𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, June 14, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Wed 15 Jun 02:40:52 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/2022/06/14/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmQdANbcTEaZJ6my2fyMJy8z7hLkDG3PSmwrg5BgrSJUWE QmeiAoJp2bFLnfeXRMywwDqmFDpxrnccTw79hv3XpSU1WA QmesZFZtaQyPujdg2nTczATr3E45jULmh5GbNNGVzmgHLE QmbdHztStntudMnkVURYKTyZxgmnBTbeqCSGw55fNBDyoC QmaXs6nissBVhNYAYHVGqvFS4Kfy7Nq2ECoYf2jAVZYgbq 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Executives’ Pockets (or Monetising the Abolition of the EPC) | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 13, 2022 | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/06/14/batka-and-son/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/06/14/epo-friend-brings-friends/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/06/14/growing-epo-crisis/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/06/14/irc-log-130622/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/06/14/gimp-2-10-32-released/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/06/14/kdenlive-22-04-2/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/06/14/kde-plasma-5-25/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/06/14/stinging-windows-users/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 59 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/06/14/batka-and-son/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/06/14/batka-and-son/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Like_Batka,_Like_Son⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 3:41 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Wait,_it's_not_what_it_looks_like!⦈_ Summary: As reported_this_week, the EPO‘s António_Campinos acts a lot like Alyaksandr Lukashenka (to whom he and Benoît_Battistelli have been funneling the_money_of_EPO_users) ⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠛⠋⠶⠿⠶⠶⠿⠶⠸⠵⠶⠶⠶⠾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠶⠖⠶⠆⠀⠀⠰⠖⠶⠶⠶⠀⠀⠰⠶⠶⠖⠶⠶⠆⠆⠲⠖⠖⠲⠶⠀⠀⠰⠒⠶⠶⠆⠀⠀⠲⠲⠲⠖⠲⠀⠀⠰⠴⠶⠔⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠒⠒⠂⠀⠐⠐⠒⠒⠀⠐⠒⠒⠂⠒⠂⠂⠒⠒⠒⠂⠀⠐⠒⠒⠒⠂⠀⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠂⠐⠖⠒⠐⠒⠂⠀⠐⠒⠒⠒⠒⠐⠐⠂⠒⠂⠀⠒⠒⠐⠀⠒⠀⠀⠒⠒⠒⠀⠐⠒⠒⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_EPO_‘Democracy’:_Friend_Brings_Friends⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 2:18 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos have turned the EPO into a laughing stock; even the examiners’ morale is affected by this corruption (it’s like a monarchy without elections, making up by kinship and nepotism) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_'oversight'⦈_ Summary: The EPO should quit pretending to be a patent office rather than a family or circle_of_friends who plunder the institution by illicitly selling Europe-wide monopolies to very large corporations, most of which aren’t even European ⠀⠀⢀⣴⣎⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⢸⢸⡟⡗⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠛⢻⣿ ⣀⣀⢀⣠⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢸⠘⠁⠀⠀⠈⠘⢸⢾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⣿ ⠉⢩⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢸⠀⠀⢀⡀⡀⣀⣸⣼⣄⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻ ⠠⢬⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣛⠈⠀⠀⢨⠿⣯⠛⠓⠂⠀⠀⠈⠉⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠿⠀⠛⣿⣿⣿⠛⠿⡇⢿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⠘⣿⡿⡟⠠⢾ 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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣇⣠⣤⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢿⣿⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 212 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/06/14/growing-epo-crisis/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/06/14/growing-epo-crisis/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ EPO:_Privatising_Everything_and_Passing_Capital_to_Corrupt_Executives’ Pockets_(or_Monetising_the_Abolition_of_the_EPC)⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 2:05 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum a2e64cc9877a1cc3aada2e553a359a0f Important Month That Can Make or Break EPO Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/deciding-on-future-of-epo.webm Summary: The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation may make an important_decision_by_month's_end, but we predict that the_corrupt cabal will stay, deepening a_growing_EPO_crisis which spills over to the EU and other institutions THE EPO has an important decision to make this month. Will António_Campinos be tentatively shown the door? He clearly wants_to_stay, but he is breaking_the rules_of_the_Office and almost nobody in the Office trusts him. The video above covers this this_latest_inane_puff_piece (warning: epo.org link) and then discusses what’s next for the Office. 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This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ Amarok_Linux_XFCE_3.4.1⠀⇛ Today we are looking at Amarok Linux XFCE 3.4.1. It comes with Linux Kernel 5.10, XFCE 4.16, and uses about 600MB to 800MB of ram when idling. # ⚓ Video ☛ Amarok_Linux_XFCE_3.4.1_Run_Through_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at Amarok Linux XFCE 3.4.1. Enjoy! # ⚓ Video ☛ Why_The_Mesa,_Wayland_&_Xorg_Gitlab_Died_For_A_Day –_Invidious⠀⇛ For a day the Linux desktop effectively halted when the Freedesktop gitlab decided to die for a day due to a problem that anybody out there can face, whether you’re running a personal system or a massive server cluster a bit of faulty hardware. # ⚓ Video ☛ My_Frustrations_With_Linux_And_Its_Instability_– Invidious⠀⇛ One of the criticisms of Linux, especially from Windows and Mac users, is that Linux is unstable. And being strictly a Linux user for the last 15 years, I have to admit that desktop Linux can be unstable. In fact, a recent experience that I had was truly infuriating… o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.18.4⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 5.18.4 kernel. All users of the 5.18 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.18.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.18.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.17.15⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.47⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.122⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.198⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.247⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.283⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.9.318⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) ☛ Registration_Currently Sold_Out,_We’re_Trying_to_Add_More_Places_–_Linux_Plumbers Conference_2022⠀⇛ Back in 2021 when we were planning this conference, everyone warned us that we’d still be doing social distancing and that in-person conferences were likely not to be as popular as they had been, so we lowered our headcount to fit within a socially distanced venue. Unfortunately the enthusiasm of the plumbers community didn’t follow this conventional wisdom so the available registrations sold out within days of being released. We’re now investigating how we might expand the venue capacity to accommodate some of the demand for in- person registration, so stay tuned for what we find out. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ How_to_Use_Nohup_to_Run_Linux_Scripts Unattended_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ If you are building a robot, sensor platform, weather station then you don’t want the code to stop running when you disconnect from the terminal, and nohup is just the thing for you.In this how-to, we will learn how to use nohup via a series of examples There are times when you want to run a command, and leave it running even after you close a terminal window / SSH session. The simplest way is using nohup (no hangups) which will run any command or executable script long after we close the terminal. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Intellij_Idea_2022 Ultimate_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Intellij Idea 2022 Ultimate 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. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_manage_SSH_keys_on_Cockpit_for_remote SSH_key_authentication⠀⇛ Cockpit is an outstanding web-based GUI for managing your Linux servers. Most RHEL-based servers ship with Cockpit installed and make it easy to do things like manage services, storage, networking, containers, updates, user accounts, logs, SELinux and more. Another less obvious feature found in Cockpit is the ability to manage SSH keys for remote SSH key authentication. Imagine this: You log into Cockpit on your AlmaLinux server, and you want to then use SSH to log in to yet another server with the built- in terminal feature. What do you do? If you want to work with SSH key authentication because it’s more secure, you’ll want to make sure the remote server has the public key of the Cockpit server added. You can do this all from the command line, but there’s an easier way – especially if you use multiple SSH keys – built right into Cockpit. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_WineHQ_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WineHQ on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Wine (“Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is free and open-source software that provides the ability to run Windows software on non-Windows systems. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on the fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop. 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 WineHQ on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ eSecurity Planet ☛ Getting_Started_With_the_Metasploit Framework:_A_Pentesting_Tutorial_|_eSecurityPlanet⠀⇛ The Metasploit project contains some of the best security tools available, including the open source Metasploit Framework. Both pen testers and hackers use it to find and exploit vulnerabilities as well as to set up reverse shells, develop malicious payloads, or generate reports. # ⚓ How_to_Install_VNC_Server_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop sharing protocol that allows you to control a computer remotely using the VNC client software. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the VNC Server on the latest Ubuntu Server 22.04. This guide also covers how to securely connect to the VNC Server through SSh tunneling. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 8_Classic_Linux_Commands_and_Their_Modern Alternatives⠀⇛  With the growth of Linux, powerful alternatives to standard Linux commands have been developed by the community. Here are some of them. When you’re learning Linux, you may begin with the basic commands that have existed since the days of Unix. However, developers created the standard commands long ago, and currently, these commands are simplified for ease of use. As an intermediate or expert user, it is good to learn powerful alternatives to these commands and master them. These alternatives to classic commands save up your time and provide detailed results. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Best_Retro_Game_Consoles_in_2022⠀⇛ Tapping into nostalgia for gamers of all eras is possible with the influx of retro game consoles. If your formative years were in the late ‘80s to late ‘90s, the mere mention of “Friday nights” inspires unmatched levels of nostalgia. ABC’s TGIF lineup was pretty solid, Pizza Hut’s Bigfoot pie could feed a family for a weekend, and visiting Blockbuster Video was a rush of excitement. But none of these Friday night experiences were half as good as picking up a controller and sitting in front of a CRT television with friends to play the latest hit video game. Tapping into this time warp is now possible, with some of the best retro game consoles available on the market. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Valve_Releases_Proton_7.0-3_with_Support_for_19 Games_to_Play_on_Linux,_More_Improvements⠀⇛ Arriving one and a half months after Proton 7.0-2, the Proton 7.0-3 release is here to add support for more Windows games that you can now play on your GNU/Linux distribution through Steam Play/Proton. These include Age of Chivalry, Beneath a Steel Sky, Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamer Edition, Cities XXL, Cladun X2, Cursed Armor, Flanarion Tactics, Gary Grigsby’s War in the East, Gary Grigsby’s War in the West, Iragon: Prologue, MechWarrior Online, and many others. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.25_brings_new_gestures, better_support_for_2-in-1_tablets,_and_more customization_options⠀⇛ The latest version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment for Linux and other open source operating system is here and, among other things, KDE Plasma 5.25 brings support for new touchscreen and touchpad gestures, a new way for multitaskers to view all of their apps and desktops at once, and a bunch of new customization options. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.25_Comes_with_Another_Dose_of Customization_Capabilities⠀⇛ New touchpad gestures, syncing the accent color, and touch mode are some of the new features in the KDE Plasma 5.25 Desktop Environment. Regarding the desktop, the KDE Desktop Environment is one of the two hegemons in the Linux world. Adored by some and considered overcomplicated by others, it has a well- deserved top spot in the hearts of aesthetic connoisseurs over the years. Furthermore, its strong support over the years proves that KDE Plasma is a desktop environment on which any Linux user can rely. KDE Plasma, as we all know, is about the endless possibilities for personalization. And the just-released KDE Plasma 5.25 is no exception. Indeed, none of the fans of this desktop environment will be disappointed with another dose of enhancements and features it brings. So, let’s take a look at them. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ SUSECON_2022_highlights_include_container management,_edge [Ed: SUSE is selling complexity instead of GNU/Linux. It's also a proprietary software reseller.]⠀⇛ SUSE’s annual global conference, SUSECON, held virtually in June, was jam-packed with initiatives and information essential for the future of SUSE and for the open source market. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Elio_Qoshi_&_Redon_Skikuli_missing_from_OSCAL_agenda⠀⇛ The Albanian free software conference, OSCAL, takes place in Tirana this weekend. We notice that the controversial founders of the Open Labs hackerspace, Elio Qoshi and Redon Skikuli, are completely absent from the schedule. Elio Qoshi was named in the Ubuntu underage girl scandal, grooming women for Outreachy, in November 2021. We previously reported that his talk at FOSDEM vanished from the schedule. Redon Skikuli has been named by both Arjen Kamphuis and Anisa Kuci as one of the sources of harassment. Both of their emails are published in the debian.community WIPO dossier. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Don’t_Forget:_Ubuntu_21.10_Support_Ends_on July_14,_2022⠀⇛  I know what you’re thinking: “Already?!” — and yeah: it does feel like such a recent release. And yet its mandated nine months of support expires in a few weeks’ time. After this date those running the release will receive no more bug fixes, critical security fixes, or app updates. Well, almost no app updates. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ CER ☛ Getting_feedback_on_Teaspoon_Languages_from_CS educators_and_researchers_at_the_Raspberry_Pi_Foundation seminar_series_|_Computing_Education_Research_Blog⠀⇛ In May, I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the Raspberry Pi Foundation Seminar series. I’ve attended some of these seminars before. I highly recommend them (see past seminars here). It’s a terrific format. The speaker presents for up to a half hour, then everyone gets put into a breakout room for small group discussions. The participants and speaker come back for 30-35 minutes of intensive Q&A — at least, it feels “intensive” from the speaker’s perspective. The questions you get have been vetted through the breakout room process. They’re insightful, and sometimes critical, but always in a constructive way. I was excited about this opportunity because I wanted to make it a hands-on session where the CS teachers and researchers who attended might actually use some Teaspoon Languages and give me feedback on them. I have rarely had the opportunity to work with CS teachers, so I was excited for the opportunity. # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Raspberry_Pi_CM3E_joins_CM4S_in_the_old_SO- DIMM_form_factor_|_Jeff_Geerling⠀⇛ If you look closely, that’s a “Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3E”—which is so far not listed on Raspberry Pi’s website. This Pi joins the mythical Compute Module 4S as one of two Pi models mere mortals are unable to obtain—believe me, I’ve tried. The folks at Pi HQ in the UK apparently don’t even have them on their shelves. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Maker_Creates_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Powered PlayStation_Memory_Card⠀⇛ The best Raspberry Pi projects (opens in new tab) are the ones that address a need we didn’t know we had, and that’s certainly the case with this incredibly clever PlayStation memory card hack from Daniele Giuliani (opens in new tab), which uses a Raspberry Pi Pico (opens in new tab) board to fully emulate the console’s memory card, adding a USB interface so game saves can be copied on and off. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Khadas_VIM4_Review:_Faster_Than_a Raspberry_Pi_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ The Khadas VIM4 is faster than the fastest Raspberry Pi and offers more connectivity options, but it’s not currently compatible with the huge array HATs and other Pi add-on boards. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_RP2040_Sphere_Bedazzles_with Hundreds_of_Neopixels_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ We’ve seen Raspberry Pi-powered matrix cubes before but haven’t seen anything quite like this NeoPixel- covered sphere created by maker and developer Tom Verbeure. The bedazzled sphere is decked out with hundreds of RGB WS2812B LEDs that flash and illuminate with pre-programmed effects for a dazzling light show right at your fingertips. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android_Auto_in_your_old_car?_Sony_reveals_two_new_Android Auto_receivers_|_T3⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Qualcomm’s_Smartphone_for_Snapdragon_Insiders is_still_stuck_on_Android_11_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Android_12_stable_update_out_for_Oppo_Reno_7 5G,_K10,_A96⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ One_of_Samsung’s_best_mid-range_tablets_is getting_Android_12_as_its_second_and_final_OS_update_– PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ You_Can_Download_Android_13_Beta_3.1_on_Your_Phone Right_Now_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Unblock_a_Number_on_Android⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ IT Pro Today ☛ Beware_the_‘Secret_Agent’_Cloud_Middleware⠀⇛ New open source database details the software that cloud service providers typically silently install on enterprises’ virtual machines — often unbeknownst to customers. o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Higher_Ed_needs_to_step_up_to_stay_relevant_as_Open Source_floods_the_IT_world [Ed: So this is where Patrick Masson moved to after he quit OSI; Danese Cooper Cooper, who worked_for famous_criminal_Bill_Gates, is there too]⠀⇛ Grant money is pouring in to support institutions of higher education that are taking a strong position in the adoption of Open Source technologies. 82% of enterprise IT leaders are choosing to work with Open Source vendors, and higher education is stepping up and following suit. In order to stay competitive, campuses must take a critical look at how they manage IT portfolios and seriously consider a larger commitment to their own Open Source strategy. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) ☛ GIMP_2.10.32 Released⠀⇛  GIMP continues strengthening its bases as this new version 2.10.32 is quite heavy on bug fixes and improves our support for many image file formats. This news lists the most notable and visible changes. In particular, we do not list here the bug fixes. To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the NEWS file or look at the commit history. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GIMP_2.10.32_Released_with_Support_for_8/16-bit CMYK(A)_TIFF_Files,_BigTIFF⠀⇛ GIMP 2.10.32 is here almost six months after GIMP 2.10.30 with a bunch of cool changes, starting with support for importing 8-bit and 16-bit CMYK(A) TIFF files, support for importing and exporting BigTIFF files, as well as built-in support for JPEG XL files (without the need of a third-party plugin). o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_Ultimate_Emacs_Guide_for_Editing_Files_on Linux⠀⇛ Emacs is one of the oldest text editors you can find today. It has been in development for over 40 years as of the year 2022. Emacs is cross-platform, open-source, and versatile. You can use it for a wide range of things, from editing configuration files to programming and document processing. Understanding how to use this powerful editor can greatly improve your productivity on Linux. # ⚓ Frederic Cambus ☛ Assembly_instructions_distribution_| Frederic_Cambus⠀⇛ In my article about running FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU, I mentioned using objdump to disassemble kernels in order to check whether they were using CMOV instructions or not. One thing leading to another, I thought it would be fun to calculate the distribution of assembly instructions in ELF binaries. It turns out it can be done rather easily with a bit of Shell foo. For the purpose of this article, I used SQLite 3.38.5 (2022-05-06) built with GCC 12.1.1 on Fedora 36 using the default optimization level (-O2) as a target binary to test instructions distribution against. It is a self-contained, full-featured SQL database engine as a single binary, making it an excellent choice for our experiment. # ⚓ The_12_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_Python_Developers_• Python_Land_Blog⠀⇛ I’ve worked with many software developers, some of them fresh out of college and others seasoned professionals. This article lists some of the traits these people seem to have in common, and I’m confident that there’s something to learn for everyone in here, no matter your track record! # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Hopf_torus,_circle_by_circle⠀⇛ Remember my first post on the Hopf torus? I constructed it circle by circle. Below are some animations of this construction. I save the image each time a circle is added. The rgl package automatically centers the plot, and this gives a nice effect. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ my_interview_experience_with_hashicorp⠀⇛ I don’t get why companies are so apprehensive to provide constructive feedback. Simply “we are looking at other, more qualified applicants” or “you are a react fanboi” would be sufficient. There was no reason provided and they were being a little secretive about it. Maybe it’s about liability or they don’t want any opportunity for the applicant to be confrontational? It was nice to get a rejection phone call even though an email would be sufficient since it was pretty clear that they wanted to cut off all further communication. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Framebuffer_consoles_have_been_around_before on_Unix_workstations⠀⇛ The early Unix machines were what we would today call ‘servers’, and generally used serial terminals as their system console (well, they used serial ttys for pretty much everyone, but one of them was special). But then Unix workstations came along, which is to say small Unix machines with graphical displays. In theory these machines could have been designed to boot with their system console as a serial terminal (and often you could reconfigure them that way), but in practice that would have been rather awkward, so the graphics hardware and the graphical display were used as the system console. Which is to say that these machines had a framebuffer console, much like how modern Linux kernels work on x86 hardware. And just like modern Linux machines, these Unix workstations generally had surprisingly slow text output on their framebuffer consoles. (For example, you can watch the somewhat leisurely text output of the kernel boot messages in this video of a Sun 3/60 booting.) There generally were three reasons for this. First, these machines were just slow in general (by modern standards). Second, the machines were often using simple unaccelerated graphics to render their console text; using sophisticated code and hardware acceleration was generally something only the display server did (and there wasn’t always hardware acceleration). Among other things, this kept the complexity of the kernel framebuffer driver down. And third, they were generally rendering text on the entire screen, often with large fonts. This would be like the difference between a normal 80×24 terminal window with normal sized text and a full screen terminal window with big text, although today’s hardware often has fast enough text rendering that you might not notice much speed difference. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ New_Milky_Way_Visualizations_Show_the_Dance_of Millions_of_Stars_in_Incredible_Detail⠀⇛ ESA’s Gaia detected unusual ‘starquakes’ during its third survey of the galaxy. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ The_Transcripts_of_an_AI_That_a_Google_Engineer Claims_Is_Sentient_Are_Pretty_Wild⠀⇛ The story drew widespread media attention, stoking the fires of a familiar debate. Are contemporary language models really capable of gaining consciousness — or did Lemoine just see the image of his own humanity reflected back to him? o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_“Hertzbleed”_vulnerability_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Today’s branded, logo-equipped vulnerability is known as Hertzbleed; it affects x86 processors (at least) and can be exploited in some situations to extract cryptographic keys from a remote server. # ⚓ USCERT ☛ Microsoft_Releases_June_2022_Security_Updates [Ed: Microsoft has loads of unpatched and actively-exploited security holes, Microsoft-sponsored media obsesses over "Linux"]⠀⇛ Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. An attacker can exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft’s June 2022 Security Update Summary and Deployment Information and apply the necessary updates. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ New_botnet_and_cryptominer_Panchan_attacking Linux_servers [Ed: This is not an issue with Linux itself, but this Microsoft-funded site wants to shift attention away from actively-exploited and unpatched Microsoft flaws; it also spreads FUD about Go for merely being used to develop some malware]⠀⇛ Panchan is written in the Go programming language and utilizes Go’s concurrency features to maximize its spread and execute payloads. # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ This_new_Linux_rootkit_malware_is_already targeting_victims [Ed: Again, this is not an issue with Linux itself; it's some malware that can sometimes be installed on Linux, but that helps distract from deliberate back doors in Windows]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Windows_Updates_Patch_Actively_Exploited ‘Follina’_Vulnerability [Ed: Microsoft should be banned from technology procurement over this]⠀⇛ Microsoft has fixed roughly 50 vulnerabilities with its June 2022 Patch Tuesday updates, including the actively exploited flaw known as Follina and CVE- 2022-30190. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Avast:_New_Linux_Rootkit_and_Backdoor_Align Perfectly [Ed: Misportraying and conflating malware that gets installed on Linux with Linux itself]⠀⇛ Malware hunters at Avast have analyzed a newly discovered rootkit and backdoor that target Linux and appear designed to function in synergy with each other. # ⚓ The Cyber Wire ☛ Stealthy_Linux_malware._Aoqin_Dragon targets_Southeast_Asia_and_Australia._Iranian_spearphishing campaign._BlackCat_RaaS_described. [Ed: The issue is the malware, not Linux; Linux can be patched fully, but someone installing malware would still be a problem.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ USCERT ☛ CISA_Adds_One_Known_Exploited_Vulnerability_to Catalog [Ed: Notice how CISA refrains from naming Windows even though this is 100% about Windows and nothing but Windows; does CISA help Microsoft cover up another security scandal?]⠀⇛ CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Crumbling_CBM_Frameworks_and_the_Risk_of Inadvertent_Escalation⠀⇛ In 1962, the world witnessed the most precarious event in ages. The USA and USSR were engaged in a perilous standoff over the deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba and a small error or miscalculation could have reverted humanity into the Stone Age. # ⚓ HRW ☛ Rwanda:_Jailed_Critic_Denounces_Torture_in_Prison_| Human_Rights_Watch⠀⇛ Click to expand Image Aimable Karasira (left) and Dieudonné Niyonsenga (right). © Private (Nairobi) – A prominent Rwandan YouTube commentator has accused prison authorities of beating him and other jailed critics, Human Rights Watch said today. In a statement at a court hearing in Kigali on May 30, 2022, Aimable Karasira, held in Nyarugenge prison, also said prison authorities were intercepting and withholding privileged communications from his lawyer. Ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), scheduled to begin on June 20, 2022, in Rwanda, Commonwealth leaders should urgently call for the government to immediately and unconditionally release all those jailed for exercising their right to freedom of expression. Commonwealth leaders should also press the government to open credible investigations into allegations of torture and fair trial rights violations, and to initiate substantive reforms to tackle abusive provisions in Rwanda’s legal framework. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Ivory_Coast’s_Blé_Goudé_on_his_upcoming_return home_after_ICC_acquittal⠀⇛ After being definitively acquitted of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court last year, Charles Blé Goudé, the former right-hand man of ex-Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, is expected to soon return to Ivory Coast after more than a decade in exile. On May 30, Blé Goudé received an Ivorian passport via the current president, Alassane Ouattara. In an interview with FRANCE 24, Blé Goudé discussed his upcoming return home, as well as his political ambitions. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Control_of_Luhansk_and_Donbas Could_Hinge_on_Sievierodonetsk⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice ☛ The_Bitcoin_Crash_Is_Taking_El_Salvador’s_Big Bet_With_It⠀⇛ The ongoing crypto crash has managed to wipe out over 50 percent of the value of El Salvador’s Bitcoin hoard. The Nayib Bukele tracker, named after the country’s Bitcoin-obsessed president, records each purchase the country announces, its cost basis, total reserves, and average cost basis of those reserves. Bukele has purchased 2,301 Bitcoins at an average cost of $45,908 and a total cost of $105.6 million. Today, with the price of Bitcoin hovering around $22,000, El Salvador’s reserves have shed 51 percent of their value and are worth $51.6 million. El Salvador’s embrace of Bitcoin has been bombastic, and widely lambasted by critics inside the country and out. Shortly before its most recent purchase on May 9, rating agency Moody’s downgraded the country’s debt. Before that, in January, the IMF recommended that El Salvador liquidate its Bitcoin holdings and abandon the cryptocurrency as legal tender, resulting in an angry rebuke from the government: Treasury Minister Alejandro Zelaya saying on local television that “no international organization is going to make us do anything, anything at all.” # ⚓ RE:_RE:_The_useful_part_of_cryprocurrency⠀⇛ My fault. I should have make it clear in my post. I mean “secure” by cryptographically secure, not “secure” as in “you won’t loose money because market or scams” secure. “Not your keys, not your Crypto” would be a good way to put it. Signing Bitcoin transactions using your key is secure because . Just like you can’t sign your emails with RMS’ digital signacutre without his actual key. Your Bitcoin won’t magically disappear witout you (or be accurate, someone with your private key, which hopefully is only you alone) signing the transaction. In contrast with credit cards, knowing the card number and CVC is enough to initiate a transaction. Or a rogue bank manager can sign you up for a credit card without your actual consent. Breaking ECDSA is much, much harder than faking your (hand) signature. [...] I do agree with his other points. It’s too volatile to be any good use for transaction. Too inefficent using up power and caused the GPU price hike. Yeiks. Energy consumption can be solved by transition to PoS for forgo the entire blockchain structure. Lock-free decentralized 0-trust consistant avaliable anonymous transaction is really hard. Yet, these are solvable with more engineering (and less hype). I don’t think gas fee is much of a problem. For the use cases I presented, overseans transaction. Typically it’s around 3% using banks. And more if an intermediary is involved. If I were to buy a $5000 server from Supermicro, the fee lands around $150. But with XMR the worst case is around 0.7USD and average of $0.02 2 weeks ago. ETH is at ~20USD few weeks back. That’s a bargain. Furthermore, the transaction fee of XMR is comparable with a credit card for anything > $6.00. And the ~2min transaction time is good enough for online shopping. # ⚓ CBC ☛ When_stocks,_houses_and_crypto_fall,_where_does all_that_money_go?