𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, January 09, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Mon 10 Jan 02:41:20 GMT 2022 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/2022/01/09/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmYdAKSfCu9puR3SWGWwGW19Uzo1jj4L1aYpeGqpC5FCp6 QmZP4LnsTHrznHVdokybFZafDLWJqRPKyvvberG4dVRasQ QmfL4kPLDVa6CGiB1yXozobGCQ5fTPahv8T7hPstsxvkie QmP2Y5UBBDqcCEECSknvoPU6WVjL4V93dQMbKj34jYv56N QmTTqHT1gu1SWzp4ejhsMMHeEr1cnaDHeAQnawx8obkmR5 QmVjqVfy1bLLkjPbYtUagNsq6vfXCToNocEPu1s2Cvo3ab QmXVB3t7bvESJpBXVnHEH2koE5NY8MqsHXWVco5dbnNW1M QmUnmYrNuwB9WxrYeqcbFyf8Bew66hMkdU1YVc9WsKh4JC QmYjUQnBiQsqQMypkyvfTj7b9arksYuzUe1BzJ9a6JUTk4 QmarLrYBMcbMFgab1qAkPGRjRr57niwUpd5PEPbMp8225S QmYYUiUwcwdiuMNs9EXu5Ci3ELNhZcY4b7JsFUZqp7drnc QmTWhb5PucmgsMLVAJufczuFnxY37RcgjXGMTczMdhndPd QmVgY18p35Thp6aWh7cRUuoocqLYGYFW2QnLEJhuqn69Kw QmcN2LseMFZtt5HtSJMT5h9HDZa4ZNy6B7uWe7gK8fPeF9 QmfH2by4K6HCiZyvyGQ1L5syH6ZSfcHH12ph6TDo82aovk QmbfkzNgEcSLWg1uktyXVKRqXdn8cURLS2BGZZ8j7BRu53 QmYyjvuyCsmKepqGvikeVazrauZqV2sNgUg5p2UhdxvGXe QmeizGYhw45pUpaYcuwBfE8NWgRhpFbkNtg8fZ7tGbAMXw QmfKHqGowjRxdQqskGCLaTJvfCGFi19QHkyd8kwa9PMJ21 QmP9Us6BzAW1DtJJVXeJt8AyhFyfNcNAfWtLTvSMzp6Ltp QmRocUr84sVRrmmhApYkrairZ9gM3urZnz5pkw4h6pxA9b ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ EPO Breaking the Law in Collusion With - and to the Benefit of - Microsoft | Techrights ⦿ New EPO Page Provides Cover-Up for Clear and Severe Privacy Violations With Microsoft | Techrights ⦿ Privacy Crimes at Europe’s Second-Largest Institution, in Partnership With Microsoft | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 08, 2022 | Techrights ⦿ Why Kristall (the Gemini Client) Has Become My Default Browser (It Does Web Sites, Too) | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/breaking-the-law-with-microsoft/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/epo-coverup-with-microsoft/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/epo-privacy-crimes/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/irc-log-080122/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/kristall-gemini/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/5-16-linux-kernel/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/antix-17-5/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/ppp-traitors/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 61 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/breaking-the-law-with-microsoft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/01/09/breaking-the-law-with-microsoft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.09.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ EPO_Breaking_the_Law_in_Collusion_With_—_and_to_the_Benefit_of_—_Microsoft⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Microsoft, Patents at 7:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum d68e00b9798f56ae4ec994fe2296408f Microsoft’s and EPO’s Cover-up Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/microsoft-epo-coverup.webm Summary: The EPO’s disregard for the rule of law is helping another entity that has disregarded_the_law and routinely broke the law for over 4 decades (Microsoft) AS we’ve just_noted, the EPO’s privacy_abuses and subsequent_cover-up aren’t ending. As far as we can tell, quietly just before Christmas the EPO took it up another notch, knowing that there are ongoing complaints and legal challenges — ones that EPO management does not want stakeholders to even know about. To Microsoft the stakes are high too; it has been violating the GDPR for quite some time now, so an above-the-law EPO is somewhat of a loophole — a legal trick by which Microsoft can pretend that it’s totally acceptable for EU agencies to outsource their operations to notorious Pentagon_contractors. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 104 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/epo-coverup-with-microsoft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/01/09/epo-coverup-with-microsoft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.09.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ New_EPO_Page_Provides_Cover-Up_for_Clear_and_Severe_Privacy_Violations_With Microsoft⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Microsoft, Patents at 6:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Added/edited December 21st 2021 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_coverup_with_Microsoft⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_coverup⦈_ Summary: The EPO is breaking_the_law (but it is immune), so it_has_been_busy constructing_fake_narratives_and_crafting_a_bunch_of_well-funded_lies_to distract_or_gaslight_the_victims (the above is just the latest of it) ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢠⣦⣤⣤⣤⣿⣬⣬⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣽⣼⣧⣴⣴⣤⣄⣤⣤⣼⣤⣧⣤⣦⣤⣤⣰⣸⣧⣧⣤⣤⣼⣠⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣾⣤⣇⣴⣮⣤⣄⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢘⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢸⣿⣉⣉⣩⣏⣁⣹⣋⣉⡙⣏⣉⣈⣉⣉⣉⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢸⣿⣈⣯⣉⣁⣙⣉⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢉⣙⠿⠛⡏⢻⠛⢿⣿⠛⢿⠛⠟⠻⠙⡿⠻⡿⠻⠙⡏⡟⠻⡿⠻⣿⡟⠻⡿⠻⡟⠋⣿⡿⠻⡟⠋⡟⡿⡟⠻⡿⠻⢻⢟⣿⠛⢻⠟⢻⠙⡏⠟⢻⠟⢿ ⢨⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⣈⣩⣦⣂⣧⣹⣀⣸⣿⢘⣼⣸⣌⣡⣌⣧⣂⣏⣋⣌⣇⣌⣡⣿⣇⣿⣅⣀⣿⣇⣌⣁⣿⡇⣣⣇⣇⣷⣡⣇⣀⣏⣋⠇⣼⣿⣸⣿⣌⣹⣌⣇⣌⣻⣔⣸ ⢸⣿⣠⣀⣆⣀⣀⣀⣨⣺⣠⣮⣸⣼⣇⣇⣄⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢸⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢸⣿⠴⣤⣤⣤⡴⡤⣤⣧⣼⣤⣤⣦⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/epo-privacy-crimes/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/01/09/epo-privacy-crimes/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.09.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Privacy_Crimes_at_Europe’s_Second-Largest_Institution,_in_Partnership_With Microsoft⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 1:48 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum b31ba5743254025e24b19e8fb110bf09 EPO Data Protection Rules a Fake GDPR Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/epo-dpr-microsoft.webm Summary: The EPO is crushing patent law as well as labour rights and very_basic rights such as privacy rights; the situation is worse than absurd and Microsoft is the main beneficiary THE European authorities are ignoring EPO corruption and EPO crimes at their own peril. This discredits or delegitimises the EU, even if the EPO isn’t an EU institution (unlike the UPC which they’ve envisioned in vain for well over a decade). It should be noted, at least in passing, that the scandals of Team UPC are contributing a great deal to this delegitimisation. They break laws, they bribe the media, they spread lies (fabricated fake news), and they pretend that constitutions simply do not exist or can be conveniently disregarded for some alleged “greater good”. But this post isn’t about UPC scandals. These merit some other post one day… “This discredits or delegitimises the EU, even if the EPO isn’t an EU institution (unlike the UPC which they’re envisioned in vain for well over a decade).”Following two posts this morning [1, 2] I’ve decided to do another video regarding buzzwords_like_DPA, namely Data Protection Board (DPB), Data Protection Rules (DPR), and Data Protection Officer (DPO). The announcement below says “EPO Data Protection Rules (DPR)”: (warning: epo.org link) Following the adoption of an updated data protection framework by the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation on 30 June 2021, the new EPO Data Protection Rules (DPR) enter into force today. The new DPR lay the foundations for modern, integrated data protection legislation at the EPO. Bringing the EPO into line with the principles and key requirements of international best practices in the area of data protection, they are an essential step in strengthening individuals’ fundamental rights in the digital age and guarantee all EPO staff, users and the general public that the same standard of protection of personal data will apply to all data processing activities carried out by the EPO. Those “data processing activities” have been outsourced to Microsoft, a longtime criminal firm which presents itself as a legitimate business and has an obvious_conflict_of_interest. Myself, a strong EU proponent, can’t help but feel like we’ve all been betrayed by corrupt officials — including_German_officials — who look the other way because they’re bought and paid for. 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No need to compile anything, just to download a single file and then run it. “Some distros even added it to their software repositories.”In the video above I show some of the features that in my humble opinion make Kristall better than Lagrange, at least for KDE users. Kristall integrates better into the desktop, it can handle Web pages in a rudimentary (and relatively privacy-safe) fashion, it can handle multimedia such as images, and it uses the term “free software”. It uses a copyleft (GPL 3.0) licence and we hope it’ll decide to delete GitHub, then use Free software for Git hosting. Felix “xq” Queißner did some impressive job with this software, which we warmly recommend. It’s available for Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOS X and various BSDs. Some distros even added it to their software repositories. ArchLinux (via AUR) and Void Linux are among those in the GNU/Linux camp; OpenBSD has that as well. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 459 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.09.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_9/1/2022:_5.16_Linux_Kernel_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:44 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ What_Are_Linux_Metacharacters?_Everything_You_Need_to_Know⠀⇛ The most powerful feature of the Linux Bash shell is its capability to work around files and redirect their input and output efficiently. Linux uses special characters or symbols known as metacharacters that add special meaning to a shell command with respect to file search and commands connection. The metacharacters are helpful in listing, removing, and copying files on Linux. However, the function of each metacharacter differs depending on the command you are using it with. This article provides an in-depth guide on different types of metacharacters in Linux. Lastly, we explain how these special characters help in connecting and expanding commands. o ⚓ Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#164⠀⇛ Welcome to this week’s Linux Roundup, the second of 2022! May it be a great hear for you. We had a full week in the world of Linux releases with KaOS 2022.01, Bodhi Linux 6.1.0 Beta, Manjaro 21.2.1, and Linux Mint 20.3. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Mint_Still_The_Best_Distro_To_Convert_Windows_Users_– Invidious⠀⇛ Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions, and they just had a big new release (version 20.3 codenamed “Una”). Today, I’m going to take a quick first look at Mint 20.3 Cinnamon and see what’s new and what’s the same. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.3_Cinnamon_Run_Through_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at Linux Mint 20.3, the Cinnamon edition. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.3_Cinnamon⠀⇛ Today we are looking at Linux Mint 20.3, Cinnamon edition. It is based on Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Kernel 5.4 (but you can easily upgrade it to 5.13), Cinnamon 5.2, and uses about 1GB of ram when idling. Enjoy! # ⚓ Every_Chat_Application_Should_Be_Bridged_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Every so often someone asks me to look at a new chat application, the problem is none of them have any users so here’s the solution I don’t care if it exists until there is a bridge available. # ⚓ LHS_Episode_#446:_The_Weekender_LXXXIV⠀⇛ It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our bi-weekly departure into the world of amateur radio contests, open source conventions, special events, listener challenges, hedonism and just plain fun. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we’re doing. We’d love to hear from you. # ⚓ Full_Circle_Weekly_News_#243⠀⇛ # ⚓ Features_VS_Stability:_KDE!_–_Kockatoo_Tube⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_5.16⠀⇛ Not a lot here since -rc8, which is not unexpected. We had that extra week due to the holidays, and it's not like we had lots of last-minute things that needed to be sorted out. So this mainly contains some driver fixes (mainly networking and rdma), a cgroup credential use fix, a few core networking fixes, a couple of last-minute reverts, and some other random noise. The appended shortlog is so small that you might as well scroll through it. This obviously means that the merge window for 5.17 opens tomorrow, and I'm happy to say I already have several pending early pull requests. I wish I had even more, because this merge window is going to be somewhat painful due to unfortunate travel for family reasons. So I'll be doing most of it on the road on a laptop - something I generally try to avoid. That said, the merging part of the merge window works perfectly well on a laptop, it's just that I normally really want to do more local build testing between merges than a laptop really allows me to do. So the main downside during travel is that I end up relying much more on the automated build testing in the cloud. And so really hope that everything has been properly cooking in linux-next so that there are no unnecessary issues that pop up when things hit my tree. Of course, realistically our automated build testing is so good anyway, and people have been pretty good about linux-next, that maybe my local builds aren't _that_ important. I do end up occasionally hitting issues that should never have made it as far as my tree, but it's not like it's a common - or generally serious - issue. Knock wood. Anyway, I don't expect any real issue, but I'll probably be jetlagged and in odd timezones, so my response time might be "variable". But hey, before that merge window even opens, you still have some time to give a shiny new kernel release some TLC and testing. Linus # ⚓ Linux_Kernel_5.16_Officially_Released,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛ After two months of development, Linux kernel 5.16 is here to introduce the futex_waitv() kernel system call from Collabora, which promises to make your gaming experience faster when playing both native Linux games and Windows games via Wine. Linux kernel 5.16 also adds support for Intel’s Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) 64-bit programming paradigm for servers, cluster scheduler support to the task scheduler, a new fanotify event type for file system health reporting, a new page folios mechanism for faster memory management, and improved write congestion. # ⚓ Linux_5.16_Released_With_Many_Intel_&_AMD_Additions,_Memory Folios,_AMX,_FUTEX2⠀⇛ As expected the Linux 5.16 kernel has been promoted to stable. Linux 5.16 has many new features including the FUTEX2 futex_waitv system call for helping Steam Play (and Wine), memory folios have been mainlined, AMD Ryzen 6000 mobile series support is getting into better shape, Intel Alder Lake S graphics are now considered stable, Intel AMX support for Sapphire Rapids has landed, big AMD Ryzen with Radeon graphics performance improvements, and a wealth of other hardware improvements. # ⚓ The_5.16_kernel_has_been_released⠀⇛ Linus Torvalds has released the 5.16 kernel, as expected. Significant changes in 5.16 include the futex_waitv() system call, cluster-aware CPU scheduling, some internal memcpy() hardening, memory folios, the DAMON operating schemes user- space memory-management mechanism, and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 5.16 page for details. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Sway_1.7_Nears_Release_With_Less_Abrasive_NVIDIA Option,_Zero-Copy_Direct_Scanout_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Sway 1.7 is up to its second release candidate for this popular i3-inspired Wayland lightweight compositor. Sway 1.7 kicked off its release candidate phase in late December. Notable with Sway 1.7 is adding support for zero-copy direct scanout for better performance when rendering full-screen windows. Sway 1.7 also has better support for virtual reality (VR) headsets via DRM leasing support on Wayland, xdg-activation-v1 support as some additional Wayland protocol work, and various other compositor enhancements. