testimony from the two CIA contractors who oversaw his torture. # ⚓ Ex-Facebook_manager_alleges_social_network_fed_Capitol_ [insurrection]⠀⇛ Despite the enmity that the new algorithms were feeding, Facebook found that they helped keep people coming back – a pattern that helped the Menlo Park, Calif., company sell more of the digital ads that generate most of its advertising. # ⚓ Whistleblower_says_Facebook_put_profit_before_reining_in hate_speech⠀⇛ Haugen, who previously worked at Google and Pinterest, said Facebook has lied to the public about the progress it made to clamp down on hate speech and misinformation on its platform. She added that Facebook was used to help organize the Capitol [insurrection] on January 6, after the company turned off safety systems following the U.S. presidential elections. # ⚓ Facebook_whistleblower_revealed_on_’60_Minutes,’_says_the company_prioritized_profit_over_public_good⠀⇛ The 37-year-old former Facebook product manager who worked on civic integrity issues at the company says the documents show that Facebook knows its platforms are used to spread hate, violence and misinformation, and that the company has tried to hide that evidence. “The thing I saw at Facebook over and over again was there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook, and Facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money,” Haugen told “60 Minutes.” # ⚓ Facebook_whistleblower_reveals_identity,_accuses_the platform_of_a_‘betrayal_of_democracy’⠀⇛ The documents, first reported by the Journal, revealed that Facebook executives had been aware of negative impacts of its platforms on some young users, among other findings. For example, the Journal reported that one internal document found that of teens reporting suicidal thoughts, 6% of American users traced the urge to kill themselves to Instagram. # ⚓ Facebook_whistleblower_reveals_identity,_accuses_the platform_of_a_‘betrayal_of_democracy’⠀⇛ Haugen pointed to the 2020 election as a turning point at Facebook. She said Facebook had announced it was dissolving the “Civic Integrity” team, to which she was assigned, after the election. Just a few months later, social media communications would be a key focus in the wake of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. “When they got rid of Civic Integrity, it was the moment where I was like, ‘I don’t trust that they’re willing to actually invest what needs to be invested to keep Facebook from being dangerous,’” Haugen told “60 Minutes.” # ⚓ Whistle-Blower_to_Accuse_Facebook_of_Contributing_to_Jan._6 [Insurrection],_Memo_Says⠀⇛ Facebook, which has been under fire from a former employee who has revealed that the social network knew of many of the harms it was causing, was bracing for new accusations over the weekend from the whistle-blower and said in a memo that it was preparing to mount a vigorous defense. The whistle-blower, whose identity has not been publicly disclosed, planned to accuse the company of relaxing its security safeguards for the 2020 election too soon after Election Day, which then led it to be used in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to the internal memo obtained by The New York Times. The whistle-blower planned to discuss the allegations on “60 Minutes” on Sunday, the memo said, and was also set to say that Facebook had contributed to political polarization in the United States. # ⚓ Facebook_denies_whistleblower’s_claims_it_contributed_to Capitol_[insurrection]⠀⇛ Why it matters: Facebook appears to be launching a pre-emptive strike against the whistleblower with the memo, also shared with Axios, ahead of her CBS “60 Minutes” interview airing Sunday and her scheduled appearance at a Senate hearing Tuesday. # ⚓ Jan._6_Was_Worse_Than_We_Knew⠀⇛ The threats to a free and fair presidential election don’t come from Congress alone. Since Jan. 6, Republican-led state legislatures have been clambering over one another to pass new laws making it easier to reject their own voters’ will, and removing or neutralizing those officials who could stand in the way of a naked power grab — like Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, did when he resisted Mr. Trump’s personal plea to “find” just enough extra votes to flip the outcome there. # ⚓ Why_Ethiopia_wants_to_expel_UN_officials_sounding_the_alarm on_famine⠀⇛ A civil war between Ethiopia’s federal government and the country’s northern Tigray region, which began late last year, has led to widespread atrocities and created famine conditions in parts of the country. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s decision to expel UN officials from the country comes after they raised concerns about the worsening humanitarian situation. UN officials have repeatedly warned that Ethiopia’s government is blocking the movement of critical supplies — like medicine, food, and fuel — into the Tigray region, with as little as 10 percent of the needed humanitarian supplies being allowed in. Those accusations were echoed this week by the head of the UN’s humanitarian aid arm, as well as a report finding the region on the brink of famine. # ⚓ Mexico_Remembers_1968_Student_Massacre_On_Oct._2⠀⇛ Around 6 p.m., two red flares were shot into the air. Dressed as civilians, soldiers and members of the Olympia Battalion — a secret security force assembled ahead of the 1968 Olympic Games — mixed with the crowd and opened fire. # ⚓ 3,000_Yazidis_Are_Still_Missing._Their_Families_Know_Where Some_of_Them_Are.⠀⇛ Seven years after they were captured by the Islamic State, some members of the Iraqi religious minority are still being held captive by fighters in Syria. Others are with families of ISIS militants. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The_case_for_a_more_radical_climate_movement⠀⇛ Malm’s book — it’s titled How to Blow Up a Pipeline — is obviously meant to provoke. But embedded in the provocation is a morally serious challenge to how we think about, and act on, the crisis humanity faces. And to be perfectly honest, I’m not sure how I feel about it. For instance, I think his summons to violence vastly overstates our ability to “control” such violence once it’s unleashed. I’m also less confident in the strategic utility of violence (even if it’s limited to the destruction of property, as Malm recommends) considering the enormous blowback that might result from it. I reached out to him for this week’s episode of Vox Conversations to talk about how we got here, why he says it’s time to escalate, and the problems — both obvious and subtle — with such a radical approach. Below is an edited excerpt from our conversation and some additional material from a follow-up exchange over email. [...] # ⚓ Facebook_Becomes_Advertising_Battleground_for_Biden_Climate Bill⠀⇛ With the Biden administration’s US$3.5-trillion climate legislation hanging in the balance in the U.S. Congress, fossil lobbyists and environmental justice groups are duking it out via Facebook ads. Appearing on Facebook “millions of times a week,” writes The New York Times, are ads that “take aim at vulnerable Democrats in Congress by name, warning that the $3.5 trillion budget bill—one of the Biden administration’s biggest efforts to pass meaningful climate policy—will wreck the United States economy.” # ⚓ New_UN_Mapping_Tool_Provides_Street-Level_View_of_Flood Risk⠀⇛ With record-breaking floods becoming the new normal, experts at the United Nations University (UNU) have developed a new tool that generates instant, accurate street-level resolution maps of floods worldwide since 1985. The free online World Flood Mapping Tool will help all countries, but especially those in the Global South, where flood risk maps are rare and often badly out of date. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Revealed:_Two_Thirds_of_Online_Posts_from_Six_Major European_Fossil_Fuel_Companies_‘Greenwashing’⠀⇛ Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog. The findings add to campaigner concerns that fossil fuel companies are promoting a misleading image of their business models as the need to decarbonize the economy becomes increasingly urgent. DeSmog’s investigation shows a disproportionate focus on green or environmental efforts by the companies — including highlighting their net zero targets — compared to the share of their business that is made up of clean energy efforts compared to their continued extraction or use of fossil fuels. # ⚓ We_the_Power_|_The_Future_of_Energy_is_Community- Owned⠀⇛ # ⚓ South_Africa_to_Tighten_Its_2030_Emissions_Cap_by_1/ 3⠀⇛ South Africa is accelerating its emissions reduction targets as renewable energy costs decrease, but climate experts say more is needed. The country’s new cap will restrict emissions to 420 megatonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2030, a full third less than the previous target of 614 Mt, writes Climate Home News. But while campaigners are calling the target “a step forward” and proof of the value of official climate advisory bodies like the country’s Presidential Climate Commission (PCC), they also warn that “that the target was still not compatible with 1.5°C of global warming.”  # ⚓ U.K._Engineers_Urge_Incentives_to_Stop_Knocking_Down Old_Buildings⠀⇛ Pressure is building to rapidly decarbonize the United Kingdom’s construction sector, with 450,000 of the country’s engineers urging higher priority for low-carbon procurement and retrofits. “Making bricks and steel creates vast amounts of CO2, with cement alone causing 8% of global emissions,” writes BBC, reporting on a new paper just published by the National Engineering Policy Centre, a partnership of 43 of the country’s professional engineering organizations.  # ⚓ B.C._Fossil_Subsidies_Threaten_Critical_Caribou Habitat,_New_Mapping_Shows⠀⇛ British Columbia is subsidizing oil and gas well drilling on the same land it has promised to protect for caribou, new research has found. “The B.C. government has made a lot of commitments to caribou habitat restoration and it’s not really working,” said Adriana DiSilvestro, a University of British Columbia graduate student and lead author on the project, which is published on the website of ARCGis Online, a cloud-based mapping software. # ⚓ ‘Keep_Oil_and_Gas_in_the_Ground,’_Say_Fossil_Fuel Foes_as_Spill_Ravages_California_Coast⠀⇛ As cleanup crews on Sunday rushed to contain the damage from one of the largest oil spills in recent Southern California history, environmentalists stressed the necessity of ending offshore drilling—and ultimately, of keeping all fossil fuels in the ground.  At least 126,000 gallons of crude oil gushed from a ruptured pipeline off the coast of Huntington Beach into ocean waters and local wetlands, the Los Angeles Times reported late Saturday. # ⚓ Analysis:_As_Fossil_Fuel_Prices_Spike,_Transition_Off Carbon_Can’t_Happen_Soon_Enough⠀⇛ From surging fuel costs in Europe and North America to rolling blackouts in China, a global spike in fossil fuel prices is raising concern that the shift off carbon could be uneven and messy—and feeding the argument that the transition can’t happen soon enough. Europe has seen a record-high increase in natural gas prices, “raising concerns that consumers will be hit hard by high energy bills this winter as global demand for fuel rises,” Euronews reports. In the UK, “average energy prices this past month were almost three times higher than in any other September in the past 10 years, with the average household expecting to pay nearly US$190 more this year,” Gizmodo adds. “Energy bills are set to increase even more steeply after Friday, when a price cap on bills is set to rise.” # ⚓ Edelman’s_Covert_Pro-Fossil_PR_Work_Revealed_by Coding_Error⠀⇛ Only a few years after vowing to no longer act in the service of climate deniers, global PR behemoth Edelman has been caught in the act of doing just that.  Edelman’s stealth involvement in ExxonMobil’s year-long Facebook offensive against the Biden administration’s promise to get tough on carbon pollution has been revealed, courtesy of a coding error, reports Gizmodo. The error was uncovered by the watchdog Clean Creatives during its investigation of Exxchange, a web platform through which Exxon distributes its ads.  # ⚓ Global_Coal_Plant_Projects_Down_76%_Since_2015⠀⇛ The global pipeline of new coal plant projects has shrunk 76% since 2015, a new analysis shows, putting many countries in a good position to carry out UN Secretary General António Guterres’s call for no new coal investment. “The economics of coal have become increasingly uncompetitive in comparison to renewable energy, while the risk of stranded assets has increased. Governments can now act with confidence to commit to ‘no new coal’,” reports climate think tank E3G in its analysis. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Pandora_Papers:_‘Biggest-Ever’_Bombshell_Leak_Exposes Financial_Secrets_of_the_Super-Rich⠀⇛ In what’s being called the “biggest-ever leak of offshore data,” a cache of nearly 12 million documents published Sunday laid bare the hidden wealth, secret dealings, and corruption of hundreds of world leaders, billionaires, public officials, celebrities, and others. The bombshell revelations—known as the Pandora Papers—were published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and include private emails, secret contracts, and other records obtained during a two-year investigation involving more than 600 journalists in 117 countries and territories. # ⚓ Harvard_and_Other_Schools_Make_a_Choice_on_Fossil_Fuels⠀⇛ This month, the University of Minnesota, Boston University and Harvard, our own institution, announced that they’ll divest from the fossil fuel industry. These decisions are the latest wins for both the planet and for activism against the industry most responsible for the climate crisis. The three universities join over 1,300 schools and institutions — including foundations, pension funds, institutional investors and others — that have divested or announced plans to divest, at least in part, from fossil fuels. In doing so, they have affirmed that continued investment in fossil fuels is neither financially responsible nor morally defensible. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘Pandora_Papers’_expose_leaders’_offshore_millions⠀⇛ More than a dozen heads of state and government, from Jordan to Azerbaijan, Kenya and the Czech Republic, have used offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a far-reaching new investigation by the ICIJ media consortium. # ⚓ Surprise_for_Arizona_Senators⠀⇛ Though they hired the firm Cyber Ninjas Just to show that Trump votes did surmount Those of Biden, it found the reverse. But who knew that a ninja can count? # ⚓ Corporations_Are_Spending_Millions_to_Stop_Key_Parts_of Biden’s_Spending_Plan⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ China_Censors_Every_Digital_Trace_of_Megastar_Actress⠀⇛ According to a report from the American Enterprise Institute, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) oversees a slew of organizations dedicated to the censorship of various media in the People’s Republic of China. These include such divisions as the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television as well as the Central Propaganda Department. One of the most remarkable examples of the government-led censorship witnessed in the country is in the irrelevant and convoluted search engine results pertaining to the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989. # ⚓ How_Chinese_censorship_reached_Hollywood⠀⇛ According to a government report last February, cited by Variety, there are currently more than 75,000 halls in China, of which nearly 20,000 were built between 2018 and 2019 and more than 5,700 built in 2020, despite the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. To give the idea, in the first weekend of its release in China, last May, Fast & Furious 9 it grossed the equivalent of $ 136 million (€ 115 million), nearly double the amount in the United States over the same period. Although China has created its own franchises in recent years and has become less and less dependent on American cinema, films produced and shot in the United States have continued to be highly viewed. For this reason, foreign film studios have begun to pay more and more attention to avoid content at risk of censorship: “they censor themselves in advance,” wrote James Tager, director of the NGO PEN America, which deals with freedom of expression in the media and published a extensive report on censorship in Chinese cinema. # ⚓ China,_Hollywood_and_the_censorship_debate⠀⇛ The global economic centre of gravity is moving towards Asia, signaling the fast-paced consolidation of a China-led economic order. The most populous country in the world relies on its geo-economic preeminence to acquire geopolitical concessions from rivals and friends alike. And Hollywood is no exception to that. It took a lot of people by surprise when the professional wrestler turned movie star John Cena profusely apologized after calling Taiwan a country. “I made one mistake. I am very, very sorry for this mistake, my apologies,” he said in Mandarin. The apology came after the actor had provoked the wrath of mainland Chinese fans by inadvertently challenging China’s three Ts — Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen — subject matters that are best left unaddressed if you wish to stay in the Chinese Communist Party’s good graces. # ⚓ Why_Marvel’s_‘Shang-Chi’_may_not_be_released_in_China_and what_it_means_for_Hollywood’s_future⠀⇛ Aynne Kokas, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and the author of the book “Hollywood Made in China,” told Insider that the “Shang-Chi” controversy is happening “in parallel with widespread tightening” of China media and its film market. # ⚓ Lars_Vilks:_Muhammad_cartoonist_killed_in_traffic_collision –_media_reports⠀⇛ Vilks, 75, lived under police protection after being subjected to death threats over the cartoon. # ⚓ Book_Review:_Free_Speech_and_Why_You_Should_Give_a_Damn⠀⇛ Censorship fixes the fight and provides a controlled habitat (of course, whatever the habitat the censor is comfortable with). If ideas are at their best when tested, evolved, and developed – so too our shared collective thought. And it’s not just that potentially good ideas are gagged, but the open market of idea exchange itself. Instead of rational deliberation where all are allowed to express their views – it removes the debate and our collective intellectual rigor. When the censors gags the opposing viewpoint, their motivations are now in question. Aren’t their ideas good enough to stand on their own merits? o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_50_Years_Later,_Finally_Justice_for_Brazil’s Indigenous_Krenak_People⠀⇛ Half a century after Indigenous elder Jacó Krenak and dozens of fellow natives were bound and forcibly taken to concentration camps run by Brazil’s military dictatorship, a federal court has ordered the government to apologize and deliver reparations to the Krenak people. # ⚓ If_You_Work_in_the_U.S.,_You_Don’t_Know_How_Bad_You_Have It⠀⇛ For example, most United Statesians remain blithely unaware that they have among the worst health care outcomes of any advanced capitalist country while paying by far the most money. A Commonwealth Fund report, for example, found that the U.S. “placed last among 16 high-income, industrialized nations when it comes to deaths that could potentially have been prevented by timely access to effective health care.” As one of the few countries on Earth without a national health care system, health care is a commodity for those who can afford it, not a right as it is almost anyplace else. To read this article, log in here or Subscribe here. In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. # ⚓ This_Abortion_Fund_Is_at_the_Front_Lines_of_the_Struggle for_Access_in_Texas⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tens_of_Thousands_March_Across_US_in_Defense_of_Abortion Rights⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reconciliation_Demands_Just_Transition_for_Indigenous Peoples:_Thomas-Müller⠀⇛ With a federal consultation into a Canadian just transition act now under way, a prominent Indigenous activist is challenging the Trudeau government to ensure the legislation doesn’t end up as little more than empty words.  “If Canada is to do what it takes to tackle both the violence of colonization against Indigenous Peoples along with the climate emergency, we need to fundamentally change our economy,” writes Clayton Thomas-Müller, a senior campaign specialist at 350.org and member of Pukatawagan Cree Nation, in a September 30 op-ed for the Globe and Mail. # ⚓ Data_Leak_Reveals_at_Least_2_NYPD_Officers_Have_Links_to the_Oath_Keepers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Britney_Spears_Conservatorship_Shows_How_‘Long Shadow_of_Eugenics’_Harms_Disabled_Women⠀⇛ Britney Spears has been locked in a court battle 13 years in the making. While her father was suspended as conservator of her estate on September 29, 2021, her conservatorship might not be terminated until the next hearing on November 12. # ⚓ Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel_is_a_Powerful_Anti-Racist_Book._So Why_Doesn’t_the_Left_Love_It?⠀⇛ Spurred perhaps by discussion and criticism of this conclusion, Diamond went on, six years later, to publish his best-known book, Guns, Germs, and Steel. It set out to explain in vivid detail, region by region, and era by era, how some branches of humanity came to dominate and even eradicate others. This was an ambitious undertaking, and one that would inevitably clash with established ideologies and political interests. Perhaps most significantly, it provided a scientific rebuttal of white supremacist beliefs—one that had previously been missing from the debate on race. In the introduction, Diamond writes of racist theories of history: “The objection to such explanations is not just that they are loathsome, but they are wrong.” On this basis alone, one might have expected the Left to have embraced the book; but in making its case, GGS steps on too many ideological toes. Where one encounters scepticism and hostility towards GGS or Diamond himself, it tends to come from people on the Left, rather than from white nationalists. By the time of the book’s publication, white nationalism had already retreated into the fringes. But it was not replaced by a new regard for scientific curiosity, but by dogmatic social science theories about “power” and “privilege,” built on a new set of mythologies, just as hostile to science as the old ones, and written from a thoroughly American perspective. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Road_Towards_A_Free_Ebook_Reader⠀⇛ Yet even when you have a free ebook reader in your hands, you will still need to be vigilant about your freedom. Many ebooks on the market are laden with Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), which prevents you from exercising the freedom to read and share the books you buy and own. Consenting to the DRM that many ebooks are distributed with is a sure way to lose control of your digital autonomy, no matter what kind of device you have. Despite the Internet giving us the means to share textbooks or works of literature seamlessly and without cost, publishing companies still operate under old assumptions, meaning that libraries and storefronts alike ignore the “solved problem of lending” and distribute books under restrictive terms. Despite the technology behind ebooks having been with us for years, ebook DRM has only gotten more restrictive. It’s common for textbooks to now require a constant and uninterrupted Internet connection, and that they load only a discrete number of pages at a time. Such requirements, especially when placed on students in the global south, where connections aren’t as reliable, directly detract from the quality of their education. This is what motivated our decision to make textbook DRM (and one of its top peddlers, Pearson) our target for the International Day Against DRM (IDAD) in 2019. And though the pandemic may have prevented people from meeting, DRM was undeterred. Even libraries fell victim to “lending” services like Kanopy, putting an artificial lock on digital copies of books, the last place it makes sense for them to be. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ CVC_Files_Reply_to_ToolGen’s_Opposition_to_CVC Preliminary_Motion_No._3 [Ed: It's a waste of any court's time to even debate whether patent monopolies should cover life and nature as if these were human "inventions" that merit patents]⠀⇛ On May 20th, Junior Party the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna; and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, “CVC”) filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 3 in Interference No. 106,127 (which names ToolGen as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to add claims in ToolGen’s U.S. Patent No. 10,851,380* to this interference, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(i) and 41.208(a)(2) and Standing Order ¶ 208.3.2. On July 5th ToolGen filed its Opposition. On August 27th, CVC filed its Reply. In its Motion No. 3, CVC argued that the only difference between the language of the Count and the claims in the ’380 patent is that those claims require the addition of two guanine residues (“GG”) positioned before the crRNA portion of the sgRNA sequence. CVC argued that these species of sgRNA (the fusion of crRNA and tracrRNA) recited in the ’380 patent claims were solely a consequence of using the T7 phage RNA polymerase to produce sgRNA, and that in vitro RNA production using T7 RNAP promoters was well- known in the art (“for decades”; emphasis in brief) at the priority date of the ’380 patent; these arguments are supported by testimony from CVC’s expert, Dr. Scott Bailey and this method of producing sgRNA and relevant prior art disclosing the use of T7 RNAP and promoters recognized by the polymerase was set forth in the brief. # ⚓ IPO_Behind_the_IDEA_Series_Webinar [Ed: The Intellectual Property [sic] Owners [sic] Association (IPO), a front group for patent maximalism and software patents for racist_IBM (really malicious entity, attacking the poor), pretends to care for Hispanics. Well, it’s what some call “virtue-signalling” and it’s very shallow in this case.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Webinar_on_Patenting_Green_Technologies [Ed: Just more greenwashing of patent monopolies now by J A Kemp, talking about "greentech' (buzzwords)]⠀⇛ # ⚓ [Older]_EU_leaders_blindsided_on_Biden_proposal_to suspend_patents_on_COVID-19_vaccines,_as_industry reacts_in_anger [Ed: Notice how corrupt media, or EPO mouthpiece Science_Business, attacked Biden for doing the right thing about vaccine equity]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ratify_new_EU_patent_court_or_risk_losing_out_on foreign_investment_billions,_Ibec_urges_Government [Ed: This is a villainous lie interjected by lobbyists. UPC is_already_dead,_but_they’re_desperate_to_pretend otherwise.]⠀⇛ The business lobby group says the decision is even more pressing as a global corporate tax deal looms into view. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Focus_On_Software_Patents_&_Copyright⠀⇛ First, of all, the concept of software patents has been around for a long time (even since the 1960s), but the debate on the patentability of software became widespread when the Free Software Foundation was founded in the 1980s. While the FSF does not take a position on the impact of patents in other spheres, we consider them to be both unethical and counterproductive in the field of software. One of the most worrying effects of software patents is the way they prevent new software from being written, yet even if this weren’t the case, software patents would still be an inherently unethical restriction on individual freedom. Even in the 1980s, it was clear that the magnitude of the problem was such that Richard Stallman founded the (now defunct) League for Programming Freedom in 1989, an organization aiming to ally all developers (including those of proprietary software) against software patents. Today, few people are aware of the dangers behind software patents, and how the world is affected by them. To give a quick overview, in the US, patents are handled by the federal courts, while Europe has different, independent national laws on patents. Recently, however, the adoption of the Unitary Patent and the Unitary Patent Court are bound to replace regulations of individual EU member states with ones that are valid for the entirety of the EU, making (software) patent enforcement in Europe drastically easier. Globally, each country has unique patent laws and the patentability of software may differ considerably. But the general picture is that software patents are continuously granted. It is crucial to emphasize that software patents are enforced without ever going through a process of direct approval by the public. In 2002, a proposal was made to legitimize software patents in the EU, but it was defeated in the European Parliament by an overwhelming majority of 648 to 14 votes, thanks in part to a massive effort by the free software movement and its allies. The success of that campaign demonstrated that people are able to change the course of proposed life-affecting policies, provided that they are included in the process, and properly informed. Unfortunately, the course of events both then and now also proves that democracy requires the utmost vigilance, and any period of relaxation works against the will of the people. Despite the defeat of the software patent directive in 2002, the software industry has successfully pushed for new policies that will favor it. This is where the aforementioned Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court come into play, since it is well known that the European Patent Office has a vested interest in expanding patent dominance in all fields, particularly in the software sector. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ ASĀVA_v._RAMPUR_ASAWA:_Bombay_HC_Sets_the_Record Straight_on_Deceptive_Similarity⠀⇛ A few months back, a Single Judge bench of the Bombay High Court delivered what has now been revealed to be a very problematic decision on deceptive similarity in alcoholic beverage trademarks. Brought to light upon being set aside by the Division Bench, this decision rendered findings that threatened to set dangerous precedents on what constitutes a trademark, and how deceptive similarity is evaluated. In this post, I revisit the Single Judge’s ruling and underscore the ways in which the Division Bench corrects the approach. [...] When a defendant in an infringement suit applies for registration of the contested mark, it is deemed to be an acknowledgement of similarity and thus operates as estoppel. On this basis, the Defendant had argued that the reverse of this would also be true and the Plaintiff’s attempt to separately register the mark used by the Defendant amounts to admission of dissimilarity between the marks. Thoroughly unimpressed, the Division Bench cautioned that in the absence of any legal precedent or statutory provision, the converse of a statement could not be automatically accepted by substituting completely opposing concepts. It also refused to accept that because it was the Defendant who brought certain facts on record in the defence, the Plaintiff was guilty of suppressing facts. With this, the Division Bench set aside the Single Judge’s decision and remanded the matter back for reconsideration. While this appellate stage analysis did not bring about a conclusion to the interim application, it goes a long way in clarifying important principles in trademark infringement litigation. A common theme in all the issues is that it focuses on the various tests from the perspective of actual impact on consumers who would interact with the products in the market. While it remains to be seen what the outcome of the infringement suit would be, the Division Bench has cleared the air on what the adjudicating court must inquire into while deciding the case. # ⚓ Around_the_IP_Blogs⠀⇛ SpicyIP reviewed a ruling from the Bombay High Court concerning the deceptive similarity between signs. The case at hand dealt with the names ‘ASĀVA’ and ‘RAMPUR ASĀVA’ in connection with whiskey, in light of an earlier trade mark, ‘THE ASWA’, registered under Class 33 for alcoholic beverages. The blog questioned the judge’s decision to rely solely on a phonetic comparison of signs, and to apply an Australian precedent directly to an Indian judicial proceeding. # ⚓ SOUTH_AFRICA:_HIGH_COURT_STILL_NOT_QUITE_GETTING_IT RIGHT_–_Afro-IP⠀⇛ In the recent case of iCollege (Pty) Ltd (iCollege) v Excellence Skills Development and Mentoring (Expertease Skills) and ZA Central Registry NPC (Domain Name Registry), iCollege (Pty) Ltd sued Expertease Skills for trade mark infringement and passing off for their use of the mark ICOLLEGE, and requested the transfer of the domain name icollege.co.za from the Domain Name Registry. The citation of the Domain Name Registry is a mechanism for enforcement of the judgment, and they did not take part in proceedings. It is apparent from the decision that the High Court, in dismissing the claim, has still not got to grips with the proper application of the trade mark infringement tests, and this post will focus on these errors and omissions and once again appeal to the court and legal practitioners to adopt and follow the step-by-step approach used in Europe (see earlier posts here, here and here) as it will help reduce errors in application. The majority of the decision surrounds the trade mark infringement claim under S34(1)(a) and so this post focuses on that. # ⚓ Timbs:_Iconic_Enough_for_Trademark_Protection? [Ed: Did Timberland 'invent' the boot?]⠀⇛ I previously wrote about the TTAB decision denying TBL’s attempt to register the shape of its Timberland Boots as a protectable trade mark. Crouch, Iconic Timberland Boots–Trade Dress Worthy? Now, the company has filed a civil action in the Eastern District of Virginia seeking a court order that TBL is entitled to a registration. [...] This is apparently the same process used in other recent trademark civil actions. Booking.com B.V. v. Matal, 278 F. Supp. 3d 891, 900 (E.D. Va. 2017) (“The parties have ‘expressly agree[d] that if the Court determines after reviewing the briefs and evidence on summary judgment that any material issue of fact exists, the Court is authorized to resolve any such factual dispute.’”); Seacret Spa Intl. v. Lee, 1: 15CV405(JCC/IDD), 2016 WL 880367, at *2 (E.D. Va. Mar. 8, 2016) (“The parties have agreed that . . . the Court may resolve those disputes on the basis of the record before it.”); Autodesk, Inc. v. Lee, 1:13-CV-1464 AJT/JFA, 2014 WL 5500799, at *1 (E.D. Va. Oct. 30, 2014) (parties “stipulated that the Court should resolve any material factual disputes without any further proceeding based on the summary judgment record.”). # ⚓ Chile_and_the_adherence_to_the_Madrid_Protocol_–_What can_we_expect [Ed: The subjugation through so-called 'IP', a neo-colonialist instrument that inevitably (by its desigh) makes the rich even richer and calls the poor "pirates"]⠀⇛ A couple of months ago, the Chamber of Deputies & the Senate approved the adherence of Chile to the Agreement of the Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Trade marks, which is expected to be in force in March of the next year 2022 (since the deposit of the instrument before the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO should take place on January of 2022). With this adherence, Chile will be part of a small group of Latin American countries that have already implemented the System, such as Colombia (2012), Mexico (2013), and more recently Brazil (2019). In this context, it is important to analyze what can we expect for Chile with the incorporation of this System, and what could be the legal, social and economic implications, the advantages and challenges that this may represent for our country, which are closely related to the definition of public policies that Chile wishes to adopt. # ⚓ Swiss_Supreme_Court_invalidates_the_Nespresso_Capsule 3D_Mark⠀⇛ Coffee capsules have turned out to be a revolution for how coffee is served in millions of homes … and also for case law on 3D trade marks. In a decision that has just been published (available here in French), the Swiss Federal Supreme Court invalidated the 3D mark of Nestlé’s related to the shape of the capsules. The decision echoes one by the German Federal Court of Justice given a few years ago (Katpost here). In the 1970s, Nestlé invented a hermetically- sealed capsule containing a dose of ground coffee, and a “Nespresso” coffee machine in which to insert the capsule. Nestlé had received several patents for various aspects of the machines and the capsules (all of which had expired by this point). The shape of the capsule compartment has changed over time, but the technology has essentially remained the same. Nestlé has become the largest supplier of single-serve coffee in Switzerland – and no doubt in many other countries. In 2000, Nestlé filed an application with the Swiss Trademark Office for registration of a 3D trade mark in class 30 for coffee, coffee extracts and coffee preparations. The Office registered the mark based on acquired distinctiveness. The respondent and counterplaintiff, Ethical Coffee Company, developed a biodegradable coffee capsule (based on vegetable fibers and starch) compatible with the Nespresso system. In 2011, Nestlé secured a preliminary injunction in Switzerland, based on its registered 3D mark, against Ethical Coffee Company’s capsules. This decision was eventually overturned by the Federal Supreme Court on procedural grounds and the lower court, in a second decision, rejected the request for preliminary injunction on the grounds that the shape of the capsule was technically necessary. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] My_Copy_of_The_Times⠀⇛ In days or yore, I would have spoken of ‘my copy of The Times.’ After all, it is a hard copy, I paid for it and I can port it around. It is, for all intents and purposes ‘mine.’ But in the digital age it isn’t ‘my copy,’ rather it is my temporary access so long as the subscription lasts. Of course, in the era of ‘my copy’ there was not assertion to a copy(right), much less copy(left), over the printed work. Just the joy that it was ‘mine’ to possess for as long the ink remained indelible. # ⚓ Dynamic_Blocking_Injunctions_–_Lessons_for_the Egyptian_Copyright_Legislator⠀⇛ The growing proclivity of issuing “dynamic injunctions” to block the online illegal diffusion and distribution of audio-visual copyrighted content has recently caught the attention of several scholars (see here, here and here). In fact, the preventive nature of the rights involved, the need to preclude imminent damage, and the fact that most IP addresses targeted by blocking injunctions are univocally dedicated to this type of illicit activity, has led to the issuance of ex parte blocking injunctions. In layman’s terms, these are issued without the participation of the respondent to the case. This is due to the fact that courts are often faced with situations in which delays could cause irreparable damage to the right for which protection is sought. Over the years this novel practice has given rise to “live”, “fast” and even “super” injunctions in various jurisdictions. The majority of these focus on the protection of major sports events, like the Italian Lega Calcio, the English Premier League and the UEFA Champions League (for a detailed analysis see here, here and here). Unsurprisingly, the rise of dynamic injunctions in that particular sector is largely due to the mammoth profits that these events yield for right holders. [...] The Egyptian Copyright legislator addresses the issue of injunctive relief in the body of the Egyptian copyright law (ECL – law no. 82 of 2002) itself. By virtue of article 179 of the latter, any interested party, not only right holders, can request provisional and conservatory measures to put an end to any sort of infringement. Upon such request, and if deemed both urgent and necessary, the competent court possesses a wide range of non-exhaustive measures, including but not limited to the “suspension of production, exhibition, publication or reproduction of the work, performance, sound recording or broadcast program” (art. 179(2) ECL) and the seizure “of the original and infringing copies and any material used in republication or reproduction provided that such material can be used only for such republication” (art. 179(3) ECL). In any case, the plaintiff must deposit an adequate financial guarantee with the competent court, following which the latter issues its order within twenty-four hours. The competent court may also designate an expert to assist the bailiff in charge of the execution of any ordered measures. # ⚓ Italian_Broadcaster_Uses_Forensic_Watermarks_to_Track Down_Online_Pirates⠀⇛ Italian public broadcaster RAI will use the NexGuard watermarking technology to secure its content. The company is the first free- to-air broadcaster to implement NAGRA’s anti- piracy technology, which makes it possible to trace the source of online piracy so rightsholders can take appropriate action in response. # ⚓ The_50_Greatest_Singles:_an_Exercise_in_the_Absurd⠀⇛ What is a “single”, anyway? A long extinct 45? A song that charted? Something you first heard on the radio? A song that stays floating in the stream, long after it was released?  For me a single is a hit. Not in terms of sales, but a song that hits the gut. A singular experience. A song I heard a fragment of for the first time, probably on the radio or on Soul Train, and immediately wanted to hear again, rushed to track down in Obadiah’s head shop/record store on Meridian Street in 70s Indianapolis or Olsson’s Books and Records on Wisconsin Ave. in 80s Georgetown or Music Millennium on East Burnside in 90s Portland. A song with punch, that echoes in the head. A song you never forget, never tire of hearing again. A song that changed you in ways small and profound. A song that consoled you, made you want to screw or go out and smash something. To read this article, log in here or Subscribe here. In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3160 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.04.