_|_CBC_News⠀⇛ Seven months ago, there was a celebratory mood in the air for crypto traders as the two best-known cryptocurrencies, bitcoin and ethereum, shot to new highs. Advocates said “told you so,” as financial journalists reported that the value of the global crypto market had soared to a stunning new record of about $3 trillion US. A trillion — a million millions, or a one followed by 12 zeros — is one of those numbers so big it is hard to grasp in comparison to our daily lives. A trillion dollars would buy more than 1.3 million Canadian homes. If you kept it in cash, it would give you $1 million a day in spending money for 3,000 years. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ China_sets_information_blockade_after_6.0_magnitude earthquake_hits_Tibetan_county_—_Radio_Free_Asia⠀⇛ The Chinese government is imposing an information lockdown after a series of earthquakes in a Tibetan county in Sichuan province displaced more than 25,000 residents, RFA has learned. The initial quake, measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, hit Barkam (Maerkang in Chinese), a county- level city in the Ngawa (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, at 1:28 a.m. June 10, Beijing time, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) reported. According to a state-run media report, the quake injured at least one person and 1,314 rescuers were dispatched to the area. An estimated 25,790 residents of the area were transferred and resettled. “Most of the houses [in affected areas] are destroyed and many have sustained extensive damage,” a source told RFA’s Tibetan Service Friday on condition of anonymity for security reasons. “Many people have been left injured, but I haven’t heard any death reports so far.” o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Brazilian_police_deny_bodies_found_in_search_for UK_journalist,_indigenous_expert⠀⇛ Brazilian authorities say they have found a backpack and personal effects of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert who disappeared in the Amazon last week, with the Briton’s mother- in-law saying she has lost hope that they will emerge alive. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Vietnam_state_media_trained_to_protect_government policies_—_Radio_Free_Asia⠀⇛ Reporters and editors employed by state media outlets in Vietnam are being trained to uphold the views of the ruling Communist Party on human rights, freedom of expression and other politically sensitive topics, sources in the country say. Vietnam’s government appears especially sensitive to foreign criticism on human rights issues, frequently attacking allegations of abuse or the suppression of free speech as the work of hostile forces, according to rights groups and other activists. Trainings are now held each year to ensure that those working in Vietnam’s state-owned media work within limits set by the government and ruling party, Nguyen Ngoc Vinh — former managing editor of the country’s popular Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper — told RFA in an interview. # ⚓ ANF News ☛ ANF_|_837_journalists_and_62_institutions:_We stand_by_our_colleagues_detained_in_Amed⠀⇛ 837 journalists and 62 institutions issued a joint statement in solidarity with colleagues detained in Amed. The statement said: “We, the undersigned professional press organizations and journalists, condemn the ruthless detention of Kurdish journalists and press workers by police raids on Wednesday, June 8th. We invite everyone, especially the opposition, which has claims about law, justice, equality, freedom and democracy, and who intend to prepare for the Turkey of the future, to stand in solidarity with our colleagues in detention and take a stand against the violence of the government.” # ⚓ HRW ☛ Afghanistan’s_Taliban_Crack_Down_on_Vloggers_|_Human Rights_Watch⠀⇛ Click to expand Image Ajmal Haqiqi (center) and two colleagues after their arrest, Kabul, June 7, 2021. Source: General Directorate of Intelligence, Twitter, June 7, 2022 https://twitter.com/GDI1415/ status/1534212175488864256 On June 7, Afghan vlogger Ajmal Haqiqi – well known for his YouTube channel and modeling shows – appeared in a very different kind of broadcast. Taliban officials arrested Haqiqi and his three colleagues and released a video showing the men, with bruised faces and clearly under duress, apologizing for encouraging “prostitution” and “insulting verses of the Quran.” On May 28, the four had posted a YouTube video in which they recited Quranic verses in Arabic in a comical tone. Within a week, the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) had detained them. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Belarus_dictator_targets_trade_unions amid_fears_over_anti-war_mood⠀⇛ Belarus dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka has initiated steps to dissolve the country’s independent trade unions as repressive measures continue amid widespread disquiet on the domestic front over the Belarusian role in Putin’s Ukraine War. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Why_Everyone_Needs_a_Blog⠀⇛ In this post I’m going to convince you why everyone needs a blog. Even you. [...] People used to be defined by where they work, and now they’re defined by their knowledge, capabilities, and opinions. Everyone in the 1950s had a resume; it was unthinkable not to have one. Why is that? The reason is that the primary communication of value and worth was from the person to a company you wanted to work at. Your value was what you could provide to a company, not what you could provide to other humans outside your circle. The only people who had ideas worth sharing with the world were authors, and they were considered super- human. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1624 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_14/06/2022:_EuroLinux_9.0_and_Kdenlive_22.04.2⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:49 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers # Mozilla o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o Programming/Development # Rust * Leftovers o Proprietary o Security # Fear,_Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation # Privacy/Surveillance o Environment # Energy o Censorship/Free_Speech * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_USA_–_California_– LinuxLinks⠀⇛ California is a state in the Western United States. California borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south; and has a coastline along the Pacific Ocean to the west. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.25:_Colorful,_touch_friendly,_now_with floating_panels!_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ openSUSE_15.4_overview_|_The_makers’_choice_for sysadmins,_developers_and_desktop_users._–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of openSUSE 15.4 overview and some of the applications pre-installed. # ⚓ Video ☛ Modernize_your_Linux_Storage_with_btrfs!_– Invidious⠀⇛ When it comes to filesystems, btrfs is definitely a bird of another color! In this video, Jay from Learn Linux TV will break down some of the finer- points of this modern filesystem, which will include topics such as how it differs from other technologies, how to take snapshots, creating a btrfs volume of your own, and more! o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Linux_Kernel_5.17_Reaches_End_of_Life,_Users Urged_to_Upgrade_to_Linux_5.18⠀⇛  Linux kernel 5.17 was released on March 20th, 2022, and it appears to be the shortest-lived kernel series to date. After only fifteen maintenance releases, Linux kernel 5.17 has now reached its end of life, which means that no further security updates will be provided for this branch in the future. Therefore, all GNU/Linux distribution maintainers and users who like to compile their own kernels or install the newest from third-party repositories are now urged to upgrade their systems to the latest and greatest Linux 5.18 kernel series, which was also updated today to version 5.18.4. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Amberol_&_G4Music_–_The_Best_Looking Music_Players_for_Linux_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ There are quite a few music player applications for Linux. Amberol and G4Music are two of them with really good looking UI design. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Set_Up_a_Postfix_Mail_Server_on Debian⠀⇛ E-mail is one of the most basic messaging methods used since the development of the internet. This has led to the development of many messaging tools and protocols. There are protocols for the compatible operation of systems with different architectures. E-mail servers perform tasks such as not losing user e-mails, and assisting users in accessing their e-mails when they’re online. The tools that provide e-mail transmission on local intranets and the internet are called Mail Transfer Agents (MTA). # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_To_Exclude_Matches,_Directories_Or_Files_with Grep_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ In this article we’ll learn about with a wide range of features to exclude directories, skipping files and selecting non-matching results while searching files with grep. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_use_the_scp_command_in_Linux_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ When you want to transfer a file from one Linux computer to another, you have several options, some of which are GUI tools and some that are not. One of the most popular methods of transferring files also happens to be one of the more secure. That method is by way of the scp command. Scp stands for Secure Copy and is part of the SSH tool, which nearly every Linux distribution includes out of the box. That means you don’t have to install any extra software to get this done. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Create_SFTP_User_in_Ubuntu_22.04_(No Shell_Access)_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ SFTP is a protocol that allows for the secure transfer of files over a network. It is often used by businesses and individuals to transfer sensitive data. SFTP is similar to FTP but uses a different protocol for communication. SFTP is more secure than FTP and is often used in conjunction with SSH (Secure Shell) to provide an even higher level of security. In this tutorial, we will help you to set up an SFTP server and create an SFTP-only user on Ubuntu 22.04 systems. That account can connect over SFTP but is not able to connect over SSH. Also, this will restrict (chroot) the SFTP user to a specific directory only. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Cockpit_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Cockpit on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, The cockpit is a free and open-source web-based graphical interface for servers. It helps advance users in quickly updating, enabling services, restarting the system, accessing Docker containers, Network, storage management, and all above the web-based terminal to issue commands remotely on a server. 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 Cockpit web-based graphical interface for servers on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Import_Your_Photos_Easily_from iPhone_to_Ubuntu_22.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ It’s easy to make backup of your iPhone’s photos, since Ubuntu now has out-of-the-box support for accessing iOS files. To make life easy, the gThumb image organizer can even pop-up the photo import dialog automatically once your iPhone is plugged in via USB port. # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ How_To_Edit_Ubuntu_Bootloader_Menu_Made Simple⠀⇛ Do you want to change Ubuntu’s GNU GRUB menu at startup time? Either it is disabling it completely or just editing the text to suit your needs, you can do it all. Here’s the tutorial for you made simple. # ⚓ Techtown ☛ How_to_check_the_MySQL_version_on_Linux_– Techtown⠀⇛ Having a MySQL instance is quite normal in a server or workstation where you work with database connections with this program. The problem arises when we do not know the version of MySQL that the system has. And this can cause some compatibility issues with applications. The solution? Read this post, where you will learn how to check the MySQL version on Linux. I don’t know if it is the most popular, but MySQL is for sure one of the most important database managers that you can use, even if it has MariaDB as a competitor. For this very reason, many applications use it as their trusted data manager. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.25:_Top_New_Features_and Release_Details⠀⇛ KDE Plasma 5.25 is the 27th version of KDE Plasma desktop, not an LTS release. This release is followed by the prior 5.24 LTS, released in February. KDE Plasma 5.25 brings several exciting updates on the desktop UI, polished applets, widgets, a good set of gesture updates for touch-based devices and a massive list of bug fixes. Plasma 5.25 is based on Qt 5.15.2 and KDE Frameworks 5.94. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.25_Released_with_Dynamic Accent_Colour,_Floating_Panel⠀⇛ KDE team announced today the general availability of the KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop environment for download. The 27th release of KDE Plasma desktop – KDE Plasma 5.25 is here, followed by the prior 5.24 LTS release. Coming after almost five months, this release is significant because for the first time, you get the dynamic accent colour which changes based on the wallpaper. In addition, you can also take advantage of the floating panel, more gesture support for touch-based devices, a massive list of bug fixes and many under-the-hood changes. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Plasma_5.25.0_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Version 5.25.0 of the KDE-based Plasma desktop has been released. New features include support for touchpad and touchscreen gestures, an “overview” mode for navigating between windows, additional color configuration options, and more. # ⚓ Plasma_5.25:_Amazement_Guaranteed_–_Kockatoo_Tube⠀⇛ Plasma 5.25 brings new features and concepts to the desktop environment. Check out how you can now handle your desktop through gestures on your touchpad or touchscreen, the advanced and easy to use customization features, an improved and very useful Overview, and much, much more. # ⚓ Kdenlive_22.04.2_Released_–_Kdenlive⠀⇛ The polishing and stability effort of this release cycle continues with the release Kdenlive 22.04.2 which comes with bug fixes to the AppImage and Mac packages, render widget, same track transitions, subtitles and project loading issues. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ EuroLinux_9.0_released⠀⇛ On June 13, 2022, we released version 9.0 of the EuroLinux operating system. It is compatible with the latest upstream release. This release focuses on providing improved default cryptographic policies, a 5.14 kernel, a graphical management interface via a web panel, and improvements related to cloud, virtualization and containerization. “Nine” also introduces a major update in the form of the GNOME 40 desktop environment (with modern GTK 4). An important change for those who want to use EuroLinux on x86_64 architecture, is the need to have a processor supporting x86_64-v2 microarchitecture (also on virtual machines) o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ CentOS ☛ CentOS_Community_Newsletter,_June_2022⠀⇛ CentOS is hosting an online Dojo this Friday, June 17, from 14:00 to 20:00 UTC. CentOS Dojos are free miniconferences with talks on a variety of topics from CentOS and the wider Enterprise Linux ecosystem. This Dojo features seven talks, along with an informal chat with the CentOS Board of Directors. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Save_time_and_money_with_Red_Hat Insights_Compliance_reporting⠀⇛ Organizations across the globe continue to focus on managing security and risk compliance as the threat landscape evolves. Funding for IT security remains the top priority for many enterprises, as reported in the 2022 Global Tech Outlook report, published by Red Hat earlier this year. When it comes to managing security and regulatory compliance risks, enterprises face an increasing number of challenges. One of these is managing the regulatory compliance of IT infrastructure to various cybersecurity policies (e.g. PCI, HIPAA, CIS, etc.). This is an ongoing, constantly-evolving need. As an enterprise, managing the regulatory compliance of your infrastructure without any disruption to the business has become a critical exercise. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Dashamir_Hoxha_&_Debian_harassment⠀⇛ Thanks to the WIPO legal dossier, we now have more evidence of the source of harassment in Debian. We previously reported on a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) intern from Bhopal, India, who was not paid the full stipend. It raises numerous questions: the intern who failed, Deepanshu Gajbhiye, had done more technical work than the Albanian woman who received $6,000 for Outreachy in 2019. Today we release another fact: Deepanshu’s mentor was an Albanian, Dashamir Hoxha. Deepanshu had sent a written complaint about the mentor. The complaint was escalated to the Debian anti-harassment team and they did nothing. We feel the Debian anti- harassment team has protected the Albanians because the Albanians bring pretty young female interns to conferences. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Firefox_Rolls_Out_Total_Cookie_Protection By_Default_To_All_Users⠀⇛ Starting today, Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to all Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most private and secure major browser available across Windows and Mac. Total Cookie Protection is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created, thus preventing tracking companies from using these cookies to track your browsing from site to site. Whether it’s applying for a student loan, seeking treatment or advice through a health site, or browsing an online dating app, massive amounts of your personal information is online — and this data is leaking all over the web. The hyper-specific-to-you ads you so often see online are made possible by cookies that are used to track your behavior across sites and build an extremely sophisticated profile of who you are. Recent stories (including an excellent Last Week Tonight episode) have shown how robust, yet under-the-radar, the data selling economy is and how easy it is for anyone to buy your data, combine it with more data about you and use it for a variety of purposes, even beyond advertising. # ⚓ LWN ☛ “Total_cookie_protection”_from_Firefox_ [LWN.net]⠀⇛ Mozilla has announced the enabling of its “total cookie protection” feature in all versions of the Firefox browser. # ⚓ FOSSLife ☛ Thunderbird_on_Android_Plans_Announced⠀⇛ Open source, cross-platform email client Thunderbird has announced plans to provide Thunderbird on Android and iOS devices. According to Jason Evangelho in the announcement, K-9 Mail has officially joined the Thunderbird family and will ultimately transform into Thunderbird on Android. Additionally, K-9 Mail’s project maintainer, Christian Ketterer, has joined the Thunderbird staff. “This move allows Thunderbird users to have a powerful, privacy-respecting email experience today on Android. Plus, it lets the community help shape the transition of K-9 Mail into a fully featured mobile Thunderbird experience,” Evangelho says. # ⚓ Tiny_Bookmark_Tab_WebExtension⠀⇛ I’ve been using a custom Firefox web extension for my homepage for nearly a year now. It’s just a tree-list of my browser’s bookmarks. It’s built for speed; no extra features already provided by the browser (like bookmark organization). o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ WackoWiki_is_a_New_Open-source_Wiki_Engine⠀⇛ WackoWiki is a free, open-source light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine. Supports WYTIWYG- editing, page rights (ACLs), design themes (skins), file upload, email notification and much more. Compatible with PHP 7.3 – 8.1 and MariaDB / MySQL. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Nibble_Stew:_Attempting_to_create_an aesthetic_global_line_breaking_algorithm⠀⇛ As you can easily tell, line breaks made at the beginning of the chapter affect the potential line breaks you can do later. Sometimes it is worth it to make a locally non-optimal choice at the beginning to get a better line break possibility much later. Evaluating a global metric like this can be potentially slow, which is why interactive programs like LibreOffice do not use this method. The classical way of solving this problem is to use dynamic programming. It has the requirement that the problem must conform to a requirement called the Bellman optimality condition (or, if you are into rocketry, the Pontryagin maximum principle). This is perhaps best illustrated with an example: suppose you are in Paris and want to drive to Venice. This requires picking some path to drive that is “optimal” for your requirements. Now suppose we know that Zürich is along the path of this optimal route. The requirement basically says, then, that the optimal route you take from Paris to Zürich does not in any way affect the optimal route from Zürich to Venice. That is, the two paths can be routed independently of each other. This is true for the basic form of Knuth-Plass line breaking. It is not true for line breaking in practice. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Everything_Is_Broken:_Shipping_rust- minidump_at_Mozilla_–_Part_1_–_Mozilla_Hacks_–_the_Web developer_blog⠀⇛ For the last year I’ve been leading the development of rust-minidump, a pure-Rust replacement for the minidump-processing half of google-breakpad. Well actually in some sense I finished that work, because Mozilla already deployed it as the crash processing backend for Firefox 6 months ago, it runs in half the time, and seems to be more reliable. (And you know, isn’t a terrifying ball of C++ that parses and evaluates arbitrary input from the internet. We did our best to isolate Breakpad, but still… yikes.) This is a pretty fantastic result, but there’s always more work to do because Minidumps are an inky abyss that grows deeper the further you delve… wait no I’m getting ahead of myself. First the light, then the abyss. Yes. Light first. What I can say is that we have a very solid implementation of the core functionality of minidump parsing+analysis for the biggest platforms (x86, x64, ARM, ARM64; Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android). But if you want to read minidumps generated on a PlayStation 3 or process a Full Memory dump, you won’t be served quite as well. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Genre_vs_Literature⠀⇛ There are a lot of beloved-by-me stories in that first category, like Snow Crash on the heels of the Sprawl Trilogy, or From A Buick 8 in the tradition of Chambers or Bierce, but I can still see why people sometimes wanna make this division as some sort of litmus test or indicator when they look for Great Literature—not a perfect test by any means because there are both false positives and false negatives, but still somewhat useful as one kind of data point. Where they lose me, though, and what I can’t get behind, is when they take the presence of anything supernatural, fantastic, otherworldly, technological, speculative—in short, anything fantastic—as a reason to dismiss a book as “genre”. Then they lose their collective proverbials and awe at the sight of Marquez and his “magical realism”. o ⚓ samoświadomość:_ucieczki_cel_ostateczny_/_self-awareness:_the ultimate_goal_of_the_escape⠀⇛ First, what kind of escape am I talking about. A strategic retreat? An escape to save higher goals? Nope. On the other side of the spectrum, is it about simple procrastination, creative procrastination that I have control over and can stop when I want to o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ How_to_set_Firefox_as_your_default_browser_on Windows [Ed: Delete Windows. Microsoft cannot be trusted with users' preferences.]⠀⇛ During a software update, your settings can sometimes change or revert back to their original state. For example, if your computer has multiple browsers installed, you may end up with a different default browser than Firefox. That’s easy to fix so that Firefox is there for you when you expect it, like when you click on web links in email and other apps. With Firefox set as your default Windows browser, you’ll be automatically guarded from invasive tracking methods like fingerprinting and cryptomining, thanks to Firefox’s technology that blocks more than 10,000,000,000 trackers every day including Total Cookie Protection. (See what Firefox has blocked for you.) Your bookmarks, history, open tabs, form information and passwords are accessible wherever you’re logged into Firefox, from your PC to your phone to your tablet. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Hertzbleed_Attack⠀⇛ Hertzbleed is a new family of side-channel attacks: frequency side channels. In the worst case, these attacks can allow an attacker to extract cryptographic keys from remote servers that were previously believed to be secure. # ⚓ Google ☛ Project_Zero:_An_Autopsy_on_a_Zombie_In-the-Wild 0-day⠀⇛ Whenever there’s a new in-the-wild 0-day disclosed, I’m very interested in understanding the root cause of the bug. This allows us to then understand if it was fully fixed, look for variants, and brainstorm new mitigations. This blog is the story of a “zombie” Safari 0-day and how it came back from the dead to be disclosed as exploited in-the-wild in 2022. CVE-2022-22620 was initially fixed in 2013, reintroduced in 2016, and then disclosed as exploited in-the-wild in 2022. If you’re interested in the full root cause analysis for CVE-2022-22620, we’ve published it here. In the 2020 Year in Review of 0-days exploited in the wild, I wrote how 25% of all 0-days detected and disclosed as exploited in-the-wild in 2020 were variants of previously disclosed vulnerabilities. Almost halfway through 2022 and it seems like we’re seeing a similar trend. Attackers don’t need novel bugs to effectively exploit users with 0-days, but instead can use vulnerabilities closely related to previously disclosed ones. This blog focuses on just one example from this year because it’s a little bit different from other variants that we’ve discussed before. Most variants we’ve discussed previously exist due to incomplete patching. But in this case, the variant was completely patched when the vulnerability was initially reported in 2013. However, the variant was reintroduced 3 years later during large refactoring efforts. The vulnerability then continued to exist for 5 years until it was fixed as an in-the-wild 0-day in January 2022. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Fedora (golang-github-docker-libnetwork and moby-engine), Mageia (apache, docker-containerd, kernel, kernel- linus, nats-server, and php-smarty), Slackware (php), SUSE (gimp, grub2, thunderbird, u-boot, and xen), and Ubuntu (firefox, liblouis, ncurses, and rsync). # ⚓ InfoWorld ☛ Detect_cloud_native_security_threats_with Tracee_|_InfoWorld⠀⇛ Open source Tracee uses Linux eBPF technology to trace system and applications at runtime, and analyzes collected events to detect suspicious behavioral patterns. # ⚓ LinuxSecurity ☛ The_Three_Best_Tools_You_Need_to_Scan_Your Linux_System_for_Malware⠀⇛ While Linux Servers are already extremely secure by default, there are extra steps you can and should take if you do have a Linux Server instance running. As with any system, vulnerabilities still exist and can wreak havoc if proper prevention and security best practices are not implemented. Of course, the most well known and most basic security tip people will tell you is to keep up to date with updates and security patches. (As we all should!) However, this will only do so much. Linux being amongst one of the most widely implemented and deployed operating systems makes it an attractive target for cybercriminals trying to steal your information, install malicious files on your system, and even try to run malicious scripts to take control of your system. # § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_“Symbiote”_Malware_Is_Almost_Impossible_to Detect [Ed: Now the Microsofters join in. Focus off Windows.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ Symbiote_Malware_Poses_Stealthy, Linux-Based_Threat_to_Financial_Industry⠀⇛ # ⚓ Threat Post ☛ Linux_Malware_Deemed_‘Nearly Impossible’_to_Detect⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Stop_the_deal:_U.S._defense_contractor_to buy_NSO_Group_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ According to reports, U.S. defense contractor L3Harris Tech plans to acquire sanctioned spyware maker NSO Group. NSO Group has been in the international spotlight for their facilitation of human rights abuses around the world, from Palestine to El Salvador to Poland. The spyware was also used to target U.S. diplomats’ phones. These ongoing revelations have led to the U.S. government and other stakeholders taking a number of actions against the company. Notably, the Biden administration added NSO to its blocked Entity List for violating U.S. national security. This move was so consequential that it reportedly pushed NSO to the brink of financial collapse, leading the firm to consider shutting down Pegasus and selling the company in its entirety. Earlier this year, U.S. venture capital firm Integrity Partners was in its final stage of negotiations to purchase NSO. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_The_useful_part_of_cryptocurrency⠀⇛ Let’s imagine that you’re concerned about climate change. You’ve decided to leave the city and move to a place where you can grow your own food (or at least some of it). You settle on a part of the country where continued access to fresh water is fairly likely and summer heatwaves won’t become too bad — in the US and Canada this might be near the Great Lakes. This feels like a wise thing to do. You go to landwatch.com and find an old farm for sale. Compared to property in your city, it’s pretty cheap. You reason that the profitability of the land has been steadily declining for conventional farmers — they need to pour more money into fertilizers, pesticides, and the patented seed that can withstand those, and their margins have become unbearably tight. “Okay,” you reason, “I’m going to spend the next few years building the soil back up and not producing much food — but that’s fine — I will be a responsible steward for this land so it will be healthy and able to feed people when things get dire.” That’s what you’re worried about anyway. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Art_that_Broke_the_Mold⠀⇛ I ended up really liking both seasons of Anita’s feminist video game show that she did with McIntosh. I was watching the episodes as they were released and they helped me get back into gaming with her encouragement to both enjoy and criticize media, which helped me to enjoy the good parts of these these disturbing games. I was surprised that I liked them as much since I had thought (I wasn’t a crowdfunding backer); her first show (about tropes generally, not just games) was basic and overly 101 and “doesn’t everyone know this?” (Gamergate showed how very, very wrong I was about that, and now I think that show was good since those “101” basic points was not was universally agreed-upon and known as I believed.) ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2537 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_14/06/2022:_KDE_Plasma_5.25_and_FreeCAD_0.20⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 10:26 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o WINE_or_Emulation o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers # Mozilla o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku * Leftovers o Hardware o Security # Fear,_Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Diary_of_an_HTL_Student_#1⠀⇛ Also I am one of three people who use linux in my class o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Release_notes_0.20_–_FreeCAD_Documentation⠀⇛ FreeCAD 0.20 was released on 14 June 2022, get it from the Download page. This page lists all new features and changes. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_KDE_Plasma_5.25_from_5.24⠀⇛ A beginner’s guide to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.25 from Plasma 5.24 desktop environment via terminal and GUI method. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_VidCutter_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install VidCutter on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, VidCutter is a simple video editing cross-platform program for Linux, Windows, and Mac. It is built on Python and Qt5, using FFmpeg as back-end decoding and encoding. It has tools for cutting all sorts of media, but it’s not a full- blown video editor instead, its focus lies solely on slicing up videos into clips you could then upload onto your website. 