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ qBitTorrent_4.4.0_Adds_Torrent_v2,_Libtorrent_2.0_&_Qt6 Support⠀⇛ After more than half a year of development, the qBitTorrent app released version 4.4.0 with many new features and various bug-fixes. qBitTorrent 4.4.0 added Qt6 support. It offers better HiDPI compatibility for Windows 10+ and Linux using AppImage package. Though, it has known issue about text display on the progress bar. The Qt5 build is still the primary packages, though the next major release will probably drop Qt5 support. The new release also supports BitTorrent v2 protocol and libtorrent 2.0.x, that use SHA-256 to provide a safer cryptographic hash function. # ⚓ KeePass_Password_Safe_2.50⠀⇛ KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). KeePass is really free, and more than that: it is open source (OSI certified). You can have a look at its full source and check whether the encryption algorithms are implemented correctly. # ⚓ The_6_Best_Spotify_Alternatives_for_Linux_You_Should_Try⠀⇛ Spotify is not the only music streaming app for Linux users. Here are some free-to-use Spotify alternatives you can install on your system. Using an open-source operating system such as Linux calls for using open-source entertainment apps. Even though Spotify has plenty of native versions available for desktop and mobile platforms, many users prefer using alternatives packed with exciting features. If that sounds like you, you’re in for a surprise, as Linux has a ton of fine-tuned Spotify alternatives, which allow you to listen to music right from your desktop. # ⚓ HandBrake_1.5.0⠀⇛ HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_install_Octave_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04_LTS_–_Linux Shout⠀⇛ Matlab alternative Octave is an open-source special-purpose high-level level programming language. let’s see the commands to install Octave on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy or 20.04 Focal LTS Linux. Under GPL license Octave is available to use by anyone free of cost; it uses its own script language, which is very similar to Matlab and therefore makes switching particularly easy. This is a program package for the numerical solution of mathematical and scientific tasks as well as for general data analysis and visualization. Using it developers can also create a math program completely compatible with Matlab with free additional packages and add-ons. In this way, the data you have already created will not be lost. In particular, an Octave program can usually also be executed by MATLAB without changes. Well, it is a command-line tool natively but also comes with a graphical user interface in the standard installation. It is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. # ⚓ How_to_Perform_Security_Audits_on_Linux_With_Lynis⠀⇛ Whether you’re a Linux administrator or user, having a secure server or PC should be a top priority. Although Linux is a secure operating system, it is also susceptible to attacks or security breaches just like other OSes. In this guide, you’ll learn how to audit and scan for security vulnerabilities and loopholes on your Linux machine using Lynis. Lynis is an open-source tool and is available on most Unix-based operating systems such as Linux, macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc. # ⚓ Date_command_usage_in_Linux_–_TREND_OCEANS⠀⇛ The date command is part of the Coreutils package, and it is mainly used to get the date in a different type of format with various available options. At first, the date command may seem like a simple utility to you, but once you try to execute the date command with different utilities, you will realize the real power. A date command can be handy in bash scripting, backup, and the limation is your imagination. In this article, you will see the basic to advanced usage of the date command in Linux. # ⚓ Analyze_Network_Traffic_using_Zeek_–_kifarunix.com⠀⇛ In this tutorial, you will learn how to analyze network traffic using Zeek. Zeek is a world’s leading passive network security monitoring tool that sits on the network and read all the traffic passing through the network, parses them into a high-level events that can then be passed through Zeek policy script intepreter which then generates comprehensive record/logs of every connection seen on the wire including all HTTP sessions with their requested URIs, key headers, MIME types, and server responses; DNS requests with replies; SSL certificates; key content of SMTP sessions e.tc. # ⚓ KVM_–_easy_Network_card_NIC_PCI_pass_through_with_virt- manager⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Customize_Cinnamon_Desktop_in_Linux_System⠀⇛ Cinnamon desktop is one of the most trendy and easy-to-use desktops for Linux. Most Windows users or newbies switch to Cinnamon desktop from Windows to taste Linux for the very first time. The way Cinnamon adopts the system UI of GNOME but still keeps it traditional, which is eye-catching. Once you get the Cinnamon desktop installed on your computer, there are many steps and methods to customize the Cinnamon desktop in Linux. With open- source, you can customize the desktop exactly as you want it. There can be options to make it look like Mac, Windows, or a completely new look. # ⚓ How_To_Upgrade_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_To_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_| Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛ Here in this tutorial, we will learn the two easy ways to upgrade Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To 22.04 LTS. One of the most important things that you should remember while upgrading your system to the latest version is to take the proper backup for your important files and the system configuration. We hope that you will have a backup before going through the upgrading process to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. # ⚓ Install_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Container_On_Docker_| Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛ Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the latest long-term version from Ubuntu. Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish LTS will be supported till April 2027. In this tutorial post, we are going to show you the easy way to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS container on Docker. # ⚓ How_To_Install_Htop_on_Fedora_35_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Htop on Fedora 35. For those of you who didn’t know, Htop is an interactive real-time process monitoring utility or command for Linux and also a handy alternative to top command, which is a default process monitoring tool that comes pre- installed on all Linux operating systems. Htop allows scrolling the list of processes vertically and horizontally to see their full command lines and related information like memory and CPU consumption. Also, system-wide information, like load average or swap usage, is shown. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Htop real-time system monitor process on a Fedora 35. # ⚓ How_to_stream_on_Discord_|_FOSS_Linux⠀⇛ Discord was initially released in 2015, and it has been revolutionary up to date. This term is not new for gamers as it is one of the most used ways to interact with other gamers regardless of their locality. The discord platform has continued offering tremendous value to the community as it is an open-source app. Since its inception, Discord has helped develop new methods of connecting its users through video, voice, and messaging. With so many streaming choices available now, it is hard for users to select the best streaming option. Therefore, with this challenge in place, it is vital to ensure you choose an app that suits your need to attain maximum productivity. Like Discord, you can opt to use alternate applications that offer online streaming services such as Twitch and YouTube. Due to its lightweight nature and easy-to-use GUI (Graphical User Interface), Discord has arguably become one of the best streaming services. This has mainly been aided by its unparalleled compression quality that guarantees users a stable streaming connection. Besides, the fact that Discord’s voice chat is reliable and of high quality poses a challenge to its competitors, and users love it as it is easy to set up and use. # ⚓ Removing_an_alias/domain_from_a_Let’s_Encrypt_certificate managed_by_certbot⠀⇛ I tried to find a way to remove that name from the certificate before renewing it, but it seems like the only way to do it is to create a new certificate without that alternative name. # ⚓ How_To_Find_CPU_Information_In_Linux_Using_Command_Line⠀⇛ A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions in the program. This contrasts with external components such as main memory and I/O circuitry, and specialized processors such as graphics processing units (GPUs). CPU is considered as the brain of a Computer. You may want to know the basic details of your processor, processor speed, architecture, number of cores and cache size. # ⚓ 9_ways_to_learn_Ansible_this_year_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Ansible is an open source automation tool that can be used in a variety of ways. Here are a few examples of last year’s most popular Ansible tutorials and stories. Automation just keeps improving the lives of everyone on the IT team. Ansible helps anyone who uses IT automation, whether for keeping files organized or configuring printers, or for anything else someone can imagine and build. These are some of the most notable use cases and experiences shared on Opensource.com in 2021. # ⚓ Reading_a_log_out_of_a_docker_file_|_Adam_Young’s_Web_Log⠀⇛ I have to pull the log out of a docker process to figure out why it is crashing. The Docker container name is ironic_ipxe. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Easy_Anti-Cheat_not_as_simple_as_expected_for_Proton_and Steam_Deck⠀⇛ Even though Epic Games announced recently how they expanded support for Easy Anti-Cheat to have full support of native Linux, plus Wine / Proton (and so the Steam Deck), it seems it’s not as easy as we hoped. In the original announcement, Epic mentioned how it can be enabled with “a few clicks in the Epic Online Services Developer Portal” but the situation is never that simple. A developer of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has written a post on Steam to explain, noting that there are two versions of EAC. There’s the original and the newer version used via Epic Online Services. The majority of games are likely still with the old version, since the newer one needs SDK upgrades and newer integrations. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ Productivity_And_Using_Modern_Linux_Desktop_Environments_– Random_[Tech]_Stuff⠀⇛ I was first introduced to Linux in 2001. A colleague of mine in college handed a set of CD- R discs containing Red Hat Linux 7.2. This was before Red Hat split the distribution into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (for enterprise customers) and Fedora Linux (maintained by the open source community). The install came with with a version of GNOME 1.x and doing a bit of Google searching, it leads me to believe it was 1.4. From that point I became extremely familiar with the GNOME desktop environment, enough so where if I was not using GNOME, I was not being very productive. This was not the result of laziness. Far from it. It was solely because of my comfort level. I am not doing a Desktop Environment review here. This is merely an opinion piece based on my personal experience and computing style. Fast forward to the present and the graphical user interface of a modern desktop distribution has changed drastically. There are many reasons for these changes, one of which is adapting to modern technology. Mobile computing, touch input, etc. I look at GNOME today which is at version 40 and I am really struggling to get comfortable. # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ qml-doxygen:_qml-lsp’s_qml_–>_doxygen_cousin⠀⇛ With the infrastructure I built in qml-lsp for parsing and analysing QML files, I thought “hm, since doxyqml is just a glorified qml parser –> c++ header file converter, wouldn’t it be trivial to write the same thing in go reusing qml-lsp’s infrastructure?” And that’s exactly what I did. I wrote a 130-line program that faithfully replicated doxyqml’s functionality in Go. By virtue of being a Go program that calls on a pretty optimised parser in C, it ended up being a little over 10 times faster than doxyqml on my system. I wasn’t done there. [...] The next thing I’m planning to do is to resolve the concrete type of an alias property, so that documentation generation for aliases can be improved without developers needing to explicitly tell the computer what type the alias points to. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Sebastian_Pölsterl:_scikit-survival_0.17_released⠀⇛ This release adds support for scikit-learn 1.0, which includes support for feature names. If you pass a pandas dataframe to fit, the estimator will set a feature_names_in_ attribute containing the feature names. When a dataframe is passed to predict, it is checked that the column names are consistent with those passed to fit. The example below illustrates this feature. For a full list of changes in scikit-survival 0.17.0, please see the release notes. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ Using_Distrobox_To_Augment_The_Package_Selection_On_Clear Linux,_Other_Distributions⠀⇛ While our testing has consistently shown how Clear Linux can deliver leading performance on Intel/AMD x86_64 platforms, one of the user criticisms to that distribution has been around the limited selection of packaged software especially on the desktop side. But the rather interesting Distrobox can help address that by leveraging Podman or Docker to run other Linux distribution user-space software packages atop. Distrobox is an open-source project that builds off Podman or Docker to create containers of different Linux distributions. These Distrobox’ed containers are tightly integrated with the host for sharing the user’s home directory, X11 / Wayland GUI app support, audio, and other connectivity. # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ This_small_fanless_PC_with_Intel_Tiger_Lake_has_6 Ethernet_ports,_supports_pfSense_and_other_networking software⠀⇛ Looking to add a router or firewall to your networking lineup and want some gear with relatively recent specs? A new mini PC with 6 Gigabit Ethernet ports, up to an Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor and support for open source router, VPN, and firewall software like pfSense might fit the bill. As spotted by the the folks at FanlessTech and CNX Software, versions of the mini PC are available from AliExpress or Amazon. # § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE_Plasma_Frameworks⠀⇛ The KDE Plasma Frameworks packages have been updated to 5.90.0. This is a service release update. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ [Older]_What’s_New_in_elementary_OS_6.1_Jólnir, Available_Now⠀⇛ Are you looking to make an operating system change? It might be time to give elementary OS a chance. Version 6.1 of the OS has arrived, and it brings with it some really exciting changes that make it more than worth a look. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Louis-Philippe_Véronneau_–_Grading_using_the_Wacom_Intuos S⠀⇛ Unsurprisingly, the Wacom support on Linux is very good and my tablet worked out of the box. The only real problem I had was by default, the tablet sometimes boots up in Android mode, making it unusable. This is easily solved by pressing down on the pad’s first and last buttons for a few seconds, until the LED turns white. The included stylus came with hard plastic nibs, but I find them too slippery. I eventually purchased hard felt nibs, which increase the friction and makes for a more paper-like experience. They are a little less durable, but I wrote quite a fair bit and still haven’t gone through a single one yet. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Pi_Powered_1:35_Scale_Panther_Tank_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ Tank aficionado [Daniel Zalega] has enjoyed playing around with armored fighting vehicles in the digital realm for years, but only recently realized he had the technology and skills necessary to take his passion into the physical world. Albeit on a slightly reduced scale. So he bought a 1:35 plastic model kit for the German WWII Panther tank from Tamiya, and started working on a way to make it move. Luckily for [Daniel], the assembled model is essentially hollow. That gave him plenty of room to install the geared drive motors, batteries, motor controllers, voltage regulators, a servo for the turret, and the Raspberry Pi Zero that controls the whole show. Those with an aversion to hot glue would do well not to look too closely at the construction here, but it gets the job done. Besides, it’s not like this little Panther is going to see any front line combat. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Reolink_Go_Plus_4G_review_–_Part_2:_A_Solar-powered 4G_LTE_security_camera_with_person_&_vehicle_detection –_CNX_Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ ROCK5_Model_B_RK3588_single_board_computer_is_up_for pre-order_for_$79_and_up_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_13_Wishlist:_5_Things_We_Want_to_See_in 2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sony_joins_the_Android_12_club,_updates_the_Xperia_1 III_and_Xperia_5_III_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia_Mobile_may_release_Android_12_to_Nokia_3.4_next –_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛ # ⚓ Two_Samsung_phones_off_the_beaten_path_are_updated_to Android_12_with_the_One_UI_4_update_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lenovo’s_new_Legion_Y700_makes_a_strong_case_for Android_gaming_tablets⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Best_Games_Coming_to_Android_in_2022_–_Droid Gamers⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Block_Unknown_Numbers_on_Android_Phones_From Google,_Samsung,_Xiaomi_|_NDTV_Gadgets_360⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Maps_tricks_for_Android_users:_From_places_to music-_Here_is_how_to_do_it⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_use_Do_Not_Disturb_mode_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Moto_G_Stylus_2022_specs_leak_out_–_and_it_might_run an_older_version_of_Android_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ Global_Top_10_most_powerful_Android_smartphones_in december_2021⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ 12_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_System_Monitoring Tools⠀⇛ Computer monitoring systems are used to gather data for the purpose of real-time incident notification, performance analysis, and system health verification. Without such a tool, a system administrator would have to login to each machine to collect information on a regular basis. This kind of repetitive task can be automated using a system monitoring tool. System monitoring can also help identify problems before they escalate to emergency status. This type of software is not only useful for network administrators. Home users with a small network or even just a single computer will benefit from advanced notification provided by system monitoring tools. Knowing that free space on the hard disk is running out, or that a particular server/daemon has gone down can be extremely useful. # ⚓ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to_Intuit_TurboTax⠀⇛ Intuit Inc. is an American corporation that specializes in financial software. Specifically, the company develops personal finance, accounting, and tax return software. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California. It has more than 10,000 employees. While Intuit has a GitHub presence with over 100 repositories for numerous open source projects, none of these repositories offer any substantial desktop software. Instead, the repositories focus on tools and libraries for developers. None of these projects appear to have attracted significant interest from the open source community. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Language_Tool_5.6_is_released⠀⇛ Language Tool 5.6 is available now. Russian, English, Ukrainian, French, German, Portuguese, Catalan, Dutch and Spain language checking modules were updated in this release. # § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ New_Hampshire_residents:_make_your_voice_heard_on January_11th_—_Free_Software_Foundation⠀⇛ To show your support for the bill, and software freedom in New Hampshire, you must testify in person at the New Hampshire Legislative Office building at 33 N. State St. in Concord, NH at 10:30 AM. For more information, such as where to park at the Legislative Office Building, and any COVID- related precautions to take, please refer to this Nitter thread written by HB 1273′s sponsor, NH state representative Eric Gallager. As it is likely that representatives of proprietary software companies will be giving testimonies of their own, it is imperative that the free software community in New Hampshire and surrounding states give a strong show of support to computer user freedom. When giving your testimony, it is important that you keep your comments concise and accessible to a nontechnical audience. It would also be helpful to prepare a rebuttal of common false claims. If you can’t make it to the hearing, please be sure to spread the message on social media, perhaps by using the #userfreedom or #SOFTWAREAct hashtags. And if you do plan on attending the hearing, try and bring a friend! # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Top_5_Most_Liked_and_Hated_Programming_Languages_of 2022 [Ed: This lacks any actual sources, seems to be based on hearsay and intuition/gut feeling for the most part, or bribed media]⠀⇛ One cannot deny that programming is super fun and interesting. It is practically impossible to think of leading our lives without programming today. Every sector that we can think of relies on programming in one way or the other. Over time, many programming languages have surged in popularity and some have fallen from grace. That said, have a look at the top 5 most liked and hated programming languages of 2022. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Automated_Mushroom_Cultivation_Yields_Delicious_Fried_Goodies_| Hackaday⠀⇛ [Kyle Gabriel] knows mushrooms, and his years of experience really shine through in his thorough documentation of an automated mushroom cultivation environment, created with off-the-shelf sensors and hardware as much as possible. The results speak for themselves, with some delicious fried oyster mushrooms to show for it! o ⚓ 2022_resolution:_become_machine_independent_again_–_toscalix⠀⇛ I change jobs frequently, I travel a lot, I work in the operating system space so I like to try out new distros, installers, recovery measures… In addition, even when I am at home, in Málaga or Los Llanos De Aridane, Canary Islands, I like to take notes and write at different places since I find little inspiration at my office… All these factors together means that I end up having several machines: laptops, convertibles, tablets, phone, RPis… and with various machines it comes the information, configurations and applications hell. [...] The pandemic has work against me. Such a long time without really travelling (beyond my two locations) had as a consequence that some of my good habits to keep the “machine independent” challenge under control were gone. I realized it when, despite carrying 3 machines in my first business trip since the pandemic started, back in November 2021. I still could not access to a couple of places because I did not have the credentials available or they were not up-to-date. My backpack was ridiculously heavy and I still could not perform some basic personal activities. How could I let my self, a professional, get to this point? In addition, I am increasingly worried about data privacy. I have taken several steps the last couple of years in this front, but for every step in the right direction I perform, I end up taking one in the wrong one. It is so hard to come into good terms with data privacy nowadays… The effort and knowledge required is simply too high for a regular citizen. I feel in this front like I did back in the days I started using Open Source. Like back then, I feel the world is against me. But I lack now the same energy level I had. A sign of getting old, I guess. o ⚓ Resorbing_Patent_Law’s_Kessler_Cat_–_Request_for_Comments⠀⇛ The cat: We parallel our article alongside a short parable from Paulo Coelho titled the “Importance of the Cat in Meditation.” The basic punchline is that once people started thinking the cat was an important element of mediation, it was easier for them to scientifically explain the importance rather than let go of the meaningless attachment. We argue that the Kessler Doctrine is following the same pathway, the Federal Circuit’s explanations do not make sense, and that it is time to resorb the doctrine into the general law of preclusion. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Adding_An_Audio_Jack_To_Classic_Headphones_Is_A_Nifty Upgrade_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ [mauriziomiscio.mm] has a way of dealing with the problem in a once-and-done fashion, by installing a female audio jack into his vintage headphones. The benefit is that if the cable is damaged, it can simply be unplugged and replaced with a new one, and is commonly seen on headphones from companies like KRK. The hack is simple when applied to a classic pair of AKG K141 headphones. The little plastic casing on one earpiece is popped off, and replaced with a 3D-printed version that stoutly holds a female TRS jack in place. This can then be soldered up to the wiring inside the headphones. With everything assembled, the headphones can now use an easily-replaceable cable, and one needn’t worry about having to bust out the soldering iron if the lead is damaged in future. It’s a particularly useful hack for those who use their headphones on the road, always throwing them into backpacks between gigs. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ FDA_Biosimilar_Approval_Recap_–_2021 [Ed: FDA under Trump and Biden is known for regulatory capture, rubbers-stamping - - symptom is a dying economy where few people control the entire system]⠀⇛ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved four biosimilar drugs in 2021 under the provisions of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 262) as part of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (colloquially known as “Obamacare”). This brings to 33 the total number of approved biosimilars, although the effects of the pandemic has been felt in the last two years. From 2015 (when there was only a single approved biosimilar, Sandoz’s Zarxio®, see chart below), the rate of approvals rose every year (3 in 2016, 5 in 2017, 7 in 2018, and 10 in 2019), but 2020 saw only 3 approvals. # ⚓ Corruption_is_The_Easiest_Way_to_Turn_an_Outbreak_Into_a Disaster⠀⇛ The death of Dr. Li Wenliang (Feb.7.2020) sparks outrage as he was the first whistleblower for the current outbreak. Until this moment, many human rights groups and civil groups worldwide are demanding an investigation into his alleged grievance and speech suppression. [...] Propaganda and conspiracy lies are a means to control and keep the people busy in the dark arguing with each other while the thieves keep stealing them. However, they always backfire and when they do, they will hit the manufacture in the face. The closes example is Iran, look consequences of that. [...] The solution is quite simple: if you want to fight the epidemic you have to face and fight your endemic corruption. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Dev_corrupts_[Microsdoft]_NPM_libs_‘colors’_and ‘faker’_breaking_thousands_of_apps⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Novak_Djokovic_&_Codes_of_Conduct⠀⇛ Court documents show that Australian Border Force officials tried to pressure Novak into accepting deportation after his 25 hour journey. They denied him access to lawyers and documents. Let us put that in context: Victoria Police do an excellent job promoting safety on the roads in our state. One of their campaigns tells us that lack of sleep is equivalent to intoxication and drugs. Therefore, if the border police ask for a traveller to give consent to a serious topic like deportation after 25 hours without proper sleep, it is not real consent. Their insistence is on par with date rape. The Tampa affair in 2001 was just a few weeks before an election. The next election in Australia has to be between February and May. Novak Djokovic is the new Tampa. Around the world, the incarceration of Novak has provoked ridicule and anger at Australia’s apartheid-like immigration system. Yet in Australia, the Government is hoping to win votes from bullying a foreign athlete. [...] The quarantine hotel where Novak is imprisoned is in the middle of the University precinct I studied computer science and engineering in buildings barely 200 meters away from Novak’s prison, I walked past that hotel almost every day Novak has conjured an anti-vax mob in the street barely 500 meters from the Doherty Institute. That was the first lab in the world to cultivate Covid and sequence the genome outside China. Their brilliance in health is on par with Novak’s brilliance in tennis. Novak is a leader in sport and Australians have great respect for that. The best leaders are willing to listen to all sides of the story. While Novak is in this unique corner of Melbourne, I hope he will take the time to seek the opinion and advice of world leaders on pandemics and vaccination. In equal measure, I hope to see Novak playing in the tournament without further excuses from the Boarder Force officials. # ⚓ Why_Democrats_Are_So_Bad_at_Defending_Democracy⠀⇛ When it comes to elections, the Republican Party operates within a carapace of lies. So we rely on the Democrats to preserve our system of government. The problem is that Democrats live within their own insular echo chamber. Within that bubble convenient falsehoods spread, go unchallenged and make it harder to focus on the real crisis. So let’s clear away some of these myths that are distorting Democratic behavior… o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_Fired_A_Black_Leading_AI_Scientist,_But_Now_She’s Founded_Her_Own_Firm⠀⇛ Timnit Gebru, an Ethiopian with Eritrean heritage, was a leading artificial intelligence computer scientist until she was fired from Google. Recently she launched her firm that was awarded $3.7 million in funding from the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Kapor Center, Open Society Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her company is an independent artificial intelligence research institute that will concentrate on the harmful outcomes technology has on marginalized groups who encounter inordinate effects from AI structures but lack the access to govern its development, as reported by The Washington Post. # ⚓ Protecting_Your_Online_Brand_on_Amazon [Ed: Amazon has fast become a ‘censorship platform’ for merchandise]⠀⇛ In today’s ever-expanding e-commerce environment, online brand protection and enforcement has become a necessary undertaking of paramount importance for brand owners in efforts to combat the illicit trade of counterfeit and infringing products. With around 2 million active sellers on Amazon, and approximately 200 million active Amazon Prime subscribers, it’s easy to understand why brand owners choose to offer their products on Amazon. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Can_amending_the_description_to_summarize_the_prior art_add_matter_to_the_patent_application_as_filed?_(T 0471/20) [Ed: EPO Guidelines for Examination have strayed very_far_away_from_what’s_actually_legal, abusing not just the granting authority but also patent examiners]⠀⇛ The EPO Guidelines for Examination require the description of a patent application to summarise the background art (F-II-4.3). This requirement usually manifests with a request from the Examiner for the description to be amended to identify the closest prior art. In contrast to other types of description amendment, amending the description so as to mention known prior art seems a relatively innocuous requirement. It is hard to see how the addition of a simple summary of the prior art could be detrimental to the patentee. However, this comfortable assumption was recently put to the test in T 471/20, in which the Board of Appeal considered whether an amendment summarising the prior art could be considered to change the scope of the claim, add matter and thereby invalidate the patent. It will come as a relief to many that the Board of Appeal disagreed with the original finding of the Opposition Division, and found that introducing a prior art reference cannot add matter. However, the Board of Appeal did note that description amendments in general could add matter should they change the interpretation of the claims. [...] The Opposition Division (OD) found the patent invalid on the grounds that the description amendment summarising D8 added matter. The OD was particularly convinced by the Opponent’s arguments that the filing unit disclosed in D8, contrary to the amendment in the patent, would be understood by a skilled person to be a robot, i.e., “a machine which can be programmed to perform tasks which involve manipulative or locomotive actions under automatic control”. As such, the statement that D8 did not relate to a robot was a subjective as opposed to a factual statement. The Opposition Division further found that by introducing this subjective statement, the applicant had effectively introduced a disclaimer into the description. By stating that the disclosure in D8 was not a robot, the applicant had thereby changed the meaning of “robot” as used in the patent application, including the claims. The OD found that the application as filed did not contain subject matter equivalent to the disclaimer indirectly provided by the applicants summary of D8, and as such, the summary of D8 added matter. The patentee was unable to delete the disclaimer as this would have been considered to broaden the scope of the patent, which is not permitted post-grant (the so-called “added matter trap”). The patent was thus revoked in its entirety. # ⚓ Strict_US_written_description_requirement_applied_to CAR-T-cell_therapy_(Juno_v_Kite) [Ed: Oddball criteria for patent eligibility to help fake the actual novelty and basically rubber-stamp tons of laughable fake 'inventions' in exchange for fees]⠀⇛ In the US, functional antibody claims have increasingly failed to satisfy the strict “written description” sufficiency requirement. The written description requirement stipulates that a patent specification should sufficiently describe the claimed invention such that a skilled person would be convinced that the inventor had possession of the claimed subject matter at the filing date. In a Court Appeal of the Federal Circuit (CAFC) decision last year, the same reasoning was applied to a broadly claimed molecule for CAR-T-cell therapy (Juno v Kite). The decision in Juno v Kite is not a surprise in light of the recent CAFC case law on written description for antibodies, and represents yet another nail in the coffin of functional genus claiming for biomolecules in the US. [...] Written description is a type of sufficiency requirement, derived from the stipulation in US law that a patent specification “shall contain a written description of the invention” (35 US Code § 112(a)). The written description has been understood by the US courts as requiring the patent specification to describe the invention such that it reasonably conveys to a skilled person that the inventor had possession of the claimed subject matter as of the filing date. As such, “a mere wish or plan” for obtaining the claimed invention is not sufficient to satisfy the written description requirement. Over the years, the US courts have grown stricter and stricter in their application of the written description requirement to functional language or genus claims for biological inventions such as antibodies. The written description requirement has been interpreted as requiring demonstration in the specification that the patent applicant “has invented species sufficient to support a claim to the functionally-defined genus” (Ariad v Eli Lilly). In practice, the bar for what constitutes a sufficient number of species has been set very high. In Abbvie v Janssen, for example, a claim directed to a functionally defined anti-Il-12 antibody was found invalid for lack of written description despite disclosure in the specification of 300 example antibodies. In this case, the CAFC found that that 300 examples did not sufficiently represent all antibodies that might fall under the scope of the claim. To this Kat’s knowledge, the decision in Juno v Kite is the first time the CAFC has applied the written description case law to a CAR-T- cell invention. # ⚓ Europe:_key_patent_issues_counsel_should_monitor_this year [Ed: Rory O’Neill propping up UPC_delusions; he knows what patent litigation firms are paying his salary]⠀⇛ Between AI inventorship, SEPs, and the UPC, there’s plenty to keep European attorneys busy in 2022 # ⚓ Patent_Law’s_Fifth_Column:_Motivation_to_Combine_with Reasonable_Expectation_to_Success [Ed: SCOTUS and obvious (fake) patents, which should never even be granted in the first place]⠀⇛ In its petition for writ of certiorari, Apotex asks the Supreme Court to revisit motivation to combine, obvious to try and whether the non-obvious contribution needs to be an improvement over the prior art. The petition argues that KSR v. Teleflex (2007) requires a flexible analysis, but that “over the ensuing decade-and-a-half, the Federal Circuit has … reverted to its old rigid ways.” The petition also complains that the Federal Circuit has again masked its jurisprudence via Summary Affirmance without opinion. # ⚓ Novartis_Pharmaceuticals_Corp._v._Accord_Healthcare, Inc._(Fed._Cir._2022)⠀⇛ When does the absence of evidence turn into evidence of absence, and when does such absence amount to an adequate written description of the absence of a step of a method claim? This is a question that comes readily to mind when reading the Federal Circuit’s opinion (and Chief Judge Moore’s dissent) in Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2022). The case arose in ANDA litigation over U.S. Patent No. 9,187,405, which recites methods for treating recurring remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), a degenerative disorder of the myelin surrounding nervous tissue, with fingolimod (2-amino-2-[2-(4- octylphenyl)ethyl]propane-1,3-diol) sold by Novartis under the brand name Gilenya®. [...] Chief Judge