𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, April 18, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Tue 19 Apr 02:40:19 BST 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/2022/04/18/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmVsotEYMNPE1dyPEZpAQ81YQFtSrxNxJNRyba9tPacbNr Qma6RvSv1ESUzDxUh7arsCZmoLXUaaSzK11P7gLczW1TKT QmcKAXzUKRMGp3YdQETGwbF7nS2hNTSzE84u2fb9P3tEDf QmYX7yxkzNPmi6NC3UHnNT3dqZ5FfkpgUrstQa95hPuvgt Qmc3h1ndVkwPrqkr5MwUe6DdA5S7dDpBHt61UHELCc9ewf QmTQQuAATQ3bx7aaCvuFeFsB7QuviwS2MdAiz9SW34tZeV QmanAKUKZgCyqdLttoPwN8UdE5JSFDVuH8vEncfJwtmqZ9 QmPA9baiheMyYvoirRpVxfonAnbATaW9SCDexu9yzCdwpR QmPP37AxLbRc3k9bp8hVPgJLkqdNKMo4NwWGy77QCsCNmS QmPTFnSBK7s4hJa6dWKXhRFqz7rSTw2b3nyJfUHGke9zsy QmTXSm48sqA6HLeyyDAbAxdJ8GTxKK6mhdZHkkxWhkTEcn QmPokuDJbuL2FN7E9h2TvVkafexTCncL78fivWTmKvQBfi QmTqpuqPNWmk4ozx55txjHjFtafRqSThGtE15RSdN3pHQu QmbtfZ2MSwgVe48AYaCyyRJLCKzUzRJAc2sRLYJGrNXrJf QmXXLtscfDbwVhn13YG3uYit85zkFCS4WjNa9MM64s3Ee4 QmPBJbJsX1TBvg8QRMe1HjeWiLJ1vdE72GnBdqt1JpSxPi QmciFvSx69P71MpCrYBDP6gaZb7eoyBP62KYXGaGDWQSGv QmZ1EKzSN6Av9encB5io5scJqSERUU6wHLzefDLBzzQ9Sy QmRs89gRxwqpNCWmw7xF1MAkZPkzf4k6rsBPQAXGRV1ib5 QmY6JFBqMQiuSt5KeGRmWmnUPcW18QDQm3eepU8DxTGEYV QmXiBYqvHTZ9Dm3RPw96UD2o4V4bhgfEZQZj8ds3Wawmnm ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ IBM and the War (on General-Purpose Computing) | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 17, 2022 | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/04/18/general-purpose-computing/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/04/18/irc-log-170422/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/04/18/git-2-36/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/04/18/linux-5-18-rc3/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/04/18/makululinux-shift-beta-3/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 52 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/04/18/general-purpose-computing/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/04/18/general-purpose-computing/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.18.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ IBM_and_the_War_(on_General-Purpose_Computing)⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, Hardware, IBM, Red_Hat at 7:53 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum b02c1ae0c220f3f9ac2c852f65e11846 IBM Learns That Some People Do Use Older PCs Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/ibm-fedora-avarice.webm Summary: IBM keeps engineering its own blunders (own_goals); in the latest example of it, which is rather revealing, IBM considers suspending the misguided plan to abolish BIOS_support or assigning_the_task_to_a_new_special interest_group_(SIG) IBM’s Fedora ‘project’ (formerly known as community, back when Red Hat was more tactfully running it) is going to learn the hard way that working against the community leads to backlash. Each such backlash erodes the project’s brand/ image and therefore puts off existing users or potential (future, prospective) adopters. Why does IBM fail to understand these very basic things? Can it not grasp what it bought? Judging by weekly numbers that are shared in official Fedora sites, the project already struggles. Not much is left except IBM staff. And many are leaving (the company, not just the project). IBM’s takeover has already done a lot of damage; does IBM’s leadership even care? How many IBM managers even use the platform? It’s hard to ‘monetise’ some platform if you constantly piss off not only its users but also its developers. “Let’s hope that strong pressure from users of GNU/Linux will compel IBM to move away from its planned obsolescence agenda.”The latest backlash, which we too participated_in, has led to this_face-saving_action. It’s a “we need to talk” moment. IBM’s Matthew Miller says: “It’ll obviously be difficult to find a time where _everyone_ can participate, so this wouldn’t be a deciding-things meeting, rather a “talking about possibilities and hopefully coming to more mutual understanding” meeting. And I would make sure there are good notes.” Many of the replies there are from other IBM employees. IBM’s_Ben_Cotton_wrote about_it_in_his_blog_some_days_ago. They’ve still not apologised for (mis)using lawyers to silence a Fedora volunteer, who earned many badges from Fedora before getting treated like trash. Over the past few years IBM banished_quite_a_few_longtime_volunteers. Some of them used to speak out against companies like NVIDIA (how "unprofessional"), but apparently only IBM staff is authorised to criticise companies. Miller et al enjoy selective enforcement. This sort of Hubris will, in due course, alienate contributors. So anyway, IBM may be backtracking on its attack on BIOS. As our associate put it, “the attacks on the BIOS, Restricted Boot, TPM, and Pluton are all hammering the nails in the coffin of general-purpose computing. In Apple there are the M1 and M2 chips doing the same.” “If IBM is trying to piss off both corporations (many used and invested in CentOS) and people, then it’s doing a spectacular job.”Let’s hope that strong pressure from users of GNU/Linux will compel IBM to move away from its planned obsolescence agenda. IBM pays the Linux_Foundation for greenwashing campaigns, which are inherently incompatible with planned obsolescence. As someone in LXer put_it_11_days_ago: “We dropped Fedora because it’s not as good as Tumbleweed. Anyway, do the work. Many of the advantages are grossly overstated btw (if not just plain misleading). Just stop it. You know? Fedora, creating landfill… for the good of the planet.” “This is a kid’s joke after CentOS 8.x support ( new face of RH ) was aborted,” said the following comment. If IBM is trying to piss off both corporations (many used and invested in CentOS) and people, then it’s doing a spectacular job. IBM ought to hire someone (or someones) that can understand the Free software community and advise the managers accordingly. 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Star Labs has been known as a manufacturer of Linux laptops for some time. Recently, however, the company has dipped its toes into the mini PC market and its first release is impressive on paper. The Byte MK I is a first-gen mini PC equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800 Octo-Core CPU (up to a 4.4GHz clock speed), AMD Radeon graphics, and up to 64GB of 3200MHz RAM and up to 6TB SSD storage. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ So_you’re_thinking_about_migrating_to_Linux?_Here’s what_you_need_to_know_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ When I first started using Linux (back in ’97), it was a challenge to not only install but to use. It seemed everything I needed to do required I read a considerably long manifesto as to why it had to be done a certain way, while at the same time offering a number of different ways to achieve the same thing. It was both confusing and freeing at the same time. Being thrown into that mix head-first forced me to learn fast. After about six months of using Linux as my only OS, I pretty much had it down. But six months is a long time to take just so you know how to use an operating system on a computer. Fortunately, things have dramatically changed. Linux of yesterday would barely be recognizable, in comparison to its modern equivalent. Believe me when I tell you…that’s a good thing. Not that I didn’t enjoy those early days with Linux. I did. It was a blast learning something new and feeling like what you were getting started with was something special. Nowadays, Linux is second nature to me and no longer feels like it’s relegated to the basements of computer science buildings on university campuses across the world. Now, Linux is as user-friendly as any OS on the market. If you’re considering migrating from either Windows or macOS to Linux, here are some things you need to know. # ⚓ Solutions_to_Install_Newer_Apps_on_Older_Ubuntu_Versions⠀⇛ Do you still use an older or unsupported Ubuntu on your computer? Don’t want to upgrade for some reason? 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Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Kubuntu_22.04_LTS_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show how to install Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. # ⚓ Video ☛ Awesome_Linux_Tools:_ripgrep_(rg)_–_Invidious⠀⇛ You’ve probably heard of the “grep” command, but did you know about ripgrep? ripgrep is a “line- oriented search tool” that you can use to quickly find text within files, with additional features. # ⚓ Screen Rant ☛ How_To_Install_Slack_On_Chrome_OS_|_Screen Rant⠀⇛ The Slack desktop app isn’t available on Chrome OS, and the Android app isn’t supported either. However, there is a workaround available. # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ apt_vs._apt-get:_What’s_the_Difference_on Linux?⠀⇛ Why do Debian-based Linux distributions have apt as well as apt-get? Did apt replace apt-get or do they have different purposes? We explain the relationship between these two commands. [...] This is no small undertaking. Even putting the software engineering to one side, hosting the software repositories takes time, effort, and expense. That’s one of the reasons so many “new” Linux distributions are derivations of an existing Linux distribution. This leads to families or genealogies of Linux distributions, such as the Debian-based distributions, the Red Hat-based distributions, the Arch-based distributions, and so on. The Debian family of distributions—including Ubuntu and all the Ubuntu-derived distributions—uses the Debian Package Manager. This uses package files with the “.deb” file extension, referred to as DEB files. DEB files are compressed files containing other archive files. The archive files contain the application’s executable files, man pages, libraries, and so on. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Switch_Python_Versions_on_Ubuntu_20.04_– RoseHosting⠀⇛ This tutorial is about installing and switching between different Python versions on Ubuntu 20.04. Using multiple Python versions on your server is a very good choice especially when you have multiple Python applications and you need to test them one by one. Of course, every Python application can run on a different Python version depending on the developer’s choice. It is recommended for the developers or system administrators to use virtual environments for every newly deployed Python application. This is the main purpose of the tutorial, to have multiple Python versions on a single system and have choices before creating the virtual environments or changing the default Python version. In the next steps, first we are going to install the default Python version in Ubuntu 20.04, and then lower Python versions. Once we install multiple Python versions, we are going to explain the process of switching them. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Anaconda_on_AlmaLinux_8_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Anaconda on AlmaLinux 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Anaconda is an open-source package manager and distribution of Python. It is designed for machine learning and data science and comprises several open-source packages. Anaconda can be installed on all popular operating systems including Windows, Linux, and macOS. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Anaconda Python on AlmaLinux 8. You can follow the same instructions for Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, and Rocky Linux distributions. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_yay_on_Arch_Linux⠀⇛ Pacman is a powerful package manager that ships as the default on Arch-based distros, but it lacks the functionality of downloading packages from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The AUR is a community- maintained repository providing thousands of third- party packages in the form of installation scripts, also known as PKGBUILDs. To install packages using these PKGBUILDs, we require an AUR helper like yay. yay doesn’t come preinstalled on Arch Linux and isn’t available in the official Arch repositories either. So how do you install yay to download packages from the AUR on your Arch desktop? Let’s find out. # ⚓ Network World ☛ Creating_a_quick_calculation_function_on Linux⠀⇛ Anytime you’re planning to do a lot of calculations on a Linux system, you can use the power of bash to create a quick function and then use it repeatedly to do the calculations for you. In this post, we’ll look at how this trick works and what you need to be aware of to ensure that your calculations are correct. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Looks_like_the_Steam_Deck_will_get_Refresh Rate_Switching_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Valve continue to cook up plans for more exciting upgrades to the Steam Deck, with Refresh Rate Switching looking like it’s on the way. Not ready quite yet with work to do but the idea is great. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_was_the_Steam_top_seller_for_the week_ending_April_17_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Even more supporting evidence towards the Steam Deck being a nice success for Valve, with SteamDB reporting that the Steam Deck was the #1 top seller last week. Their list goes by revenue, so it’s not a huge surprise considering the price of the Steam Deck, however it’s going up against the likes of Elden Ring which has sold over ten million copies (and lots of those were on PC), as The Verge reported. Not only that though, it’s also fighting the Valve Index, which is in the top 10 for last week as well and costs quite a bit more — so it really is a show of early strength for Valve’s newest hardware. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Wine_manager_app_Bottles_adds_a_new_Library mode,_vkBasalt_support_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Bottles continues to mature as a way to manage installing applications and games with the compatibility layer Wine. A fresh release is out now showing off some UI improvements and new features. Version 2022.4.14 adds in a new loading screen, as the startup can take a few seconds so it’s just a nice bit of initial polishing for the user experience. Another experimental feature also made its way in with the new Library Mode view. The idea with this Library, is to pull together your various programs into one place for easy launching… # ⚓ Phoronix ☛ SDL2_Reverts_Its_Wayland_Preference_–_Goes_Back To_X11_Default_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Back in January was the change pushed into SDL2 Git where the library prefers Wayland by default where available rather than defaulting to using X11 support. However, pushed today into SDL2 is a revert on that earlier change due to Wayland issues that the developers are more comfortable sticking to X11/XWayland by default until various Wayland problems are addressed. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ MakeTech Easier ☛ What_is_Artix_Linux_and_How_to_Install It⠀⇛  Artix Linux is a fast and easy to use Arch Linux- based distribution. It started as a version of Arch Linux without SystemD around 2017. Since then, it has grown to be a distribution that aims to create an Arch Linux environment that promotes package simplicity and security. One of the main selling points of Artix is that it maintains a version of Arch Linux without SystemD. Similar to Devuan, this means that Artix does not include software and kernel configurations that are associated with the SystemD init system. This, in turn, reduces the amount of programs that you install and run in your computer. Another selling point for Artix is that it treats alternative init systems as first-class citizens. This means that, unlike Arch, Artix provides you with the choice of picking the init system that you want for your computer. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Network_outage_next_Thursday,_April_21st_–_openSUSE admin_–_openSUSE_Project_Management_Tool⠀⇛ SUSE-IT plans a replacement of some network equipment in the Nuremberg Datacenter next Thursday (2022-04-21), between 4PM to 5PM CEST. Actual downtime is planned to be up to 15 minutes. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Linux_Mint_Releases_LMDE_Upgrade_Tool for_Beta_Testing⠀⇛ On Monday, Linux Mint announced that it has released a beta version of a new Linux Mint Debian Edition upgrade tool that can be used to upgrade LMDE 4 to LMDE 5. The tool is available through the Mint repository by running apt install mintupgrade after refreshing your cache (apt update). The blog announcing the availability says that the tool ships with a graphical user interface, but is launched from the command line by running sudo mintupgrade. After running the software and successfully upgrading your system, remove the tool and reboot your computer by running apt remove mintupgrade followed by sudo reboot. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_Upgrade_Tool_(mintupgrade)_Beta_Released. Here’s_How_to_Try⠀⇛ Details about Linux Mint Upgrade Utility (mintupgrade), its feature and how to install and try. # ⚓ Lior_Kaplan,_Mossad_&_Debian⠀⇛ A talented IT professional like Kaplan is probably not expected to put on a uniform and carry a gun. During the periods when he is unavailable it is more likely that professionals like Kaplan are asked to assist with signals intelligence and cyber war. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_731⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ubuntu_Fridge_|_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_731⠀⇛ Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 731 for the week of April 10 – 16, 2022. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Experiment_with_’80s_graphics_using_this breadboard_setup⠀⇛ Before standardized video cards came along, computer and video game console designers utilized video chips. Those simplified the design process and offloaded much of the work from the processor. Those video chips had hardcoded graphical building blocks and handled video generation. One of the most popular was the Texas Instruments TMS9918 used in the ColecoVision, TI-99/4, and MSX computers. This write-up from Doctor Volt will walk you through how to use an Arduino Nano to output graphics from the TMS9918. You can follow this tutorial with just a breadboard, a TMS9918 VDP (video display processor), and a handful of compatible DRAM (or SRAM with D-flops) chips. The Arduino board acts as the rest of the computer in this setup. If you wanted to create a video game console, for example, the Nano would handle all the game’s logic. It would then tell the TMS9918 what graphics to display on the screen. The Nano controls the TMS9918 video the RAM chips, where it writes bytes that describe the onscreen content. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ Free_Fire_vs_COD_Mobile:_Which_game_is better_for_Android_devices_in_2022?⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Today ☛ These_Redmi,_Xiaomi_and_Poco smartphones_are_likely_to_get_Android_13_update_– Technology_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_13_to_bring_spatial_audio_with_head_tracking |_NextPit⠀⇛ # ⚓ Motorola_Android_12_update_roll_out_tracker_[Cont. updated]⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_A12_Android_12_update could_be_coming_soon_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Motorola_Moto_G50_Is_Now_Getting Android_12_As_Well⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ Xiaomi_12_Pro_review:_ultra-fast- charging_Android_phone_|_Xiaomi_|_The_Guardian⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Verizon_LG_Velvet_receives_Android_12,_other carrier_versions_still_waiting⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Xiaomi_Pad_5_Android_tablet_to_launch in_India_on_April_27_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Poll:_Should_Android’s_mic_toggle_exempt on-device_features?_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_A53_vs._Google_Pixel_5a: What’s_the_best_Android_phone_under_$500?_|_Tom’s Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_sports_game_on_Android_in 2022⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Built In ☛ How_the_Free_Software_Movement_Will_Build_a Better_Future_|_Built_In⠀⇛ Richard Stallman launched the free-software movement 35 years ago to ensure that users have the freedom to (1) run, (2) edit, (3) contribute to, and (4) share software. According to lore, in his frustration with a bug in some printer software, he conceived of these four principles of software freedom. The Free Software Foundation has supported and promoted these principles through the invention of licenses (e.g., the General Public License), the development of software, (e.g., emacs and the Gnome desktop), and evangelism through conferences, publications, and seminars. Perhaps the place where open-source software most directly touches the public is in the realm of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee, its inventor, convinced his management at CERN to let him release his protocol under a free-software license (previous protocols were proprietary), and Marc Andreessen released the first graphical web browser, Mosaic, under a free-software license. Mosaic incorporated a feature, “view source,” that let any user see the source code of the page they were viewing, bringing an unprecedented level of transparency to computing and leading to the rapid adoption of Web 1.0. Because contributions to free-software projects are by definition unrestricted, it is not surprising that a decentralized, global community of developers have fueled its growth. The distributed nature of this community exposed the need for tools for distributed software development, which is one reason for the popularity of productivity tools such as “Git.” During the Covid pandemic, the commercial software world adopted the remote collaboration frameworks that have been used by the free-software community for decades. # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_PostgreSQL_JDBC_42.3.4 Released⠀⇛ The PGJDBC team is proud to announce release 42.3.4 of the JDBC driver for PostgreSQL This release is a maintenance release with some issues resolved details can be found in the changelog The team would like to thank all that contributed. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_pg_partman_4.6.1_released⠀⇛ PostgreSQL Partition Manager (pg_partman) v4.6.1 has been released. IMPORTANT REQUEST: A topic has been opened on the github page to discuss the future development of pg_partman and support for trigger-based partitioning. A plan is currently in place to begin dropping trigger- based support upon the EOL for PostgreSQL 10 on November 10, 2022. Feedback is requested for use-cases that could potentially change these plans and continue supporting trigger- based partitioning until native partitioning better supports them. # § FSF⠀➾ # § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ 10_years_of_stories_behind_Guix_— GNU Guix⠀⇛ It’s been ten years today since the very first commit to what was already called Guix—the unimaginative name is a homage to Guile and Nix, which Guix started by blending together. On April 18th, 2012, there was very little to see and no actual “project”. The project formed in the following months and became a collective adventure around a shared vision. Ten years later, it’s amazing to see what more than 600 people achieved, with 94K commits, countless hours of translation, system administration, web design work, and no less than 175 blog posts to share our enthusiasm at each major milestone. It’s been quite a ride! What follows is a series of personal accounts by some of the contributors who offered their time and energy and made it all possible. Read their stories and perhaps you too will be inspired to join all the nice folks on this journey? # ⚓ LWN ☛ 10_years_of_stories_behind_Guix_(Guix blog)_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Over on the blog for the GNU Guix project, which is a “transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that respects user freedom”, the project reflects on its ten-year journey. The post consists of personal accounts from around two dozen contributors about the project, its history, and its community. # ⚓ GNU ☛ parted-3.5_released_[stable]⠀⇛ I have released parted v3.5, the only change from the previous alpha was updating gnulib to the current version. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNU_Parted_3.5_Released_with Support_for_the_Linux_“Home”_GUID,_Bug_Fixes⠀⇛ GNU Parted 3.5 is here to introduce support for the Linux /home GUID using linux-home flag, support for partition names to be an empty string when they are set in –script mode, as well as support for using the swap partition flag on disks labeled as MSDOS. GNU Parted 3.5 also adds a new –fix option to the –script mode to automatically fix various problems and adds a –json command-line switch that can be used to output the details of the disk in the JSON file format. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Git_v2.36.0⠀⇛ The latest feature release Git v2.36.0 is now available at the usual places. It is comprised of 717 non- merge commits since v2.35.0, contributed by 96 people, 26 of which are new faces [*]. This release contains the same fixes as the recent maintenance releases to address CVE-2022-24765 as well. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Please_welcome_Thom_and_Chris_to_Library Contributors⠀⇛ Please welcome Thom Chiovoloni and Chris Denton to the Library Contributors group! Thom has been working on various improvements to the implementation of the standard library, such as optimizing io::Error, optimizing Chars::count, and has been helping out with reviewing various implementation changes. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ TPMS_sensor_replacement_in_the_Buick.⠀⇛ Before COVID, they were a full service shop, but you could buy parts there too, and after COVID, the store outside the shop is empty of retail stuff and they just want to service your car, for twice what the dealer rates are! Again, HOW? o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Network World ☛ Microsoft_shifts SONiC_development_to_the_Linux Foundation [Ed: Linux Foundation works for Microsoft, also on openwashing; while Microsoft engages in very serious crimes Zemlin compares Microsoft critics to people who kick puppies]⠀⇛ The enhancement and adoption of SONiC, the open-source network operating system, could accelerate now that its development has been given over to the the Linux Foundation, experts say. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ eSecurity Planet ☛ Top_10_Open_Source Vulnerability_Assessment_Tools⠀⇛ Unlike penetration tests, vulnerability tests do not consist of performing real attacks. However, they’re no less valuable, as they can spot vulnerabilities missed by a penetration test and provide a baseline for comparison. In addition, vulnerability tests allow IT teams to identify weaknesses before they become an actual problem. The goal is not to be stealthy but to assess risks from the inside, like how hackers would deploy their attack after breaking into a network. That’s why vulnerability tests involve both passive and active scans. Vulnerability assessment tools usually scan applications for known vulnerabilities. It should be noted that many pentesting solutions also include advanced scanners, so they can be used for vulnerability assessment too. While there are premium products, organizations often leverage the benefits of robust open-source technologies to save money. Some of the tools we’ll see in this top 10 list are bundled in Kali Linux, a super-charged security distribution that can run both pentests and vulnerability tests. Kali Linux can save a lot of time and remove the hassle of installing each tool separately. # ⚓ Security_Bulletin_30_Mar_2022⠀⇛ SingCERT’s Security Bulletin summarises the list of vulnerabilities collated from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. # ⚓ USCERT ☛ North_Korean_State-Sponsored_APT Targets_Blockchain_Companies⠀⇛ CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the U.S. Treasury Department have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) that details cyber threats associated with cryptocurrency thefts and tactics used by a North Korean state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as the Lazarus Group. # ⚓ Istio_/_Announcing_Istio_1.13.3⠀⇛ This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness and some additional configuration support. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.13.2 and 1.13.3. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Russian_Hackers_Tried_Attacking Ukraine’s_Power_Grid_with_Industroyer2_Malware⠀⇛ “The Sandworm attackers made an attempt to deploy the Industroyer2 malware against high-voltage electrical substations in Ukraine,” ESET explained. “In addition to Industroyer2, Sandworm used several destructive malware families including CaddyWiper, OrcShred, SoloShred, and AwfulShred.” # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ Mobile_MitM:_Intercepting_your Android_App_Traffic_On_the_Go⠀⇛ In order to audit the privacy and security practices of the apps we use on a daily basis, we need to be able to inspect the network traffic they are sending. An app asking for permission to your location may only use it to send it to your friends, or it may be tracking your every move. Without knowing exactly what traffic is being sent, you’d never know. Traditionally, this has been the job of dynamic analysis – running the app and capturing traffic as the user interacts with it. A typical setup might involve a test device where the app runs, connected to a wireless access point running mitmproxy, Burp Suite or something similarly tasked with recording traffic. An additional control laptop might be added to the mix, which is connected to the test device via USB, to run adb commands on the device or overload Java methods using the dynamic instrumentation toolkit Frida. HTTPS traffic can be intercepted in this way by overloading the app calls to Java’s TrustManager and providing our own, which accepts the proxy certificates that we provide. In combination, this device schema provides a powerful setup to analyze traffic in a stationary, controlled setting. But what if we don’t have the luxury of a testing lab? What if the app behavior changes based on your location, or interaction with the outside world? For instance, if you use an app to rent a car or unlock a door to a shared workplace, the real-time behavior of the app will be different from what you can replicate in a lab. For these kinds of complex interactions, a roaming Machine-in-the-Middle (MitM) schema is needed. In fact, all three components of the previous schema (test device, interceptor, and control device) will need to be consolidated into a single device running the software required for all three components. If the app being audited is a form of disciplinary technology – that is, a surveillance app that one person installs on the device of another person – then the auditor will also need to surreptitiously capture traffic being sent by the app, which may pose additional testing complications. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ New Republic ☛ 10_People_You’ve_Never_Heard_of_Who_Are Destroying_Democracy_|_The_New_Republic⠀⇛ They’re sowing disruption and disinformation, and they have their eyes on 2024. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ IP_Edge_entity_Invincible_IP’s_patent_likely invalid_—_Unified_Patents⠀⇛ On April 15, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 9,678,774, owned and asserted by Invincible IP LLC, an IP Edge entity. The ’774 patent relates to allowing or denying migration of virtual machines based on the geographic location of the target host. It has been asserted against Citrix Systems, Nutanix, Alibaba Cloud US, DigitalOcean, NetApp, and Skytap in the District of Delaware. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1459 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.18.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_17/04/2022:_Linux_5.18_RC3_and_postmarketOS_21.12_Service_Pack_4⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_April_17th,_2022⠀⇛  This week has been very slow in Linux news due to the Easter holidays, but sometimes we need to relax a bit and enjoy some family time. Being Easter and all that, this week brought us new Linux hardware from Star Labs, in the form of an all-AMD mini PC and an AMD Ryzen 7-powered StarBook Mk V laptop, as well as a new Ubuntu-powered laptop from Lambda and Razor for deep learning. On top of that, the PeaZip open-source archiving utility gets a new release, the LXQt 1.1 lightweight desktop environment brings more features and a new theme, and the Linux kernel 5.16 series reaches EOL (end-of-life). You can enjoy this and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for April 17th, 2022, below! o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#178⠀⇛ Welcome to this week’s Linux Weekly Roundup. We had a wonderful week in the world of Linux Releases with the releases of EndeavourOS 22.1, SparkyLinux 2022.04, Bluestar Linux 5.17.2, and Manjaro 21.2.6. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Hot Hardware ☛ Razer_And_Lambda’s_Tensorbook_Is_A_Sexy Linux_Laptop_With_Deep_Learning_Chops_|_HotHardware⠀⇛ # ⚓ Razer’s_First_Linux_Laptop_Called_‘Sexy’_–_But_It’s_Not_for Gamers_–_Slashdot⠀⇛ A headline at Hot Hardware calls it “a sexy Linux laptop with deep learning chops… being pitched as the world’s most powerful laptop for machine learning workloads.” # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Chrome_OS_Flex_installation_and_hands-on: Not_for_the_faint_of_heart⠀⇛ Chrome OS Flex is here, and it can turn any old Mac or PC into a Chromebook. There’s just been one burning question that has been floating around since its announcement: can you use Chrome OS Flex to bring old Chromebooks back to life? The short answer is yes. The longer answer is yes, but it’s complicated. It might not work and Google won’t provide any support. One of Chromebooks’ Achilles’ heels is how long they receive updates. After a certain period of time, they reach what is known as the “Auto Update Expiration” (AUE) date, and updates are no longer provided (feature, security, or otherwise). Devices used reach AUE in as little as five years. In 2020, Google announced that some Chromebooks would be eligible for nine years of updates. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Solaris_Might_Be_Free_If_You_Want_It_| Hackaday⠀⇛ There was a time when “real” engineering workstations ran Linux Unix. Apollo and Sun were big names and Sun’s version was Solaris. Solaris has been an iffy proposition since Oracle acquired Sun, but Oracle announced last month that you can download and use Solaris 11.4 CBE free for non- production use. Do you care? If you ever wanted to run “real” Unix this is an option although, honestly, so is Free BSD and it probably has better community support. On the other hand, since you can virtualize a machine to spin up, it might be worth a little time to install it. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Essential_Linux_Commands_–_uname,_hostname, basename,_dirname_&_logname_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I discuss five incredibly useful command line utilities: uname, hostname, basename, dirname and logname. All of these programs are part of the GNU core utilities that are installed on every GNU/Linux distribution. You will find these utilities useful, not only as command line programs, but also in scripting. # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ This_Week_in_Linux_194:_LXQt,_SUSE’s_Next-Gen OS,_MX_Linux,_OpenSSH,_OpenRazer,_Bitwig,_StarLabs_and_more Linux_news!_–_TuxDigital⠀⇛ On this episode of This Week in Linux: LXQt 1.1.0, Next-Gen of SUSE Linux Enterprise, MX Linux 21.1, OpenRazer 3.3, Razer + Lambda Tensorbook Laptop, StarLabs StarBook with AMD, StarLabs Byte Mini PC, Bitwig Studio Goes Rent-to-Own, Zettlr 2.2.5, OpenSSH 9.0. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! # ⚓ Video ☛ Calculate_Exchange_Rates_In_The_Terminal_With_ForX –_Invidious⠀⇛ Sometimes I need to convert some currencies but I don’t want to have to go to my web browser luckily though tools like Forx exist to help me do exactly what I need for both fiat and cryptocurrencies. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_5.18-rc3⠀⇛ It's Sunday afternoon, and you all know what that means. It's time for another release candidate. (Yes, yes, it's also Easter Sunday, but priorities, people!) Things continue to look quite regular, although the diffstat may look a bit odd due to some email updates that ended up causing a lot of spread-out one-liner updates in the devicetree files. There's also a series to sound card probing error handling fixes ("Fix the missing snd_card_free() call at probe error") which ends up showing as a lot of few-lines across a number of sound drivers. But it all looks pretty small and fairly simple. Famous last words. Please do test, Linus o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_upgrade_from_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_to_22.04 LTS⠀⇛ buntu 22.04 LTS (“Jammy Jellyfish”) will release next week. This tutorial explains how to safely upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using the command-line and GUI options. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Minetest_on_Debian_11_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install Minetest on Debian 11. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Apache_ZooKeeper_on_Ubuntu_20.04 LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache ZooKeeper on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, ZooKeeper is a software project by Apache Software Foundation that provides high-performance shared data, maintaining configuration information, naming, providing synchronization, and providing group services. In addition, distributed systems rely on ZooKeeper to implement consensus, leader election, and group management. 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 Apache ZooKeeper on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Obsidian_on_a_Chromebook –_Updated_Tutorial⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Obsidian on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. If you have any questions, please contact us via a YouTube comment and we would be happy to assist you! # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_install_Go_[golang]_on_Ubuntu_Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ VirtualBox is a free and open-source virtualization tool for desktop and servers. It allows the users to run multiple virtual machines of different operating system at the same time. It is a type 2 hypervisor for x86 virtualization. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Jupyter_Notebook_on_Ubuntu_20.04 LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Jupyter Notebook is a powerful and open-source tool for the documentation of data and scientific analysis. This tool can be used with several programming languages, including Python, Julia, Ruby, and much more. It is often used for working with data, statistical modeling, and machine learning. 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 Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Teams_on_Manjaro_Linux [Ed: This is malware]⠀⇛ For many companies, the use of Microsoft Teams is vital. Before we had to use it only on Windows, but thanks to Microsoft’s openness we can now easily install it on Linux distributions. Today, you will learn how to install Microsoft Teams on Manjaro Linux. # ⚓ Install,_Configure,_and_Scan_for_Viruses_on_Linux_with ClamAV_–_Putorius⠀⇛ Many beleive you do not need an antivirus if you use Linux. I am not going to start that debate here. However, in my opinion it is always better to have one and not need it, than to need one and not have it. In this tutorial we are going to show you how to install, configure, and scan for viruses on Linux with ClamAV. ClamAV is a fully open source antimalware toolkit. It is available for almost any operating system, including Windows (ClamWin). # ⚓ Install_KVM_on_Ubuntu_Jammy_Jellyfish_(Development branch)⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_list_and_attach_Tmux_sessions_|_FOSS_Linux⠀⇛ Tmux is a Linux software that allows you to multitask between terminal windows. It is an abbreviation for Terminal Multiplexing, based on the notion of sessions. Tmux is a terminal multiplexer that can replace the GNU screen. You can create a Tmux session and then launch many windows within it. Each window occupies the entire screen and is separated into rectangular panes. Tmux allows for simple switching between many apps on a single terminal and detaching and reattaching them to a different terminal. Tmux enables the establishment of persistent terminal sessions even when the SSH connection or the current terminal is closed. Tmux sessions can be continued in the background and subsequently listed and used again. We will cover how to list and attach Tmux sessions in this tutorial. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Ntopng_on_AlmaLinux_8_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ntopng on AlmaLinux 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Ntopng is a free, open-source software network monitoring solution based on commodity hardware. The main difference between ntopng and a traffic collector, is that ntopng not only reports traffic statistics but it also analyzes the traffic, draws conclusions on observed traffic type, and reports cybersecurity metrics. It is Cross-platform and runs on every Unix platform, macOS, and Windows. 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 Ntopng network monitor on an AlmaLinux 8. You can follow the same instructions for Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, and Rocky Linux distributions. # ⚓ Setting_Up_a_VPS_With_Ubuntu_22.04_–_ThisHosting.Rocks⠀⇛ A VPS, or “Virtual Private Server,” can be an excellent choice for hosting your website. It will allow you to use a server without incurring the costs of purchasing your dedicated server and maintenance contracts. This article is going to teach you how to set up a VPS with Ubuntu 22.04, including setting up SSH key-based authentication, a firewall, timezone, updating Ubuntu 22.04, and creating swap space and remote desktop via VNC. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Enable_Syntax_Highlighting_in_Vim⠀⇛ When you have to edit multiple files in Vim from your terminal, it is nice to have the syntax of the file contents to be highlighted. To enable syntax highlighting in Vim while you are using it, enter the normal mode using Esc key and then type: :syntax on That’s easy, right? Let me provide more details on how it works and how you can make this change permanent. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Metroid_Prime_Trilogy:_A_Great_Fit_for_the Steam_Deck_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ Turns out that for a few use cases, the Steam Deck might actually be the best handheld out there to play Nintendo games. A Steam Deck owner on Twitter has shown how the Deck controls are ideally suited to support the Metroid Prime Trilogy. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ LXQt_1.1_Desktop_Environment_Is_Here_Based_on the_Qt_5.15⠀⇛ LXQt is a free, open-source, lightweight, and user- friendly desktop environment built using the Qt libraries. Users looking for extreme performance in a desktop environment should consider LXQt. It is an excellent choice if you require a low-resource, nearly fully-featured desktop environment. The LXQt desktop environment consists of many small individual components like a panel program, session manager, hotkey daemon, and more. It was formed as a merger between the LXDE and Razor-Qt desktop environments. Here’s the project’s website. And now, the LXQt project has announced the release of LXQt 1.1. The following section briefly explains the most visible changes in the LXQt 1.1 release. # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ FreeGEM/XM_—_The_open_source_version_of_the unreleased,_multi-tasking_GEM⠀⇛ In 1986, a project called “GEM/XM” was started within Digital Research. The idea was to bring multitasking to the GEM environment. (Which, up until then, had been strictly a “one application at a time” system… much like the Mac System Software of the day.) Unfortunately, GEM/XM never made it to market. Luckily, we now have the source code for it (under the GPL, thanks to the source being licensed that way and released by Caldera Thin Clients back in 1999). # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Caolán_McNamara:_GTK:_Calling_attention_to_a_widget in_LibreOffice_with_CSS_animation⠀⇛ The motivation here is Use attention- attracting cue when pressing Ctrl+F while in the find bar and do “something” to call attention to the widget. I thought I’d try some of the built-in GTK CSS support. So here we animate the widget to reduce its left and right margins inwards a little and its opacity to 50% before returning to its original properties. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ antiX⠀⇛ After decades of Ubuntu use, I’ve replaced my desktop OS with antiX. It’s a minimal Debian system without systemd. Boots to desktop in about 5 seconds and uses only 150Mb of RAM. It’s a simple system that I can get my head around easily and administer without unlearning and relearning things all the time like I had to with Ubuntu. It feels fast and efficient, and looks good too. For similar reasons, on the server side, I’m moving from Ubuntu to OpenBSD where I can. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ “Long_term_support”_Unixes_and_versions_of software_in_them⠀⇛ The problem that all Unix distributions face sooner or later is that the people using them generally want the platonic ideal version of semantic versioning minor releases, namely updates that only fix bugs and improve things and never introduce backward compatibility problems or undesired changes. Apart from other problems with semantic versioning, the reality of life is that almost no modern open source project works this way for very long, including languages. Rust has stopped accepting cargo.toml files that it used to (cf), Go has significantly changed how the toolchain worked (cf), and even C compilers have broken compilation of existing things by adding new warnings (cf). # ⚓ Neritam ☛ Milky_Way_V0.4_Release⠀⇛ After a long and continuous period of tests and development, we are happy to announce a new release of Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre. With version 0.4, we have reached yet another major milestone: With it Hyperbola will be able to start the groundworks, per say of HyperbolaBSD. This release will serve as a transitional platform, for the continued effort to create a copyleft BSD based alternative kernel and system. For more information on this check. # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Ubuntu_market-share_is_in_a_nosedive_(and that’s_ok)⠀⇛ While Ubuntu technically came into existence during 2004… it was barely a blip on the radar. By the very next year, 2005, Ubuntu had swooped in and claimed title of “most popular Linux distribution” — absolutely obliterating any competition. The entire Linux ecosystem shifted, in a dramatic way, in less than 12 months. # ⚓ [Old] Kim Kommando ☛ This_alternative_operating_system_is easier_than_Windows_and_Apple⠀⇛ For the technologically inclined, trying out new operating systems can be an adventure. The rest of us, however, figure we have two choices: Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS because that’s what comes installed on our computers. But there’s a little secret that about 2 percent of the population has known about for a couple decades (according to NetMarketshare): The open-source operating system called Linux, which isn’t new — it’s been around since 1991 — has a new version that has techies abuzz. And, yes, it works on both PCs and Macs. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Ubuntu_22.04_Finally_Supports Remote_Desktop_Control_via_MS_RDP_Protocol⠀⇛ As you may know, GNOME 42 adopted Microsoft RDP protocol for its built-in remote desktop feature. Ubuntu 22.04 Beta previously excluded it because of the bug due to mixed Gnome-control-center and Gnome-remote-desktop versions. In recent updates, this feature is finally back. Users may now easily remote access to Ubuntu 22.04 desktop with the more secure and MS Windows friendly protocol. # ⚓ Ubuntu_Kylin_22.04_LTS_–_New_Features_and_Release Details⠀⇛ A list of new features of the beautiful Ubuntu Kylin 22.04 LTS with additional information. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Pine_Phone_Pro⠀⇛ After waiting for months I finally got my hands on the Pine Phone Pro. Was it worth the money? Obviously, it depends on what you expect out of this device. Instead of thinking of it like a phone, it’s better to think of it like a Linux computer that just happens to be in a mobile form factor. In other words, it fits in your pocket and has touchscreen input. It also just so happens to do phone calls, SMS, and connect to mobile data. The phone is big and possibly overpowered. The battery doesn’t last too long. The Pro is also not really fit for use out of the box. It ships with some OS pre-installed, but by the time you get it it’s already outdated. And really, it doesn’t work. I went into this device with the patience of someone who understands that this is a hobby project. Even being mentally prepared for it, it’s frustrating to have a device that doesn’t work out of the box. It sat unused on my desk for a week before I started learning what I’m supposed to do with it. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ KiCAD_Plugin_Gives_Your_PCBs_That_Handmade Look⠀⇛ The first PCBs we built involved a draftsman laying out large pieces of tape. The finished artwork would be photographically reduced to produce the board. This solved a few problems. It was easier to work on the large pieces and any errors were reduced by the scale amount. Boards from this era have a distinct appearance because the tracks are generally curved. But when computer-aided drafting took over, the early packages couldn’t deal with wavy lines making all sorts of angles. So traces started appearing at very common angles like 45 degrees or 90 degrees only. If you use KiCAD, though, there’s no reason to have rectilinear traces. Now there is a plugin to help make your boards appear like old-fashioned circuit boards. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Android_12L_custom_ROMs_are_here_from Descendant_and_Pixel_Experience⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ List_of_Xiaomi,_Redmi_and_POCO_devices that_will_update_to_Android_13⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ OnePlus_8_series_new_patch_fixes_issues from_previous_Android_12-based_Oxygen_OS_update_– PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Good E Reader ☛ First_Look_at_the_Bigme_Pocket_Note 7-inch_Android_e-note_–_Good_e-Reader⠀⇛ # ⚓ Forget_chocolate_eggs_–_hunt_for_these_Android_Easter eggs_instead⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_DeX_needs_alternatives_for_complete_Android desktop_experience⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_install_Netflix_mobile_games on_your_Android_device⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Put_a_Shortcut_to_Your_Selfie_or Video_Camera_on_Your_Android_Home_Screen⠀⇛ # ⚓ Express ☛ Samsung’s_new_budget_Android_phone_is_good but_latest_deal_makes_buying_it_even_better_| Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ This_4-year-old_Samsung_Galaxy phone_still_gets_monthly_Android_security_updates_| Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ LG_Velvet_Android_12_Update_Is_Missing_One_Important Feature⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ Xiaomi_12_Pro_review:_ultra-fast- charging_Android_phone_|_Xiaomi_|_The_Guardian⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Unblock_a_Number_on_Android_–_TechPP⠀⇛ # ⚓ postmarketOS_//_v21.12_Service_Pack_4⠀⇛ Look what the easter bunny dragged in, the fourth service pack for the v21.12 stable release. # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_postmarketOS_on_the PinePhone⠀⇛ In some ways I feel as though postmarketOS is the best of the three mobile operating systems I’ve tried so far on the PinePhone. It has a friendly and slick installer, it offers three user interfaces, and it has a nice welcome screen with helpful tips. The Phosh interface running on postmarketOS is probably the closest of the three to more mainstream mobile experiences, such as Android. The icons, top panel, and Settings app all seem fairly close to their Android counterparts. The names of pre-installed programs are some of the most clear as far as determining their utility – a problem I regularly faced when navigating the Plasma Mobile interface. The performance of postmarketOS was the best of the three and the interface is fairly responsive. Considering the limited hardware of the PinePhone this is probably as good as one can hope for. It’s not snappy compared to a medium-level phone running Android, but it’s better than most other alternatives. I also like that while Phosh provides a fairly familiar mobile interface, postmarketOS stays close to its roots behind the scenes. It’s entirely possible to run postmarketOS on the PinePhone similar to how we would run Raspberry Pi OS on the Raspberry Pi. We have all the tools we need from the Alpine base to install packages and enable services should we wish to do so. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Top_Apache_projects_in_2021:_From_Superset,_to_NuttX⠀⇛ If you’ve moved up the food chain as a digital leader, it can be hard to keep abreast of what’s enthusing other technologists until someone starts chewing your ear about serverless* or NFTs**. A peak at some of the most active open-source projects is a good way to see what’s occupying some of the world’s developers; many of the most active projects were also spawned at digital-native companies with a track record of innovation. # § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] How_I_do_my_computing_on_GNU/Linux⠀⇛ The flexible/tinker-able nature of GNU+Linux is one of the reasons I use this over Windows, iOS or MacOS. Heard about Android? Android is based on Linux. It can be installed in a way without Google services and I recommend you to’degoogle’ your phone. # § FSF⠀➾ # § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ Unifont_14.0.03_Released⠀⇛ 17 April 2022 Unifont 14.0.03 is now available. This release adds the new hex2otf program, which can convert Unifont .hex format files into OpenType fonts, as well as TrueType and other formats. See the hex2otf documentation for details. The font files just add several new Under ConScript Unicode Registry (UCSUR) scripts: Xaîni (U+E2D0..U+E2FF), Ophidian (U+E5E0..U+E5FF), Niji (U+ED40..U+ED5F), Sitelen Pona (U+F1900..U+F19FF), and Shidann (U+F1B00..U+F1C3F). # ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Mailutils_–_News:_Version_3.15_ [Savannah]⠀⇛ Version 3.15 is released today. New in this version: mbox format: don’t count terminating empty line as part of the message Improve performance of the Sieve fileinto action Improve efficiency of operations on flat mailboxes in append mode Bugfixes in quoted-printable and fromrd filters Variois fixes in mbox and dotmail format libraries Fix compilation with flex version 2.6.1 # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Having_Fun_Writing_APIs_With_Glitch⠀⇛ So here I am, writing simple APIs for myself with Glitch: request, handler, response. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Keeping_Those_SSH_Keys_Safe⠀⇛ I threw together a small R package — {pubcheck} — to check local keys, keys in a character vector, and keys residing in GitHub. One function will even check the GitHub keys of all the GitHub users a given account is following: [...] # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Excellent_Free_Tutorials_to_Learn_Pony –_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Pony is an actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language. It’s object-oriented because it has classes and objects, like Python, Java, C++, and many other languages. By capabilities-secure we mean that the language is type safe, memory safe, exception-safe, data-race free, and deadlock- free. Pony is an ahead-of-time (AOT) compiled language. There is no interpreter nor virtual machine. It’s compatible with C. The language is published under the BSD 2- Clause “Simplified” License. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ TWC_160:_Mystic/Math_Balance_|_Bruce Gray_[blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ In which we pine for The Good Place, while visiting The Bad Place. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Coherence_and_crate-level_where-clauses⠀⇛ Rust has been wrestling with coherence more-or-less since we added methods; our current rule, the “orphan rule”, is safe but overly strict. Roughly speaking, the rule says that one can only implement foreign traits (that is, traits defined by one of your dependencies) for local types (that is, types that you define). The goal of this rule was to help foster the crates.io ecosystem — we wanted to ensure that you could grab any two crates and use them together, without worrying that they might define incompatible impls that can’t be combined. The rule has served us well in that respect, but over time we’ve seen that it can also have a kind of chilling effect, unintentionally working against successful composition of crates in the ecosystem. For this reason, I’ve come to believe that we will have to weaken the orphan rule. The purpose of this post is to write out some preliminary exploration of ways that we might do that. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Drill_Press_Piece_Fastening_101⠀⇛ What are the options you have for securing your workpiece to the drill press table? [Rex Krueger] shows us that there’s plenty, and you ought to know about them. He goes through the disadvantages of the usual C-clamps, and shows options like the regular drill press vice and a heavy-duty version that even provides a workpiece tilting mechanism, and points out small niceties like the V- grooves on the clamps helping work with round stock. For larger pieces, he recommends an underappreciated option — woodworkers’ wooden handscrew clamps, which pair surprisingly well with a drill press. Then, he talks about the hold-down drill press clamps, a favourite of his, especially when it comes to flat sheets of stock like sheet metal or plastic. o ⚓ I_Guess_I’m_Mr_Tea⠀⇛ Tea really is a great thing. When one speaks of self- reliance and homesteading my first thought is “I could never grow enough tea for my own consumption.” o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Measuring_Electromagnetic_Fields_With_Just_An Arduino_And_A_Piece_Of_Wire⠀⇛ Electromagnetic interference problems can be a real headache to debug. If you need to prove what causes your WiFi to slow down or your digital TV signal to drop, then the ability to measure electromagnetic fields (EMF) can be a big help. Professional equipment is often very expensive, but building an EMF detector yourself is not even that difficult: just take a look at Arduino expert [Mirko Pavleski]’s convenient hand-held electromagnetic field detector. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Laptop_USB-C_Charging_Hack_Lets_You_Leave_The Brick_At_Home⠀⇛ At their best, laptops are a compromise design. Manufacturers go to great lengths to make the slimmest, lightest, whatever-est laptops possible, and the engineering that goes into doing so is truly amazing. But then they throw in the charger, which ends up being a huge brick with wire attached to it, and call it a day. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_555_Gives_The_CarolinaCon_Badge_Life⠀⇛ For the electronic badge enthusiast, these last two years have seen something of a famine. While the pandemic may not be over yet, we’re learning to live with it in 2022, and there’s the prospect of a flush of new badges even if not all events are in- person yet. First to reach us is the Carolinacon Online 2 badge, a fairly simple affair which naturally has us pleased as punch because it incorporates the only chip that’s guaranteed to get you through the semiconductor shortage, an NE555 timer. It’s got everything, a flashing LED, and, well, that’s it because with the best will in the world a 555 is no powerhouse on its own. As a memento and a way to support the event it fits the bill, but it’s fair to say that this is no electronic tour de force. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Ontario_Premier_Ford_Plays_High- Stakes_Game_of_Vaccine_Poker⠀⇛ And the winner is … no, not Will Smith. Someone even less deserving – Tamara Lich and the folks from the trucker convoy. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ New_Apiary_Creating_Buzz_at Mississippi_State_University⠀⇛ To bring awareness to the insects’ importance and offer beekeeping classes and workshops, Mississippi State University constructed a new apiary, which will officially open in a few weeks. It will be housed at the Clay Lyle Entomology Complex as a partnership between MSU Extension Service and Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station. MAFES researcher Priya Chakrabarti Basu, who will be the primary teacher for beekeeping classes, said it will enhance bee research and teaching activities, while giving bees a permanent home at MSU. # ⚓ CBC ☛ I’m_a_radio_journalist_who_is_passionate_about_sound. Now_I’m_losing_my_hearing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Taiwan News ☛ Taiwan_bans_import_of_pesticide_tied_to neurological_harm_in_children⠀⇛ In addition to an entry ban for chlorpyrifos, the government is demanding that border control agencies combat smuggling of the hazardous chemical compound, which eradicates insects like mosquitos and cockroaches. It is also used in Taiwan’s agricultural and livestock sectors, with minimal residue limits of 2 ppm for beef, 0.01 ppm for dairy products, and 0.05 ppm for eggs. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_recover_Windows_files_using_Linux_Live_USB⠀⇛ You have a shiny new PC running Windows 10. It’s been using it for a while now, and everything is fine. Then, without any sign, the hard drive or SSD moves south. The problem is that you haven’t backed up to OneDrive, any other cloud storage service, or an external device. Sure, you can bring your device if it’s still under warranty and get a replacement, but the warranty won’t restore your files. so what are you doing? # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Doubts_over_mitigation_advice_for_Microsoft remotely_exploitable_flaw⠀⇛ The flaw in question, CVE-2022-26809, an RPC Runtime Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, was given a CVSS rating of 9.8 and required no user interaction to be exploited, meaning it was wormable. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ U.S._warns_newly_discovered malware_could_sabotage_energy_plants [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ That combination makes the discovery of the system, dubbed Pipedream by industrial control security experts Dragos, the realization of the worst fears of longtime cybersecurity experts. Some compared it to Stuxnet, which the United States and Israel used more than a dozen years ago to damage equipment used in Iran’s nuclear program. # ⚓ [Old] A_Census_of_Minecraft_Servers⠀⇛ I’m not a very patient person, so I knew that much of my time spent working on this project would be devoted towards making it go fast. I had actually built a primitive Minecraft server scanner using NodeJS about a year ago; however, trying to scale it up to whole- Internet scanning rates quickly ended up becoming a nightmare. I did end up scanning the entirety of 0.0.0.0/0 (even though it took five days); however, I accidentally deleted half the data in a stupid blunder which I will never forgive myself for, prompting me to fall into a deep depression. This time, I started by finding the fastest TCP port scanner available, which brought me to MASSCAN. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Oil_India_cyberattack:_IB_&_central cyber_security_agencies_join_probe [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Oil India cyberattack: IB & central cyber security agencies join probeDibrugarh: The Intelligence Bureau (IB) and country’s two leading cyber security agencies — Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) — have joined the probe into the ransomware attack on state-run explorer Oil India Limited’s (OIL) headquarters at Duliajan in upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district. # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ SDx Central ☛ Verizon_SDN Strategist_Sees_Big_Open_Source Savings_–_SDxCentral⠀⇛ Telecommunication operators and their vendors can save millions of dollars in testing and certification by using the numerous open source tools and platforms lying under the Linux Foundation umbrella, according to Beth Cohen, SDN product strategist at Verizon. More specifically, Cohen was referring to those projects under the Linux Foundation’s Networking group. Those projects include the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), Tungsten Fabric, and Anuket. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Episode_319_–_Patch_Tuesday_with_a_capital_T_– Open_Source_Security⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about a lot of security vulnerabilities in this month’s Patch Tuesday. There’s also a new Git vulnerability. This sparks the age old question of how fast to patch? The answer isn’t binary, the right answer is whatever works best for you, not what someone tells you is best. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Protocol ☛ [Reposted]_Top_House_lawmakers want_ID.me_to_turn_over_government_business records⠀⇛ Two top Democratic House lawmakers want ID.me to produce extensive records about its government business and accuracy following outrage about the IRS’ use of the company’s facial- recognition systems. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who chairs the Oversight Committee, issued the extensive requests in a letter with Rep. Jim Clyburn, who chairs a subcommittee on COVID-19 and is the No. 3 Democrat in the House. The letter said the two lawmakers’ panels had “serious concerns about the efficacy, privacy, and security of ID.me’s technology … being used to verify the identities of millions of Americans seeking to access essential government services.” The information requests, which were first reported by the Washington Post, come after backlash to the IRS’ plan to have Americans upload a selfie for verification by ID.me’s software before they could access tax information online. # ⚓ arXiv ☛ Are_You_Really_Muted?:_A_Privacy Analysis_of_Mute_Buttons_in_Video Conferencing_Apps⠀⇛ Video conferencing apps (VCAs) make it possible for previously private spaces — bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens — into semi- public extensions of the office. For the most part, users have accepted these apps in their personal space without much thought about the permission models that govern the use of their private data during meetings. While access to a device’s video camera is carefully controlled, little has been done to ensure the same level of privacy for accessing the microphone. In this work, we ask the question: what happens to the microphone data when a user clicks the mute button in a VCA? We first conduct a user study to analyze users’ understanding of the permission model of the mute button. Then, using runtime binary analysis tools, we trace raw audio flow in many popular VCAs as it traverses the app from the audio driver to the network. We find fragmented policies for dealing with microphone data among VCAs — some continuously monitor the microphone input during mute, and others do so periodically. One app transmits statistics of the audio to its telemetry servers while the app is muted. Using network traffic that we intercept en route to the telemetry server, we implement a proof-of-concept background activity classifier and demonstrate the feasibility of inferring the ongoing background activity during a meeting — cooking, cleaning, typing, etc. We achieved 81.9% macro accuracy on identifying six common background activities using intercepted outgoing telemetry packets when a user is muted. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ “One_less_traitor”:_Zelensky_oversees campaign_of_assassination,_kidnapping_and_torture_of political_opposition⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Average_US_Taxpayer_Gave_$900_to_Military Contractors_Last_Year⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ After_Undermining_International_Criminal_Court, US_Wants_It_to_Charge_Russians⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Military_and_Economic_Power_Once Again_Fail_to_Produce_Happiness⠀⇛ Although the rulers of the world’s major military and economic powers have repeatedly claimed that they are making their nations great again, their policies have not resulted in widespread happiness among their citizens. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Russia’s_Siege_on_Mariupol_Is_Leading_to_Mass Starvation,_UN_Official_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ I’m_sad_my_sisters_are_still_in_captivity,_says_rescued Chibok_girl_Grace_Dauda⠀⇛ The Bring Back Our Girls Movement, Lagos, Saturday, held its weekly sit-out at Falomo, Lagos, to commemorate the eight anniversary of the abduction of over 200 students of the Government College, Chibok, Borno State by the dreaded Boko Haram sect. One of the liberated girls, Grace Dauda, was there to share her experience. # ⚓ RTL ☛ Macron_clashes_with_Le_Pen_over_Islamic_headscarf ban⠀⇛ The debate also goes to the heart of candidates portraying themselves as champions of the French principle of secularism, where religion and state are separate. “The headscarf has been imposed by Islamists,” Le Pen told BFM TV in an interview on Friday describing it as a “uniform”. # ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ QAnon,_the_‘People’s_Convoy,’_and_Neo-Nazis Mingle_at_L.A._Anti-Vaxx_Rally⠀⇛ The rally had a full 6 hours worth of speakers — a mix of local anti-vaxxers with a few national figures — and I thought I was ready for it. But what I witnessed during those hours was one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen. I saw an unholy, dark alliance best described as “festival fascism” — where QAnon, the People’s Convoy, and Dr. Robert Malone can fuse together in ways which make them more powerful than they’ve ever been. While nearly everyone mocked this rally online, and most of the news coverage was fairly mundane, what I saw was a slickly packaged fascist telethon with ominous warnings of what lies ahead. I believe I saw the future of conspiracy movements, where the disparate outliers join forces to achieve parallel goals. # ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Egypt:_Christian_Priest_Slaughtered_in Broad_Daylight⠀⇛ Another Coptic Christian clergyman was murdered in cold blood in Egypt today [this article was originally published on Thursday, April 7]. Local Christian media reported that, while walking in a crowded street of Alexandria with a group of church youth and his own family, Fr. Arsenius Wadid was repeatedly stabbed in the neck by an unidentified but bearded man, killing him. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Unrest_in_Sweden_over_planned_Quran_burnings⠀⇛ At least 16 police officers were reported to have been injured and several police vehicles destroyed in unrest on Thursday, Friday and Saturday in places where the far-right group planned events, including in the suburbs of Stockholm and in the cities of Linköping and Norrköping. # ⚓ [Old] BBC ☛ Protest_against_Koran-burning_turns_violent_in Sweden⠀⇛ Cars were set on fire and shop fronts were damaged in the clashes in the southern city of Malmö which have now been brought under control. There were several arrests. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ BBC ☛ Climate_change:_Key_UN_finding_widely misinterpreted⠀⇛ In their summary for policymakers, the scientists said it was still possible to avoid the most dangerous levels of warming by keeping the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century. This will take a herculean effort, with carbon emissions needing to shrink by 43% by the end of this decade to stay under this threshold of danger. # ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Environmentally-friendly_ways_to_die⠀⇛ If traditional secular funerals aren’t for you, or if you want to leave the most minimal environmental impact after you die, here are a few alternative, green burial methods. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ The_mystery_of_the_disappearing_bike_lanes⠀⇛ If you have been lucky enough to reach the city center without needing an ambulance or getting a police ticket, you’ll be rewarded with… cycle lanes. Yay! Unfortunately, the celebration is short lived as these lanes can just as quickly disappear, go up in thin air, dissolve, if you will. I can’t even begin to count how often I would suddenly be stuck at the ‘spontaneous’ end of a cycle path and had to search if and where it would continue (which it usually didn’t). As if some drunken painter without any patience or persistence has randomly drawn a few short cycle lanes here and there. Just for fun. # ⚓ Taiwan News ☛ Gaming_marketplace_enables_in-game_item trading_with_Dogecoin_[cryptocurrency]_wallet⠀⇛ With the rise of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and, most recently, Dogecoin, a web-based marketplace for in-game goods is also tapping the [cryptocurrency] boom. Eldorado.gg is a marketplace that gives users access to a wide variety of games with heavily discounted prices and perks. Users can get access to boosting, new accounts, currency, and in-game items for their accounts in games such as Final Fantasy XIV Gold and Minecraft. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Mark_Pocan’s_100%_for_Taxing_the Billionaire_Class⠀⇛ When a business publication posted an article several years ago called “Weird Things Top Billionaires Have in Common” — eg., less likely to wear glasses, more likely to be bald — Rep. Mark Pocan responded on social media with an addition to the list: “Another weird thing billionaires have in common? Not paying their taxes.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Corporate_Greed_Keeps_the_Pandemic_Alive⠀⇛ The elevation of the private profit of a few over the welfare of the many is, sadly, the ordinary course of events in a capitalist world. This is brightly illustrated by the failure of the world’s governments to prioritize health care over money as exemplified by the ongoing failure to make vaccines available to the Global South. Business as usual, yes, and it would be easy enough to lament the standards of the United States and its wildly expensive health care system being exported to the rest of the world. The U.S. does play a role here, but this time the U.S. is not the biggest villain. The European Union, with its obstinate refusal to waive any intellectual property rule because of fealty to Covid-19 vaccine makers, has been the biggest roadblock. # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Activision_Blizzard_Cooperating_With Regulators’_Asks_About_Alleged_Insider_Trading⠀⇛ Activision Blizzard is cooperating with a federal lawsuit and investigation into suspected insider trading that allegedly may have been facilitated by chief executive Bobby Kotick just days before the video game publisher was acquired by Microsoft, according to a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Ukraine:_Republican Disinformation⠀⇛ As the war in Ukraine drags on, it becomes increasingly apparent that one of the major parameters is disinformation. For example, the attitude inside Russia seems to be that Vladimir Putin’s military operations are justified because Putin is protecting “the fatherland” from neo- Nazis. Pro-Putin propaganda has been disseminated throughout the world; It has infected Republican legislators. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Fake_sexual_material_targets_the_only_woman_running for_president_in_the_Philippines⠀⇛ “This is gutter politics at its lowest. And the most debased act any partisan can engage in,” he says. “However, this is the social media ecology that has developed over the last almost six years.” o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Researcher:_Algorithms_Cannot_Be Blamed_for_Disinformation,_But_They_Contribute_to_It⠀⇛ François spoke on a panel with Karrie Karahalios, a computer science professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, that was focused on the power of algorithms. During the discussion, Karahalios commented on proposed legislation in the House of Representatives to remove Section 230 protections for online content which is promoted algorithmically – thus subjecting them to legal liability. She stated that content regulation truly must be done on a case-by-case basis rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach to regulation in all settings. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ John_Durham_Continues_To_Hide_How_Michael Sussmann_Helped_Kill_The_NYT_Story⠀⇛ Which is to say Martin uses DNS data but is not as expert as a number of the possible witnesses at trial he would be suggesting were part of some grand conspiracy (note, this summary is silent on his Tor expertise, which is both a more minor part of the evidence but will be a far more contentious one at trial). The more remarkable claim that Durham says Martin will make in rebuttal if Sussmann affirms the authenticity of the data is that, because the data was necessarily a subset of all global DNS data, it’s like it was cherry-picked, even if it was not deliberately so. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ India_is_among_the_10_countries_with_the_worst freedom_of_expression⠀⇛ India continues to rank among the top 10 countries to have imprisoned the most number of writers and journalists, according to the Freedom to Write Index 2021. The index was released on April 13 by PEN America, a US non-profit working to defend freedom of expression across the world. The organisation lists the number of writers, activists, and journalists that countries have put behind bars every year. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Malawi_Police_Accused_of_[Cracking]_Website_of Investigative_Media_Group⠀⇛ Police could not get Gondwe to reveal the information; however, they did confiscate a mobile phone and laptop belonging to him and forced him to reveal passwords. # ⚓ The Sunday Times UK ☛ Censorship_forces_Russian_paper_to publish_abroad⠀⇛ Russia’s independent journalists are taking desperate measures to continue working, including emigration and working anonymously, as the country’s harsh war censorship law effectively outlaws independent reporting. Under a law pushed through shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, journalists face 15 years in prison for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army, including for using the words “war” or “invasion” to refer to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. # ⚓ Banning_literature_isn’t_a_new_or_clean-cut_concept⠀⇛ The reasons behind calls for book bans are not all on the same coin. Some adults dub certain books too inappropriate or even harmful for young students, which displays that their requests for bans aren’t necessarily of ill intent. For instance, some schools have banned “To Kill a Mockingbird” because of its tackling of racial injustices from a white protagonist’s perspective and the peppered-in racial slurs. Others feel more of a moral calling to object to certain books, especially those with racial or LGBTQ+ themes, which some say is the result of conservative states’ desires to have more of a say in their children’s learning. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Censorship_battles’_new_frontier: Your_public_library⠀⇛ With these actions, Llano joins a growing number of communities across America where conservatives have mounted challenges to books and other content related to race, sex, gender and other subjects they deem inappropriate. A movement that started in schools has rapidly expanded to public libraries, accounting for 37 percent of book challenges last year, according to the American Library Association. Conservative activists in several states, including Texas, Montana and Louisiana have joined forces with like-minded officials to dissolve libraries’ governing bodies, rewrite or delete censorship protections, and remove books outside of official challenge procedures. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Title_42_Will_Continue_to_Harm_BIPOC_Migrants Until_End_of_May,_Advocates_Say⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Climate_Activists_Decry_Biden’s_Reopening_of_Oil and_Gas_Leases_on_Public_Lands⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Prison_Guards_in_Illinois_Used_Prison_Labor_to Raise_Money_for_Golf_Tournaments⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gannett ☛ This_Easter,_don’t_forget_about_persecuted Christians_around_the_world⠀⇛ In the Middle East and North Africa, for example, the Algerian government has forcibly closed 13 Protestant churches and ordered the closure of seven more, while two decades of conflict, instability and genocidal terrorism have reduced Iraq’s indigenous Christian community from 1.4 million to fewer than 250,000. Elsewhere, India has a growing patchwork of laws that violate religious freedom or enable its violation, amid a rising tide of religious intolerance emboldened by Hindu nationalism. A third of India’s 28 states maintain laws restricting religious conversion, which are used as a pretext to target Christians and enable violence against them. # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ Grand_Rapids_Police_release_video_on deadly_shooting_of_Patrick_Lyoya⠀⇛ Video released Wednesday of the police shooting death of an African immigrant last week shows a Grand Rapids officer shooting Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head following a struggle. In the incident, captured at different points on police dashcam and bodycam cameras, a neighbor’s doorbell video and on a cell phone video taken by a witness, what begins as a routine traffic stop over a car registration takes a quick turn, from an inquiry about the man’s license plates and whether he understands English, to Lyoya breaking away from the unnamed officer only to be wrestled to the ground. # ⚓ Gannett ☛ Patrick_Lyoya’s_killing_by_Michigan_police_was caught_on_video._Here’s_how_to_record_cops.⠀⇛ On Wednesday, multiple recordings were released showing the Grand Rapids officer fatally shooting Lyoya on April 4. Lyoya, a 26-year-old Congolese refugee, was facedown on the ground when he was shot after a traffic stop for an apparently unregistered license plate. The video shot by Lyoya’s companion is possibly the most important evidence of what took place; it may well take center stage if there is a trial. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ My_common_Gemini_crawler_pitfalls⠀⇛ Martin Chang [2] has some views of crawlers from the crawler’s perspective, but I still have some views of crawlers from the receiving end that Martin doesn’t cover. I finally got fed up with Gemini crawlers not bothering to limit their following of redirects [3] that I removed not only that particular client test from my site, but the entire client test from my site. Martin does mention a “capsule linter” to check for “infinite extending links,” but that’s not an issue a site author should fix *just to apease the crawler authors!* It’s an actual thing that can happen on the Inernet. A crawler **must** deal with such situations. Another issue I’m seeing with crawlers is an inability to deal with relative links. I’m seeing requests like `gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/ 2008/04/30/2008/04/30.1` or `gemini:// gemini.conman.org//boston/2015/07/02.3`. The former I can’t wrap my brain around how it got that link [4] (and every request comes from the same IP (Internet Protocol) address—23.88.52.182), while the second one seems like a simple bug to fix (generated by only three different clients—202.61.246.155, 116.202.128.144, 198.50.210.248). # ⚓ Re:_Stepping_away_from_Gemini⠀⇛ I agree that most of the technical content hosted on Gemini is about Gemini itself, and usually repeating the same points, because I guess there are bits from Gemini that are not ideal and there is a lot of conversation around them. And also, as I wrote here back in November, I’m not interested in the heated discussions -and gatekeeping- around them. # ⚓ RSS/Atom_Feeds_on_the_Web⠀⇛ Here’s are just a whole bunch of RSS feeds, loosly grouped, that I think are worth subscribing to over on the Web. # ⚓ Re:_Stepping_away_from_Gemini⠀⇛ But what is the main thing in the Geminispace? I’m always repeating that the answer is people. Gemini protocol gathered people who were attracted by its idea. It isn’t only loving to the protocol specification. It needs to explore the forgotten world, of the so-called, small-net. We won’t find each other on the big-net. It’s hard to find any old-school bloggers there. Big-net is dominated by products of GAFA monopolies. That products are creating needs of people in the natural for commerce way. There is not much space for ideas that people are attracted here. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Will_Amazon_have_to_ground_its_drone_program?⠀⇛ Speaking on Bloomberg TV, journalist Spencer Soper described problems with the Amazon drone design. In a test last summer, an Amazon drone experienced a motor failure while in flight and plummeted to the ground despite anti-crash safety features and caused a 25-acre brush fire with the explosion of its lithium battery. The crash of the drone, which weighs about 85 pounds, gave Federal regulators pause. Still Amazon has not abandoned drone R&D. Mr. Soper sees the ongoing investments as part of Amazon’s desire to shorten package delivery time beyond what has been possible so far. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Unified_Patents’_IPR_filings_shrink,_but_case outcomes_show_impact_on_NPEs_–_IAM [Ed: The mole at the USPTO (Iancu) did its damage]⠀⇛ Unified Patents struggles more than others to get IPRs instituted, Docket Navigator data reveals, but when it does, the firm has the third-highest win rate among the top 10 PTAB petitioners # ⚓ USPTO_stops_fast-track_patent_examinations_from Rospatent⠀⇛ The US Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will no longer grant requests from Russia’s IP office to participate in the Global Patent Prosecution Highway. # ⚓ Mondaq ☛ What_Are_Patent_Prosecution_Highway_(PPH) Programmes_–_And_Should_You_Be_Using_Them?_– Intellectual_Property_–_France [Ed: They've managed to put patent litigation ahead of actual innovation as the priority]⠀⇛ PPH programmes are collaborative arrangements between two (bilateral) or more (multilateral) patent offices. Their objective is to accelerate the granting of a patent application filed in an office of second filing (or second application) under priority of a patent application or patent filed in an office of first filing (or first application). # ⚓ Samsung_and_Solas_seek_to_settle_patent_dispute⠀⇛ South Korea-based Samsung and Irish company Solas OLED have agreed to settle a patent suit, less than half a year after Samsung lost challenges against the finding that it owes approximately $77 million. # ⚓ Continental_loses_automotive_patent_pool_suit [Ed: Nokia is operating via patent trolls these days; this is what Microsoft turned Nokia into...]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Mondaq ☛ EPO_To_Increase_Official_Fees_From_1_April 2022 [Ed: Charging you even more for legally-invalid patents]⠀⇛ The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced that the official fees charged for European patent applications will be increasing from 1 April 2022. More details of the fee increases can be found here and here. The majority of official fees are increasing, including the application fees, search and examination fees, and renewal fees. In each case, the increase will be an “inflationary” amount of around 2 to 5%. A small number of the more modest official fees are not increasing in April 2022. # ⚓ Mondaq ☛ Comparing_Apples_With_Pears_(Again?)⠀⇛ It seems that Apple is on the wrong side of another Pear – this time in a patent dispute involving 2 lapsed patents, the Swiss Supreme court and the iMessage service. We’ll have to see where that one goes. Previously Apple sued Prepear over their Pear logo in 2020 – see here: Apple sues Pear – Prepear is a small US food business and uses a pear logo as part of its branding. As well as being the name of a global digital business giant, ‘apple’ is also the name of a kind of food – a fruit. Apple (the global business) uses a logo featuring an apple (the fruit) with a bite taken from it. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Topia_Technology_patent_challenged_—_Unified Patents⠀⇛ On April 15, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 10,067,942, owned by Topia Technology, Inc., an NPE. The ‘942 patent relates to automatic file sharing across a distributed network. It has been asserted against Box, Dropbox, and Egnyte. # ⚓ Flexiworld_patent_challenged_—_Unified Patents⠀⇛ On April 8, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,836,257, owned by Flexiworld Technologies, Inc., an NPE. The ’257 patent relates to transmitting digital content from a mobile apparatus to a wireless output device and has been asserted against Roku. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Mondaq ☛ Rocky_Opposition_Knocked_Out_By_Concept_Of Trademark_Neutralisation [Ed: Watch out, Rocky Linux?]⠀⇛ Oppositions to EU trademark applications that included the word ‘Rocky’ have been rejected on the grounds that any likelihood of confusion with the titular film character has been neutralised by the obvious conceptual differences. Pierre Coppin explains the concept of trademark neutralisation in the context of the Rocky ruling. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Delayed_Megaupload_Lawsuits_Get Assigned_to_Ninjavideo_Judge⠀⇛ More than ten years after Megaupload was shut down, the RIAA and MPA are still waiting for their chance to request damages in their civil lawsuits. With the criminal prosecution still pending, another delay has been granted. In a new twist, both cases are now reassigned to the judge who also convicted several NinjaVideo staffers. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3541 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.18.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_18/04/2022:_Makulu_GNU/Linux_Shift_Beta_3⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:18 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ WP_Briefing:_Episode_29:_How_to_Make_a_WordPress_Blog⠀⇛ In the twenty-ninth episode of the WordPress Briefing, Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy reminds us of our WordPress roots — blogging — and discusses the basics of starting your first blog on WordPress. # ⚓ Video ☛ The_Steam_Deck_is_“not_a_flop”_says_Captain_Obvious at_The_Verge._(Plus_other_Steam_Deck_news)_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Double_Distro_Details_|_LINUX Unplugged_454⠀⇛ Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases. # ⚓ GNU_World_Order_456⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_prepatch_5.18-rc3_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ The 5.18-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. “It’s Sunday afternoon, and you all know what that means. It’s time for another release candidate. (Yes, yes, it’s also Easter Sunday, but priorities, people!)” o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to Atlassian_Sourcetree_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Atlassian Corporation Plc is a software company founded in 2002 that develops products for software developers, project managers and other software development teams. It employs over 7,000 people and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Atlassian produces a range of proprietary software including software for collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams. Atlassian dominates several markets where it still has intense competition. Broadly speaking, they offer software in three large buckets: These are software development tools; help desk software, or IT service management; and workflow management software. When you think of Atlassian, think project management and collaboration tools. Many of their programs use a number of open source components. And their GitHub repositories hold lots of open source code. But their main range of software is proprietary. This series looks at free and open source alternatives to Atlassian’s products. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ exa:_Next-gen_listing_command_in_Linux_for pro⠀⇛ A new generation is coming up with an alternative version of conventional commands. Can we accept them to replace the legacy of Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie? Does it have the necessary changes that can bend us to move with a new command? I have pulled out the exa command from the plethora of alternative commands, which claims to be a modern tool of the “ls” command. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ 12_Practical_Examples_of_In_Command_in_Linux [Ed: GNU coreutils, not Linux]⠀⇛ Using Linux is fun with the CLI mode in the terminal section. There are tons of commands that can make your Linux journey smoother if you just know the right command. There are many commands in Linux that require to be associated with the url or path of the file. While writing a command, remembering both the command and path is really havoc, and it slows down the efficiency. With the ln command in Linux, you can easily generate, connect, and assign soft and hard links inside the command shell. The full form of the ln is the link command; it helps us to generate links to files and directories on a Linux system. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Jellyfin_Media_Server_on Debian_11_Bullseye⠀⇛ 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 such other significant 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 to organize your media into categories in a rich multimedia experience. # ⚓ How_to_Rename_a_Directory_on_Linux⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to rename a directory in Linux. It’s another in our simple, beginner-friendly tutorials to get you accustomed to the Linux CLI. You’ll often need to rename a directory/folder – it’s one of the most frequent tasks I do on all of my Linux servers and PCs. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Remove_Snap_Apps_&_Block_Them_in Ubuntu_22.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Ubuntu is distributing more applications as the universal Snap package, but some users don’t like them. So I’m writing this tutorial for those want to completely get rid of Snap and prevent it from being installed back. NOTE: Before getting started, please backup your app data, e.g., Firefox bookmarks. Attention that Ubuntu Software will also be removed after following this tutorial. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Install_Wine_in_Ubuntu_22.04_to Install_&_Run_Windows_Apps_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ To run Microsoft Windows applications in Ubuntu Linux, Wine or CrossOver (paid version) is a good choice. And here’s how to install and use Wine in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. In this tutorial, you’ll see 2 ways to install Wine in Ubuntu. Choose either one that you prefer. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_OpenJDK_11_on_Fedora_36 Linux⠀⇛ Java is a general-purpose, class-based, object- oriented multipurpose programming language that is popular due to the design of having lesser implementation dependencies, meaning that the compiled Java code can be run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java is also fast, secure, and reliable, therefore. It is widely used for developing Java applications in laptops, data centers, game consoles, scientific supercomputers, cell phones, etc. The tutorial will look at installing the OpenJDK version instead of the default Oracle JDK. The difference between these two is licensing. OpenJDK is an entirely free, open-source Java with a GNU General Public License, and Oracle JDK requires a commercial license under the Oracle Binary Code License Agreement. Other differences are release schedules and other factors that come into play; however, performance is the same. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_FileZilla_on_Fedora_36 Linux⠀⇛ FileZilla is an easy-to-use, free FTP client with cross-platform support. You can download it for Windows or Linux on both server and client sides! It also supports sftp connections, so you can transfer files without having them wrapped up in (.zip) archives too much—this way, there’s less traffic on your network while still getting everything done quickly. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Remmina_Remote_Desktop_on Fedora_36_Linux⠀⇛ Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travelers who need to work with many remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks. It supports the following protocols: RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP, and SSH. Among its features are Multi-Monitor support, Tabbed sessions, port forwarding, proxy support, and easy access to typical applications like Firefox or LibreOffice. Remmina also has a robust plugin system that can be used to extend its functionality. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Fotoxx_on_Fedora_36_Linux⠀⇛ Fotoxx is an open-source program for basic image editing. It can be used to organize and manage extensive collections of images, optimize photos in various ways, including adjusting color balance or brightness levels on individual targets within a photo, and perform well-performing batch operations with several at once! This application also has app menus that reside on the left side, where you’ll find options such as pointing out specific files (like dime.), viewing all captured media discs, and much more. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Fotoxx on Fedora 36 Linux using the default Fedora appstream, along with tips on updating and removing the image software using the DNF package manager with the command line terminal. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_KeePassXC_on_Fedora_36 Linux⠀⇛ KeePassXC is an application that can be used by anyone who wants to have a high level of security for their data. The cross-platform feature can be used on any computer, and the light interface makes it easy to use. Additionally, the application is published under the GNU General Public License terms, which means it is open source and free to download and use. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install KeePassXC on Fedora 36 Linux using one of the following installation methods with DNF or Flatpak utilizing the command line terminal, along with some tips on maintaining the software in the future. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Slack_on_Fedora_36_Linux⠀⇛ Slack is one of the most popular collaboration communication platforms in the world. Since it was initial launch in 2013, it has grown. It is now favored amongst development teams and corporations to integrate many services, run groups, meetings, etc. Slack works to create channels for your teams, topics, customers, or co-workers. Slack also features voice and video calls and file sharing when face-to-face meetings are impossible. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Slack on Fedora 36 Linux using two different methods the DNF package manager utilizing a COPR repository or the natively installed third- party Flatpak package manager using the command line terminal. # ⚓ Things_to_do_after_installing_Ubuntu_22.04_Jammy_Jellyfish Linux⠀⇛ After you download and install Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish you may wonder what to do next or how to best customize your Ubuntu 22.04 system to make everything you do as efficient as possible. This guide helps you to identify things to do after installing Ubuntu 22.04 that are right for your specific needs. We list below our recommendations and link to other guides that provide you with more detailed instructions on how to achieve a specific system configuration or customization. # ⚓ How_to_test_webcam_on_Ubuntu_22.04_Jammy_Jellyfish⠀⇛ The objective of this tutorial is to show the reader a quick-start method of testing a Webcam on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish. You can usually plug in your webcam and have instant access to it. If you have a built-in camera, that should also work without any extra configuration. # ⚓ How_to_create_incremental_and_differential_backups_with tar⠀⇛ Tar (Tape ARchiver) is one the most useful utilities in the toolbox of every Linux system administrator out there. With tar we can create archives which can be used for various purposes: to package applications source code, for example, or to create and store data backups. In this tutorial we focus on the latter subject, and we see how to create full, incremental and differential backups with tar, and more specifically with the GNU version of tar. # ⚓ Basic_Ubuntu_22.04_OpenVPN_Client/Server_connection_setup⠀⇛ Setting up a VPN is a great way for a server to share network resources with a client. Configuring one, however, can seem a little intimidating to some users. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to setup a VPN using OpenVPN on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, while managing to avoid advanced configuration and technical jargon along the way. # ⚓ How_to_check_my_IP_address_on_Ubuntu_22.04_Jammy_Jellyfish Linux⠀⇛ The objective of this tutorial is to learn how to identify internal and external IP address on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux. This can be accomplished via command line and GUI. We will cover the step by step instructions for both methods below. # ⚓ Ubuntu_22.04_disk_space_check⠀⇛ There are a few tools at your disposal for checking disk space on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish. These tools and commands can be used to check a hard drive’s capacity and the size of the files on it, or just to check the size of a particular directory or file. We’ll show you how to get a visual representation of how the hard drive space is being used on your system, as well as a few commands that you can enter into the terminal to quickly find the stats you need on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish. # ⚓ Create_bootable_Ubuntu_22.04_USB_startup_disk⠀⇛ In this tutorial you will learn how to create a bootable Ubuntu 22.04 USB startup disk. Two methods of bootable Ubuntu 22.04 USB startup disk creation will be shown. To be specific we will be creating a bootable Ubuntu 22.04 USB using any existing Ubuntu Desktop or by using command line on any GNU/Linux distribution. # ⚓ Ubuntu_22.04_Guide⠀⇛ This Ubuntu 22.04 guide introduces the new Ubuntu 22.04 and explains how to get this operating system and how to install it on your computer. It also provides you with comprehensive instructions on how to use Ubuntu 22.04. We include the introduction to command line and bash scripting, followed by things to do after installing Ubuntu 22.04 with the focus on software recommendations for the Ubuntu 22.04 system. # ⚓ How_to_install_macOS_theme_on_Ubuntu_22.04_Jammy_Jellyfish Linux⠀⇛ In this tutorial you will learn how to change the default Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop to macOS theme. Although in this tutorial we will perform the installation of macOS Mojave theme the steps bellow should be applicable to perform the installation of any other macOS style theme. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_BleachBit_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install BleachBit on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, BleachBit is software that can be used to optimize your PC’s performance and free up disk space. With BleachBit you can free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. 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 BleachBit clean your system and free disk space on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_To_Setup_SSH_Passwordless_Login_in AlmaLinux⠀⇛ Secure Shell, popularly known as SSH, is a secure network protocol that allows users to securely connect to remote hosts such as servers. It is based on a client-server architecture and uses two main authentication methods – password and ssh-key pair authentication. The SSH-key pair authentication employs the use of SSH keys which are cryptographic keys used to authenticate and secure communication between the client and the server. SSH-key pair authentication is preferred over password authentication as it provides safer authentication which is not susceptible to brute-force attacks. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Install_RustDesk_Remote_Desktop Software_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ The introduction of Linux in the operating systems ecosystem has become more of an opportunity than a threat. Its design objectives have made it possible for many users to create numerous careers and projects just from learning Linux. One such opportunity is remote desktop viewing and management. Not to say that this milestone did not exist before the introduction of Linux but this operating system distribution has made things easier due to free and open-source licenses associated with most of its application packages. # ⚓ How_to_Install_NGINX_on_openSUSE⠀⇛ openSUSE is a very stable distribution sponsored by SUSE, which is a pioneer in the use of Linux and has a business model based on open technologies. Although in the server environment openSUSE is not as popular as Debian or RHEL-based distributions, there are many sysadmins who rely on it. So today, you will learn how to install Nginx on openSUSE 15. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Jammy Jellyfish⠀⇛ The new Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is fast approaching, with it recently receiving its official codename Jammy Jellyfish. For now, the schedule is set for release on April 21, 2022, but this may change in the future at a moment’s notice. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_SQLite_3_on_Ubuntu_20.04 LTS⠀⇛ SQLite is a free, lightweight relational database management system (RDBMS) in a C library. SQLite is not a client-server database engine. Instead, it is embedded into the end program. Primarily all programming languages support SQLite, which how languages embed the program is with a file with .sqlite3/.sqlite/.DB extension. The software is a popular choice for local/client storage such as web browsers, Android devices, etc. The list is quite extensive. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install SQLite 3 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa using the command line terminal with two different installation methods. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Duf_Disk_Usage_Utility_on Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ No, it is no Duff beer if that rings a bell. Today, we are talking about the Duf disk utility, an open- source, free “Disk Usage Free Utility” written in Goland and released under an MIT license. The disk utility supports multi-platforms such as BSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems. Duf is a command-line utility to find disk usage in Linux and Unix-like systems terminals. One of the excellent features of Duf is its ability to display the disk usage details in a beautiful, user- friendly layout in tab form. Some extra features with Duf include disk usage out in JSON output. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa by downloading the package directly from the project’s Github and installing it using the command line terminal. The tutorial will also focus on some common-use commands. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_convert_JPG_images_to_PDF_using_the terminal⠀⇛ The terminal is a great Linux tool. With it, we can do many things and if we install other programs we can extend its functionality even more. Want an example? Today, you will learn how to convert JPG images to PDF using the terminal. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Ansible_in_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_(Jammy Jellyfish)⠀⇛ Hello techies, as we know that Ansible is the most popular automation and configuration tool available for all Linux distributions. Ansible is free and opensource software which is used to configure mange remote Linux and Windows hosts. One of the benefits of using Ansible as automation tool is that we don’t need to install any agent on remote systems which we want to manage via ansible. It works on ssh protocol (or port 22). o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Proton’s_Recent_Push_to_Reduce_the_Number of_Borked_Games_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ We track ProtonDB extensively at Boiling Steam, because it’s a trove of data that can be used to learn more about several aspects of the Linux Gaming Market. One of things we check is the number of games with equivalent ratings of Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Borked (just like it is/used to be on WineHQ). Back in 2018, ProtonDB asked its users to rate how each game fared based on their experience, which led to inconsistencies: One’s Gold is another one’s Platinum. To remedy to that, ProtonDB introduced a new ratings system since late 2019, asking instead specific questions about what worked/did not work with each game, and deriving a calculated rating based on that. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ box86_and_box64_get_Steam_Play_Proton working_much_better_on_Arm_devices_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Are you planning to do some gaming on Arm devices? You need to take a look at the box86 and box64 projects, which are really quite impressive. Since the majority of software (especially games) are built for x86 processors (the usual Intel / AMD crop), Arm needs something stuck in between to get them running and that’s exactly what these projects do. Split across 32bit and 64bit, box86 and box64 both recently had major updates and a fun highlight on both is that the developer noted they have plenty of fixes and improvements to get both Steam and Steam Play Proton working — so Linux gaming on Arm is about to see a nice boost with these. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Open_source_evolution_sim_Thrive_goes Multicellular_in_the_latest_update_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ The Multicellular evolution has begun, for the open source game Thrive that is. Currently in Early Access, it continues to show off an impressive design. With version 0.5.8 the first big addition is a prototype of the Multicellular Stage. For this, once you’ve gained the nucleus and binding agents, you will be able to jump onto the next stage of life. As it’s in the early stages of development though, it’s somewhat limited with only the Budding reproductive method available right now. Before this part of the game is fully sorted, they continue working on the microbe stage. The other big addition is signalling agents, enabling you to communicate with allied cells which opens up the game even more. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ ProtonUp-Qt_v2.6.1_adds_support_for_the Heroic_Launcher_Flatpak_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ ProtonUp-Qt gives you an incredibly easy way to install compatibility layers on Linux like GE- Proton (formerly Proton GE), Lutris-Wine, Luxtorpeda and more. The developer just recently put up version 2.6.1, which as a bit of a highlight should now work nicely with the Flatpak version of the Heroic Games Launcher (for the Epic Games Store). This is especially good for the Steam Deck, where I imagine most people will be using the Flatpak, since it’s easy to install and update via the Discover software centre. # ⚓ Core_War_over_Gemini⠀⇛ Who dares implement Core War over Gemini? It would join Astrobotany in the game’s department on Geminispace. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇;-)⦈ o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Shift_Beta_3_Nears_Completion,_Teaser_Video._– MakuluLinux⠀⇛ We have some Big changes in the Upcoming Beta 3, one of those that will be the main focus is expanding from 8 Desktops to 16 Desktops. Yes, that’s right, we have Doubled the Desktop Layout styles for Beta 3. There are also lot of big bug fixes, new features and a lot of rewriting of existing code as Shift evolves and finds itself. The Release Date has not yet been decided, but it will be soon, We estimate we will make the announcement Within Weeks and the release will be quick and swift. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ LXQt_1.1.0_Releases_With_Theme_Updates, Panel_Improvements,_and_More_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛ LXQt is a lightweight Qt-based desktop environment. With the latest LXQt 1.1.0 update, the desktop experience depends on Qt 5.15, the LTS version of Qt 5 series. The release announcement mentions that they started working on Qt 6.0 port but needed a more stable version. Let me briefly highlight what’s new with the new release. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Linux_Release_Roundup_#22.16:_EndeavourOS 22.1,_TurnKey_Linux_17.0,_LXQt_1.1.0,_and_More_Releases ⠀⇛ The latest update for the lightweight desktop environment comes packed with new theme improvements, panel updates, and new configuration options. You can learn more about it in our coverage. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ What_Linux_users_and_packagers_need to_know_about_Podman_4.0_on_Fedora_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ The newly released Podman 4.0 features a complete rewrite of the network stack based on Netavark and Aardvark, which will function alongside the existing Container Networking Interface (CNI) stack. Netavark is a Rust-based tool for configuring networking for Linux containers that serves as a replacement for CNI plugins (containernetworking-plugins on Fedora). Aardvark-dns is now the authoritative DNS server for container records. Along with the new stack comes distro packaging changes along with repository availability changes for Fedora 35. # ⚓ Fedora Magazaine ☛ MLCube_and_Podman⠀⇛ MLCube is a new open source container based infrastructure specification introduced to enable reproducibility in Python based machine learning workflows. It can utilize tools such as Podman, Singularity and Docker. Execution on remote platforms is also supported. One of the chairs of the MLCommons Best Practices working group that is developing MLCube is Diane Feddema from Red Hat. This introductory article explains how to run the hello world MLCube example using Podman on Fedora Linux. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Is_your_middle_management freezing_progress?_4_ways_to_empower_change_|_The Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ As organizations grow, we discover a lot of internal realities and challenges at a team and leadership level that are holding a company back. As teams emerge and expand they often find that there is a management problem. Specifically, those who sit in the middle of the management structure are seen as a blocker. In financial services, for example, managers tend to lean towards job security, which leads them to be more risk-averse or less experimental. That attitude doesn’t bring progress or innovation. In the fast moving world of technology, where speed and agility are key, having a management layer that is slow or unable to keep pace with change isn’t tenable. This layer of management has come to be known as “frozen middle management.” However, we need to ask ourselves: What is the real underlying cause of middle management becoming frozen? # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Announcement:_Red_Hat_CodeReady_Studio reaches_end_of_life⠀⇛ Red Hat CodeReady Studio will reach end of life on April 19, 2022. The project is transitioning to community development and support as part of the JBoss Tools project. This article breaks down all the information you need to know along with the future roadmap. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Digital_credentials_for_Red_Hat Certified_Professionals⠀⇛ Red Hat certifications span our entire technology portfolio, bringing confidence to individuals and organizations alike. Whether it’s enterprise architecture certifications, core Linux system administration skills, developer knowledge of specialized frameworks, or emerging technologies like containers and cloud, Red Hat knows the skills that are needed for success. Earning a Red Hat Certification is an industry-recognized achievement and we want to help you share your accomplishment with your professional network, friends, and family. To that end, we are proud to offer Red Hat digital credentials via our third- party issuance partner, Credly. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Mint ☛ LMDE_Upgrade_Tool_in_BETA_–_The_Linux Mint_Blog⠀⇛ The BETA of the new Upgrade Tool is now available for testing. It can be used to upgrade LMDE 4 to LMDE 5. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Linux_Mint’s_New_Upgrade_Tool_Enters Public_Beta_Testing,_Here’s_How_to_Use_It⠀⇛ The new Linux Mint upgrade tool it’s fully configurable and comes with features like a fully graphical upgrade experience, performs more checks to ensure the upgrade process will go smoothly in different scenarios, it’s localized in various languages, preserves the user’s choice of mirrors and doesn’t force you to remove your custom repositories or PPAs, and warns you about orphaned packages, but lets you keep them. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ Turn_Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition_4_‘Debbie’ into_5_‘Elsie’_with_LMDE_Upgrade_Tool_(Beta)⠀⇛ Last month, Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 5 was released to the world. Code-named “Elsie,” many fans of the operating system probably did a fresh install right away. Understandably, however, some users are still running the previous version of the distribution, LMDE 4 “Debbie.” If your computer is still running Debbie, but you want to easily move onto Elsie, I have some great news. Today, the Linux Mint developers officially release the new LMDE Upgrade Tool in Beta. It is important to note this tool is only to be used with LMDE at this time, and not the “regular” Ubuntu-based Linux Mint. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Road_to_New_Xubuntu_Docs_—_Sean_Davis⠀⇛ The new Xubuntu documentation is finally complete. Two years, eight contributors, and numerous Zoom meetings resulted in over eighty commits refreshing our user docs. Incredibly, we managed to land all of the updates in time for the Xubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish” release. # ⚓ LinuxInsider ☛ Platform_Plans_To_Plunder_Poor_Tools, Free_Forensic_Forays_To_Forestall_Breaches⠀⇛ The beta version of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) has arrived, opening the window for testing in advance of the final release the major upgrade release next month. New features include desktop environment enhancements with GNOME 42, visual changes, and added functionalities. Also included will be app refinements and a new screenshot app. This new release finally brings accent colors to the Ubuntu distro. Playing catchup with this feature, Ubuntu will get what other Ubuntu-based versions already enjoyed. Also expect an improved dark mode/light mode experience and an upgraded system-wide dark mode implementation. However, adopters will also get disappointments with this pending release. The GNOME implementation with Ubuntu 22.04 lacks a horizontal dock. Ubuntu 22.04 will continue the ongoing transition from the deb package to Snap. Improved Raspberry Pi performance should be apparent with the addition of zswap performance. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ How_I_repurposed_an_old_Raspberry_Pi_into a_travel_router_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛ Spring Break 2022. It was my first real opportunity to travel in exactly two years, after a little thing called a global pandemic scuttled a family trip to (of all places) China. You lose a lot of road warrior muscle memory in that time. What to pack, and how to pack it. Dealing with airports and other travelers. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ FOMO_(Faster_Objects,_More_Objects)_enables real-time_object_detection_on_low-end_embedded_systems_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ FOMO used to stand for “Fear Of Missing Out” in my corner of the Internet, but Edge Impulse’s FOMO is completely different, as the “Faster Object, More Objects” model is designed to lower the footprint and improve the performance of object detection on resource-constrained embedded systems. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ PICO-TGU4-SEMI_is_a_Tiger_Lake_mini_PC_for robotics_and_industrial_IoT_applications_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ The mini PC also comes with two antenna openings, so while not explicitly listed in the specifications, the mPCIe socket could be used to add a wireless module. AAEON provides support for Windows 10 64-bit and Ubuntu 20.04 with Linux 5.8. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Medium ☛ Linux_for_Smartphones⠀⇛ I found a good deal on an excellent used Google Pixel 3a XL on eBay and made an impulse buy. That being said, this is my third phone; I own a nice flagship Samsung Galaxy, and work has given me an iPhone 11 (which I solely use for work). # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ scrcpy_display_and_control_Android device⠀⇛ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ OpenTracks_is_an_Android_Sport_and_Exercise Tracker_that_respects_your_privacy [Ed: But Android itself does not respect your privacy, so it is a net negative]⠀⇛ OpenTracks is a free, and open-source app that helps people track their sport activities without having to worry about their privacy. Unlike many apps, It comes without any ads, or malicious trackers or scripts, even without in-app purchase, as all features are open. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 3_open_source_tools_for_people_with learning_difficulties_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Disabilities significantly impact people’s lives. As someone with dyspraxia and dyslexia, I can tell you that is true. One thing that mitigates my difficulties is the technology I use, such as a screen-reader and task manager. I’ve set up an ecosystem of sorts that helps me manage a variety of difficulties that I believe could be useful to you whether or not you have dyspraxia or dyslexia. If you love good software and want to improve how you work, then maybe my workflow will be helpful to you, too. # ⚓ Apache Blog ☛ The_Apache_News_Round-up:_week_ending_15 April_2021_:_The_Apache_Software_Foundation_Blog⠀⇛ Happy Friday, everyone –here’s what the Apache community has been up to over the past week… # ⚓ Medevel ☛ ActivityWatch_is_a_private_open-source_automated time_tracker ⠀⇛ ActivityWatch is an open source, free, privacy- first, cross-platform, and a great alternative to services like RescueTime, ManicTime, and WakaTime. Currently, ActivityWatch can be installed on Windows, Linux, macOS, as well as Android. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Booktype:_a_free,_open-source_publishing_solution for_authors_and_companies⠀⇛ Booktype is web based, single-source publishing software for creating books, reports, manuals and more. It is an open source platform for editorial teams working on complex projects. It is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any reader and book- viewer within minutes. Booktype makes it easier and quicker for authors, companies, and organizations to edit and publish books. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ I_didn’t_understand_Test_Driven_Design_(and_the_cost to_my_career)⠀⇛ When I joined my current company, we were a small team and built things quickly. We could write code and if it turned out that it didn’t work, then whoever was the author would have to fix it. This, of course, is not good software engineering. We did realise that testing was something worth doing but it wasn’t fun, so we hired an external company to write tests for the code we’d written. This seemed like a really smart thing to do as it let us code more and “not check our own homework” but this was still not good engineering. Later, with a change of CTO, the tests came in-house. For any code we wrote, we’d also have to write unit tests ourselves. The goal was to achieve 100% code coverage. I didn’t enjoy this, and I didn’t think that it worked terribly well either. Engineers write tests that pass for the code they’ve written and thus the tests are much less likely to catch edge cases. Perhaps this was a step backwards. For sure, what it did for me was to put me off engineering and drive me out of core development. I moved to technical pre- sales where it’s still useful to write code for demos and POCs but that code doesn’t have a long life, the expectation being that it is thrown away soon after use. # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ An_Introduction_to_JSON_–_The_New Stack⠀⇛ JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is a data format interchange, which is a fancy means of saying it’s a way of storing and transferring data. It has become widely deployed for quite a large number of use cases. And although the name implies JavaScript, JSON is used with other languages, such as Python, Ruby, PHP, and Java. More important, however, the JSON format is also used for Docker and Kubernetes manifests, so it’s absolutely crucial to understand how JSON works for anyone interested in cloud native development. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_use_the_Python debugger_(pdb)_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ Pdb is a powerful tool for finding syntax errors, spelling mistakes, missing code, and other issues in your Python code. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_add_two_numbers_using parameterized_constructor_in_java⠀⇛ Object-oriented programming offers java constructors that are used to initialize/allocate the memory to the newly created object. In java, the constructor of a class gets executed when we create an object of the class using the “new” keyword. In java, a constructor can be a “Default Constructor” or a “Parameterized Constructor”. The parameterized constructors allow us to initialize each instance of a class with different value(s). In this write-up we will learn how to perform addition on two numbers using a Java parameterized constructor. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (abcm2ps and chromium), Fedora (cacti, cacti-spine, and fribidi), and Mageia (crun, docker-containerd, libarchive, mediawiki, and ruby). # ⚓ Security Boulevard ☛ Establishing_a_Root_of Trust_in_Embedded_Linux_and_IoT_–_Security Boulevard⠀⇛ In this case, what’s needed is a way to mitigate the damage before an update can be applied to stop the exploit from spreading across your network. One such solution is open source Pantacor lightweight container technology that allows you not only sign, verify and guarantee code updates, but also enables early detection and isolation when a bad actor or CVE is identified. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Benchmarking_Linux_Security_– Latest_Research_Findings ⠀⇛ How well do your Linux security practices stack up in today’s challenging operating environment? Are you following the correct processes to keep systems up-to-date and protected against the latest threats? Now you can find out thanks to research independently conducted by the Ponemon Institute. The research sponsored by TuxCare sought to understand better how organizations are currently managing the security and stability of their Linux-based systems. The results allow all organizations operating Linux-based systems to benchmark their processes against their peers and best practices. # ⚓ Hardening_Kubernetes_Multi-Cluster Environments⠀⇛ Most infrastructure teams have moved on from running just one or two clusters. It’s now common to operate multiple clusters across various divisions and, perhaps, even across multiple clouds. Within this multi-cluster reality, it becomes difficult to keep an up-to-date inventory of all existing Kubernetes clusters, let alone their unique frailties. This can easily result in over-permissive states that break the rule of least privilege. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Citizen Lab ☛ UK_Government_Officials Infected_with_Pegasus_–_The_Citizen_Lab⠀⇛ The Citizen Lab’s core mission is to undertake research on digital threats against civil society. During the course of our investigations into mercenary spyware, we will occasionally observe cases where we suspect that governments are using spyware to undertake international espionage against other governments. The vast majority of these cases are outside of our scope and mission. However, in certain select cases, where appropriate and while preserving our independence, we decide to notify these governments through the official channels, especially if we believe that our actions can reduce harm. We confirm that in 2020 and 2021 we observed and notified the government of the United Kingdom of multiple suspected instances of Pegasus spyware infections within official UK networks. # ⚓ Citizen Lab ☛ CatalanGate:_Extensive Mercenary_Spyware_Operation_against Catalans_Using_Pegasus_and_Candiru_–_The Citizen_Lab⠀⇛ In 2019, WhatsApp patched CVE- 2019-3568, a vulnerability exploited by NSO Group to hack Android phones around the world with Pegasus. At the same time, WhatsApp notified 1,400 users who had been targeted with the exploit. Among the targets were multiple members of civil society and political figures in Catalonia, Spain. The Citizen Lab assisted WhatsApp in notifying civil society victims and helping them take steps to be more secure. The cases were first reported by The Guardian in 2020. Following these reports, the Citizen Lab, in collaboration with civil society organisations, undertook a large-scale investigation into Pegasus hacking in Spain. The investigation has uncovered at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with Pegasus or spyware from Candiru, another mercenary hacking company. Forensic evidence was obtained from victims who consented to participate in a research study with the Citizen Lab. Further, victims publicly named in this report consented to be identified as such, while other targets chose to remain anonymous. Confirmed cases of Pegasus and Candiru hacking (i.e. when the spyware is successfully installed on a device) are referred to as “infections” or being “infected” throughout the report, while “targeted” refers to an act of targeting with Pegasus or Candiru spyware that may or may not correspond to a forensically- discovered infection (i.e. because a device was unavailable for analysis, or is an Android which is more difficult to forensically analyse). “Hacking” is used as a global term to describe the act of targeting and/or infecting devices. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Not_Big,_If_True:_Congress’s_Proposed Changes_Fail_to_Solve_the_Fundamental_Problems_with_the_JCPA –_Public_Knowledge [Ed: Are the Techdirt ☛ criminals_from Microsoft_pulling_strings_again]⠀⇛ Good journalism standards call for a reporter to have at least two sources for factual information before reporting a story. It’s on that basis that we’re writing this post to express our continued concerns about the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (JCPA) making its way through Congress. On April 5, The Wall Street Journal reported (note: paywall) that a significant amendment to the JCPA is making its way through both houses of Congress. The current version of the bill, which we’ve criticized here and here and here, proposes to create a four-year “safe harbor” from antitrust law, allowing print, broadcast, and digital news companies to band together to negotiate compensation terms for their news stories with the largest online platforms. A day later, Politico’s Morning Tech newsletter reported (note: also paywalled content) that they had seen a revised draft and recapped what is new about it. Unfortunately, the sponsors have not released the language of their amendments and changes for the public to see yet, so all the public has to go on right now are reports from news outlets who also may benefit from the bill. Taken together, the reports do nothing to address the concerns we’ve articulated about the bill. In fact, they may make them worse. One reported change – which, among others, had been rumored for weeks – would introduce a version of the same baseball- style arbitration process that exists in the Australian bargaining code upon which the JCPA is modeled. If publishers and tech giants can’t come to an agreement on payment for content after six months, publishers could initiate “final offer” arbitration, under which an arbitrator panel chooses one side’s final offer to settle the dispute. This provision, coveted by advocates for the bill, was intended to force and keep tech platforms at the negotiating table. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Doubling_down_on_Paludan⠀⇛ I argued against car burning as bad for climate, and because people might get hurt, and because not helping us reach our goals (which is an open and just society where racist policies like what Paludan is proposing is off the table). The protests and the car burning is getting interpreted as crimes and the inherent message is completely scrubbed away in the media. I was like “the costs in resources and human lives outweigh the benefits” but… there aren’t even any benefits. This is what Paludan wanted to happen. He tricks the media into pushing his false narrative that it’s all about the book, “see how they act just because I wanna burn a book”. We’re in a racist hegemony where the destroyer of democracy is protected and canonized as an incarnation of democracy, and those under the boot are demonized, and othered as undeserving of democracy. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Is_the_ancient_gophermap_concept_still_a_good_idea?⠀⇛ One of the most visible differences between Gopher and WWW or Gemini is the concept of Gophermap. This concept is something that could be easily misunderstood. Because there is not any distinction between menu or structure pages and content on other platforms. It’s hard to get all nuisances of that division. We could imagine that in the early years of the Internet it had been handy to extract the structure of site navigation. The main purpose of that must have been an efficient way of transferring that part of every site. It could have been also the only way to minimize things which are needed to be done on the client side. All that things are now only artificial limitations without any purpose in the modern fast and broadband networks. But the idea of overall hierarchy of Gopher holes (sites) could be not so obsolete as it seems to be. After all, on every modern site, we invent a way to create a navigation structure. And after it, we build it into page content. If we would think about it, it doesn’t make sense to do so. We have now also the whole movement of making that mixed structure and content pages more readable (so-called WCAG specifications). Because many of that self-made ideas, of menu and sites structure, aren’t well done. Sometimes there is problematic to navigate them for ordinary people. So we are trying to invent the wheel again. 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