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_4/10/2021:_Lakka_3.5_is_Out,_Lumina_Desktop_1.6.1_Available,_GNOME_42 Plans_Published⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_October_3rd,_2021⠀⇛ This has been an amazing week with so many cool releases, starting with the long-anticipated Q4OS 4 distro based on Debian GNU/Linux 11 and the Trinity Desktop Environment, and continuing with new updates to the SuperTuxKart arcade racing game, Inkscape SVG editor, OBS Studio professional recording and live streaming software, Mixxx free DJ software, as well as Deepin Linux and Nitrux distributions. On top of that, Fedora Linux fans were able to take the beta release of the upcoming Fedora 35 for a test drive on their personal computers, Ubuntu users received a new important Linux kernel security update, Valve releases a new Proton version for Linux gamers, Linux Mint 20.3 got a codename and release date, and Arch Linux got a new ISO release powered by Linux kernel 5.14. # ⚓ Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#150⠀⇛ As this is the 150th release of this weekly Linux Roundup, I couldn’t help but think back to when it started. It was in 2018, which was strange here for me and my family, we just moved to my wife’s hometown, where we planned to run a guest house, which didn’t work out (we did it for two months), and I was in the apartment which we started to rent, and I was thinking what to do next, as I was a system administrator before that for 5 years (mostly Linux), and I decided to start to work online. And this newsletter was one of the first steps. Looking back, I am truly grateful that I took the step of faith and grateful for your support along the way. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Most_Reliable_Hosting_Company_Sites_in_September_2021 [Ed: Last month BSDs were completely absent from this list (it was all GNU/Linux), but this month it's back]⠀⇛ In September 2021, New York Internet (NYI) had the most reliable hosting company site: it responded to all of Netcraft’s requests, with an average connection time of 61ms. NYI has appeared in the top 10 table seven times in 2021 so far. Customers can choose from a range of cloud, colocation, bare metal and managed solutions. Bigstep, CWCS Managed Hosting and Dinahosting appear in second, third and fourth places. Bigstep came close to NYI in average connection time, averaging 63ms. CWCS and Dinahosting both followed, averaging 66ms and 73ms respectively. Bigstep’s bare metal cloud hosting provides the flexibility of cloud hosting without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization. The bare metal offerings are available in data centres in the UK and Romania. CWCS provides dedicated servers along with cloud services, as well as domain registration and VPS hosting. CWCS has data centres across the UK, as well as North America. Dinahosting provides cloud hosting and domain registration services, with data centres located at Interxion and Global Switch, in Madrid. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Josh_Bressers:_Episode_291_–_Everyone_sucks_at vulnerability_disclosure⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about recent events around Apple and Microsoft disclosing security vulnerabilities. Microsoft usually does a good job, but Apple has a long history of not having a great bug bounty or vulnerability disclosure policy. None of this is simple, but hopefully you’ll have some fun and learn a bit about the whole vulnerability disclosure process. # ⚓ This_Week_in_Linux_170:_Steam_Deck,_Fedora_35,_OBS_Studio, Flatpaks,_25_Years_of_KDE⠀⇛ On this episode of This Week in Linux, we’ve got news for the Steam Deck, Steam Next Fest, Steam Proton. Then we’ve got KDE news for KDE Plasma 5.23, Plasma 5.24, Kdenlive, Kalendar & more. Then we’ll take a look at some Distro news with Alma Linux, Q4OS 4.6 and a bunch of Fedora news such as Fedora 35 Beta, Fedora Kinoite & Nest with Fedora. Later in the show, we’ll talk about PipeWire and why it’s awesome as well as the latest release of OBS Studio and some updates for Flatpak. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! # ⚓ WP_Briefing:_Episode_17:_WordPressing_Your_Way_to_Digital Literacy⠀⇛ In episode 17 of the WordPress Briefing, Josepha Haden Chomphosy reflects on her WordCamp US keynote and digs into how participating in open source projects can help you learn 21st Century Skills. # ⚓ Linux_overview_|_Q4OS_4.6_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of Q4OS 4.6 and some of the applications pre- installed. # ⚓ I_quit_my_Job!_OMG!_–_Invidious⠀⇛ I’m so happy to let you guys know about a very special development with LearnLinuxTV, that it’s going to be my only job going forward. It’s been a lot of hard work to get to this point, but it’s here and I’m very excited! # ⚓ LHS_Episode_#433:_Mind_the_Spark_Gap⠀⇛ Hello and welcome to the 433rd installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts discuss several topics including RaDAR, communicating across the Atlantic in the early days of radio, taxing open-source satellites, open source and Azure, the latest release of WSJT-X and much more. Thank you for listening and have a great week. # ⚓ Server_Hosting_Provider’s_Most_Underused_Feature_– Invidious⠀⇛ Typically when people get a VPS they’ll get one thing and stick with it but there’s no reason why that has to be the case, if you know you’re going to have a spike in usage why not let you hosting provider scale your service. # ⚓ Video_Playback_In_Linux_Web_Browsers_SUCKS!_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Playing video inside our web browsers, whether they be Chrome-based browsers of Firefox-based, is not a great experience. These web browsers don’t have the proper video acceleration needed to play smooth video. # ⚓ Linux_Action_News_209⠀⇛ Why Linus believes keeping Linux fun is critical, the massive investment Fedora is about to make in video, and why we suspect Cloudflare’s R2 service will make Amazon squirm. Plus a low key update to the Raspberry Pi 4, and the changes in the new Docker Compose 2.0. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linus_Torvalds:_Juggling_chainsaws_and_building_Linux⠀⇛ Thirty years ago, give or take, Linus Torvalds created Linux. At the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit last week, Torvalds talked with his good friend and VMware VP and chief open-source officer Dirk Hohndel about Linux’s history. First things first, they talked about the actual date of Linux’s birthday. Hohndel noted that Torvalds “has redefined the birthday of Linux everyone used to use — August 25 — and then said, ‘well, actually it’s September’.” Indeed Torvalds and I have talked about this very point before, and you can choose between four dates for Linux’s “official” birthday. # ⚓ Linus_Torvalds_on_30_years_of_Linux,_Rust_and_the_open- source_community⠀⇛ The operating system that powers more than 90% of the world’s top servers and cloud infrastructure as well as the internet, Android smartphones, supercomputers, connected cars and the International Space Station was almost named “Freax.” “I think I emailed five people about the 0.0 release,” said Linus Torvalds (pictured, left), the inventor of Linux, who recalled that a colleague changed the name almost immediately. “I am eternally grateful to other people for having more taste than I did.” # ⚓ Paul_E._Mc_Kenney:_Can_Rust_Code_Own_RCU?⠀⇛ Read-copy update (RCU) vaguely resembles a reader- writer lock, but one in which readers do not exclude writers. This change in semantic permits RCU readers to be exceedingly fast and scalable. In fact, in the most aggressive case, rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() generate no code, and rcu_dereference() emits but a single load instruction. This most aggressive case is achieved in production via Linux-kernel CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y builds. Additional information on RCU is presented at the end of this post. # ⚓ McKenney:_So_You_Want_to_Rust_the_Linux_Kernel?⠀⇛ Paul McKenney has started a blog series on Rust for the Linux kernel. He has posted six of a planned 11 articles, though several are labeled as “under construction”. o § Benchmarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Intel_Tiger_Lake_Performance_Looking_Even_Better_With Ubuntu_21.10⠀⇛ It’s been one year now since Intel launched Tiger Lake mobile processors and since then we’ve been running routine benchmarks of the Core i7 1165G7 on Linux. Tiger Lake at launch was performing well under Linux but its performance has continued evolving nicely since on Linux, especially as it pertains to the Xe Graphics with the open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers. With Ubuntu 21.10 due out later this month, there is another performance boost to enjoy. For those with Intel Tiger Lake notebooks contemplating the move to the non-LTS Ubuntu 21.10, there are more performance improvements to note. Similar to Ubuntu 21.10 boosting performance on the AMD/Radeon side, the Intel performance has also matured nicely over the past six months on Linux. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Markets:_An_Open-Source_App_to_Keep_Track_of_Your Investments_for_Linux_Desktop_and_Phones⠀⇛ Usually, you would log in to a service on your web browser to monitor and track the market for investment opportunities if you’re an investor/ trader. But, what if you want an app for your Linux desktop and Linux phone? Considering we do have a few for Android/iOS smartphones, it should come in handy for Linux devices as well! “Markets” utilizes the data from Yahoo Finance to provide you the required information about stocks, cryptocurrencies, currencies, and more. While it is a simple desktop-focused app, it is available for Linux smartphones, and it offers a couple of valuable functionalities. Let me list the key highlights of what you can expect. # ⚓ Mousai_–_A_Simple_Tool_to_Identify_Songs_Similar_to Shazam⠀⇛ Mousai is a free and open-source application for identifying songs. If you’ve ever used Shazam or a similar app then using Mousai will not be any different for you. And even if you haven’t, its usage couldn’t be easier. Have the song that you want to identify playing in the background. Open the app and hit the listen button. Wait a couple of seconds and Mousai will return the title and artist of your selected song. It works like magic! Mousai is powered by AudD – a music recognition API. With it, you can recognize about 60 million tracks in microphone recordings, UGC, and audio files (even over the radio). And because it relies on the audd.io API to function, Mousai must log into the AudD website to get a token. Leaving this blank will give you a free trial of tokens per day. # ⚓ Top_10+_Linux_video_editors_to_edit_videos_with_ease⠀⇛ There is a lot of great video editing software available for Linux. A few of them have the free version that you can try a hand on as well. But, more importantly, the online video editor that you may find features rich too. Video-based marketing is the new trend and shall remain the best in the future too. With most people inclined to short and crisp videos, selecting the right software for creating a dynamic video for business and entertainment purposes becomes inevitable. With various OS available these days, the one that we principally rely on is Linux too. # ⚓ PostgreSQL:_pgCluu_v3.2_has_been_released⠀⇛ pgCluu is a Perl program used to perform a full audit of a PostgreSQL Cluster performances. It is divided in two parts, a collector used to grab statistics on the PostgreSQL server using psql and sar, a reports builder that will generate all HTML and charts output. # ⚓ PostgreSQL_Weekly_News_–_October_3,_2021⠀⇛ # ⚓ FLB_Music_–_music_player_and_downloader⠀⇛ We’ve reviewed a smorgasbord of open source music players. But Linux is endowed with a huge selection, and there’s still a few we’ve yet to review. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_To_Install_LibreNMS_on_Debian_11_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install LibreNMS on Debian 11. For those of you who didn’t know, LibreNMS is an auto discovering PHP/MySQL- based network monitoring system that includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, HP, and many more. 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 LibreNMS network monitoring system on a Debian 11 (Bullseye). # ⚓ How_to_Add_Icinga_Director_for_Icinga2_and_Icinga_Web_2._– Unixcop⠀⇛ What makes Icinga Director so special is the fact that it tries to target both of them at once. Icinga Director uses the Icinga 2 API to talk to your monitoring system. It will help you to deploy your configuration, regardless of whether you are using a single node Icinga installation or a distributed setup with multiple masters and satellites. # ⚓ How_to_Delete_Files_and_Directories_in_Linux_from_Command Line⠀⇛ In this guide you will learn several ways how to quickly and easily delete files and directories in Linux using the command line. One of the basic file system administration tasks in Linux involves creating, modifying, and deleting different types of files and directories. Knowing some basic tools and concepts for file deletion comes in handy and can save you time. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Brotli_on_CentOS_8_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ Brotli is a data format specification for data streams compressed with a specific combination of the general-purpose LZ77lossless compression algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modelling. A compression algorithm developed by Google and works best for text compression. Brotli primarily used by web servers and content delivery networks to compress HTTP content, making internet websites load faster. Brotli is a new compression method with a better compression ratio than Gzip. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Go_Programming_Language_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ Go is a programming language that was initially created by a team at Google as a replacement for C. They wanted to have a language where the compiler would be quick but also have easy programing and efficient production. Go can be used for many things, like networking or distributed systems programs, and has earned the name “the language of the cloud”. It helps people do more with just a few words, making it easier to write long sentences without wasting time on formatting. If you need to share your program with other people, you can just compile it into one file so they don’t have to download anything. In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to install and configure a programming workspace with Go via command line. You can follow along if you have a working Debian 11 system. Other Debian-based Linux distributions should work in a similar way. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Passbolt_Self-Hosted_Password_Manager_on Debian_11⠀⇛ Passbolt is a free, open-source and self-hosted password manager that allows you to store your website and other passwords securely. It is an extensible and OpenPGP based password manager and is available in both a subscription-based and community edition. It also allows you to share your login credentials with your friends. # ⚓ Linux_101:_What_is_the_mount_command_and_how_do_you_use_it? –_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Jack Wallen introduces new Linux users to the mount command and how to use it to mount an external drive to the internal file system. # ⚓ Further_reducing_write_amplification_to_an_SSD_in_Debian GNU/Linux._Put_/tmp_in_RAM._–_BaronHK’s_Rants⠀⇛ In my last post, I wrote about setting up ZSwap in Debian 11, and now, apparently, I have to blog about this. Most GNU/Linux distributions put the /tmp folder (where all sorts of temporary files the OS needs to have around for a little while go, as the name implies) on a RAM drive, using tmpfs. Debian, it appears, doesn’t. Having /tmp mounted on an SSD in a modern computer will cause many unnecessary writes to the SSD and will contribute to the drive wearing out too quickly. # ⚓ How_To_Install_Bitwarden_on_Linux_Mint_20_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Bitwarden on Linux Mint 20. For those of you who didn’t know, Bitwarden, the open-source password manager, makes it easy to generate and store unique passwords for any browser or device. Using Bitwarden you can easily and safely generate, store, and secure unique passwords from any location or device. It is compliant with Privacy Shield, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, SOC2, and SOC3 security standards and comes with AES-256 bit encryption, salted hashing, and PBKDF2 SHA-256. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Bitwarden’s open-source password manager on a Linux Mint 20 (Ulyana). # ⚓ How_I_use_Vagrant_with_libvirt_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ I’ll admit it: I’m a fan of Linux. While I’ve used Slackware on workstations and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on servers for years, I love seeing how other distributions do things. What’s more, I really like to test applications and scripts I write on other distributions to ensure portability. In fact, that’s one of the great advantages of Linux, as I see it: You can download a distro and test your software on it for free. You can’t do that with a closed OS, at least not without either breaking an EULA or paying to play, and even then, you’re often signing up to download several gigabytes just to test an application that’s no more than a few hundred megabytes. But Linux is open source, so there’s rarely an excuse to ignore at least the three or four main distros, except that setting up a virtual machine can take a lot of clicks and sometimes complex virtual networking. At least, that used to be the excuse until Vagrant changed the virtual machine workflow for developers. # ⚓ How_to_Check_your_Linux_OS_Version_–_Cloudbooklet⠀⇛ Linux is a most popular open source OS used widely on many systems, servers and other machines like Raspberry Pi, etc. There are many variants out there in Linux which are known as distributions. The most common distributions are Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Mint, CentOS, Redhat, ArcLinux and many more. It is better to know the version of your operating system when you update or install packages or installing security patches, etc. Some distributions like Ubuntu, Debian shows the version of the OS when you login as a welcome message. But this can be disabled manually. # ⚓ How_to_Create_a_Video_From_Images_in_Linux⠀⇛ Before this article gives us a walkthrough on creating videos from images under a Linux operating system environment, it is important to understand the why before we engage the how. # ⚓ How_to_Disable_a_User_in_Linux_–_Linux_Nightly⠀⇛ Disabling a user account in Linux means the user can no longer login to the system. However, the account will still persist on the system, which makes it different than deleting a user account entirely. You may need to disable a user account temporarily, or disable the login capability for a system account. In this guide, you’ll learn a few different methods of disabling a user account on Linux. You’ll also see how to re-enable the account. # ⚓ How_to_Recover_Corrupted_GRUB_2_Bootloader_in_RHEL_8⠀⇛ You may need to reinstall the GRUB 2 boot loader when the system does not boot into the GRUB menu. This may be due to the installation of security patches or human error. If the GRUB 2 boot loader corrupted on your system then you will end up with one of the following error messages. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to repair corrupted GRUB 2 Bootloader in RHEL 8 system. # ⚓ How_to_install_Blender_2.93.4_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Blender 2.93.4 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. This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not those with an ARM64 architecture CPU. # ⚓ How_to_install_Odoo_13_or_14_on_Docker_Container_–_Linux Shout⠀⇛ There is a couple of well-known open-source business management software and Odoo is one of them. It offers ERP, CRM, ECM, project planning, and more… In this article, we learn how to install Odoo 14 and 13 on a docker container running on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal fossa. Odoo is free business software that covers a wide range of tasks. In addition to classic ERP functions, the environment offers CRM, E-commerce, content management, project planning, warehouse management, accounting, personnel management, portal, knowledge base, product management, human resources, marketing, and more. # ⚓ How_to_install_the_latest_npm_on_Ubuntu_20.04_–_Techzim [Ed: Sadly this gives Microsoft control over your computer]⠀⇛ Not so long ago the only thing I needed to learn in order to create plugins for my blogs was PHP. I could farm out the JavaScript and CSS parts of development to freelancers. With the recent versions of WordPress however, more and more code is in JavaScript so I decided to learn JavaScript deeply. # ⚓ How_to_migrate_Apache_to_Nginx_by_converting_VirtualHosts to_Server_Blocks⠀⇛ In this tutorial we will talk about how to migrate Apache to Nginx. Apache and Nginx are probably the most used Web servers on Linux. The former is the most ancient of the two: its development started in 1995, and it played a very important role in the World Wide Web expansion; it is still the most popular web server around. The first version of Nginx, instead, was released in 2004. Nginx is not only a web server: it can also work as a reverse proxy and a load balancer. Both Apache and Nginx are free and open source. One of their most important functionalities is the ability to serve multiple websites/resources. Apache uses the so called “VirtualHosts” while Nginx uses “Server Blocks”. In this tutorial we see how to migrate the most common Apache VirtualHost configurations to Nginx. # ⚓ Interesting_way_to_change_name_of_current_process⠀⇛ Well, interesting to Linux shell script programmers anyway. I’m running chromium as a non-root user ‘chromium’. /usr/bin/chromium is a script that performs login to user ‘chromium’ then runs the real chromium executable. I had the situation where clicked on the close-box top-right of the chromium window, it closed, but was unable to restart chromium. Found that some chromium processes were still running. These have to be killed. This also happens sometimes with seamonkey, leaving the user wondering why it won’t start. What I want to do in the /usr/bin/chromium script is kill all these leftover processes. Simply running “killall chromium” will also kill the current script. Utility ‘ps’ can be run to find these processes, then run ‘kill’ on each one. That’s one way of doing it. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Proton_Experimental_expands_NVIDIA_DLSS_support_on_Linux_to DirectX_11_titles_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Only a few days ago Proton Experimental saw an update to pull in NVIDIA DLSS support for DirectX 12 and as of today’s update this has expanded to DirectX 11 titles too. It’s still currently disabled by default with you needing to make a small adjustment to turn it on. This can be added to individual games by setting PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 %command% in the launch options. Or you can try PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 %command% with “dxgi.nvapiHack = False” in a DXVK config file. There’s also an update to newer DXVK that includes the latest development work and you should find that Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is now playable with it. The Proton changelog can be found here. # ⚓ Euro_Truck_Sim_2_and_American_Truck_Sim_get_expanded multiplayer_with_mod_support_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ SCS Software have begun expanding what’s possible with the newly introduced Convoy Mode multiplayer in both their truck sims Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. Now available in Open Beta for owners is the 1.42 update, which adds it the “very loud request” of mod support to Convoy. Not an easy task since everything needs to match between players and online support is difficult at the best of times for developers to get right. Speaking on their blog they mentioned the challenge of “profile recovery when a crucial MOD is removed or changed, and visualizing what MODs are missing from the Steam Workshop when players join a server that contains modifications”. # ⚓ Live_–_Linux_vs_Windows_11_Gaming_Benchmarks_–_The_Tale_of the_tape…_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Valve_cancels_Dota_2_live_audience_and_refunds_ticket_sales for_The_International_2021_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Seems like Valve can’t catch a break with The International 2021 thanks to COVID-19. After having to move venues, they’ve now cancelled and refunded all live tickets. This is a pretty big blow to the biggest esports event of the year, with it having the biggest prize-pool ever for a single event at $40,018,195. # ⚓ GTA_III_&_Vice_City_reverse-engineered_code_taken_down_on GitHub_again_by_Take-Two_DMCA⠀⇛ The saga continues for the GTA III and Vice City code that was reverse engineered and available on GitHub, as it has now been taken down once again from a DMCA request. For the second time the code repository on GitHub is no more, with it linking to the public DMCA notice that shows Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP acting for Take-Two Interactive Software. It requested a take down of all repositories (including forks) of the code and brings up the recent lawsuit filed against the developers involved in the code # ⚓ How_To_Install_and_Get_Started_with_Itch_on_Ubuntu_Linux⠀⇛ Gaming on Linux has been a bit complex. Since most game developers don’t release versions for Linux, however, using the Stream might have solved a bit of that issue. True gamers always love to play the independent video game that is not developed by professionals, but they are playing to the fun. If you have been an old-school gamer and had been using the Itch desktop client on your other operating systems for a while, you can now install and use the Itch tool on your Ubuntu machines as well and enjoy the full Itch.io experience. After you install the Itch tool, you can browse games, update games, and play right there in the application. Itch allows you to pay for the games and play your desired paid games without any hassle. # ⚓ Valheim_adds_a_Jack-o-turnip_and_tweaks_melee_weapons_to use_less_Stamina_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Following on from the big Hearth & Home update Iron Gate has tweaked Valheim once more, along with adding a new spooky themed item to build. This follows on from the update released on September 17 which once again rebalanced HP / Stamina on most foods along with some bug fixes. Today though it’s a bit of a bigger patch enabling you to build the Halloween themed Jack-o-turnip for a limited time. There’s plenty more though like melee weapons use less stamina and the Fulings have become more menacing, since they have some new battle tactics. # ⚓ Recruit_witches,_train_them_up_and_battle_in_the_upcoming Stardander_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Stardander is the next title from Fancy Fish Games who previously developed Aground and I Can’t Escape: Darkness that will see you run a school for witches. Blending together elements from strategic RPGs and Visual Novels, it will see you run Stardander School for Witches. During your time as head you will accept witches into your school, train them up, guide them through turn-based battles and support them through navigate magical school life. # ⚓ Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory_levels_up_with_a_new_ET: Legacy_release_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Based upon the source code release of the classic multiplayer shooter Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, the ET: Legacy project continues maturing on modern platforms with ET: Legacy 2.78 out now. This is easily the best and suggested way to actually play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory now, as ET: Legacy comes with a ton of improvements over the original while keeping the gameplay intact. This release is part of their effort to speed up development and they said version 2.78 had a focus on “improving the competitive side of things” along with other general fixes. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ Lumina_Desktop_1.6.1_Release⠀⇛ After a year and a half lull in development has been , the published release of the desktop environment Lumina 1.6.1 , developed after the termination of TrueOS development within the project Trident (Void Linux desktop distribution). The environment components are written using the Qt5 library (without using QML). Lumina takes a classic approach to organizing user environments. It includes a desktop, an application bar, a session manager, an application menu, a system for configuring environment settings, a task manager, a system tray, a virtual desktop system. The project code is written in C ++ and is distributed under the BSD license. Fluxbox is used as a window manager. The project is also developing its own file manager Insight, which has such capabilities as support for tabs for working with multiple directories at the same time, accumulation of links to selected directories in the bookmarks section, the presence of a built-in multimedia player and a photo viewer with support for slideshows, tools for managing ZFS snapshots, support for connecting external plug-in handlers. # ⚓ Lumina_Desktop_1.6.1_Released_With_Theme_Improvements_While Bigger_Improvements_Planned_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ The Lumina Desktop Environment as the BSD- 3 licensed desktop originally spearheaded for TrueOS/PC-BSD but found supported as well by other BSDs and Linux distributions is out with a rare new release. Lumina Desktop 1.6 as the last major release came back in January 2020 while this weekend brought Lumina Desktop 1.6.1. Lumina Desktop 1.6.1 is a very minor update with various bug fixes plus also incorporating downstream theme work to the desktop. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME_42_Desktop_Slated_for_Release_on_March_23rd, 2022,_Comes_with_Dark_Style_Preference⠀⇛ The GNOME devs have recently published the release schedule for the GNOME 42 desktop environment, which is slated for release next year on March 23rd. It will be the second major update in the GNOME 4x series and development slowly kicked off this month. GNOME 42 will stick to the same routine as in the GNOME 40 and GNOME 41 development cycles, which means that public testers will be able to take the Alpha, Beta, and Release Candidate (RC) milestones for a test drive on their personal computers. Here’s the official GNOME 42 release schedule. # ⚓ How_GNOME_42_Lights_the_Way_with_New_‘Dark_Mode’ Preference⠀⇛ GNOME 42 is on course to ship with support for a proper ‘dark mode’ toggle. Right now Linux desktops lack a standardised, system-level way for users to indicate to the system, its apps, and even the websites they visit that they’d prefer them to use a dark appearance. Now, you’re probably thinking: “Joey, Ubuntu already has a dark mode: I use it” — and you’re not mistaken. Major desktop Linux distros, including Ubuntu and Pop!_OS, do include a dark theme option. But changing GTK theme the best way to approach this? o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Nitrux_1.6.1_Distribution_Released_with_NX_Desktop⠀⇛ The release of the distribution kit Nitrux 1.6.1 , built on the Debian package base, KDE technologies and the init system has been OpenRC published . The distribution develops its own NX Desktop , which is an add-on over the user’s KDE Plasma environment. To install additional applications, the AppImages self- contained package system is being promoted. The boot images are 3.1 GB and 1.5 GB in size. The developments of the project are distributed under free licenses. NX Desktop offers a different style, its own implementation of the system tray, notification center and various plasmoids, such as a network configurator and a multimedia applet for volume control and playback control of multimedia content. The package also includes applications from the set MauiKit , including the Index file manager (Dolphin can also be used), Note text editor, Station emulator, Clip music player, VVave video player, and Pix image viewer. # ⚓ Lakka_3.5_release⠀⇛ New version of Lakka has been released! We are happy to announce new and updated version of Lakka. # ⚓ Lakka_3.5_Released,_A_Distribution_for_Creating_Game Consoles⠀⇛ The release of the distribution has been Lakka 3.5 published , which allows you to turn computers, set-top boxes or single-board computers into a full-fledged game console for running retro games. The project is a modification of the distribution LibreELEC kit , which was originally designed for creating home theaters. Lakka builds are generated for i386, x86_64 platforms (Intel, NVIDIA or AMD GPUs), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Cubieboard, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, Odroid C1 / C1 + / XU3 / XU4 and etc. To install, just write the distribution to an SD card or USB drive, connect a gamepad and boot the system. Lakka is based on the RetroArch game console emulator , which provides emulation of a wide range of devices and supports advanced features such as multiplayer games, save state, enhancing the image of old games with shaders, rewinding games, hot plugging gamepads and video streaming. Emulated consoles include Atari 2600/7800 / Jaguar / Lynx, Game Boy, Mega Drive, NES, Nintendo 64 / DS, PCEngine, PSP, Sega 32X / CD, SuperNES, etc. Supports gamepads from existing game consoles including Playstation 3, Dualshock 3, 8bitdo, Nintendo Switch, XBox 1 and XBox360. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Review:_Getting_started_with_Ansible⠀⇛ Ansible is a Red Hat owned tool for automating system administration tasks. It is typically used in environments where an administrator wants to perform the same task, such as deploying security updates, on many computers without logging into each computer manually. Unlike many automation tools, Ansible does not require any special software to be installed on each client machine. Each client just needs the OpenSSH service to be installed on the clients and all the work and configuration is handled by one central server. There are a lot of reasons for working with Ansible and this guide is meant to get you up and running quickly. If you’re like me, I have a terrible habit of not reading the fine manual. To quote the Simpsons character Renier Wolfcastle, “I was elected to lead not to read”. To follow along with this tutorial here are the basics you will need… # ⚓ Launching_a_DevOps_to_DevSecOps_transformation_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ Widespread adoption of DevSecOps is inevitable. Security and delivery velocity are unrealistic expectations as part of a waterfall software development life cycle (SDLC). Businesses and government agencies are under constant pressure to deliver new features and functionality to their customers, constituents, and employees. Recent high-profile software supply chain breaches and President Biden’s Executive Order to improve the nation’s cybersecurity also increases the urgency for businesses and governments to move to DevSecOps. All of that means, sooner or later, your enterprise will need to integrate security with its DevOps process. Historically, cybersecurity teams focused on app security only at the end of a long, laborious waterfall SDLC, after scanning and remediating security issues. This model has shown cracks with age. Customer and market demands for new features, security, and compliance are at the top of executives’ minds. Digital transformation efforts aimed at adjusting to the new world of work during and after the pandemic have made software security a higher priority. A DevOps process that makes security an afterthought is out of step with software users and consumers. What’s needed is a DevOps-to-DevSecOps transformation. Fortunately, cloud computing in the commercial and public sectors, combined with the influence of open source software (OSS), now gives development teams the tools, processes, and frameworks to deliver software at higher velocity while maintaining quality and security. # ⚓ DevSecOps_tools,_culture_and_misconceptions:_Advice from_Red_Hatters⠀⇛ DevSecOps is an approach to software development and deployment that takes full advantage of the agility and responsiveness of DevOps, but also makes security a shared responsibility that is integrated into the full life cycle of your apps. As with most things, of course, there are some challenges to overcome when implementing DevSecOps in an organization. Effective DevSecOps requires more than new tools and mindsets, it involves cultural changes (and leadership buy-in) as well. In an episode of the “In The Clouds” Red Hat Streaming series, Chris Short had Kirsten Newcomer on to talk about DevSecOps, discussing tools, culture and misconceptions. Here we’ve distilled that discussion into a Q&A in which Kirsten gives some tips and recommendations towards successfully implementing DevSecOps in your organization. # ⚓ Set_up_self-healing_services_with_systemd_|_Enable Sysadmin⠀⇛ It’s a fact of life. Systems, software, and services fail. Keeping users happy and the pager quiet is always at the front of every sysadmin’s mind. Therefore, knowing how to handle service failure quickly, efficiently, and (ideally) automatically is a hallmark of a capable (and well-rested) sysadmin. This article walks you through a few ways systemd can help you mitigate failure in your services. # ⚓ 500_servers_patched_in_four_hours:_Learn_how_we helped_customers_with_automation,_security_and containerization⠀⇛ We just wrapped up AnsibleFest 2021, which included customer spotlight sessions showcasing some of the ways Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can help organizations scale and increase collaboration. Is automation your organization’s focus area right now? Or is it security, application development or infrastructure modernization? Many of our customers find that it might not just be one platform or service, but a combination of technology solutions and services within Red Hat’s portfolio that could help address their needs. # ⚓ 3_hot_digital_transformation_skills_in_2022⠀⇛ The race for qualified talent is on. As your digital transformation journey continues, your new hires must have the skills necessary to integrate into a growing and changing organization. Tech giants with the resources to offer competitive salaries and hardy benefits packages make it more difficult for smaller organizations to recruit and retain excellent candidates. Core technical competencies are necessary to ensure your candidates’ success, but be mindful that an aptitude for learning is equally important for employee growth. By focusing your hiring efforts on education and other soft skills (understanding employees can gain technical experiences on the job), you ensure that you are hiring malleable candidates with strong foundational skills. # ⚓ Open_source_IT_jobs_in_2021:_15_statistics⠀⇛ That’s the takeaway for IT job hunters from the 2021 Open Source Jobs Report, conducted by The Linux Foundation and edX. Virtually every employer (97 percent) included in their survey said that hiring open source talent is a current priority; 92 percent of them said it’s difficult to find that talent. That’s a challenge for hiring managers, but it puts qualified IT pros in a strong position if you’re looking for your next opportunity. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Paul_Wise:_FLOSS_Activities_September_2021⠀⇛ This month I didn’t have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. # ⚓ Freexian’s_report_about_Debian_Long_Term_Support, August_2021⠀⇛ Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. # ⚓ Jonathan_Carter:_Free_Software_Activities_for_2021- 09⠀⇛ Here’s a bunch of uploads for September. Mostly catching up with a few things after the Bullseye release. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Pop!_OS_Is_Coming_To_Raspberry_Pi,_And_We_Cannot_Be More_Excited!⠀⇛ Raspberry Pi’s are solid devices for DIY projects, and they’ve gotten pretty powerful and capable over the years. The latest iterations — Raspberry Pi 4 and 400 offer 8GB RAM variants sufficient to run heavy distributions like Ubuntu and other ARM Linux distributions. However, there aren’t a lot of good Desktop distributions for Raspberry Pi apart from Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE. So, we have some good news for the people who’re done with the same and Canonical’s Snap BS! An ARM variant of Pop!