Moore’s dissent, as foreshadowed in the majority opinion, focused on the adequacy vel non of the written description of the negative limitation regarding the absence of a loading dose of fingolimod hydrochloride. Perhaps sensitized to the issue by the Court’s recent Biogen decision, the Chief Judge asserted that “[t]he majority dramatically expands a patentee’s ability to add, years after filing a patent application, negative claim limitations that have zero support in the written description” (emphasis added), summarizing her position with appropriate pith as “[s]ilence is not disclosure.” The dissent illustrates how readily answers to questions like the one before the Court can be completely divergent depending on which “policy lever” (as legal academics might call them) are considered most relevant. The Chief focused on disclosure, which carries with it a requirement for affirmative statements and definitions that without question are not found in the ’405 specification (although it can be appreciated that there must be a limit to the requirement for affirmatively disclosing what an invention does not comprise, lest a specification become overburdened with unnecessary verbiage directed to irrelevancies). The dissent provided a basis for the Chief’s apprehension that in this case the question of whether the absence of an initial loading dose was not so straightforward when it noted that the limitation was added in response to an obviousness rejection asserted against claims in a co-pending priority application to the ’405 patent. The Chief Judge found support for her position in many of the same cases cited by the majority or distinguished them, to the point that these cases require that a patent specification must “describe[] a reason to exclude the relevant limitation,” citing Sartorius (emphasis in dissent). And the Chief parsed the specification and the testimony to support her conclusion that the District Court’s interpretation of the adequacy of the written description regarding the negative limitation concerning a loading dose, and the majority’s affirmance thereof, was error. According to the dissent “the district court (and now the majority) [engaged in] rewriting the specification with expert testimony” to arrive at their conclusion regarding such adequacy. # ⚓ Strategic_IP_Considerations_of_Batteries_and_Energy Storage_Solutions [Ed: This patent 'gold rush' is burning the world because climate issues aren't being tackled, it's being treated as nothing but "premium" profiteering and monopolistic opportunity]⠀⇛ The lithium-ion battery, introduced commercially in 1991, revolutionized the consumer electronics industry. Compared with older battery technologies, the lithium-ion battery was lightweight and compact, had high energy density, and required little to no maintenance, making it the ideal battery for mobile devices. It now powers the world’s most popular electronics, from smartphones to laptops to wearable devices. But the lithium- ion battery has now expanded far beyond the consumer electronics industry, sparking a gold rush of research and development aimed at producing lower-cost, higher-performance batteries that can be used in a wider range of applications. Over the past decade, developments in battery technology have led to rapid advances in the ubiquity of electric vehicles (“EVs”) and opened up new possibilities for energy solutions that will help reduce dependence on fossil fuels. With these technical advances comes an increase in legal activity, including intellectual property (“IP”) filings and litigation. # ⚓ Getting_Your_First_Filing_Right [Ed: One paragraph before last here insinuate that the EPC is still taken into account, though EPO_violates_it_every_day]⠀⇛ Wherever filing takes place and in whichever name(s), the making of a priority filing gives rise to a priority right which is often imperative to retain. Under Article 87 EPC, the applicant(s) for claiming priority by the end of the priority year must be the same, unless an original applicant A is added to by an applicant B or an original applicant is substituted by a successor in title. Priority entitlement must be correct at the filing date, but entitlement to a patent can be sorted later. This is the lesson to be learnt from the Marrafini priority issue which led to upholding of revocation of Broad’s CRISPR- related EP2771468 on opposition appeal (EPO Appeal T0884/18). # ⚓ Bolt_introduces_tandem_riding_prevention_system [Ed: EPO grants_invalid_patents]⠀⇛ Bolt, the European scooter operator, has become the first company in the world to introduce a tandem riding prevention system and is on its way to obtaining a patent for the feature from the European Patent Office after its submission was accepted. # ⚓ IceCure_Medical_CEO_Issues_Letter_to_Shareholders [Ed: Celebrating patent monopolies from issuer_of_fake patents]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Oramed_Granted_Key_European_Patent_for_Platform Technology_in_Oral_Delivery_of_Proteins [Ed: Oramed seems to be unaware of the_legitimacy_crisis_of European_Patents; many many be presumed invalid]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Legally_speaking_–_Artificial_Intelligence_is_not even_close_to_human_intelligence [Ed: Lobbyists against the integrity of patent law have found a worthless Microsoft rag, Analytics India Magazine [sic], to publish some mindless “Hey Hi” fluff]⠀⇛ In public proceedings, the Legal Board of Appeal of the EPO confirmed that under the European Patent Convention (EPC), an inventor designated in a patent application must be a human being. This was the judgement in combined cases J 8/20 and J 9/20, where the board just dismissed the applicant’s appeal. Here, both the applications were made by a Missouri physicist Stephen Thaler, whose AI- system DABUS had made the inventions. # ⚓ EPO_rejects_patent_application_identifying_AI_system DABUS_as_inventor [Ed: Bots (“Hey_Hi”) are not inventors and even the patent maximalists at the EPO haven’t fallen for this sick ploy]⠀⇛ The Legal Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) has affirmed the decision of the Receiving Section that a patent application cannot succeed where the designated inventor is not a person, but an AI machine. An auxiliary request had also been made indicating that a natural person was to have “the right to the European Patent by virtue of being the owner and creator of” the artificial intelligence system DABUS. This did not meet the provisions of the European Patent Convention (EPC) either. # ⚓ High_Growth_SMEs_And_A_Mix_Of_IPRs [Ed: Dehns is a notorious spreader of lies about the UPC and here it is citing Europe’s most corrupt, EPO and EUIPO, with lies in the headline (e.g. “IPR”) ]⠀⇛ Haakon, IP Consultant in the Dehns Oslo office, shares his thoughts on high growth SMEs, referring to new reports from IP Australia, an EUIPO/EPO report and several papers on collaboration, open innovation and IP management. I just read a new report from IP Australia on high growth SMEs and how they use IPRs. First, the report finds that SMEs’ use of IPR is associated with high growth and higher wages. The conclusions align with what the EPO and EUIPO reported in their 2019 “High- growth firms and intellectual property rights.” Interestingly, both reports point to how a mix of IPR – for example of patents, trademarks and designs – associates even more with high growth than having only a single type of rights. My favourite topic: The new Australian report does not mention how trade secrets could be a part of the mix – but the EPO/EUIPO report discusses this (see p. 19). # ⚓ [Conference_Report]_Patents,_truth,_PCT_and_more_at the_UIC_School_of_Law_International_IP_Practice_Seminar [Ed: Some phonies that have managed to conflate patents with privacy and then promote patent maximalism with misnomers like "IP"]⠀⇛ Back in October, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property (“IP”), Information, and Privacy Law organized and virtually hosted its International IP Practice Seminar. The Seminar, co-organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Kuhnen & Wacker, brought together international policymakers and practitioners to discuss the worldwide landscape of the most cutting-edge IP issues from a comparative perspective. Each speaker brought unique national and international perspectives across industries, technologies, and IP subject matter to the discussion. Adam Ernette (UIC) reports on the seminar. # ⚓ Mazda_Patents_Reveal_RWD_Car_With_Rotary_Engine_and Hybrid_Tech⠀⇛ Mazda has filed several new patents in Europe, and they appear to be regarding a new rotary-engined vehicle. The unnamed model has a hybrid configuration, along with a transaxle gearbox. This is just the tip of the iceberg, though, but that does not guarantee it will be built. [...] As the Mazda aficionado who goes by the name taku2_4885 found, the rotary engine configuration that the Japanese marque has patented in Europe is part of a series of patents, and if they are put together, it appears that the company is planning a rear- wheel-drive sports car with a 48V hybrid configuration. The transmission is a transaxle, while the engine is a three-rotor, which is entirely new. It is worth noting that not all the images in the photo gallery are recently filed, some being as old as 2019, but they do make sense and form a potential new model. # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Contributed_article_to_Wolters_Kluwer publication_and_discussed_practical_implications_of German_patent_‘reform’_on_licensing_negotiations⠀⇛ Only intermittently do I author articles in German–and it’s more or less unprecedented for me to adopt a quasi-academic style with proper citations because it would just slow me down when adding content to this blog. But the rare exception has just occurred, and a German-language Wolters Kluwer publication very recently published a German-language article of mine, with various citations in the footnotes. A few years ago Wolters Kluwer’s Licensing Journal asked for permission to reprint a FOSS Patents post on a Qualcomm-BlackBerry licensing dispute that was resolved through binding arbitration. I gladly authorized it. Now, the November 2021 edition of Wolters Kluwer’s Zeitschrift für das Recht der digitalen Wirtschaft (which I would translate as “law journal for the digital economy”) has come out with a slight delay, and on pages 407-410 (the content of the November edition starts with page number 401) subscribers can find my article entitled Unterlassungsanspruch bleibt Hebel der Patentinhaber in Lizenzverhandlungen (“entitlement to injunctive relief continues to give patentees leverage in licensing negotiations”). The ZdiW’s editors are professors Bernd Hartmann and Mary-Rose McGuire, both of the University of Osnabrueck in Northern Germany. Professor McGuire was a witness at a parliamentary hearing on patent injunction reform, frequently comments on patent enforcement rules, and under her auspices, Maximilian Schellhorn (now practicing law at Hoyng Rokh Monegier) authored a doctoral thesis that took a critical perspective on the proposal for German patent injunction reform that was on the table at the time and subsequently adopted in an almost identical fashion. # ⚓ CommWorks_Solutions_reexamination_granted⠀⇛ On December 23, 2021, about one month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,832,249. The ‘249 patent is owned and asserted by CommWorks Solutions, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of IP Investments Group LLC, and is generally directed to multi-layered internet communication systems that allow for control over quality of service and priority of information delivery. It is being asserted against Comcast and RCN Telecom and is at issue in a declaratory judgment action brought by Altice USA. It was also previously asserted against Skybeam, Mediacom, AMG Technology Investment Group, Consolidated Communications Holdings, and Cable One, Inc. # ⚓ Just_1_Judge_Accounted_for_Nearly_25%_of_Patent Infringement_Filings_in_2021,_New_Report_Says⠀⇛ Patent owners continued to converge on U.S. District Judge Alan Albright’s Waco courtroom in 2021, though the number of patent infringement suits overall was flat, according to Unified Patents statistics. [...] Patent infringement suits boomed in U.S. District Judge Alan Albright’s courtroom in 2021, but they were flat across federal courts as a whole, according to Unified Patents’ annual Patent Dispute Report: Year in Review, released Monday America Invents Act (AIA) challenges dropped by 12 percent at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, but ex parte reexaminations were on the rise. Unified Patents Chief IP Counsel Jonathan Stroud chalked it up to the PTAB’s Fintiv framework discouraging some AIA petitioners, plus a few reexaminations that led to stay orders in high-profile cases. # ⚓ USPTO_Announces_Deferred_Subject_Matter_Eligibility Response_Pilot_Program [Ed: Software patent litigation profiteer Michael Borella is cheering on paid and corrupted politicians looking to change the law to allow bogus patents in defiance of the Supreme Court, common sense, software professionals and so on]⠀⇛ On January 6, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced a new program with the goal of increasing examiner efficiency. The Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility Response (DSMER) Pilot Program will launch on February 1, 2022 and end on July 30, 2022, unless extended.[1] The Program allows applicants to, in certain circumstances, not include a substantive reply to a 35 U.S.C. § 101 rejection in an Office action response. The USPTO initiated the Program at the suggestion of Senators Thom Tillis and Tom Cotton (see “Senators Tillis and Cotton Propose Sequenced Examination Approach”). [...] For a participating application, the applicant may file a response that defers “presenting arguments, evidence, or amendments in response to the SME rejection (s) until the earlier of final disposition of the participating application or the withdrawal or obviation of all other outstanding rejections.” But, the applicant must respond to all other objections and rejections in the Office action. In other words, if the claims are rejected on the grounds of subject matter eligibility and obviousness, the applicant must respond to the obviousness rejections and can choose whether to respond to the eligibility rejections. The “final disposition” above is when the earliest of any of the following events occurs: (i) mailing of a notice of allowance, (ii) mailing of a final Office action, (iii) filing of a notice of appeal, (iv) filing of an RCE, or (v) abandonment of the application.[3] In the case that the applicant receives a subsequent non-final Office action in which only the § 101 rejection remains, the applicant must respond to this rejection even though the application has not reached a final disposition. Further, the applicant’s deferral of § 101 responses can be on a rejection-by-rejection basis.[4] For instance, if an Office action contains two different § 101 rejections, the applicant may defer one, the other, or both. The USPTO also contemplates removing an application from the Program in certain rare situations, such as when a participating examiner resigns or retires and the application is not reassigned to another participating examiner. # ⚓ Timing_of_CVSG_Briefs:_American_Axle_Coming_Soon [Ed: This is a lie from Dennis_Crouch. Patents are not properly. He says “form of” because he knows he’s dishonest. “Although patents are a form of private property…]⠀⇛ Although patents are a form of private property, they are also expressly a tool of public policy. When a private patent lawsuit of interest reaches the Supreme Court, the Court regularly turns to the President’s administration for its views on how a decision may impact patent law and innovation writ large. That request for an amicus brief from the government is termed a CVSG – Call for the Views of the Solicitor General. One problem with CVSGs is that they typically add several months to the certiorari process because the DOJ spends substantial time collecting input from various government branches and outside interests before drafting and filing its brief. In patent cases, a Gov’t amicus brief is often the most important at the certiorari stage — or at least the most predictive of the outcome. # ⚓ The_IPKat_welcomes_new_GuestKats⠀⇛ The dawn of a new year is here, and in the spirit of renovation, The IPKat welcomes new GuestKats Gabriele Girardello, Jan Jacobi and Becky Knott to our family. # ⚓ In_memoriam:_William_(Bill)_Cornish_(1937_–_2022) [Ed: Jeremy Phillips back to IP Kat, which he founded and then left, as his friend has just died]⠀⇛ I first encountered Bill Cornish in 1974 when, as a raw intellectual property doctoral student, I travelled up from Canterbury to discuss my chosen topic and seek his advice. In the 1970s, people who taught IP were almost as rare as those who studied it. We must have been a little wary of one another, since we scarcely spoke about the subject at all — me because, as a neophyte, I was unwilling to display my ignorance of it and Bill because, as I was later to discover, had so much to talk about that interested him more than straight IP. But what I did find out, in that first meeting, was how many important people he knew and how well he had assessed their usefulness to me in my chosen subject. It was more than a decade later, in 1985, that I next encountered Bill. He was then about to succeed the legendary Professor Friedrich-Karl Beier as President of ATRIP, the Association for Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property. It turned out that I had made sufficient of an impression for him to summon me from the wilds of Queen Mary College’s Mile End Campus in order to act as Secretary to ATRIP during his term of office. It was during Bill’s two- year presidency that I got to know him much better. I can testify that he was a pleasure to work with. His instructions to me were always brief, relevant and unambiguous. To be honest, he didn’t really need a secretariat. I often found that, by the time I came to carry out his orders, he had already performed to perfection the administrative chores with which he had tasked me. ATRIP conferences displayed Bill at his best. Here he could share his deep understanding of IP with colleagues from around the world. A good and diplomatic listener, he gave his ear to all who sought it. Quiet and serious by nature, he was always on duty, though we all enjoyed watching him let his hair down at venues where a piano might be found; he would play though a series of exquisitely executed pieces with a verve and panache that stood in stark contrast with the solemnity of his set- piece speeches. # ⚓ Counsel_set_out_concerns_about_EPO_after_latest_BoA move_announcement [Ed: Serious_corruption;_nobody punished]⠀⇛ In light of the proposal to move the offices of the EPO Boards of Appeal back to central Munich, just five years after they were relocated to the suburb of Haar, counsel told Managing IP they’d be more than pleased the see the BoA return. They noted that the move had given them pause to reflect on the whole episode and what it said about the EPO, however. “From commercial point of view, it’s a catastrophe,” said Beat Weibel, chief IP counsel at Siemens in Munich. # ⚓ Asia_patent_trends_in_2022:_SEP_rates,_court_changes and_more [Ed: Another think tank manned only by patent maximalists and profiteers, to be covered by so-called ‘journalists’ they subsidise for propaganda_and lobbying]⠀⇛ Patent lawyers from China, India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore talk about SEPs, pharma patents and other matters they’re keeping an eye on this year # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Access_Advance_licence_is_non-FRAND,_rules Regional_Court_Düsseldorf [Ed: Software patents being advanced_into_Europe or creeping into illegal territories by “HEVC_Advance”]⠀⇛ Four members of the Access Advance patent pool, formerly known as HEVC Advance, have been in dispute with Vestel since summer 2020 over six patents for the HEVC/H.265 standard. However, the court has declared the member licenses to be non-FRAND. The technology enables the encoding of video content and images, and is used in television sets and for streaming on mobile devices. Pool members GE Video Compression, Dolby, IP Bridge and Philips are the plaintiff accusing Vestel of infringing patents EP 25 59 245, EP 28 42 318 (both GE), EP 27 77 270, EP 27 77 269 (both Dolby) as well as EP 17 39 973 (IP Bridge) and EP 29 50 544 (Philips). All patents are SEPs. [...] The court’s decision to find the pool members’ licensing offer non-FRAND surprised the patent community. In a similar case, in summer 2020 the same judge found HEVC Advance’s licenses to be FRAND in a dispute with MAS Elektronik. That case involved some of the same patents as the present case, namely Dolby’s EP 270 and GE’s EP 245. Recently, in almost all other major disputes in which patent pools sued implementers, German patent chambers have generally ruled favourably for patent holders. An example is in the dispute between Via Licensing against TCL or in the protracted proceedings between MPEG LA and Huawei. # ⚓ $2,000_for_Xperi_Holding_prior_art [Ed: Software patents again. Use Alice/Section 101 instead of "prior art"]⠀⇛ On January 4, 2022, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 11,012,720. The patent is owned by Xperi Holding Corporation, an NPE. The ’720 patent generally relates to selectively providing a buffer time prior to deletion of a media content item. # ⚓ Another_MicroPairing_patent_challenged⠀⇛ On January 4, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,178,049, owned by MicroParing Technologies LLC, an NPE. The ’049 patent is generally directed to managing applications in a multi- processor system in a vehicle and was asserted against several car companies in 2021, including Mazda, Kia, Hyundai, Honda, Toyota, GM, Nissan, Mitsubishi, FCA, and Volvo. # ⚓ $2,000_for_HY_LIT_Radio_Tech_prior_art⠀⇛ On January 4, 2022, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,793,330. The patent is owned by HY LIT Radio Technologies Inc., an NPE. The ‘330 patent generally relates to a system and method for displaying graphics, text, animation, video, and other content. # ⚓ Patent_splurging:_how_in-house_would_spend budget_increases [Ed: Litigation fanatics and profiteers just want to sue more and more for profit, say they "would invest in people" (what people? Patent trolls? Brutal litigators?); they are destroying companies and people's careers]⠀⇛ Four lawyers tell Managing IP that they would invest in people, foreign filings and patent quality if their budgets went up by 20% or more # ⚓ UK:_Health-Conscious_IP_Strategies [Ed: When HGF isn’t too busy spreading lies for the illegal and unconstitutional UPC it helps the EPO spread lies and propaganda terms (“MedTech_IP”) as loophole for unlawful software patents]⠀⇛ As MedTech patent filings grow, so do the number of rights obtained by applicants operating in the healthcare market. In addition to restricting the actions of new entrants in the marketplace, patent portfolios can be monetised to provide licensing income and returns on R&D investment. The graph below (based on statistics from the European Patent Office) shows that the number of MedTech patents granted in Europe has vastly increased over the last ten years, reflecting the expansion of R&D activities throughout this industry. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Board_of_Appeal_sweeps_floor_with_Invalidity Division:_vacuum_cleaner_bags_do_enjoy_design_right protection [Ed: Reminder that the EUIPO’s Boards of Appeal, which are controlled by a_crooked_crony, are not too concerned about actual novelty]⠀⇛ With the holiday season behind us, the vacuum cleaner is a valuable ally to get rid of leftover pine needles or bits of broken baubles. For those Kats that have a vacuum cleaner operating with cleaner bags, a decision by the EUIPO (Third) Board of Appeal (‘BOA’) may be ofparticular interest. In the case of Miele v. Green Label (of 23 August 2021), the BOA ruled that vacuum cleaner bags enjoy design right protection, overturning a previous decision by the Invalidity Division. # ⚓ Four_US_trademark_and_copyright_trends_shaping_2022: lawyers [Ed: A site called Managing IP [sic] conflating trademark law and copyright law]⠀⇛ Attorneys may finally see the effects of the CASE Act and the Trademark Modernization Act in the new year, among other things # ⚓ The_TTABlog®:_Professor_McCarthy_Criticizes_CAFC’s Stance_on_Article_III_Standing_in_Brooklyn_Brewery Case⠀⇛ Professor J. Thomas McCarthy has provided to me his comments on the CAFC’s October 27, 2021 decision in the Brooklyn Brewery case, in which the appellate court largely affirmed the TTAB’s denial of Plaintiff Brooklyn Brewery’s petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark BROOKLYN BREW SHOP (in standard form) for beer-making kits. However, as to the Board’s dismissal of Brewery’s opposition to the stylized form of the mark for “sanitizing preparations for household use,” the court ruled that Brewery lacked Article III standing to appeal that decision because it failed to demonstrate that it would suffer injury if the registration were granted, since the Brewery does not sell sanitizing preparations. That, in Professor McCarthy’s view, was a serious error. His comments are set out below. [...] In my opinion, the court’s embrace in the Brooklyn Brewery case of a novel requirement of a competitive relationship is both unprecedented and alarming. I can only hope that it will not be read by this or other courts to work a sudden and far-reaching change in the legal test for likelihood of confusion. A century ago, courts did require competition between the parties for infringement by likelihood of confusion to occur. For example, in 1912 the Seventh Circuit found no infringement of the trademark BORDEN for milk by the use of BORDEN for ice cream because the goods were non-competitive. Borden Ice Cream Co v. Borden’s Condensed Milk Co, 201 F. 510, 513 (7th Cir. 1912). Under that early view of trademark law, unless there was competition between the parties, there could not be a diversion of customers and thus there could be no injury to the mark owner. Case law in the early 20th century decisively rejected the earlier precedent. For many decades since, no court, including the Federal Circuit, has held that the parties must be in competition with each other for a likelihood of confusion to occur. See McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition, §24:13 (Competition is Not Necessary for Confusion to Occur.) The Federal Circuit itself held that the “related goods test measures whether a reasonably prudent consumer would believe that noncompetitive but related goods sold under similar marks derive from the same source, or are affiliated with, connected with, or sponsored by the same trademark owner.” In re Save Venice New York, Inc., 259 F.3d 1346, 1355, 59 U.S.P.Q.2d 1778 (Fed. Cir. 2001), # ⚓ Dairy_good:_Judge_rules_‘gruyere’_is_not_a_term exclusive_to_Europe [Ed: Monopolies on words and name never end too well]⠀⇛ A judicial ruling has determined that “gruyere” is a generic style of cheese that can come from anywhere. Senior Judge T. S. Ellis III of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia upheld the August 5, 2020, precedential decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The decision reaffirms that all cheesemakers, not just those in France or Switzerland, can continue to create and market cheese under this common name. In the judicial decision made public yesterday evening, the Consortium for Common Food Names,U.S. Dairy Export Council, National Milk Producers Federation, and a coalition of other dairy stakeholders prevailed in their sustained fight to preserve the ability of all actors in the U.S. marketplace to use generic terms. # ⚓ Dairy_scores_key_victory_in_US_fight_for_cheese_names [Ed: Monopolies on names of cheese]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Why_collaboration_is_crucial_for_trademark_industry innovation_–_exclusive_IP_office_roundtable [Ed: Grotesque terms such as "trademark industry" (yes, industry) show what happened to what was supposed to exist for one purpose but got corrupted over time]⠀⇛ There have been some major innovation developments at national offices around the world in the past 18 months, as new partnerships have been struck to bring non- core tools and services to users. # ⚓ 3D_trade_marks_return_to_equilibrium?_The_end_of_the Gömböc_saga [Ed: CJEU fires back against #trademark maximalists?]⠀⇛ In 2020, upon referral by the Supreme Court of Hungary (Kúria), the CJEU issued a leading case on the interpretation of Art. 3(1)(e) of the Trade Mark Directive related to a 3D shape (Gömböc, C-237/19, Kat post, here). The Kúria issued its decision following the CJEU ruling in late 2021 (not yet published online at the time of writing) and put an end to the case, ruling that the shape of the Gömböc cannot be protected under EU trade mark law. Before delving into the reasoning of the Court, a refresher in Euclidean solid geometry will be helpful. Until recently, it was believed that a three-dimensional body having only two equilibrium points (one stable and one unstable) did not exist. This conjecture was tested by two Hungarian engineers who not only proved it wrong, but actually built the three-dimensional body representing such a shape, naming it the Gömböc (read more about the etymology of this word in the Kat post on the CJEU decision). [...] The applicant also sought registration of the Gömböc shape for “decorative items” in class 14 and “decorative crystalware and chinaware” in class 21. The Court addressed the two product classes together. The Court first observed that the relevant public considers the Gömböc shape to be the tangible symbol of a mathematical discovery. Hence, the relevant public wishes to purchase a Gömböc because of what it represents in terms of the history of science. The main objective of trade marks is to distinguish between products or services of competitors. The substantial value of the shape of a Gömböc stems, as the Court put it, “from an intellectual creation” and not from the intent to distinguish certain goods from goods of a competitor. Trade mark law is not the correct intellectual property right to protect such shapes. Accordingly, the Court ruled that the shape of a Gömböc is excluded from registration for decorative items in classes 14 and 21, based on Art. 3(1)(e)(iii) of the Trade Mark Directive (and the Hungarian statutory provisions implementing it). # ⚓ TTAB_Sustains_Section_2(d)_Opposition_to_ALZHEIMER’S NEW_JERSEY_WALK_TO_FIGHT_ALZHEIMER’S_&_Design_for Charitable_Fundraising⠀⇛ The Board sustained this opposition to registration of the mark ALZHEIMER’S NEW JERSEY WALK TO FIGHT ALZHEIMER’S & Design on the ground of likelihood of confusion with the common law mark WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S & Design, both marks for charitable fundraising services. The Board readily rejected the applicant’s prior registration (a/k/ a Morehouse ] defense. Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association v. Alzheimer’s New Jersey, Opposition No. 91245121 (December 31, 2021) [not precedential] [Opinion by Judge Robert H. Coggins]. # ⚓ The_TTABlog®:_TTABlog_Test:_How_Did_These_Three Recent_Section_2(d)_Appeals_Turn_Out?⠀⇛ Here are the first three TTAB decisions of the new year in appeals from Section 2(d) refusals. No hints today. How do you think they turned out? [Answer in first comment]. # ⚓ [Guest_post]_Retromark_Volume_X:_the_last_six_months in_trade_marks_–_The_IPKat [Ed: What 2021 was like for trademark maximalists that think shapes are "owned"]⠀⇛ Retromark turns ten volumes, making it about four and a half human years old. That’s roughly 30 in dog years and closer to mid-30s in cat years (apparently). A lot has changed over that time, but the trade mark cases keep coming. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3016 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.09.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_9/1/2022:_GitHub_Abandonment_and_antiX_17.5⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:35 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ This_Week_in_Linux_180:_Linux_5.16,_Linux_Mint,_elementary OS,_KDE,_Ubuntu_Gaming,_Pinephone_–_TuxDigital⠀⇛ On this episode of This Week in Linux, Linux Kernel 5.16, Linux Mint 20.3, elementary OS 6.1, Canonical is rebuilding Snapcraft and Ubuntu might be getting serious about gaming, KDE Roadmap for 2022, PinePhone Keyboard Addon, Ubuntu Touch OTA-21, Heroic Games Launder 2.0.0, SuperTux 0.6.3, Garuda Linux 220101, and Gecko Linux. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Video_Conferencing_(LCA)_«_etbe_–_Russell_Coker⠀⇛ I’ve just done a tech check for my LCA lecture. I had initially planned to do what I had done before and use my phone for recording audio and video and my PC for other stuff. The problem is that I wanted to get an external microphone going and plugging in a USB microphone turned off the speaker in the phone (it seemed to direct audio to a non-existent USB audio output). I tried using bluetooth headphones with the USB microphone and that didn’t work. Eventually a viable option seemed to be using USB headphones on my PC with the phone for camera and microphone. Then it turned out that my phone (Huawei Mate 10 Pro) didn’t support resolutions higher than VGA with Chrome (it didn’t have the “advanced” settings menu to select resolution), this is probably an issue of Android build features. So the best option is to use a webcam on the PC, I was recommended a Logitech C922 but OfficeWorks only has a Logitech C920 which is apparently OK. # ⚓ How_To_Secure_the_Linux_Kernel_|_LinuxSecurity.com⠀⇛ With the support of the open-source community behind it and a strict privilege system embedded in its architecture, Linux has security built into its design. That being said, gone are the days that Linux system administrators could get away with subpar security practices. Cyber criminals have come to view Linux as a viable attack target due to its growing popularity, the valuable devices it powers worldwide, and an array of dangerous new Linux malware variants that have emerged in recent years. It has become apparent that the majority of attacks on Linux systems can be attributed to misconfigurations and poor administration – and failure to properly secure the Linux kernel is often at least partially to blame. Kernel security is a key determinant of overall system security, as the Linux kernel is the foundation of the Linux OS and the core interface between a computer’s hardware and its processes. Luckily, the Linux kernel possesses an assortment of effective built-in security defenses – namely, firewalls that use packet filters built into the kernel, Secure Boot, Linux Kernel Lockdown and SELinux or AppArmor – that administrators should take full advantage of. This article will examine the importance of robust kernel security and explore various measures that administrators can take to secure the Linux kernel and protect their systems from malware and other exploits. # ⚓ MGLRU_Is_A_Very_Enticing_Enhancement_For_Linux_In_2022_– Phoronix⠀⇛ Going back a number of months Google engineers have been working to address the issue of the Linux kernel’s page reclaim code being too expensive for which they devised the multi-generational LRU framework “MGLRU” and it continues being worked on with mainline ambitions. MGLRU has yielded very promising results from servers down through Chrome OS and Android devices too. MGLRU aims to make better choices than the current kernel page reclaim code and to do so more efficiently. Previous numbers punted by Google engineers were cold start times reduced by up to 16% while enjoying fewer low-memory kills, Chrome OS saw upwards of 59% fewer out-of-memory kills and 96% fewer low-memory tab discards in its browser, and server results have been very promising too. # ⚓ Linux_5.16_Graphics_Performance_In_Great_Shape_For_AMD Ryzen_APUs_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Back on Christmas Eve I noted how the Linux 5.16 performance was looking real good for AMD APUs as a performance improvement not widely noted to that point with significant uplift over Linux 5.15 stable. The good news is Linux 5.16 is set to debut as stable today and the benchmark results with AMD APU graphics is looking very promising after carrying out tests on additional available systems. # ⚓ Linux_5.17_To_Introduce_Cirrus_CS35L41_HD_Audio_Codec Driver_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Among many other sound driver changes destined for the upcoming Linux 5.17 cycle, Cirrus Logic has contributed CS35L41 HD audio codec support in the form of a new sound driver, cs35l41_hda. Cirrus Logic announced the CS35L41 back in 2019 as the “smallest, low-power boosted smart audio amplifier” and its product page talks it up as “the industry’s most advanced smart boosted audio amplifier solution for mobile devices. It features a top-of-the-line boosted Class D amplifier, combined with an integrated DSP and 5th generation enhancement and protection algorithms. A closed- loop digital input Class D amplifier and an 11 V Class H envelope-tracking boost maximize output power and efficiency. The amplifier features the lowest power consumption, lowest noise, and smallest package size of any amplifier in its class.” o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_Install_VMware_Workstation_Pro_Linux_Mint_20_– LinuxCapable⠀⇛ VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software used for x86 and x86-64 computers to run multiple, isolated operating systems over a single physical host machine. Each virtual machine can run a single instance of any operating system such as FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, or Windows. VMware was established in 1998 with a solid history of producing high-quality products for virtualization, with VMware Workstation being launched in 2001. Widespread use for virtual machines is to run isolated environments for production or in running services for services. With VMware for production, you can swap between settings quickly. If resources permit the host operating system, you can have multiple virtualization operating systems running separately or working together. This is also useful for Linux users who run numerous copies of distributions. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install VMware PRO 16 on Linux Mint 20. # ⚓ How_to_Install_PyCharm_IDE_on_Linux_Mint_20_– LinuxCapable⠀⇛ PyCharm is a dedicated Python graphical IDE (Integrated Development Environment) popular amongst Python developers with its wide range of essential tools such as analyzing code, debugging, and integration. The IDE also comes with the command line, connects to a database, creates a virtual environment, and manages your version control system (Git). IIn the following tutorial, you will learn how to install PyCharm Community, Professional or Educational, with Flatpak or Snapcraft (Snap) on Linux Mint 20. # ⚓ How_To_Dual_Boot_Your_Raspberry_Pi_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Linux users will be familiar with dual booting their systems. We often have Linux running alongside Windows, or another Linux distro. The Raspberry Pi, itself a small $35 Linux computer, isn’t particularly well known for dual booting, but it can be done; all we need is a little help. PINN is a website which creates a custom installation script tailored to our specific requirements. With PINN, we can install multiple OSes to a single micro SD card or USB stick. PINN doesn’t download an OS to our cards, rather it creates an installation file that when run on our Raspberry Pi, will automatically download and install all of our OS choices. From there all we need to do is reboot, choose a new OS and we are ready to create more great Raspberry Pi projects. # ⚓ Remove_password_from_Bank_Statement⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bash_scripting(II)⠀⇛ This is the second article of a series focused in Gnu Bash scripting. On the first bash scripting article we’ve just created the most simple script: simple commands, one after another. We also saw some variables use.This article will cover bash control structures. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Deepin_Desktop_Environment_(UbuntuDDE)_on Linux_Mint_20_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ The Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) is known to be one of the most excellent aesthetic-looking desktop environments created by the developers of Deepin Linux. It is often regarded too as the most beautiful desktop on Linux. For users of Ubuntu and Linux Mint, Deepin can be installed by way of UbuntuDDE and comes with all the features of the standard Deepin shell with the addition of Linux Mint/Ubuntu software center and applications instead of the Deepin application store catalog. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) on Linux Mint 20. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Jellyfin_Media_Server_Linux_Mint_20_– LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Jellyfin is a free, open-source multimedia application designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices on an internal network and can be accessed remotely desired. It is a cross-platform and alternative to other major players, Plex and Emby. You can access it from a range of devices such as Mobile, Tablets, TV, and PCs or popular media devices like Roku or Nvidia shield. Jellyfin also serves media to DLNA and Chromecast-enabled devices and can fetch metadata just like Plex and Emby do so that you can organize your media into categories in a rich multimedia experience. If you would like to test, Jellyfin has created a demo server to log in and check it out for yourself. # ⚓ How_To_Install_YetiForce_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install YetiForce on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, YetiForce is an open-source and innovative CRM system. It is built on top of Vtiger and has hundreds of changes that help to accomplish even the most challenging tasks in the simplest way. YetiForce manages relations with customers, suppliers, partners, and staff. It offers efficiency, control, multitasking and can integrate with other applications such as maps, LDAP, DAV applications, SMS, and social media portals. 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 YetiForce CRM on an Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ antiX-17.5_point_release_update_–_antiX_Linux⠀⇛ antiX-17.5 is the final point release update of our 17 series based on Debian Stretch. As usual we offer the following completely systemd-free (and for this particular upgrade – elogind-free) flavours for both 32 and 64 bit architecture. antiX-full (c1.1GB) – 4 windows managers – IceWM (default), fluxbox, jwm and herbstluftwm plus full libreoffice suite. antiX-base (c750MB) – 4 windows managers – IceWM (default), fluxbox, jwm and herbstluftwm. antiX-core (c360MB) – no X, but should support most wireless. antiX-net (c165MB)- no X. Just enough to get you connected (wired) and ready to build. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Moving_my_repositories_from_Github_to_Codeberg.org_– WindfluechterNet_Blog⠀⇛ Some weeks ago I moved my repositories from Github (evil, Microsoft, blabla) to Codeberg. Codeberg is a non-profit organisation located in Germany. When you really dislike Microsoft products it is somewhat a natural reaction (at least for me) to move away from Github, which was bought by Microsoft, to some more independent service provider for hosting source code. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ FAA_lists_50_airports_that_will_have_5G_buffer_zones_ahead of_C-band_expansion⠀⇛ The FAA notes that AT&T and Verizon have agreed to turn off their 5G transmitters at these specific buffer zones for six months, which should “minimize potential 5G interference with sensitive aircraft instruments used in low-visibility landings.” Some airports — including major hubs like Hartsfield / Jackson International and Denver International — didn’t make the list, either because they aren’t in locations where 5G C-Band deployment will take place, or they can’t permit low-visibility landings. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ A_TikToker_Made_$200,000_Farting_In_Jars._Here’s_How_She_Did_It⠀⇛ As a self-described “fartpreneur,” however, Matto may have girlbossed a little too close to the sun. On Christmas, she says, she went to the ER with what she describes as heart attack-esque symptoms, which doctors promptly diagnosed as severe gas pain as a result of her diet. Matto’s visit to the ER, which she recounted to a journalist from the U.K. outlet Jam Press, was aggregated across news outlets across the globe, prompting fervent social media debate as to whether Matto’s fart-selling enterprise was a savvy business move or a cultural death rattle resounding from the bowels of late-stage capitalism (pun very much intended). Yet Matto is unruffled by such critiques, and has harnessed her newfound virality into promoting her newest venture: selling fart jar NFTs for 0.05 ETH (a little less than $200) each, though she has significantly reduced sales of her physical fart jars following her ER visit. Eager to learn the inner workings of a thriving fart jar business, Rolling Stone called Matto up at her home in northwestern Connecticut to discuss online sex work, the economics of selling a smell, and whether or not she plans to pivot to selling her queefs. She also threw in a plug for what is, in her educated opinion, the best flatulence-inducing pastry on the market. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Want_to_Restore_Your_Faith_in_Humanity?_Visit_a_Scientific Conference⠀⇛ But, as in many other areas of life, social media distorts our perspective, because it signal boosts the angriest and loudest members of every subculture. In truth, most scientists are engaged in apolitical work, which they conduct beneath the surface of public observation and commentary—as I reminded myself last month, during an informative and inspiring visit to the five-day American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Convention in New Orleans. # ⚓ James_Webb_telescope_finishes_crucial_steps_on_way_to_final orbit⠀⇛ Over the past 14 days, the observatory’s enormous gold-coated primary mirror and smaller secondary mirror were unfurled, and the telescope’s multilayered sunshield was extended. The announcement marks the completion one of the riskiest and most challenging maneuvers since it launched into space. Finishing the two-week deployment was a critical milestone for the mission and involved dozens of carefully choreographed post-launch maneuvers. The telescope will now spend roughly two weeks journeying to its final destination, a stable position in orbit around the sun that is around 1 million miles away from Earth. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Schools_Need_More_Resources_Before_They_Can_Open_Safely, Chicago_Teacher_Says⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hidden_Shaft_And_Gears_Make_This_Hollow_Clock_Go_| Hackaday⠀⇛ [shiura]’s Hollow Clock 3 is a fantastic 3D printed take on a clock movement that uses a hidden mechanism to pull off its unusual operation. The Hollow Clock has no face, just an open space with an hour and minute hand that move as expected. Only the longer minute hand has any apparent connection to the rest of the clock body, with the rest appearing to hang in the air. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Activism_Will_Be_Key_to_Overcoming_the_Covid-19 Crisis⠀⇛ As the Omicron surge overwhelms the world, it is clear to people everywhere that the actions which leaders so far have taken in response to the Covid- 19 crisis have not been sufficient to overcome it. # ⚓ Biden_and_GOP_May_Find_Bipartisanship_by_Elevating_Big Pharma’s_Pick_to_FDA_Head⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘I_Know_What_the_End_of_the_World_Looks_Like’⠀⇛ So despite him, I looked at buying a little bit of agricultural land, thinking it was actually a good hedge to inflation to have a piece of land where I can grow my own food. And that made me realize how messed up the agricultural systems around the world were, and how very little of it made any economic sense. I didn’t end up investing in the land, but I ended up investing tons and tons of time learning everything I could about agriculture, and I just completely got obsessed. How is it that we’ve been talking about food security for decades, and yet every time I ask a question I’m only getting more questions? Every time I seek an answer and I’m trying to find the data, I can’t find what I need? I became really attached to that problem. And I thought, “What can I do for Africa?” So when I quit, it was basically with this very loosey-goosey idea around, “I’m going to start a company and it’s going to do something around data and agriculture.” # ⚓ The_public_health_case_for_decarcerating_America’s_prison system⠀⇛ But numbers like these only scratch the surface of the damage incarceration leaves in its wide- rippling wake. That’s because biomedical and social conditions are always intertwined, which means that they implicate not just individuals but communities. As a result, harms inflicted on incarcerated individuals undermine the health and safety of their families, neighborhoods, counties, and, ultimately, the whole country. America’s mass incarceration problem is a massive public health threat to us all. # ⚓ The_existential_panic_in_“Don’t_Look_Up”_is_real._I_see_it in_my_clients⠀⇛ These days, I no longer compartmentalize the climate crisis in therapy sessions as I once did. My colleagues and I are learning to lead by example in the hopes of promoting a healthier response of engagement to our threatened “more-than-human- world.” o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ 500M_Avira_Antivirus_Users_Introduced_to Cryptomining⠀⇛ Many readers were surprised to learn recently that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite now ships with a program which lets customers make money mining virtual currency. But Norton 360 isn’t alone in this dubious endeavor: Avira antivirus — which has built a base of 500 million users worldwide largely by making the product free — was recently bought by the same company that owns Norton 360 and is introducing its customers to a service called Avira Crypto. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ [Older]_Log4j_attacks_remain_low-key_compared to_infosec_industry_hype⠀⇛ The Log4j vulnerability appears to have been overhyped by the infosec industry, with nothing like the scale of attacks expected materialising. The flaw, an unauthenticated remote code exploit, allows the complete takeover of systems using versions 2.0- beta9 up to 2.14.1 of the library Log4j. Well-known British security researcher Marcus Hutchins was one of those to throw cold water on some of the hype, pointing out that what was rumoured to be a Log4j worm did not work at all. “I’ve reverse engineered this supposed Log4j worm and it doesn’t work at all,” he said. “There’s also several bugs in the code that mean even if they did fix the core failure, it would still be completely ineffective.” # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Mafia_fugitive_arrested_in_Spain,_spotted on_Google_Street_View⠀⇛ A Google Street View appearance led to the arrest of a Gioacchino Gammino. # ⚓ Italian_mafia_fugitive_arrested_in_Spain after_being_spotted_on_Google_Street_View⠀⇛ Nicola Altiero, deputy director of the Italian anti-mafia police unit (DIA), said Google Maps had helped police to “confirm the investigation we were developing in traditional ways”. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Dick_Cheney_Paved_the_Way_for_Trump_and_the Capitol_Insurrection⠀⇛ Former Vice President Dick Cheney accompanied his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), to the Capitol on Thursday to join the moment of silence in commemoration of the Jan. 6 insurrection. They were the only Republicans to attend. # ⚓ Opinion_|_Desmond_Tutu_Rememberances_Ignore_His_Dedication to_Palestinians_Rights⠀⇛ Obituaries in the corporate and establishment press for South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu rightly celebrated him not only as one of the key leaders of the struggle against apartheid in his own country, but as a global advocate against oppression, including being a fierce Christian voice against homophobia. # ⚓ Police_probe_at_Birmingham_mosque_as_visiting_imam_‘praises murderer’_in_New_Year_sermon⠀⇛ A visiting imam, speaking at Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif in Small Heath, was heard to allegedly praise murderer Mumtaz Qadri, who gunned down Pakistani politician Salman Taseer in cold blood and was later convicted of murder and executed for the crime. # ⚓ An_expert_on_civil_war_issues_a_warning_about_America⠀⇛ The well-argued part goes something like this. Countries are most vulnerable to civil war when they are somewhere between dictatorship and liberal democracy. In a functional democracy, people have no cause to take up arms. In a full-blown dictatorship, they are likely to be locked up or killed the moment they do so. The danger zone opens up when a dictatorship gives way to a looser form of government, but the new regime has not yet found its feet. “Given a choice between democracy and dictatorship, most will gladly take democracy,” Ms Walter writes. “But the road to democracy is a dangerous one.” A second risk factor is factionalism. Since the end of the cold war, perhaps 75% of civil wars have been fought between ethnic and religious groups, rather than political ones. Here what matters is not how diverse a country is, but whether politics revolves around identity. Political leaders who stir up fear of another group to win support from their own are often especially dangerous. Consider (as Ms Walter does) the former Yugoslavia. As the cold war ended, it cast off communism and began to move towards democracy. It promptly fell apart, goaded by “ethnic entrepreneurs” such as Slobodan Milosevic. # ⚓ Kazakh_president_gives_shoot-to-kill_order_to_quell protests⠀⇛ Dozens have died and public buildings across Kazakhstan have been ransacked and torched in the worst violence the ex-Soviet republic has experienced in 30 years of independence. Moscow said more than 70 planes were ferrying Russian troops into Kazakhstan, and that these were now helping control Almaty’s main airport, recaptured on Thursday from protesters. # ⚓ Far-right_extremists_shift_online_strategies⠀⇛ Domestic extremists are adapting their online strategies to push disinformation and conspiracies despite a crackdown by social media platforms in the year since the attack by a pro-Trump mob on the Capitol. Online extremist groups and far-right influencers are using more coded language to slip through gaps in mainstream content moderation enforcement and are still active on alternative platforms that have risen in popularity since the Jan. 6, 2021, [insurrection]. Experts say efforts to counter domestic extremism must adapt as well, or else the spread of disinformation online poses real world risks heading into the midterm elections this November and the 2024 presidential election. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Man_in_lucky_escape_in_Haapsalu_sea_ice_plunge,_vehicle lost⠀⇛ However, conditions in western Estonia so far this winter have not proved suitable to open the ice road yet, with the individual demonstrating exactly why that is the case as the car plunged through the weak ice, around 100 meters from the shore, witnesses said, at around 7.20 p.m. Friday. # ⚓ Greenland’s_Ice_Sheet_Has_Lost_Mass_for_the_25th_Year_in_a Row⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Take_It_From_Climate_Scientists:_“Don’t_Look_Up” Is_Damning—But_Not_Nearly_Damning_Enough⠀⇛ **Spoiler alert.** “Don’t Look Up” is a flawed movie about everything my climate colleagues and I hate about the world, and then the world ENDS. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Kazakhstan_unrest_takes_down_a_fifth_of_global bitcoin_mining_network⠀⇛ Nationwide [Internet] outages in Kazakhstan amid civil unrest have knocked almost a fifth of the world’s bitcoin miners offline. Vast numbers of mining groups that had relocated to the central Asian country after a state crackdown in China last year now find themselves once again out of action. Bitcoin relies on a network of computers known as miners that solve mathematical problems to secure the currency, consuming vast amounts of electricity in the process. But without a working [Internet] connection, the process is impossible. China was once the global powerhouse of bitcoin mining with a market share of 75.5 per cent, but government restrictions in May last year caused the entire industry to relocate and seek friendlier states with cheap energy. Kazakhstan was an attractive location for these groups because of abundant cheap energy, but because fossil fuels, including coal, make up more than 90 per cent of the nation’s electricity supply, it did little to help bitcoin’s already large effect on the climate. # ⚓ Why_clean_energy_advocates_are_divided_over California’s_plan_to_slash_solar_incentives⠀⇛ California has more homes with rooftop PV panels than any other state. That’s thanks in part to a history of generous incentives for people with home solar systems. If someone doesn’t use up all the solar energy their panels collect, they can sell it back to the grid. Under the state’s “net metering” program, they can sell it at the same retail rate at which they would buy electricity. The program is supposed to help people recoup the costs of installing their solar system. But if the CPUC ultimately votes to approve its new proposal, the selling price would drop dramatically to better reflect the commission’s estimates of what that energy is actually worth. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Two_Lawyers_Arguing_Remotely_Against_Vaccine_Mandates at_Supreme_Court_Had_COVID⠀⇛ # ⚓ Federal_Action_Demanded_After_Endangered_Wolf_Anubis Illegally_Killed_in_Arizona⠀⇛ Outraged wildlife advocates demanded action from the U.S. government on Friday after learning that an endangered Mexican gray wolf—famous for wandering across the Southwest and named Anubis by schoolchildren—was illegally shot and killed in the Kaibab National Forest near Flagstaff, Arizona. “The killing of Anubis… is another tragic reminder that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service needs to expand the recovery area.” # ⚓ Wildlife_can_now_be_detected_by_sniffing_DNA_in_the air⠀⇛ Two of these groups, one led by Christina Lynggaard of the University of Copenhagen and the other by Elizabeth Clare of York University, in Toronto, have used zoos to test ways of extracting DNA from the atmosphere. Zoos are ideal for this because they house known animals. Both groups have just published preliminary results in Current Biology. Others, meanwhile, are already looking in the wild. Dr Clare’s team adapted an existing sample- collection method by pumping air through filters normally employed to extract DNA from water. Dr Lynggaard’s team tried three approaches. The first percolated the air to be analysed through some water, to try to dissolve any DNA it was carrying and so permit that DNA to be analysed by conventional metagenomic methods. The second and third used fans—in one case large, of the sort employed to cool big computers in data centres, and in the other small, used to cool desktop devices. In both instances these fans blew air through filters of the type that air-conditioning systems use to remove particles of pollution. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘Operating_in_Bad_Faith’:_Manchin_Reportedly_No_Longer Supports_His_Own_BBB_Counteroffer⠀⇛ U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin came under fire Saturday after The Washington Post reported that the West Virginia Democrat “does not currently support” passing even his own recent $1.8 trillion counteroffer to President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. “Sen. Manchin is operating in bad faith,” tweeted Nida Allam, a progressive congressional candidate in North Carolina. “We need to be electing Democrats who are accountable to the American people and working families—not Dems who are reneging on deals which would support millions.” o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ TikTok’s_Highest-Earning_Stars:_Charli_and_Dixie_D’Amelio Raked_in_$27.5_Million_in_2021⠀⇛ To compile the list, Forbes looked at influencers who rose to fame on TikTok (excluding celebrities active on the app like Will Smith and Jason DeRulo). The most recently ranking estimated what TikTokers earned from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2021, from sponsored content and other income sources. # ⚓ Firm_Behind_Trump-Backed_Arizona_Election_‘Audit’_Shuts Down_After_Judge_Orders_$50,000_Daily_Fine⠀⇛ The news comes after Arizona election officials earlier this week released a point-by-point rebuttal of nearly 80 claims in the Cyber Ninjas’ review that were misleading or false, and as Maricopa Superior Court Judge John Hannah found the company in contempt of court for failing to comply with an order to turn over audit records to the Arizona Republic as part of a public records request. Judge Hannah imposed a $50,000 daily fine on Cyber Ninjas until the company can produce the requested records. Hannah noted that the fine could potentially apply not only to the company as a whole, but to individuals, among them former CEO Doug Logan, an election fraud conspiracy theorist who wrote a paper on behalf of GOP senators objecting to Congress certifying Joe Biden’s election win. That amount was fifty times greater than the $1,000 fine requested by a lawyer for the Arizona Republic. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ What_a_previous_iconoclastic_period_reveals_about_the present_one⠀⇛ In the 19th century serious attempts were made to recover Britain’s artistic heritage. In 1841 John Neale, an influential antiquarian, advised churchwardens to conserve any old murals they might discover: “They are so curious that they ought to be looked to with great care.” Other images were imported. The French Revolution had set off a wave of iconoclasm and thrown much medieval art onto the international market. Some of the oldest and finest stained glass in Britain is in the east window of St James’s church in Twycross, Leicestershire. Installed in the 1840s, it comes from French churches including Le Mans cathedral and Ste- Chapelle in Paris. # ⚓ MLB_Commissioner_Meets_The_Streisand_Effect_After_Ousting Ken_Rosenthal_From_The_MLB_Network⠀⇛ We’ve talked a great deal about Major League Baseball here at Techdirt. Notably, for a long time those discussions have positive in nature, whether it was MLB’s interesting pivots once COVID-19 went global or the expansion of its excellent streaming services. Now, while the league has also had issues playing IP enforcer in the past, or the more recent self-own the league conducted in response to its players lockout, the fact is that commissioner Rob Manfred has generally been a fresh voice of modernity and technological progress for the league. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Three_wise_kings_and_an_offer_to_Assange:_the_week_at_the morning_press_conferences⠀⇛ The president also gave an offer of asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is set to be extradited from the U.K. to the United States. “We are willing to offer Assange asylum in Mexico, that is our posture. We believe that the U.S. government must act with humanity. Assange is sick … before the end of President Donald Trump’s administration I sent him a letter asking him to exonerate [Assange].” # ⚓ Independent_media_unable_to_cover_protests_in_Kazakhstan⠀⇛ What with arbitrary arrests, police violence, blocked telecommunications and Internet cuts – after four days of massive protests triggered by a fuel price hike and after the declaration of a state of emergency yesterday evening, journalists and media outlets trying to cover the protests continue to be the victims of the regime’s persecution. Authorities trying to control news coverage have stepped up attacks on independent journalists in the past two days. # ⚓ Media_Worker_Killed_Covering_Violence_in_Kazakhstan⠀⇛ Muratkhan Bazarbayev, who worked for Almaty TV as a driver, died when the station’s vehicle was shot at during clashes in the city of Almaty on Wednesday. A camera operator for the station was hospitalized in the same attack, according to the news outlet and media rights groups. The news crew was covering protests that began late last week in response to a fuel price hike and evolved into mass unrest and violence in the capital and other cities. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_What’s_Next_for_Corporate_Democrat_Plotters? Voting_Rights⠀⇛ Remember when the Biden presidency was brand new and Democrats in the House and Senate proposed a sweeping, $6 trillion package to rebuild our social safety net, cut drug prices, upgrade our infrastructure, rescue our students and elderly, and save the environment?  # ⚓ I_Worked_for_a_Refugee_Support_Organization_in_Calais. Here’s_What_I_Saw.⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘Our_Fight_Is_Not_Over’:_Egyptian-Palestinian_Rights Activist_Ramy_Shaath_Freed_After_900+_Days⠀⇛ The family of Egyptian-Palestinian rights activist Ramy Shaath said Saturday that they “are relieved and overjoyed” to announce he is free after more than 900 days of “unjust detention under inhumane conditions” in Egypt. “Two-and-a-half years later, I still have all my resolve and my determination to continue.” # ⚓ Black_Sexual_Violence_Survivors_Are_Telling_Their_Stories_— Only_to_Be_Punished⠀⇛ # ⚓ Amazon_workers_will_now_get_only_a_week_of_COVID_PTO⠀⇛ Amazon has changed its PTO policy for workers forced to quarantine, as reported by CNBC and the Wall Street Journal. The policy has shrunk to one week (or 40 hours) off, down from its initial length of 14 days, which is still mentioned on an Amazon hiring page (via Engadget) but had already been shortened to ten days. Engadget’s report includes an excerpt of Amazon’s notice to employees about the change, citing the CDC’s updated recommendations that people who have tested positive for COVID should isolate for five days, as long as their symptoms are gone. Amazon isn’t alone in changing its policies along with the federal government. As Engadget points out, Walmart has also cut down the number of PTO hours employees who contract COVID get. There have also been reports of sick workers across the country losing protections after the American Rescue Plan expired on September 30th, leaving state and local governments (and individual employers) to decide the rules for themselves. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ My_first_impressions_of_web3⠀⇛ If we do want to change our relationship to technology, I think we’d have to do it intentionally. My basic thoughts are roughly: 1. We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure. This means architecture that anticipates and accepts the inevitable outcome of relatively centralized client/server relationships, but uses cryptography (rather than infrastructure) to distribute trust. One of the surprising things to me about web3, despite being built on “crypto,” is how little cryptography seems to be involved! 2. We should try to reduce the burden of building software. At this point, software projects require an enormous amount of human effort. Even relatively simple apps require a group of people to sit in front of a computer for eight hours a day, every day, forever. This wasn’t always the case, and there was a time when 50 people working on a software project wasn’t considered a “small team.” As long as software requires such concerted energy and so much highly specialized human focus, I think it will have the tendency to serve the interests of the people sitting in that room every day rather than what we may consider our broader goals. I think changing our relationship to technology will probably require making software easier to create, but in my lifetime I’ve seen the opposite come to pass. Unfortunately, I think distributed systems have a tendency to exacerbate this trend by making things more complicated and more difficult, not less complicated and less difficult. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Nasdaq_Ends_First_Week_of_2022_Down_More_Than_4%_as_Roku, Netflix_Take_Hits⠀⇛ Among the notable companies that took a hit Friday were Netflix (down 2.21% from where it opened), Roku (-6.92%), Google parent company Alphabet Inc . (-0.53%), Amazon (-0.43%) and Comcast (-0.91%). On the flip side, Apple closed up 0.099%, AT&T up 0.67%, Discovery up 16.87%, Disney up 0.61%, ViacomCBS up 7.88% and Fox Corp. up 1.54%. # ⚓ Roku_exec_Scott_Rosenberg,_who_helped_launch_the_Roku Channel,_is_stepping_down⠀⇛ Rosenberg is currently SVP and general manager of platform business at Roku, a title he’s held since 2017, according to a press release. In addition to his role in the development of the Roku Channel, which is now home to Roku’s original programming, Rosenberg created and scaled the streamer’s advertising business, Roku spokesperson Sarah Novatt confirmed to The Verge. According to the company, Rosenberg was a key player in Roku’s 2017 IPO. Other notable oversight roles listed on Rosenberg’s LinkedIn include partnerships, revenue, product, analytics, payments, and operations. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ What’s_ahead_for_the_global_IP_market_in_2022 [Ed: The latest IAM SPAM with propaganda terms in the headlines]⠀⇛ The IAM team revisits its forecasts for 2021 and offers a fresh outlook on the narratives we see shaping up in the twelve months ahead # ⚓ IPKat_Book_of_the_Year_Awards_2021 [Ed: Open to gaming; Ads disguised as “awards” in a_site_that_isn’t_even_important anymore]⠀⇛ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ European_Union:_UPC_Could_Open_Its_Doors_In_2022 [Ed: And yet more_shameless_fake_news_from_Team_UPC]⠀⇛ With news that the Austrian parliament has ratified the Protocol on the provisional application of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on 2 December 2020, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) opening in 2022 is becoming more likely. This will be a significant change to the patent litigation landscape in Europe and will harmonise patent litigation across up to 24 EU Member States (MS). It will also mean that patentees can choose to validate a Unitary Patent (UP) that will cover all EU MS who have ratified the UPC Agreement (R-MS). When Austria deposits its ratification of the Protocol this will trigger the provisional phase of the UPC. During the provisional phase, secondary legislation will be finalised, budgets set and Judges appointed before the UPC opens its doors. It is estimated that the provisional phase will take 8-10 months, following which Germany will deposit its ratification of the UPC Agreement (UPCA) triggering the launch of the UPC four months later. Based on current ratifications of the UPCA, on launch the UPC and UP will cover 17 EU MS, including Germany, France, Italy and The Netherlands. # ⚓ Haar_today,_gone_tomorrow:_EPO’s_brief_BoA_move raises_queries [Ed: Over 5 years of massive injustice at the EPO, where tribunals_ruled_under_illegal conditions, and even some lawyers are expressing angst]⠀⇛ Lawyers welcomed plans to move the Boards of Appeal back to the centre of Munich, but expressed concerns over the level of accountability at the EPO # ⚓ Oramed_Pharmaceuticals_Gets_European_Patent_for Protein-Delivery_Platform [Ed: Oramed seems to be unaware of the_legitimacy_crisis_of_European_Patents; many many be presumed invalid]⠀⇛ Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. said the European Patent Office has granted it a patent supporting its platform technology in oral delivery of proteins. The pharmaceutical company said the platform technology underlies its lead drug candidate ORMD-0801, now in pivotal Phase 3 studies and positioned to potentially be the first oral insulin capsule on the market. # ⚓ From_GIs_to_AI:_Four_European_IP_trends_to_watch_in 2022 [Ed: More buzzwords and propaganda terms like “Hey Hi” and “IP” from Max Walters, who_speaks_the_language of_malicious_lobbyists_rather_than_journalists]⠀⇛ An expansion of GI laws, potential movement in the AI inventor debate, social media concerns and filing farms clampdowns are all in line for 2022. Here are four key themes. # ⚓ Video:_JUVE_Patent’s_UK_ranking_2022 [Ed: This is not ranking; it’s advertising or spam, which they_get_paid for]⠀⇛ With the UK’s patent court lists busier than ever, the past twelve months have been an exciting time for the patent market and those who work within it. Now, in the video to accompany JUVE Patent’s UK ranking 2022, Amy Sandys and Konstanze Richter present the latest development in the UK patent market. [...] The UK judiciary is also solving its staffing issues, with the appointment of former barristers James Mellor and Richard Meade to the High Court judicial bench. Other 8 New Square barristers Michael Tappin and Charlotte May have also become deputy judges. # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Still_no_Apple-Ericsson_announcement: neither_renewal_of_license_nor_renewed_infringement litigation–key_deadline_may_be_mid-January⠀⇛ There still hasn’t been any announcement by Ericsson of a renewal of its patent cross- license agreement with Apple, nor have I found any filings in the Eastern District of Texas or with the