_OS will be available soon.  o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ How_To_Use_The_Raspberry_Pi_Sense_HAT⠀⇛ The Astro Pi project sees experiments, written by school children running on real Raspberry Pis. This might not seem very exciting until you hear where those Raspberry Pis are located, the International Space Station, in orbit high above the Earth. Launched, literally, in December 2015 via the Principia mission, Astro Pi began when UK astronaut Sir Tim Peake took two Raspberry Pi B+, Pi cameras and Sense HAT add-on boards enclosed in aluminum chassis designed to manage the Raspberry Pi thermals to the ISS. The two Astro Pi computers, affectionately named Izzy and Ed were able to measure temperatures, humidity, air pressure, orientation and acceleration forces thanks to the Sense HATs plethora of onboard sensors. These two Raspberry Pi were used in multiple experiments since 2015, but the B+ models inside were getting a bit long in the tooth. # ⚓ Build_a_LoRaWAN_weighing_scale_with_TTGO_T-Weigh_ESP32 board,_HX711_module_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Ever wanted to build your own LoRaWAN connected weighing scale? Me neither, but apparently those types of products already exist for logistics and inventory management, and LilyGO’s latest ESP32 board – the TTGO T-Weigh – is designed for this exact purpose with a Semtech SX1272 based LoRa module, and a HX711 24-bit ADC chip. The board can handle up to four scales that transfer weight data over WiFi, Bluetooth or LoRaWAN, and should be useful in applications that require weighting goods or products where there are limited connectivity options including logistics, farming. # ⚓ UDOO_KEY_ESP32_&_RP2040_board_launched_for_$4_ (Crowdfunding)_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ UDOO is known for its x86 boards that embed an Arduino compatible MCU, but the UDOO KEY is different, as it does without an Intel or AMD processor, and instead, combines Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller with Espressif ESP32 WiFi & Bluetooth WiSoC. As we noted in the past combining Raspberry Pi Pico/RP2040 with ESP32 does not make a lot of sense in most cases, but here’s the UDOO KEY will be offered for just $4 for the first 1,000 units, so they’ll basically throw the ESP32 for free since it’s the same price as one Raspberry Pi Pico, before eventually selling the device for $20. # ⚓ The_Arduino_Store_has_been_upgraded_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ You might have noticed that the shopping experience on the Arduino Store has changed a little. We wanted to let you know what we’ve been working on to supercharge the store. # ⚓ Telepresence_Robot_For_“Doing_The_Rounds”_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ The main controller is a Raspberry Pi 4 running ROS2 (Robot Operating System), which takes inputs from a 360 LIDAR sensor, high-quality camera module, and IMU. # ⚓ Using_Arduinos_To_Drive_Undocumented_Displays_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ For those of us old enough to remember the VCR (and the difficulty of programming one), the ubiquitous vacuum fluorescent display, or VFD, is burned into our memories, mostly because of their brightness and contrast when compared to the superficially- similar LCD. These displays are incredibly common even apart from VCRs, though, and it’s easy to find them for next to no cost, but figuring out how to drive one if you just pulled it out of a 30-year- old VCR is going to take some effort. In this build, [mircemk] shows us how he drives unknown VFD displays using an Arduino in order to build his own weather forecasting station. For this demonstration [mircemk] decided to turn a VFD into a weather forecasting station. First of all, though, he had to get the VFD up and running. For this unit, which came from a point-of-sale (POS) terminal, simply connecting power to the device turned on a demo mode for the display which let him know some information about it. From there, and with the knowledge that most POS terminals use RS232 to communicate, he was able to zero in on the Rx and Tx pins on the on-board microcontroller and interface them with an Arduino. From there it’s a short step to being able to output whatever he wanted to this display. # ⚓ DacBerry_400_S_:_un_DAC_audio_pour_Raspberry_Pi_400⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lilbits:_AYA_Neo,_YouTube_Music,_and_a_keyboard_with_3_keys [Ed: In English]⠀⇛ The DacBerry 400 S is a small, inexpensive DAC (digital to analog converter for audio) designed for the Raspberry Pi 400 computer-in-a-keyboard. It attaches to the 40-pin connector to give you 96 KHz/32-bit audio and sells for about €20 ($23). # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_A50_starts_receiving_October_2021 Android_security_patch_|_Technology_News_–_India_TV⠀⇛ # ⚓ Flubot_Android_malware_now_spreads_via_fake_security updates⠀⇛ # ⚓ Be_Wary_Of_Flubot_Warnings_On_Your_Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ ASUS_Launches_Android_12_Beta_Program_For_The_ZenFone 8⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_launched:_List_of_smartphones_that_will get_the_latest_update⠀⇛ # ⚓ Here_are_the_first_batch_of_smartphones_getting ColorOS_12_(Android_12)_-⠀⇛ # ⚓ All_signs_point_to_Oct._4_as_the_Android_12_release date_…_maybe_–_TechRepublic⠀⇛ # ⚓ Orange_launches_new_Android_TV_STB_for_Slovakia_– Digital_TV_Europe⠀⇛ # ⚓ Snapchat_Dark_mode_for_Android_phones:_Here’s_how_to get_the_feature⠀⇛ # ⚓ Esper_raises_$60M_to_help_companies_build_and_run Android-powered_IoT_fleets_–_SiliconANGLE⠀⇛ # ⚓ Why_Apple’s_iPhone_13_Doesn’t_Charge_As_Fast_As Android_Phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Firefox_is_adding_password_autofill_support_on Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Photos_now_lets_you_edit_time/date_of_images, videos_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_add_View_Binding_to_an_Android_Gradle project⠀⇛ # ⚓ Poll:_Which_version_of_Android_is_on_your_smartphone? –_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget_is_now_a_part_of_Verizon_Media⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Extract_Text_From_Images_In_Android_Phones; Follow_Steps-by-Steps_Guide_Here⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Delete_a_Snapchat_Account_on_Android_Easily?⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Install_an_APK_on_an_Android_Device⠀⇛ # ⚓ OPPO_Ranked_First_in_Global_5G_Smartphone_Shipments Among_Android_Manufacturers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lenovo_Legion_Play_leaked:_Handheld_game_console running_Android_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lenovo_Legion_Play_leaked:_An_Android-based_rival_to Steam_Deck,_Switch⠀⇛ # ⚓ Watch_out_for_this_fake_Android_security_update_— it’s_really_malware_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video:_Best_Android_Apps_[October_2021]:_5_Insane Apps_You_Must_Try_Now!_|_NDTV_Gadgets_360⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_ways_to_fix_Android_connected_to_Wi-Fi_but_no internet_issue⠀⇛ # ⚓ Top_7_methods_to_fix_Android_screen_auto_rotate_not working_issue⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_OxygenOS_12_(Android_12)_update_tracker: Eligible_devices,_release_date⠀⇛ # ⚓ Asus_Android_12_update_tracker:_List_of_eligible devices,_release_date…⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_rolls_out:_These_smartphones_will_get_the latest_update_|_Business_Insider_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ HARMAN_Receives_Third_Android_Auto_Projection_(AAP) Certification,_Expanding_Capabilities_to_Deliver Connected_Vehicle_Displays_Across_Europe_|_Business Wire⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vivo_X70_Pro+_review:_The_flagship_Android_smartphone to_buy_in_2021_–_Technology_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Orange_Slovensko_launches_Android_TV_STB⠀⇛ # ⚓ I_Want_to_Switch_to_Android,_but_Apple_Won’t_Let_Me⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_vs._iOS_in_the_enterprise:_IT_now_has_a_real choice_|_Computerworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ Here’s_what_Android_version_9to5Google_readers_are running_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Fairphone_4_has_an_incredible_5-year_warranty,_aims for_6_years_of_updates⠀⇛ The key Fairphone feature is the modular components, which make repairs easy with just a screwdriver. Inside the phone, you’ll find eight easily replaceable parts: the display, the USB-C port, selfie camera, ear speaker, main camera array, loudspeaker, battery, and the rubberized back. If you break anything, all of these parts will be available for sale on Fairphone.com. The only “noncommercial spare part” is the core module, which features the SoC, storage, RAM, device frame, and fingerprint reader. Fairphone is striving for longevity this year, and the easy repairability of this model allows for an incredible five-year warranty at no extra cost. The company is also promising “long-term availability of spare parts”—parts for the Fairphone 2, a device that launched in 2015, are still for sale on the website. # ⚓ Fairphone_4_Announced⠀⇛ Fairphone has announced the sustainable Fairphone 4, which brings an updated design and improved specs while retaining all the modularity you expect, reports Ron Amadeo. “Designed to last, with fair and recycled materials, the Fairphone 4 brings you 5G speed, with great battery life and a premium dual-camera — all backed by our 5-year warranty,” according to the Fairphone website. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Can_Radio_Benefit_From_An_Open_Source_Society?_–_Radio Ink⠀⇛ There is no question that competition yields better products in a marketplace. In fact I can make you the argument that we have lost many of those fierce battles of the past that are part of historical lore in the radio business. You just don’t see stations going head to head in a market like they used to. It clearly exists today but consolidation in the marketplace has watered it down. But I think the radio industry can benefit from some of the traits of an open source society. What is open source? Open source is computer source code that is freely available for others to make modification and improvements before eventually going to market for redistribution. This is a common practice used by other industries that inherently advances improvement and innovation. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Brave_and_Firefox_to_intercept_links_that force-open_in_Microsoft_Edge⠀⇛ Microsoft has inadvertently re-heated the web browser wars with the company’s anti-competitive changes to Windows 11. It made it more difficult to change the default web browser and has expanded the use of links that force-opens Edge instead of the default browser. The latter issue is something I addressed in 2017 with the release of EdgeDeflector. Instead of using regular https: links, Microsoft began switching out links in the Windows shell and its apps with microsoft-edge: links. Only its Edge browser recognized these links, so it would open regardless of your default browser setting. I created EdgeDeflector to also recognizes them and rewrites them to regular https: links that would then open in your default web browser. # ⚓ What_if_Chrome_broke_features_of_the_web_and Google_forgot_to_tell_anyone?_Oh_wait,_that’s exactly_what_happened⠀⇛ “Browser monoculture” is often bemoaned as a threat to the web. According to Statscounter, which tracks browser use, over 70 per cent of the market is made up of people using Google Chrome or another browser based on the underlying Chromium project. What web advocates worry about when they say this is bad is that Google can effectively determine the future of the web by determining which features to support and which not to. That’s a lot of power for a single company that also has an effective monopoly on search and advertising. What would happen if Chrome decided to break fundamental features of the web and didn’t even feel the need to tell anyone? Well, we can answer that question because that’s what Chrome did. Earlier this year Chrome developers decided that the browser should no longer support JavaScript dialogs and alert windows when they’re called by third-party iframes. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_93_Is_Now_Available_for_Download, Finally_Enables_AVIF_Support_by_Default⠀⇛ Finally, after numerous delays, support for the next-generation AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) image format, which is based on the modern and royalty free AV1 video codec, is now enabled by default. It was supposed to land in Firefox 86 first, but it’s finally here in the Firefox 93 release. AVIF support in Firefox was in development for more than four years. The new feature landed since Firefox 86, but it wasn’t enabled by default until now due to various bugs and regressions. Firefox 93 is the first release of the popular web browser to enable it by default to help you save even more bandwidth. # ⚓ Firefox_93_Released_with_AVIF_Support,_Insecure Download_Protection⠀⇛ AVIF image support is especially notable as it was supposed to feature in last months’ Firefox 92 release. For those unaware, AVIF is a royalty-free image format that boasts comparable quality to JPEG but at a much reduced file size. Eagle-eyed users may notice that the Firefox download progress bar now respects system colour scheme on Linux desktops. The browser had been applying its own CSS to the bar which, under certain GTK themes, rendered it invisible. # ⚓ Do_you_need_a_VPN_at_home?_Here_are_5_reasons you_might.⠀⇛ You might have heard of VPNs — virtual private networks — at some point, and chalked them up to something only “super techy” people or hackers would ever use. At this point in the evolution of online life, however, VPNs have become more mainstream, and anyone may have good reasons to use one. VPNs are beneficial for added security when you’re connected to a public wifi network, and you might also want to use a VPN at home when you’re online as well. Here are five reasons to consider using a VPN at home. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Check_out_the_new_LibreOffice_Development_Blog!⠀⇛ Here on The Document Foundation’s blog, we post about general news and activities in the LibreOffice world. But now we have a dedicated development blog, set up by Hossein Nourikhah, who recently joined us as a Developer Community Architect. # ⚓ LibreOffice_Development_blog_has_started!_– LibreOffice_Development_Blog⠀⇛ To know more about what is going on in LibreOffice, you can refer to the main Document Foundation blog. Also, if you want to learn more about the LibreOffice design, you can refer to the LibreOffice Design Team blog. And now, we have created a new blog, dedicated to the LibreOffice development! # ⚓ Getting_Started_(Video_Tutorial)_–_LibreOffice Development_Blog⠀⇛ LibreOffice development starts with setting up a development environment. After that, you can do the development in your favorite IDE. In this 80 minutes presentation, you will find everything you need to know to get started with LibreOffice development; from installing dependencies using distribution tools, LODE (LibreOffice Development Environment) or manual setup to compilation itself. With this tutorial, you can build LibreOffice for yourself. Then we look at some simple tasks from LibreOffice EasyHacks. After that, you can try to get your submission merged into the LibreOffice code by submitting it to gerrit, and doing the fixes requested by the reviewers. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ CodeSee_launches_codebase_onboarding_portal_for_open source_developers_|_InfoWorld⠀⇛ CodeSee, a maker of tools that help developers to visualize and understand large codebases, has unveiled OSS Port, a community website that aims to connect potential contributors with open source projects, and ease the process of onboarding. CodeSee says it is addressing a situation in which developers spend more time trying to understand code than write it. With OSS Port, maintainers of software projects can provide best practices, guidance, and interactive visual walkthroughs of their codebases using CodeSee Maps, a technology now in beta for visualizing codebases and mapping their flow of execution. # ⚓ SD_Times_Open-Source_Project_of_the_Week:_Fig [Ed: This wrongly insinuates that Microsoft pioneered such a feature; it's just copying other people's work]⠀⇛ Completion specs are defined in a declarative schema that specifies ‘subcommands,’ ‘options’ and ‘arguments.’ Suggestions are generated from information in the spec or can be generated dynamically by running shell commands or reading local files. Fig’s completions are all open source and powered by contributions from the community. It supports completion specs for public CLI tools, and now supports building completions for a team’s internal CLI. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Arm_Neoverse:_Powering_the_Next-Generation_of_High- Performance_Computing⠀⇛ Arm’s Neoverse platform and ecosystem can help foster innovation and growth with successful deployment in the hyperscale and enterprise cloud data centers. # ⚓ Louis-Philippe_Véronneau:_ANC_is_not_for_me⠀⇛ Whilst I really like what Sony has achieved here, I’ve grown to understand ANC simply isn’t for me. Some of the drawbacks of ANC somewhat bother me: the ear pressure it creates is tolerable, but is an additional energy drain over long periods of time and eventually gives me headaches. I’ve also found ANC accentuates the motion sickness I suffer from, probably because it messes up with some part of the inner ear balance system. Most of all, I found that it didn’t provide noticeable improvements over good passive noise cancellation solutions, at least in terms of how high I have to turn the volume up to hear music or podcasts clearly. The human brain works in mysterious ways and it seems ANC cancelling a class of noises (low hums, constant noises, etc.) makes other noises so much more noticeable. People talking or bursty high pitched noises bothered me much more with ANC on than without. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Exploit_ACL_Based_Privilege_Escalation_Paths_in Active_Directory_–_blackMORE_Ops⠀⇛ It takes a starting and ending point and will use Neo4j pathfinding algorithms to find the most efficient ACL based privilege escalation path. # ⚓ Apple’s_new_VPN-like_privacy_service_leaks users’_true_IP_addresses⠀⇛ # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Monday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache2, fig2dev, mediawiki, plib, and qemu), Fedora (chromium, curl, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel- tools, openssh, rust-addr2line, rust- backtrace, rust-cranelift-bforest, rust-cranelift-codegen, rust-cranelift- codegen-meta, rust-cranelift-codegen- shared, rust-cranelift-entity, rust- cranelift-frontend, rust-cranelift- native, rust-cranelift-wasm, rust- gimli, rust-object, rust-wasmparser, rust-wasmtime-cache, rust-wasmtime- environ, rust-wasmtime-fiber, rust- wasmtime-types, rust-wast, rust-wat, and webkit2gtk3), Mageia (apache- mod_auth_openidc, c-ares, chromium- browser-stable, icu, libspf2, perl-DBI, python, and python-rsa), openSUSE (haproxy and opera), Oracle (kernel), SUSE (firefox and libvirt), and Ubuntu (python3.8). # ⚓ Google_Sponsors_$1_Million_to_Fund_Secure_Open Source_Program_by_The_Linux_Foundation_–_It’s FOSS_News⠀⇛ Google’s love for open-source projects is definitely worth applauding. The California-based tech giant has recently announced its $1 sponsorship for the Secure Open Source (SOS) pilot program managed by the Linux Foundation. Not long ago, Google committed $100 million to support third-party foundations fixing security issues in open-source software. So, this sounds like another step in the right direction. # ⚓ In_PuTTY,_Scripted_Passwords_are_Exposed Passwords [Ed: This is mostly for Windows; if you have SSH keys on Windows (private keys), Microsoft_and_the_NSA_have_them_too , so it’s not acceptable for anyone to be using SSH on Windows]⠀⇛ PuTTY is one of the oldest and most popular SSH clients, originally for Windows, but now available on several platforms. It has won corporate support and endorsement, and is prepared and bundled within several third-party repositories. Unfortunately, the 0.74 stable PuTTY release does not safely guard plain- text passwords provided to it via the - pw command line option for the psftp, pscp, and plink utilities as the documentation clearly warns. There is evidence within the source code that the authors are aware of the problem, but the exposure is confirmed on Microsoft Windows, Oracle Linux, and the package prepared by the OpenBSD project. # ⚓ [Cr]ackers_May_Have_Had_Access_to_Billions_of Texts_for_Years,_Global_Telecom_Company_Admits⠀⇛ Syniverse, which provides services to carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, said the hack began in May 2016 but the company wasn’t aware of it till May 2021. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ How_YOU_might_be_a_threat_to_privacy._– Invidious⠀⇛ Privacy and online anonymity are not a privilege, they’re a right. But if you think of yourself as “better than” or “more deserving” of privacy than other, less technical or skilled people, then you’re part of the problem. # ⚓ Facebook,_Instagram_and_WhatsApp_are offline⠀⇛ # ⚓ ProtonMail,_Calendar_and_Drive_–_A privacy_focused_alternative_to_Google?_– Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Busting_Big_ID’s_myths⠀⇛ In India, you must forfeit your fingerprints, face, and iris in order to receive food, healthcare, education, and social security benefits. This is all thanks to Aadhaar, the world’s largest biometric identity system, and the poster child for Big ID programs taking the world by storm. Aadhar was supposed to improve access to public services, but instead created a privacy-harming tool for exclusion: between 1.5 to 2 million Indians lost access to benefits, including over one million children being denied access to school and women unable to access maternity care. So, if Aadhaar is so harmful, why do Big ID programs continue to gain traction? The answer: People who stand to profit from selling these systems have strategically designed false narratives to advance their own interest. The consequences of accepting their lies as truth are dire, as India’s experience with digital ID has laid bare. # ⚓ COVID-19_vaccine_beneficiaries_were assigned_unique_health_IDs_without_their consent⠀⇛ In early May 2021, 29-year-old Sweta Sundar went with three members of her family to a government school in south Delhi to get their first doses of the Covishield vaccine. The staff at the vaccination centre insisted that they verify their identities by submitting their Aadhaar details, even though, according to government issued guidelines, beneficiaries can provide six other types of government identification. “At the time, I just did as I was told,” Sundar said. “I didn’t think too much about it.” When Sundar returned home, she saw that she had been issued a Unique Health ID or UHID with the number printed on her vaccination certificate above her beneficiary reference number. Sundar was not sure what this identification number was. The three members of her family who had also been vaccinated after providing their Aadhaar information had been issued health ID numbers too. “They had not told us anything about a health ID or that they were issuing us one,” Sundar told me. “There was no conversation around it, let alone a consent seeking process. How could I give consent when I didn’t even know what the health ID was?” The UHID that Sundar and her family found on their vaccination certificates is a unique identification code generated under the National Digital Health Mission or NDHM. The government launched the mission in August 2020 with the stated aim of leveraging technology for better health outcomes. The National Health Authority, the governmental body responsible for implementing various central health schemes including the NDHM, describes the mission on its website as one that “aims to develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country.” The UHID is supposed to link each beneficiary of the NDHM to several other components of a digital health ecosystem by digitising personal health records, providing access to healthcare services including online pharmacies and telemedicine providers. The UHID is supposed to allow beneficiaries to access all their health records such as lab reports, prescriptions and discharge summaries and all other personal health data. Despite the NHA’s assurances of safeguarding sensitive health data shared under the NDHM, there are concerns about how such data can be used when India still lacks a data protection law. The government has also claimed that opting in by creating a UHID, and opting out by requesting a deletion of all personal data from the NDHM, is completely voluntary. However, several people like Sundar had already been allotted UHIDs without their consent. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Hawkins_Decries_Democrats’_Surrender_to_Climate_Collapse_in Scaled-Down_“Build_Back_Better”_Reconciliation_Bill⠀⇛ Howie Hawkins, the Green Party’s 2020 presidential candidate, blasted Democrats today for accepting token climate measures in the shrinking Build Back Better reconciliation bill. “Biden’s original climate proposals in his $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan last March were inadequate to begin with. Only about $100 billion a year in that proposal were climate- and energy- related spending. Its policies included counter- productive measures like further natural gas development,” said Hawkins who made a detailed critique of the plan’s climate provisions at the time. “As the Democrats keep cutting the Build Back Better reconciliation bill, they are surrendering to climate collapse as the global climate summit prepares to convene in Glasgow at the end of this month. The climate movement needs to recognize this reality and demand an emergency Green New Deal to really deal with this existential crisis,” Hawkins said. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Democrats should accept a bill that spends around $2 trillion, which is down from the 10-year $3.5 trillion budget blueprint that Congress agreed to in August. The $3.5 trillion plan was itself down from the $6.1 trillion that Biden had proposed in the spring in his American Jobs Plan for physical infrastructure, including climate measures, and his American Families Plan to expand the social safety net. The policies in Biden’s jobs and families plans are now proposed at smaller scales in two bills, a bipartisan infrastructure bill costing $550 billion in new spending on traditional roads and bridges infrastructure and the Build Back Better reconciliation bill for social and climate spending whose price tag keeps shrinking. On Friday, Pramilla Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said progressives would have to accept the Biden and Pelosi proposal to scale back spending in the reconciliation bill. # ⚓ Statement_on_Colombian_Protests⠀⇛ The popular uprising against the neoliberal austerity measures and political repression of the Duque government in Colombia entered its fourth week today with the National Strike Committee announcing a new round of strikes and mass marches. We demand that the Biden administration use its influence on the Colombian military and police to stop the brutal repression of free speech and assembly happening in the streets of Colombia over the past three weeks. The United States must use its influence to ensure the upcoming 2022 elections for president and parliament are fair and free of the fraud and political assassinations that we have witnessed conducted by the Far Right in the past. Colombia has the highest wealth inequality in South America, and the divisions between the rich and poor are incredibly stark. Throughout the pandemic the working class across the globe bore the brunt of the suffering, and in Colombia it is no different. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Piaggio_strikes_Peugeot_in_first_instance_over_three- wheel_scooters [Ed: Another example where patents granted by the EPO actively discourage and obstruct adoption of green alternatives to automobiles]⠀⇛ The patents at issue are EP 13 63 794, EP 15 61 612, EP 15 71 016 and EP 16 35 234 and community model 487723-0001. These cover a tilting technology that allows riders of three-wheeled scooters to lean into corners. No party filed a timely opposition to patents EP 794, EP 612, EP 016, and the EPO revoked EP 234 in 2018. Italian motorcycle manufacturer Piaggio is known for its Vespas. Meanwhile, Indian conglomerate Mahindra, which also makes two- and three-wheeled motorcycles, owns French company Peugeot. Both the Milan and Paris first-instance courts concluded that Peugeot was infringing Piaggio’s patents. Both courts issued comprehensive sales, distribution, production, import and manufacturing bans for their countries. In addition, the Paris court awarded Piaggio damages of €1.5 million. However, these bans and payments are unlikely to be enforced pending an appeal. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 5591 ➮ Generation completed at 02:41, i.e. 81 seconds to (re)generate ⟲