ITC that indicate renewed infringement litigation. Whether they are still negotiating or negotiations have broken down, Ericsson appears to be precluded from asserting patents against Apple at this stage. There are accusations of FRAND violations flying both ways in the Eastern District of Texas, with the first “harbinger” of a new patent spat having been Ericsson’s complaint in early October, shortly after which an even earlier motion for an anti-antisuit injunction in the Netherlands became known (the denial of that motion was affirmed in a December 16 decision following a November 18 hearing). But Ericsson can’t assert patents as long as a license agreement, or a covenant not to sue, is in force and effect. Many license agreements terminate at the end of a calendar year. Last year, Ericsson’s patent assertions against Samsung started on New Year’s Day (and resulted in a settlement less than five months later). However, Ericsson sued Apple in mid-January 2015 subsequently to the expiration of a license agreement. It could be that mid-January is again the key deadline, either because the license agreement won’t expire before, or because of a covenant not to sue precluding immediate infringement litigation upon expiration of the license for another two weeks or so. # ⚓ UK:_Northern_Lights_Burn_Ever_More_Brightly [Ed: Patent extremists and profiteers (like litigation firms) ruin the UK -- not just London -- for the rest of us]⠀⇛ The trip itself was great. As a lawyer and a patent attorney turning up for the first time at a networking event designed to put start- ups in touch with investors, we wondered whether attendees would be reluctant to talk to two professional advisors ostensibly there to take money off them but we couldn’t have been more wrong. Everyone we talked to was happy to expand on their plans and enthusiastically receptive to any suggestions we might have had to accelerate them. # ⚓ Sareum_Share_Price_Surged_10.2%_on_European_Patent Office_Notice… [Ed: Sareum shareholders likely unaware that EPO grants tons of fake patents, based_on insiders]⠀⇛ # ⚓ UKIPO_launches_call_for_views_on_Standard_Essential Patents_(SEPs) [Ed: UKIPO looking to appease patent trolls and parasites]⠀⇛ The UK intellectual property office has launched a call for views on standard essential patents (SEPs). The call for views will last for 12 weeks, closing on 01 March at 11.45pm. Responses to the call for views will inform how the UK SEPs framework supports innovation, promotes competition and whether change is needed. # ⚓ UK:_Patents_To_Come_Of_Age_For_Nuclear_Fission? [Ed: Patent extremists (a corrupt firm in this case, Marks & Clerk; convicted last year, too) excited about dangerous nuclear stuff because of patents]⠀⇛ Interesting to see that plans are advancing to build small nuclear reactor power plants in the UK. As noted in this BBC News article, these are intended to be in addition to large-scale nuclear power plants and not as an alternative to those large-scale power plants. Companies that are active in nuclear fission- based power tend to file relatively few patent applications. Problems that arise when designing a nuclear fission power plant, and the inventions devised to solve those problems, may be specific to a particular power plant. As a result, it may not be commercially worthwhile filing patent applications for those inventions. # ⚓ Rothschild_entity_Display_Technologies_patent challenged⠀⇛ On January 6, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,300,723. The ‘723 patent is owned by Display Technologies, LLC, an entity affiliated with prolific inventor and frequent plaintiff Leigh M. Rothschild. The ‘723 patent is generally directed to media systems for transferring a media file from a local device (e.g., a wireless mobile device) to another device for display. It has been asserted in over 60 litigations where some accused devices rely on Bluetooth communications for the transfer of files. # ⚓ EPO_decision_another_setback_in_Dabus_quest_for inventorship [Ed: Loaded and misleading headline from JUVE, as usual (as of recent years)]⠀⇛ The EPO’s most recent decision is the result of an appeal, by Dabus creator Stephen Thaler, against the dismissal of two patent applications (case IDs: J 8/20 and J 9/20) which designate Dabus as the inventor. The Legal Board of Appeal 3.1.01 heard the appeal on December 21 2021, dismissing it on the same day. Back in January 2020, the Receiving Section of the EPO refused two patent applications on the grounds that the application listed Dabus, and not a human, as the inventor. The decision is based on Article 81 and Rule 19 (1) of the European Patent Convention. In its decision, the EPO considered that an interpretation of the European patent system framework means only a natural person can receive a patent for an invention. In addition, the EPO was of the opinion that a machine could not transfer any rights to the applicant. [...] The two patents, EP 18 275 163 and EP 182 751 74, concern a fractal beverage container and fractal light signals respectively. The fractal light signal embodies a device to attract attention during search and rescue operations. Stephen Thaler, a doctor of physics, created the AI. Its name Dabus stands for ‘Device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified sentience’. # ⚓ Protecting_a_drug_combining_two_known_active ingredients_by_patent_:_Is_it_possible_? [Ed: Team UPC and patent extremists against access to medicines (in other words, let’s let some people die to keep profits up)⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2021_Patent_Dispute_Report:_Year_in_Review_—_Unified Patents⠀⇛ The changing of the guard at the USPTO brings new changes in the patent dispute landscape. With the uncertainty of Fintiv, United States v. Arthrex, Inc., and pandemic recovery, operating companies have been less contentious than in years past. Despite this ambivalence, a new venue has emerged and more companies are turning to Reexaminations to find certainty in uncertain times. NPEs have continued to increase their assertion, with the TXWD becoming their choice of venue. If 2021 is any indication of what is on the horizon for 2022, it is clear that patent policy may face significant changes and NPEs will continue their assaults. # ⚓ Witte_Weller_grows_with_two_specialist_mechanical engineering_partners [Ed: JUVE keeps publishing marketing spam (like a firm hiring some ‘low-level’ person) disguised as “news”]⠀⇛ Lukas Klement (47) from Cartagena and Dieter Späth (59) from Abacus joined Witte Weller & Partner on 1 January 2022 as partners. At the same time, the firm also appointed patent attorney Sophia Zielinski as partner. With the new additions, the team grows to 21 patent attorneys, of whom 18 are partners. # ⚓ 2021_Patent_Grants [Ed: The USPTO just grants lots and lots of rubbish patents to raise more money at the public’s expense (externality)]⠀⇛ Total utility patent grants are down about 7% for calendar year 2021. Still the total ranks as the third highest of all time. The Office has almost eliminated unwanted delay in examination. Right now the delay is about 17 months from filing to first office-action. They really don’t want that to go below 14 months in order to capture 102(a)(2) prior art (former 102(e)). # ⚓ Nicox_European_Patent_Seals_ZERVIATE_Major_Market Coverage_to_2030 [Ed: Nicox seems to be totally unaware of the fact that the EPO, according to insiders, grants lots_of_fake_patents]⠀⇛ FR0013018124, COX), an international ophthalmology company, today announced that patent EP2408453, covering the company’s product ZERVIATE® (cetirizine ophthalmic solution), 0.24%, has been issued by the European Patent Office (EPO). The patent covers the formulation of ZERVIATE which is commercialized in the U.S. by our exclusive U.S. licensee Eyevance Pharmaceuticals, and its use in the treatment of the symptoms of allergic conjunctivitis or allergic rhinoconjunctivitis. The prescription market for allergic conjunctivitis products in Europe, Eastern Europe and Turkey was estimated by IQVIA as around €260 million in 2020. The European Patent grants exclusivity until 2030, meaning that the ZERVIATE formulation is protected by granted patents in the U.S. to 2032, and in Europe, Japan and Canada to 2030. # ⚓ AI_inventorship_claim_dismissed_by_EPO_Board_of Appeal [Ed: "Hey Hi" (AI) and other buzzwords misused; even the corrupt EPO isn't easily fooled by this ploy]⠀⇛ Artificial intelligence (AI) systems cannot be named as an inventor on a patent application, the European Patent Office Board of Appeal (EPO BoA) has ruled. According to a statement issued by the tribunal, the designated inventor for a European patent application must be a person with legal capacity. The decision concerns ‘DABUS’, an AI system developed by US scientist and technologist Dr. Stephen Thaler. Dr Thaler designated DABUS as the inventor of two patent applications claiming that the subject matter of the applications had been created autonomously by DABUS. [...] As part of his appeal, Thaler submitted an auxiliary request according to which a natural person was indicated to have “the right to the European patent by virtue of being the owner and creator of” an AI system. However, the EPO BoA said that a statement indicating the origin of the right to the European patent had to conform with the provisions of the EPC and that this was not the case for the DABUS applications. Full written reasons behind the EPO BoA’s decision are to be published in due course. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ A_patent_quietly_filed_by_Shopify_shows_it edging_closer_to_brick-and-mortar_retail_with_a type_of_tech_also_used_by_Amazon⠀⇛ # ⚓ European_Union:_Selection_Of_An_Available Memory_Size:_Technical [Ed: Software patents and other laughable patents pushed by Bardehle Pagenberg in the EPO, where the_tribunals_are patently_rigged]⠀⇛ This decision relates to a European patent for a method for the selection of an available memory size of a circuit. The patent had been revoked as an outcome of the opposition proceedings. The proprietor appealed, but the Board of Appeal has not overturned the decision of the Opposition Division. Here are the practical takeaways from the decision T 2010/17 (Selection of an available memory size/THALES DIS FRANCE) of 9.6.2021 of Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.07… # ⚓ Interdigital_EP_patent_challenged_marking_first in_new_Unified_V2X_Zone⠀⇛ On December 21, 2021, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against a patent owned by InterDigital, EP 3497866. The EP’866 patent relates to wireless transmission methods for supporting multiple numerology blocks or bandwidth parts on a carrier signal, which is related to 5G wireless technology. This filing marks the first within Unified’s new V2X Zone. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ UK_Government’s_Consultation_On_Artificial Intelligence_And_The_Interaction_With_Copyright_And Patents [Ed: Peddlers_of_lies,_fake_news,_and fabrications, Mayer Brown, pushing “Hey Hi” agenda (basically fiction for policy manipulation) in the UK⠀⇛ The UK Government published its national AI Strategy last month which highlighted its intention to make the UK an AI powerhouse. In its strategy, the Government recognised the importance of instituting a progressive regulatory environment which would encourage the advancement of AI. The UK Government has now launched a consultation on reforms to copyright and patent law to incentivise the development of AI. Whilst the Government aims to provide adequate protections to AI technology to encourage further investment into AI, it is cognisant that those protections have to be limited so that they do not stifle innovation and progress in this field. The UK Government proposes that any measures introduced must (i) encourage AI innovation and promote the use of AI for the public good; (ii) preserve the integral role of intellectual property, which is to promote human creativity and innovation; and (iii) be based on best available economic evidence. [...] The UK is not alone in acknowledging the profound impact AI will have on businesses worldwide. China has also recently declared its intention to become “a principal world centre of artificial intelligence innovation” by 2030. Other nations that are entering the race to dominate the AI space include Germany, the United States and Japan; countries that are currently leading in AI research. Implementing legal frameworks that encourage AI development and investment will play a fundamental role in achieving dominance in this field, which is precisely why the UK Government has published this consultation. Whilst different nations have taken different approaches to the protection of AI created works or inventions (for instance, see the converging views courts have taken with respect to identifying AI as an inventor of a patent in the DABUS cases), there has been a drive amongst states and international bodies to collaborate on laws and regulations governing AI to maximize advancement for mutual benefit. In fact, international cooperation is an element in the AI strategies of most governments. Whether a consensus can be reached amongst nation states with respect to legal frameworks surrounding AI protection remains to be seen. # ⚓ Pirate_IPTV_Providers_“Exploit_PayPal,_Mastercard_& Visa_Branding”⠀⇛ Pirate IPTV providers generally require payment in exchange for a subscription. In the majority of cases this involves utilizing a third-party payment processor such as PayPal, Mastercard or Visa. According to the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance, pirates exploit these trusted brands to appear legitimate themselves. But what can be done to break the association? ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4825 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.09.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Pluton_Proponents_Working_for_Plutocracy_(and_Pentagon_Agenda)⠀✐ Posted in DRM, Hardware, Microsoft, News_Roundup, Security at 9:13 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum e4f546765ee91f39ec73c54d22592984 Self-Described Social Justice Imposters Help Microsoft Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/social-justice-imposters.webm Summary: We’re meant to think that Pluton is nothing to worry about because it hasn’t yet been turned on by default (or the ability to turn it off hasn’t been obstructed yet); this is another massive attack by Microsoft on software freedom, contrary to what Microsoft apologists try to tell us “Vendor lock-in moves further up the stack,” an associate warned the other day, citing Microsoft_operatives_such_as_Paul_Thurrott (he wasn’t alone). The news was made public after AMD had worked with Microsoft behind the scenes, looking to salvage x86/Windows monoculture, which is waning_gradually. “People know too little about this “Pluton” nonsense.”The associate noted the steps: “UEFI, TPM 2, Pluton…” People know too little about this “Pluton” nonsense. “That’s been kept out of the daylight for a reason,” the associate noted. “The XBox served only as a testbed for DRM which gradually makes its way into the mainstream wintel market.” “I have to say that it’s been obvious from the beginning what the XBox is about,” the associate continued, having warned about this for a very long time. More than a decade in fact… “Notice that it is Ars Techica and ZDNet which are among the very few announcing Pluton,” the associate said, taking note of Microsoft-connected (and Microsoft-briefed) publications. Looking outside_Microsoft’s_“copypasta kitchen”, one finds actual details rather than marketing fluff, pretending it’s about “security” rather than vendor lock-in. “So it only allows the execution of programs signed by Microsoft itself for the console,” this one says. So first they try to be the authority responsible for signing Linux kernels and now they move to the application layer. It’s worse than the TLS/CA monopoly/ oligopoly, which is little/barely different/better than a diploma mill or a pyramid scheme with a chain of trust or accreditation. “In the video above I focus on one particularly malicious actor, who has been pushing this agenda for a decade while threatening to sue his critics.”The so- called ‘Linux’_Foundation is_moving_in_a_similar_direction_with_applications, UEFI_‘secure’_boot, and even_certificates_(Let’s_Encrypt). They’re centralising everything, so Pentagon contractors get to control the whole stack. Or so they hope… In the video above I focus on one particularly malicious actor, who has been pushing this agenda for a decade while threatening to sue his critics. While our criticism was technical and legal, this person makes it personal. It’s a tactic with casualties. Yes, it’s Matthew Garrett, whom we_called_a "Microsoft_Apologist"_almost_exactly_10_years_ago (in the headline). His misuse of the term “Social Justice” is an insult to people who actually pursue social justice rather than 6-figure salaries from a company like Gulag (Google). Our associate noted that “maybe a good topic [to cover] would be avoiding vendor lock-in through open standards if not also free and open source software.” “While our criticism was technical and legal, this person makes it personal.”We’ll write a lot more about it later this year. “Microsoft is using Pluton for its “Linux” servers in Azure too,” psydroid noted in IRC, “as a kind of counterpart to Google’s Titan, which is an “open” technology, however the biggest risk is that other companies outside of Intel, AMD and Qualcomm also jump on the Pluton bandwagon. I’ve read about Mediatek potentially being onboard.” “Work back from the data towards the hardware,” the associate noted. “Microsoft and Apple are working that direction towards lock-in while at the same time working from the system firmware on up towards lock-in. So far much of it is mandatorily present but disabled by default, for now. When that crap meets in the middle, they will start making it active by default. Also, that looks like the main reasons for the push to “cloud” storage for data. That way they have control of the data without quibbling over file formats: there are no files, at least none the public can get at.” Tell_that to the EPO, which is outsourcing almost everything to Microsoft while Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos plunder Europe… █ ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4941 ➮ Generation completed at 02:42, i.e. 52 seconds to (re)generate ⟲