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 VidCutter on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian- based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well. # ⚓ OSNote ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_Podman_on_Rocky_Linux_8_– OSNote⠀⇛ Podman is a free and open-source daemonless container engine that was developed by RedHat. It exists to help developers manage and deploy their applications in a Linux environment. Similar to the Kubernetes platform, Podman works with pods. Podman seeks to be the alternative to the Docker engine which is also a containerization platform. Podman improves on Docker by decentralizing the components needed for container management. Podman has a few distinguishing differences, the main one being its architecture. It runs on a daemonless architecture. This article will guide you on how to install and use podman on Rocky Linux 8 # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Install_AlmaLinux_9.0_Step_by_Step⠀⇛ AlmaLinux is a free and open-source community- driven operating system developed as a perfect alternative to CentOS 8 which RedHat discontinued in favor of CentOS Stream. It is 1:1 binary compatible with RHEL and is built to support enterprise and production-grade workloads. AlmaLinux first graced the Linux community on 30th, March 2021 with AlmaLinux 8.4 as the first release. AlmaLinux 9 was released on 26, May 2022. Codenamed Emerald Puma, AlmaLinux 9 provides an array of new features and enhancements to improve user experience and functionality. In this guide, we will walk you through the installation of AlmaLinux 9.0. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Install_and_Upgrade_Nvidia_Drivers_on Ubuntu_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ This tutorial will take you through different methods that you can apply to update your Nvidia GPU drivers to their latest version. Nvidia cards use an open-source Nouveau driver by default but this driver does not harness the full power of this GPU and can underperform. The proprietary Nvidia drivers are required if you want your GPU to perform to its fullest. You can update your drivers using several methods and we will go through each technique one by one so that you can choose the one you prefer the most. The different ways you can update your Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu are listed below and after going through them you will be able to perform these tasks yourself. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_interrupt_the_Linux_boot_process |_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ During a computer’s boot process, you must transition from a firmware (UEFI or BIOS) process to loading a kernel and then finally to the user environment. When booting a POSIX system, you can choose to interrupt the boot process to adjust settings or even to log in using a chroot environment. This is a useful troubleshooting and maintenance technique, but it’s also the reason it’s so important to utilize full disk encryption when installing your operating system. When a drive is encrypted, nothing on the drive is accessible without your passphrase, even from a preboot environment. As long as you have the passphrase to decrypt your drive, you can interrupt a Linux system’s boot process and access the drive without booting into a full operating system (OS). # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Change_Nginx_80_Port_in_Linux_–_TREND OCEANS⠀⇛ Nginx is an open-source lightweight web server alternative to apache to handle high-traffic websites. With all its due features, it can easily manage to load balance and reverse proxy for your site or can be used as a mail server proxy as a POP and IMAP. By default, Nginx runs on port 80 to handle web traffic requests, which can be changed to something else by editing the configuration files. Today, you will learn how to change the Nginx port in Linux in a few simple steps. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ WINE Project (Official) ☛ Gitlab_experiment_wrapup⠀⇛ Folks, Here's a summary of the Gitlab experiment discussion, with some additional comments. Thanks to everybody who sent their feedback! * Things that people like: - Fetching commits directly with git instead of applying patches from emails (Huw, Jacek, Paul, Zeb). Indeed that's a major help for me as well. - Better tracker, easy to see the list of pending reviews (Huw). - Possibility to host more Wine projects, as well as private Wine trees to share WIP patches (Jacek). Indeed it would be nice to have all Wine projects in one place instead of the current mix of github/sourceforge/etc. - Potential for automation (Jacek). Gitlab offers many services that we will be able to take advantage of, the most obvious being CI for the testbot. Having all the data in a proper database instead of free-form emails should make it possible to do other interesting things as well. * Some other things I like: - Updating status doesn't need to go through me, people can assign reviewers, supersede patches, etc. directly. That reduces my workload and improves the bus factor. Once we have figured out how to make testbot results reliable, we could also have maintainers merge commits directly. - The full discussion thread for a given MR is readily accessible, it doesn't require hunting down the multiple revisions of a patch and associated threads in the mailman archive. * Things that could be improved: - Signoffs are a bit cumbersome (Rémi). We should change the requirements to something better adapted to Gitlab. - It's only possible to approve the whole MR, not individual commits (Huw, Zeb). I think that's an acceptable trade- off, but we could imagine other approaches. - The mailing list gateway creates too much noise; mixing comments from Gitlab and mailing list isn't very clean (Jacek, Rémi, Alex). We can make some tweaks, or use a separate list, or even rethink the approach of the mail gateway. - Gitlab threading support is limited, nested comment threads are not supported (Zeb). That's true, but looking through the past few months of patch reviews, it seems that we almost never use nested threads, so I think we can live with that limitation. - Reviewers can push fixups to commits, but that requires the author to grant explicit permission (Jacek). Hopefully we can tweak access rights to allow this by default. * Conclusion I think Gitlab is working well for us, and most people seem generally happy with it. So my plan is to go forward and make Gitlab the main development platform for Wine. I'll start working on the transition, and on the improvements mentioned above. Any help will be welcome! I'll be posting a roadmap shortly. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Plasma_5.25⠀⇛ Plasma 5.25 brings new features and concepts to the desktop environment. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.25_Desktop_Environment_Is Out_Now,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛ Four months in the making, the KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop environment series is here to introduce exciting new features like full control of the Tablet Mode from both Wayland and X11 sessions, new finger-following (1:1) touchpad gestures for touch-friendly devices, a configuration window for KRunner, as well as a new floating mode for the panel that detaches it from the bottom of the screen to look more like a dock. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.25_Release_is_All_About Color,_Theme,_and_Other_Improvements_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛ KDE Plasma 5.25 has been one of the most anticipated releases, considering its recent focus on visual refinements and workflow improvements. For instance, you got an updated Breeze theme and a new overview effect to improve the workflow with KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS. Finally, KDE Plasma 5.25 has landed with more upgrades! # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ 5_New_Features_in_KDE_Plasma_5.25_–_OMG! Ubuntu!⠀⇛ This week sees the release of KDE Plasma 5.25, the latest version of the hugely popular free and open source desktop environment. KDE Plasma 5.25 serves as the follow-up to KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS, last year’s sizeable and well-received long-term support update. Although the new update isn’t an LTS it does boast over 400 bug fixes and a number of interesting new features that users will be keen to try. So without any further waffle, let’s look at 5 of the best new features in KDE Plasma 5.25. # ⚓ Carl Schwan ☛ Kalendar_Contact_Book_–_Current Progress⠀⇛ During my long train trip to the Linux App Summit 2022, I started working on a contact book feature in Kalendar. There was already a small contact integration in the event editor to select attendees for an event and I wanted to extend it with a simple contact info viewer and editor. When I started it, I was full of hope that this would be a simple task and would be easy to finish. Unfortunately more than one month later, it’s not finished but there is a lot of progress that I can already show off. # ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ Kate_+_Building_in_Docker_|_ [bobulate]⠀⇛ Have I said nice things about Kate recently? Not enough, so let me gush a little about Kate as an “IDE” and using it, with the Build Plugin, as a tool for editing locally and building remotely. I work on a codebase that has very specific platform requirements. These requirements are difficult to reproduce in a normal host – or, if you have some modern rolling distro like openSUSE, well-nigh-impossible. That’s the situation where Docker shows up, since a Docker container can be whatever specific platform is needed. So I have a Docker, with the special compilation environment over here, and the host machine, running a recent version of Kate over there. How can I make them work together? # ⚓ GSoC_Post_0:_Introduction⠀⇛ Hello, reader! I am Suhaas Joshi, a 20-year- old 3rd-year student at CHRIST University, India. I have been selected to GSoC 2022 as a mentee in KDE. This blog will track my KDE development work during, and after, GSoC coding period. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Best_Approaches_to_Choosing_Your_First_Linux_Distro_ (Beginner’s_Guide)⠀⇛ Are you a newcomer to Linux? Not sure which Linux distribution to choose to begin your Linux journey? This article is for you! For the average PC user who has been using the established desktop operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and macOS, Linux can be somewhat confusing. Furthermore, the perception that Linux is mainly used by “pro” users and is “very complex” plays against it. Of course, neither of the preceding two statements is true. Linux is a complex operating system, just like any other. And, as always, it all depends on the individual. o ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Try_Multiple_Linux_Distributions_via_the_Terminal⠀⇛  Distrobox is a software tool that allows you to run any Linux distribution inside the terminal. It aims to let you run a variety of software on top of host distribution without any hassle. For instance, — is there anything that is available only in the AUR and you want to access it from your Ubuntu system? Distrobox can give you that comfort. o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Update_no_longer_using_rsync⠀⇛ EasyOS has an “update” icon on the desktop, that checks if a later version online, and if so offers to download and update the local installation. The problem we have been having is that it uses rsync, which reduces the size of the download by only downloading the difference between current and latest version; however, it disconnects, seemingly randomly. Perhaps it is a problem with ibiblio.org getting too busy, as the problem does seem dependent on the time-of- day. o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Kaisen_Linux_Rolling_2.1⠀⇛ Lots of improvements on the design. New cloud and tech tools. Improvements of the packages and confs. Codename: Rolling After 6 months of intensive work, here is the 2.1 version of Kaisen Linux. This release marks above all the arrival of a new official wallpaper, after more than 2 years of improvements on the first one! Big graphic improvements on logos, menus and plymouth theme have been done. # ⚓ NuTyX_22.06.1_available_with_cards_2.5.0⠀⇛ The NuTyX team is happy to announce the new version of NuTyX 22.06.1 and cards 2.5.0. New toolchain gcc 12.1.0, glibc 2.35 and binutils 2.38. The xorg-server graphics server version 21.1.3, the Mesa 3D library in 22.1.1, Gtk4 4.6.5 and Qt 6.3.0. The python interpreters are en 3.10.5 et 2.7.18. The XFCE desktop environment is updated to version 4.16.0. The MATE desktop environment is a 1.26.0 version . The GNOME desktop environment is also updated to version 42.2 The KDE desktop environment is available in Plasma 5.24.5, Framework 5.94.0 and applications in 22.04.2. Available browsers are: Firefox 101.0.1, Chromium 102.0.5005.115, Epiphany 42.2, etc Many desktop applications have been updated as well like Telegram-desktop 3.7.3, Thunderbird 91.10.0, Scribus 1.5.8, Libreoffice 7.3.4.2, Gimp 2.10.32, etc. Core NuTyX ships with Long Term Support (LTS) kernels: 4.14.282, 4.19.246, 5.4.197, 5.10.121 and 5.15.46 and the latest stable version 5.18.3 . o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ How_many_Flathub_apps_reuse_other_package_formats?_–_Will Thompson⠀⇛ When this article was discussed in the Flatpak Matrix channel, several people noted that while this often said, they are sceptical that it’s really such a big number. Let’s find out! The specific examples given in the article are of apps which reuse a .deb (to which I will add .rpm), AppImage, Snap package, or binary .tar.gz archive. It’s not so easy to distinguish a binary tarball from a source tarball, so as a substitute I will look for apps which use the extra-data to download external sources at install time rather than at build time. I have cloned every repo from the Flathub GitHub organisation with this script I had lying around. There are 2,220 such repositories. This is a bigger number than the 1,518 apps cited in the blog post, because it includes many thing which are not apps, such as 258 GTK themes and 60 digital audio workstation plugins. I also believe that the 1,518 number does not include end-of-lifed apps, whereas my methodology does. This post will also ignore the existence of OBS Studio and Firefox, where those projects build the Flatpak from source on their own infrastructure and push the result into Flathub. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 10_ways_DevOps_can_help_reduce technical_debt⠀⇛ Technical debt is unavoidable. And if it is not addressed, it can hamper your development process and product quality. While it costs time and money to fix accrued technical debt, prevention is better than cure. According to Gartner, infrastructure and operations leaders who can actively manage and reduce technical debt will achieve 50 percent faster delivery times. DevOps has emerged as the solution to many challenges in the IT industry. It can also address the technical debt challenge. Here are ten ways DevOps can help your business manage and reduce technical debt. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ How_to_manage_disruption_during digital_transformation_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ If you go into a digital transformation initiative unprepared to manage change, you may well face a mutiny. Digital transformation may sound exciting, but it inevitably involves considerable disruption for individuals as well as the entire organization. Affected team members often feel a loss of control and connectedness. Your goal as an IT leader should be not only to avoid backlash but to turn the change into an opportunity to deepen engagement among those affected. It is critical that teams gain more control as part of the transformation. Transformation should not happen to them; rather, team members should help make transformation happen. Individuals need to have a say on changes, whether these involve new architectures and models, new algorithms, or decision-making and supervisory processes. Team members should be significant contributors to your final digital transformation. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ 4_tips_for_achieving_better_security_on Kubernetes⠀⇛ When security is ignored, organizations are putting at risk the core benefit of faster application development and releases. But security and agility do not have to be in contention. A recent Red Hat survey with more than 300 respondents, covered in our 2022 State of Kubernetes security report, identified the most pressing security needs and offered suggestions for putting your organization on track to protect security in Kubernetes environments. Our findings show that what happens in the build and deploy stages has a significant impact on security, as revealed by the prevalence of misconfigurations and vulnerabilities across organizations. Security, therefore, must shift left, embedded imperceptibly into DevOps workflows instead of being “bolted on” when the application is about to be deployed into production. # ⚓ RHEL_9_and_PyPI_RPMs_·_Blog_|_Tomáš_Tomeček⠀⇛ My colleague, @FrostyX, recently shared a Red Hat Developer article, Thousands of PyPI and RubyGems RPMs now available for RHEL 9, with us. TL;DR access thousands of RPMs automatically generated from PyPI and RubyGems on RHEL 9. Sounds intriguing, I wanted to give it a shot. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ Parrot_Security_OS:_What_You_Need_to_Know⠀⇛ Parrot (popularly/formerly known as Parrot Security OS or Parrot OS) is a free and open-source Linux distribution derived from the well-known Debian Linux. Designed for security, privacy, and development, Parrot ships with an assortment of IT security and digital forensics tools, utilities, and libraries; development and programming tools; as well as privacy protection tools. It comes by default with MATE Desktop Environment (DE), however, users can install other DEs. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Composable_infrastructure,_sustainable_computing and_more:_OIS_2022_highlights_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ OIS 2022 is over, but the OpenInfra community stays tuned for the next OpenInfra Summit, taking place in Vancouver in 2023! This year’s summit in Berlin offered a lot of insightful keynotes and technical sessions. Speakers discussed the most recent trends in the industry, including composable infrastructure and sustainable computing, and set the pace for the next releases of the OpenInfra- hosted project, including OpenStack. It was a great opportunity to reconnect in person after the pandemic. [...] During my keynote on Day 1, I discussed the fact that OpenStack has just entered the Slope of Enlightenment phase of its Hype Cycle. Most organisations have realised that OpenStack and Kubernetes are in fact complementary technologies rather than competing ones. Canonical happens to be well-positioned, as Ubuntu is a platform that integrates OpenStack, Kubernetes and applications very well. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Open-source_hardware_USB_Type-C_industrial camera_features_Lattice_Crosslink_NX_FPGA_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Gaurav Singh, acting as Circuit Valley, has designed an open-source hardware USB 3.0 Type- C industrial camera with three boards: one to capture data through a CMOS sensor, another based on a Lattice Crosslink NX FPGA to handle image processing, and finally, a board equipped with an Infineon FX3 USB 3.0 controller for sending the video data to the host. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ The_Android_App_for_Mozilla_Thunderbird_is_Here_ (There’s_a_Catch!)_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛ Mozilla’s Thunderbird is a fantastic open-source email client. In fact, one of the best email clients for Linux. With its upcoming Thunderbird 102 update, things should get really exciting! To spice it up, Mozilla decided to make an Android email client for Thunderbird. Surprisingly, it is already available to install… # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Banking_Apps_On_Android_Are_Common Targets_For_Trojans⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Do_you_like_the_new_Android_13_gesture navigation_bar?_[Poll]_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ Wonder_if_Your_Pixel_Phone_Will_Get_Android_13? Check_This_List_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Galaxy_Tab_A7_10.4_(2020)_Gets_Android 12_With_One_UI_4.1⠀⇛ # ⚓ BlackBerry_Strengthens_QNX_Advanced_Virtualization Framework_for_Android_Automotive_OS⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Medevel ☛ 18_Best_Open-source_Free_UPnP_and_DLNA_Media_Servers for_building_Home_Entertainment_System⠀⇛ If you want to view certain media files, such as photos and videos from your computer, or mobile on your TV, then you need to have enabled UPnP and DLNA-compliant devices, as well as, to set up a media server. In this article we will give brief explanations about DLNA, and UPnP devices, streamers, and servers. Here also you can find a rich list of free, and open- source DLNA and UPnP servers, and streamers which you can use freely to set up your own home entertainment system. o § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Mozilla_Enables_Firefox’s_“Total_Cookie Protection”_Privacy_Feature_by_Default_on_Desktop⠀⇛  One of Firefox’s strongest privacy features, Total Cookie Protection was first introduced with the Firefox 86 release of the open- source web browser, was extended to the Private Browsing mode with the Firefox 89 release, and further improved in Firefox 91 to prevent data leaks. If you haven’t heard, Total Cookie Protection protects your privacy by confining cookies to the website where they’re created. This prevents tracking companies from using the said cookies to track your browsing activity as you navigate across multiple websites. o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ Kiwi_TCMS_–_Meet_Kiwi_TCMS_at_Collision_2022_in_Toronto⠀⇛ At the exhibition stand you will have the opportunity to perform some real black-box testing, learn about Salience bias, Peltzman effect and Wason’s experiments and take a photo with our lovely mascot. The Kiwi TCMS team will be there to answer all of your questions regarding open source, community, support, various integrations and the differences between Self-Support, SaaS and Enterprise subscriptions! o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_6.3.1_Released⠀⇛ We have released the Qt 6.3.1 today. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Squish_7.0.1_released⠀⇛ The Squish team is happy to announce the release of the Squish GUI Tester version 7.0.1, the software quality assurance tool for cross-platform GUI application test automation. The first maintenance release in Squish 7.0 series is coming out 3 months after the major feature release version 7.0.0, and is now available for download. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ 2022.24_Conference_2022_–_Rakudo_Weekly News⠀⇛ Andrew Shitov has announced the second Raku Conference (Twitter feed) to be held online on 13-14 August 2022. The submission deadline for presentations is 1 August 2022! But of course, you can already submit a talk proposal! And order your free ticket (although a donation would be really appreciated)! # ⚓ Perl ☛ Perl_IDE_Hackathon_2022_|_dean_ [blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ On Tuesday 21st June there will be a Perl IDE Hackathon in the Hackathon room at The Perl and Raku Conference. You can also participate in this event remotely. Our goal is to enhance IDE and Editor support for Perl 5 which is typically via plugins, with an an emphasis on helping people make their first every contribution. It’s not even required that you use the IDE/Editor that you are helping out with. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Call_your_girlfriend⠀⇛ Robyn has this song “Call your girlfriend” and it’s such a beautiful melody. It’s easy to understand why it’s such a widely-covered and well-beloved song. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ NXP_unveils_MCX_general-purpose_Arm_MCU family_with_30x_faster_machine_learning_performance_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ NXP has announced a new MCX general-purpose Arm Cortex-M MCU family designed for advanced industrial and IoT edge computing and integrating an NXP neural processing unit (NPU) capable of delivering over 30 times higher performance than running the AI inference tasks on an Arm Cortex-M33 core alone. The new MCX portfolio builds upon the earlier NXP LPC and Kinetis microcontroller families, but does not replace these, and aims to improve machine learning performance and security for a variety of applications including machine learning, wireless, voice, motor control, analog, and more. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Gone_in_130_seconds:_New_Tesla_hack_gives_thieves_their_own personal_key_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ Last year, Tesla issued an update that made its vehicles easier to start after being unlocked with their NFC key cards. Now, a researcher has shown how the feature can be exploited to steal cars. For years, drivers who used their Tesla NFC key card to unlock their cars had to place the card on the center console to begin driving. Following the update, which was reported here last August, drivers could operate their cars immediately after unlocking them with the card. The NFC card is one of three means for unlocking a Tesla; a key fob and a phone app are the other two. # § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ This_new_Linux_malware_has_a_sneaky_way_of staying_hidden [Ed: Microsoft boosters are very eager this year to constantly name Linux as a security threat while the real issue, constantly, is Windows; Microsoft is not even patching actively-exploited holes]⠀⇛ A newly discovered stealthy piece of Linux malware called Syslogk delivers a backdoor that remains hidden on targeted machine until its controller, from anywhere on the internet, transmits so-called ‘magic packets’. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Qantas_Smiles:_shareholders_and executives_grin,_customers_and_staff_grit_their_teeth_– Michael_West⠀⇛ While Qantas services sank and 9000 lost their jobs, chief executive Alan Joyce engineered the biggest transfer from the public money to a corporation in Australia’s history. This was the non-bailout bailout. Time for a rethink on corporate welfare, writes Michael West. Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg, no doubt with the counsel of Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce, repelled calls for a Qantas “bail-out” in early April 2020. Yet, just as the pandemic gripped, they promptly began bailing it out. Virgin too, an airline 90% owned by foreign airlines and tax refugee Sir Richard Branson, a resident not only of the notorious tax haven, British Virgin Islands, but with his very own British Virgin island. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_The_Queen’s_Birthday,_and_the Whitlam_dismissal⠀⇛ For overseas readers, the “Liberals” here are the nominally right-of-centre party which govern in coalition with the Count-ry/Nationals. They also tend to be the most enthusiastic about the monarchy, whereas the Labor and Greens parties lean towards republicanism. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Robert Heaton ☛ Soon_he’ll_be_three_and_soon_he’ll_be twenty-one⠀⇛ I woke up and said good morning to Oscar. “Go away daddy, I don’t love you.” I went downstairs. “Daddy can’t eat breakfast with me, he is not fun and he makes me sad.” I loaded Oscar onto my bike to go to pre-school. “Mummy I love you so much but I don’t love daddy at all.” Apparently normal, but starting to get to me. What if he was old enough to mean it? I don’t worry that my relationship with Oscar is ruined before it’s even begun. He’s two and is civil to me sometimes, especially when we’re on our own. When I went away for a few days he sent me a video saying “I want you to come back soon, I love you daddy,” although he wouldn’t talk to me on the phone. But when he’s browbeating me I do question the point of me being there if I’m just going to be ignored and abused. I wonder if I’m being over- sensitive. Aren’t children meant to crave the approval of their parents, not the other way round? But Gaby says that if he was like that to her then she’d be devastated. She also says that when I’m not there he tries to call me to tell me that he loves me but his phone is made of wood and he doesn’t know my number. Gaby thinks that he might like her more because she’s more attentive to his needs, but I don’t think that’s fair or likely, or even necessarily a good thing. The internet says that his hostility shows that he feels strongly bonded to me and knows that my love is unconditional. I think that’s a little too self-serving. This is surely just one of those things that toddlers do for reasons beyond our jurisdiction. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Take_2:_MeitY’s_attempts_at data_governance_continue_to_fall_short⠀⇛ The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) published the Draft National Data Governance Framework Policy (National Data Governance Policy) for public consultation on May 27, 2022. The policy, which seeks to improve “governance through a whole-of(-)government approach towards data-led governance”, fails to adequately address resultant concerns regarding data privacy and citizen rights. In this post, we provide a brief overview of the comments we submitted to MeitY as part of this consultation process. Read our complete comments here. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Calling_for_Antitrust_Reform⠀⇛ It’s time for governments to address the reality that five tech companies—not everyday consumers—control our online experiences today. Updated competition laws are essential for the internet to be private, secure, interoperable, open, accessible, transparent, and a balance between commercial profit and public benefit. This is Mozilla’s vision for the internet. For a number of years, we have shared our views supporting government competition efforts globally to achieve it. One such proposal now under discussion in the US Congress is the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA). This bill is an important step in correcting two decades of digital centralization by creating a level playing field for smaller, independent software companies to compete. We support this bipartisan effort led by Senators Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Grassley and Representatives David Cicilline and Ken Buck. We believe that AICOA will facilitate innovation and consumer choice by ensuring that big tech companies cannot give preference to their own products and services over the rich diversity of competitive options offered by others. Mozilla—and many other independent companies—cannot effectively compete without this antitrust law. We are disadvantaged by the fact that current and future Firefox users, many of whom are privacy and security focused, cannot easily install and keep Firefox as their preferred browser because of confusing operating system messages and settings. We are further challenged by app store rules designed to keep out Gecko, our independent browser engine that powers Firefox, Tor and other browsers. We are stuck when big tech companies do not offer us and other developers open APIs and other functionality needed for true interoperability. A fair playing field is vital to ensure that Mozilla and other independent companies can continue to act as a counterweight to big tech and shape the future of the internet to be more private and more secure. We understand that the bill sponsors intend AICOA to regulate only gatekeeper companies and their controlled products. It is not intended to regulate or impact the agreements or product offerings of non-regulated independent companies like Mozilla that partner with gatekeepers for critical services. Nor does it require trading off privacy and security in order to enhance competition. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3762 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_14/06/2022:_Microsoft_Getting_Desperate,_Stinging_Windows_Users⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 5:31 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Programming/Development # Python * Leftovers * Environment o Energy o Wildlife/Nature * Finance * AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics * Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press * Civil_Rights/Policing * Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality * Monopolies o Patents o Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Initial_thoughts_on_the_HP_Dev_One_laptop with_Pop!_OS [Ed: HP appears to have bribed vloggers and bloggers with laptops in exchange for “reviews”. It’ll get hard to know if these products are any good because those reviewing [sic] them first are paid to do that.]]⠀⇛ HP and System76 teamed up for the HP Dev One, and for a little while now I’ve been using it as my main machine for everything possible for GamingOnLinux related and otherwise. Here’s my initial thoughts, with more to come when I’ve had more time. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Microphone_noise_suppression_app_NoiseTorch returns_with_a_new_release⠀⇛ NoiseTorch, a popular real-time microphone noise suppression app recently had a possible security issue but it’s been reviewed thoroughly and it’s back. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Segregating_Email_With_Sub-Domains⠀⇛ I like to segregate my email by using unique addresses for many services. This makes things more secure, but it isn’t perfect… # ⚓ Yarmo Machenbach ☛ How_not_to_use_a_password_manager⠀⇛ Both the author and a friend of theirs have found themselves in the predicament of not being able to reset their forgotten password because they also forgot the email address they used to sign up for the service in question. # ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Cockpit_on_Rocky_Linux_8⠀⇛ Cockpit is one of the best web-based server management dashboards because of its ease of use and installation. It also offers a great dashboard by which you can catch the server-related information in real-time. It also gives access to CPU load, a variety of processes, filesystem statistics, and other data. This server management tool provides great flexibility in managing the Linux servers remotely and locally. With Cockpit, you can manage the network problem quickly. It also provides the superuser control, such as remote reboot or shutdown of the server. Cockpit is a GUI- web-based tool that includes the following features:Storage administration and journal inspection options.Configuration options for the network interface and SELinux.User accounts management.Monitor and manage system services.System subscription management and software update options.Multiple diagnostic reports creation. Hence, it is good to have Cockpit in the system to handle servers in Linux. The following guide will explain the complete method to install and use Cockpit on Rocky Linux. # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ Install_Vsftpd_with_SSL/TLS_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Vsftpd ( Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon ) is the default FTP server for Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, and RHEL Linux distributions. Vsftpd is a stable, fast, and secure FTP server used for file transfers from the client to remote servers and vice versa. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Set_JAVA_HOME_Variable_Path_on Ubuntu⠀⇛ Basically, the JAVA_HOME Environment path points to the installation location of JDK (Java Development Kit) on your Ubuntu system. As you develop or run Java-based applications, the associated applications sometimes need to know/ reference the JAVA_HOME Environment path to execute/compile without any issues. Before addressing this Java environment path issue, we need to revise the steps that might/have led us to this article’s objective. We need to start with understanding Java, and its installation, and finally addressing the JAVA_HOME path issue. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ What_will_happens_if_I_run_“sudo_rm_-rf_/” on_Linux?_–_TREND_OCEANS⠀⇛ No, executing “sudo rm -rf /” will not wipe out your complete system unless you do *. Read the full article to find out. Linux file system works differently than the windows system. Unlike Windows, which stores files and configurations inside C:, D:, or E: Drive, Linux stores everything inside the root (/). # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_Ntopng_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Jammy –_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Get the simply explained steps to install Ntopng on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish to monitor the network data traffic with graphs. Ntopng is an open-source tool and successor of the popular network monitoring software Ntop. It is a high-speed web-based traffic analysis and flow collection software. The software monitors the data traffic in the network and provides statistical evaluations. Traffic can be output with the Ntopng sorted according to criteria such as IP address, port, L7 protocol, and throughput. In addition, the active hosts and traffic can be viewed in real-time and long-term reports can be generated. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Undo_and_Redo_in_Nano_Editor?⠀⇛ You are feeling the best productive self and in the hurry, you make a typo while typing in GNU nano. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Share_your_Linux_terminal_with_tmate_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ As a member of the Fedora Linux QA team, I sometimes find myself executing a bunch of commands that I want to broadcast to other developers. If you’ve ever used a terminal multiplexer like tmux or GNU Screen, you might think that that’s a relatively easy task. But not all of the people I want to see my demonstration are connecting to my terminal session from a laptop or desktop. Some might have casually opened it from their phone browser—which they can readily do because I use tmate. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_connect_ONLYOFFICE_Docs_and_Strapi CMS⠀⇛ ONLYOFFICE Docs is an open-source office suite and Strapi is an open-source collaborative CMS built on Node.js. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to connect the instances of ONLYOFFICE Docs and Strapi using an integration plugin (connector). # ⚓ How_to_Configuring_an_SSH_Login_without_Password_on_Ubuntu 22_–_LinuxWizardry⠀⇛ In this article, we describe how to set up an SSH login that does not use passwords on Ubuntu 22. Having a login without a passsword is an easy and convienevt way to SSH into a computer without have to remember any password as well as the added layer of security. SSH is ideal for managing remote systems because of its password-less option that uses public/private keys instead of passwords, keeping system passwords safe. This article uses ssh-copy-id, a utility that greatly simplifies the procedure by copying the local host’s public key to the remote host’s authorized keys file and by verifying file permissions and ownership. # ⚓ How_to_Open_or_Convert_iOS_HEIC_Photos_to_JPEG_and_PNG_in Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04_–_LinuxWizardry⠀⇛ As you might already know, the HEIF was adopted by Apple in 2017 with the introduction of iOS 11. This image format doesn’t always work when you want to upload it to many websites or open on your Ubuntu Desktop. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_CMake_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install CMake on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, CMake is an open-source, cross- platform family of tools designed to build, test, and package software. CMake is popular due to its cross-platform so that developers using the build system work the way they’re used to. The suite of CMake tools was created by Kitware in response to the need for a powerful, cross-platform build environment for open-source projects such as ITK and VTK. 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 CMake on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Scala_CentOS_9_stream⠀⇛ Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to install Scala on CentOS 9. This programming language runs on the Java JVM, so they share many things. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Kerberos_Installation⠀⇛ Kerberos is an Open Authentication System created by MIT. Numerous big data systems use Kerberos for the server-to-server correspondences in network security. The Kerberos protocol has strong cryptographic authentication over devices, allowing clients and servers to develop trusted communication. The protocol aims to address common network security issues. It deals with a ticket-based framework to prevent intrusion from external attackers. Thus, it prevents any possibilities of secret phrase sniffing or secret password thefts. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Screen_blanking_on_Raspberry_Pi_–_How_to disable_it?⠀⇛ Screen Blanking occurs when you are inactive on your Raspberry Pi for a longer time. This problem is very common in Raspberry Pi devices and it must not be very pleasant for someone who doesn’t want to put his system into sleep mode. If you are looking for a way to disable Screen Blanking on Raspberry Pi, you should follow this article that will guide you in overcoming this issue on your device. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Fun_Free_and_Open_Source_Card_Games⠀⇛  A card game is a game that uses playing cards as the main way the game is played. The cards can be a standard deck of 52 French playing cards with 4 suits of Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs. Or the cards can be game-specific. There is a plethora of card games available, with families of related games. Card games offer many positive attributes. They can improve mental skills, memory and logic. They can test your patience, help you focus, and are popular for all ages. Having a good memory is essential to a person’s overall well-being. A good way to improve memory is playing fun games. Whether it’s a board game or a deck of cards, putting your brain to work definitely has its advantages. The earlier a person who has a poor working memory can begin to strengthen it, the more successful they’ll be in life. Many of the biggest computer games concentrate on explosion-filled genres. But there’s still strong demand for good quality card games. It’s a neglected genre in the mainstream. Here are our picks of the best card games. We only advocate open source games here. And we give preference to games that run on multiple operating systems. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Upscaling_The_Sierras⠀⇛ If you played many games back in the mid-80s to 90s, you might remember the iconic graphics from Sierra’s Online Adventure Games. They were brightly colored (16 colors) and dynamic with some depth. To pay homage, [eviltrout] worked to upscale the images. Despite being rendered at 160×200 at 16 colors and then stretched, storing all those bitmaps even at only 4 bits per pixel would take all the storage available on the floppy disk. The engineers on the game decided instead to take a vector approach to a raster problem. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Next_Fest:_June_2022_is_live⠀⇛ A celebration of upcoming games, Steam Next Fest: June 2022 is now live for you to smash that download button on various demos to see what you think. Much like previous events, there will also be various livestreams on the official event page and on pages for individual games for you to speak to developers and see some footage. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Techland_ends_support_for_Dying_Light,_7 years_after_release⠀⇛ Techland are moving on from the original Dying Light, after giving it 7 years of free updates and expansions. Not many developers support their games for that long, if they’re not some sort of live- service thing. Techland certainly did well overall with it. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ System_Shock_remake_gets_a_brand_new_flashy trailer⠀⇛ The upcoming System Shock from Nightdive Studios is still coming, and a brand new trailer was recently shown off during the PC Gaming Show 2022. We don’t know when it will release though. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ ARK:_Survival_Evolved_free_to_own_on_Steam, new_free_DLC_map_out⠀⇛ Here’s your tip of the day: you can go a claim a free to keep copy of ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam right now. It has a Native Linux version, although we just recommend you use Proton with it as they never really supported it and it does work quite well with Proton. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Phasmophobia_gets_new_Voice_Recognition_to work_on_Steam_Deck_and_Linux⠀⇛ Have you been itching to play Phasmophobia? Well, you no longer have to wait for Wine and Proton to be upgraded as the developers have ripped out the Windows-specific stuff. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Playing_OXOGO_could_land_you_a_big_real- life_prize_that_increases_with_its_sales⠀⇛ The developers of OXOGO are hoping to entice some people to play their retro-styled adventure, with the added excitement of the possibility to earn a real-life prize. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Usagi_Shima_is_an_idle_bunny_collecting game_that_I_simply_need⠀⇛ Usagi Shima, from developer pank0 (aka Jess Yu), is an upcoming idle bunny collecting game I’ve been following for quite some time and the first-ever short gameplay trailer just went up. Shown off as part of the recent Wholesome Direct 2022, it’s nice to finally see more than screenshots and tiny gifs on their popular Twitter account. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ IPFire_Linux_Firewall_Distro_Improves_Its Intrusion_Prevention_System_and_Security⠀⇛ IPFire 2.27 Core Update 168 is here one and a half months after the Core Update 167 release to further improve the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) of the Linux firewall distro by allowing users to individually enable the monitoring mode for each ruleset provider, making parsing and restructuring of changed or updated rulesets faster, as well as support for the downloader to automatically check if a ruleset was updated or not on its providers’ server. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Compute_Module_3E_(CM3E) features_Raspberry_Pi_RP3A0_SiP_found_in_Pi_Zero_2_W⠀⇛ After the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4S which we discovered in April, it appears Raspberry Pi Trading has launched another Compute Module for their industrial and commercial customers with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3E (CM3E) equipped with the same Raspberry Pi RP30A0 SiP found in Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and an 8GB eMMC flash. The new system-on-module (SoM) has not been officially announced but was discovered by Twitter user “Pi 0 in your Pocket” inside an electric vehicle (EV) charger by Wallbox. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Replaces_PlayStation_Memory Card⠀⇛ It’s almost hard to believe these days, what with modern game consoles packing terabytes of internal storage, but there was a time when the totality of your gaming career would be stored on an external memory card that held just a few megabytes of save data. Of course, before that you had to write down a sequence of random letters and numbers to pick up where you left off, but that’s a story for another day. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Texas_Instruments_introduces_the_AM62x_SoCs to_the_Sitara_processors_family⠀⇛ Last week, Texas Instruments released two new models for the Sitara processor family. The Sitara AM623 and the AM625 can have up to four Cortex-A53 processors and one Arm Cortex M4F. For quick product development, TI is integrating them on the SK-AM62 starter kit which starts at $149. The AM623 and the AM625 come in a System on Chip (SoC) form factor and can have one, two or up to four Cortex-A53 processors (up to 1,400 MHz) and a single Arm Cortex M4F (up to 400 MHz) for real-time applications. The main difference between these two SoCs is that the AM625 features a 3D GPU and it seems to support Android OS.  o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Mozilla_launches_email_for_Android_devices |_Computerworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_is_shutting_down_Assistant’s Conversational_Actions_in_favor_of_App_Actions_for_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Today ☛ How_to_speed_up_your_Android_smartphone_– Technology_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ gmail:_How_to_change_name_in_Gmail_account_on Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_A13_5G_gets_Android_12-based_One UI_4.1_update_in_the_US_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_A7_10.4_(2020)_is_finally getting_Android_12_update_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ 5_best_gaming_accessories_for_Android_in 2022⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Building_the_metaverse_with_open_source⠀⇛  As with all emerging technologies, it’s critical to consider the use case and impact to the humans who use it. Immersive virtual and augmented reality devices have unprecedented capabilities to capture, process, store, and utilize data about an individual, including their physical movement patterns, cognitive state, and attention. Additionally, virtual worlds themselves significantly amplify the benefits and problems of today’s social media, and require careful implementation of trust and safety systems, moderation techniques, and appropriate access permissions to ensure that users have a positive experience when they venture into these spaces. As the web evolves and encompasses immersive content and spatial computing devices, it’s important to think critically and carefully about the experiences being created, and interoperability across different applications. Ensuring that these virtual worlds are open, accessible, and safe to all is paramount. The prospect of the metaverse is an exciting one, and one that can only be realized through collaborative open source software movements. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ MongoDB_Drop_Collection⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ MongoDB_UpdateMany⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ MongoDB_Compass_Installation_and_Usage⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ MongoDB_Date_Greater_Than_Query⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ MongoDB_Filter_Query⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ MongoDB_Full-Text_Search⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ SQLite_Case_Statements⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ SQLite_Except_Operator⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ SQLite_Group_By⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ SQLite_Execute_SQL_Statements_From_a_File⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ SQLite_Replace⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ PostgreSQL_XML_Data_Type⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ PostgreSQL_DateTime_Data_Types⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ PostgreSQL_Character_Data_Types⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ PostgreSQL_Built-in_Range_Data_Types⠀⇛ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Gemini-related⠀⇛ I’ve been working on a few Gemini-related projects. I converted my personal page into a front-end for a Gemini-to-HTTP proxy server. The public-facing server itself is actually a commercially-hosted Apache setup. I had to muck around a bit with PHP in order to set up some way of getting it to render pages served by my personal VPS. I want to write a gemlog post detailing the entire setup soon. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Generic_script_to_mount_partitions_of_an image_file⠀⇛ I posted yesterday about a new EasyOS image file, with ‘vmlinuz’ and ‘initrd’ in the boot-partition, and ‘easy.sfs’ in the working-partition… # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Seaborn_Boxplot⠀⇛ “Seaborn is a Python module for creating numerical visualizations. It is based on the matplotlib library and extensively interacts with pandas header files. Seaborn assists users in analyzing and comprehending the data. Its visualizing functions work with data structure and arrays, including entire records, providing the required semantic mapping and set of associations internally to generate useful graphs. Its data source, explicit API, allows the users to concentrate on interpreting the charts instead of the technicalities of presenting them. Seaborn’s plotting interoperability allows the user to access it in various scenarios, such as exploratory analysis, actual interactivity in Graphical apps, and archived outcome in a variety of graphic and vector representations. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Zen_Playboy⠀⇛ Stewart Brand is not a scientist. He’s not an artist, an engineer, or a programmer. Nor is he much of a writer or editor, though as the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, that’s what he’s best known for. Brand, 83, is a huckster—one of the great hucksters in a time and place full of them. Over the course of his long life, Brand’s salesmanship has been so outstanding that scholars of the American 20th century have secured his place as a historical figure, picking out the blond son of Stanford from among his peers and seating him with inventors, activists, and politicians at the table of men to be remembered. But remembered for what, exactly? o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Young_People_in_Georgia_Can_Change_Our_Future⠀⇛ How old do you have to be to work for change in your community? o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Live_in_the_past!’:_Street_artist_Timofey_Radya’s_eerie new_piece_in_Yekaterinburg⠀⇛ Street artist Timofey Radya has published a video and photos of his newest installation: the words “Live in the past!” in large block letters on top of the roofs of two apartment buildings on Kosmonavtov Prospekt in Yekaterinburg. o ⚓ The_Remarkable_Case_of_Davidson’s_Eyes⠀⇛ The transitory mental aberration of Sidney Davidson, remarkable enough in itself, is still more remarkable if Wade’s explanation is to be credited. It sets one dreaming of the oddest possibilities of intercommunication in the future, of spending an intercalary five minutes on the other side of the world, or being watched in our most secret operations by unsuspected eyes. It happened that I was the immediate witness of Davidson’s seizure, and so it falls naturally to me to put the story upon paper. o ⚓ Summer_Doldrums⠀⇛ The past weeks have zipped by without an opportunity to work on any of my fun coding projects. After a short vacation, we’ve decided to do some serious house cleaning before the new baby is born. Who knew there can be so much old and useless crap hidden in closets around the house? Truly a case of “out of sight, out of mind”. On the upside, my office room is now much better organized. The desk is more appropriately shaped and positioned and my three PCs fit under it neatly. Even the bookshelf looks more presentable, which is nice for video calls. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ One_in_Five_Americans_Struggles_to_Read._We Want_to_Understand_Why.⠀⇛ One in five American adults struggles to read English at a basic level. Some have a hard time with everyday tasks like taking a driver’s test or voting. Some cannot read at all. These 48 million people — many of whom are native English speakers who left school without the necessary reading skills — are often resourceful, finding ways to navigate a world designed for readers. But they face barriers to getting jobs, accessing social services and finding medical care. This is not just an individual hardship — it’s a collective crisis. Some police departments are having trouble recruiting people who can take entrance tests. Throughout history, American institutions have used literacy tests to exclude people from fully participating in society, including at the polls. We are reporting on similar barriers still in place. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Helium_Recovery_System_Saves_Costs⠀⇛ Helium is the most common element in the universe besides hydrogen, but despite this universal abundance it is surprisingly difficult to come across on Earth. Part of the problem is that it is non-renewable, so unless it is specifically captured during mining its low density means that it simply escapes the atmosphere. For that reason [Meow] maintains a helium recovery system for a lab which is detailed in this build. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Another_Rubik’s_Cube_Robot_Is_Simple_But_Slow⠀⇛ [AndreaFavero] says that the CuboTino emphasizes simplicity and cost-savings over speed. However, solving the puzzle in about 90 seconds is still better than we can do. The plucky solver uses a Pi and a camera to understand what the cube looks like and then runs it through a solver to determine how to move. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Bluetooth_Speaker_Domesticated_Through_Firmware Mod⠀⇛ This might sound like a familiar problem – you get a Bluetooth speaker, and it sounds nice, but it also emits all kinds of weird sounds every now and then. [Oleg Kutkov] got himself a Sven PS460 speaker with FM radio functionality, but didn’t like that the “power on” sound was persistently loud with no respect for the volume setting, and the low battery notification sounds were bothersome. So, he disassembled the speaker, located a flash chip next to the processor, and started hacking. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printering:_Today’s_Resins_Can_Meet_Your Needs⠀⇛ Filament-based 3D printers spent a long time at the developmental forefront for hobbyists, but resin- based printers have absolutely done a lot of catching up, and so have the resins they use. It used to be broadly true that resin prints looked great but were brittle, but that’s really not the case anymore. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Odd_Inputs_And_Peculiar_Peripherals:_Touch_This Macro_Pad⠀⇛ The need to provide custom controls for complex software packages has been satisfied in many ways, the most usual of which is to have a configurable keypad. It’s a challenge [Meir Michanie] has taken up in a slightly different way, by creating a custom touch-screen macro pad. Unlike the buttons, this allows entirely custom layouts with different shaped keys in any configuration. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ The Hill ☛ ‘Forever_chemicals’_linked_to_high_blood pressure_in_middle-aged_women:_study⠀⇛ Middle-aged women who have greater blood concentrations of toxic “forever chemicals” may be at greater risk of developing high blood pressure, a new study has found. These women were more likely to become hypertensive than those who had lower levels of the compounds, also called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), according to a study published on Monday in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ “Eventually,_Does_the_Whole_World_Go_Away?”⠀⇛ The following is a diary of the first three months of 2020. During that time, the coronavirus pandemic overtook all our attention. I abandoned my nascent climate activism to homeschool my children under quarantine, even as I understood that the two crises—climate change and Covid-19—weren’t in competition. The only action I could maintain was writing down what people in my network said about what they were losing, or stood to lose, from both threats. Excerpted from THE WORLD AS WE KNEW IT: Dispatches from a Changing Climate, edited by Amy Brady and Tajja Isen. Published with permission of Catapult. Copyright © 2022 # ⚓ Orac ☛ When_new_school_antivaxxer_Steve_Kirsch_met_old school_antivaxxer_Andrew_Wakefield⠀⇛ Recently, I’ve been writing about the “new school” antivaccine movement that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic to oppose COVID-19 vaccines is becoming increasingly indistinguishable from “old school” antivaxxers, the ones who falsely claimed that vaccines cause autism, autoimmune diseases, the “sickest generation” of children, and even death. In particular, I saw this confluence at the Better Way Conference held in Bath, England last month, where new school antivaxxers like Robert Malone were echoing old school antivaxxer Del Bigtree‘s attacks on the children’s immunization schedule, which included hoary old antivax tropes, such as “too many too soon.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_GOP_Lawmakers_Blaming_‘Mental Illness’_Are_Same_Ones_Who_Refuse_to_Expand_Medicaid⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_5_Reasons_We_Need_a_National Organization_to_Energize_the_Fight_for_Single_Payer⠀⇛ Now is the time. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Food_Shortage_in_Your_Own_Backyard⠀⇛ Jim Gale, founder of Food Forest Abundance, pointed out in a recent interview with Del Bigtree that in the United States there are 40 million acres of lawn. Lawns are the most destructive monoculture on the planet, absorbing more resources and pesticides than any other crop, without providing any yield. If we were to turn 30% of that lawn into permaculture-based food gardens, says Gale, we could be food self-sufficient without relying on imports or chemicals. Permaculture is a gardening technique that “uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life- supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.” o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Windows_users_quietly_receiving_Microsoft_Bing Service_2.0_update_that_won’t_uninstall [Ed: Windows is technically malware]⠀⇛ On various forums online (1, 2, 3), Windows users are reporting of a new and mysterious update that is being pushed via Windows Update. Classified as a Quality Update, the new update is dubbed “Microsoft Bing Service 2.0″. Users on both Windows 11 and Windows 10 are receiving it so it isn’t exclusively meant for Windows 11 22H2 Insiders or something. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Tenable_boss_accuses_Microsoft_of putting_Azure_customer_safety_at_risk⠀⇛ Microsoft has been accused of a lack of transparency in its vulnerability practices, with the security outfit Tenable claiming these practices put the software giant’s customers at risk. Tenable chairman and chief executive Amit Yoran said in a blog post that his company had discovered two flaws, one of which it considered critical, in Microsoft’s Azure platform, both in the Synapse Analytics part of Azure. Synapse Analytics is used for machine learning, data aggregation and similar computational tasks. One of these flaws was a privilege escalation flaw with the context of a Spark VM. The second allowed the poisoning of the hosts file on all nodes in a Spark pool. Yoran wrote that Microsoft decided to silently patch the privilege escalation flaw, while downplaying the risk. “It was only after being told that we were going to go public, that their story changed… 89 days after the initial vulnerability notification… when they privately acknowledged the severity of the security issue. To date, Microsoft customers have not been notified,” he added. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Apple_not_‘worried’_about_the_latest_security attack_on_the_M1_chip⠀⇛ A team of security researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) managed to defeat M1’s security measures, breaching the chip’s last line of security, the PAC (pointer authentication codes). The researchers developed a novel attack combining memory corruption and speculative execution, bypassing M1’s security. They found that the chip’s last line of security, often known as PAC (pointer authentication codes), can be breached through a hardware attack allowing attackers to gain access to the Mac. # ⚓ MIT ☛ Researchers_discover_a_new_hardware_vulnerability_in the_Apple_M1_chip⠀⇛ The M1 chip uses a feature called “Pointer Authentication,” which acts as a last line of defense against typical software vulnerabilities. With Pointer Authentication enabled, bugs that normally could compromise a system or leak private information are stopped dead in their tracks. Now, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have found a crack: their novel hardware attack, called “PACMAN” shows that Pointer Authentication can be defeated without even leaving a trace. Moreover, PACMAN utilizes a hardware mechanism, so no software patch can ever fix it. # ⚓ Macworld ☛ MIT_researchers_warn_of_‘PACMAN’_M1_flaw_that can’t_be_patched⠀⇛ According to MIT CSAIL, since its PACMAN attack involves a hardware device, a software patch won’t fix the problem. The issue is a wider problem with Arm processors that use Pointer Authentication, not just Apple’s M1. “Future CPU designers should take care to consider this attack when building the secure systems of tomorrow,” Ravichandran wrote. “Developers should take care to not solely rely on pointer authentication to protect their software.” As a technological demonstration, PACMAN shows that pointer authentication isn’t completely foolproof and developers shouldn’t completely rely on it. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ MIT_Finds_Apple_M1_Vulnerability,_Demos PACMAN_Attack_(Update)⠀⇛ The researchers say the PACMAN attack works across privilege levels, “implying the feasibility of attacking a PA-enabled operating system kernel.” When asked about the data exfiltration rate (i.e., how fast data can be stolen), the team tells Tom’s Hardware, “It’s hard to say since data exfiltration with this attack will be very dependent on the exact gadget used. Our proof of concept exploit takes 2.69 milliseconds per PAC guess (so worst- case 2.94 minutes per pointer). This may be longer in a fully integrated end-to-end attack.” # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Former_Employees_Say_ID.me_Grew_Too_Fast, Got_Too_Careless_With_Users_And_Their_Data⠀⇛ ID.me hasn’t always been a government contractor powerhouse. For more than a decade, it wasn’t really on anybody’s radar. The personal identification software began as a Craigslist for military personnel before morphing into an ID service designed to combat fraud and ensure military members could access the many government programs available to them. # ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF’s_Flagship_Jewel_v._NSA_Dragnet_Spying_Case Rejected_by_the_Supreme_Court⠀⇛ But today the U.S. Supreme Court slammed the courthouse door on our flagship NSA surveillance lawsuit, Jewel v. NSA, effectively validating the government’s claims that something known and debated across the world—the NSA’s mass surveillance—is somehow too secret to be challenged in open court by ordinary members of the public whose communications were caught in the net. The Supreme Court this week allowed our case to be dismissed because it’s a “secret” that the mass spying programs that everyone has known about since at least the Snowden documents came to light in 2013 (and disclosed in the national news long before that) involved the nation’s two largest telecommunications carriers.  Yes, you read that right: something we all know is a still officially a “secret” and so cannot be the subject to litigation. Specifically, the Court refused to take on and reconsider a Ninth Circuit decision (and an underlying district court ruling) that held that the state secrets privilege blocked our clients’ efforts to prove that their data was intercepted such that they had standing to sue. The central fact that these courts found to be “secret” is that AT&T and Verizon participated in the mass spying, even though we had submitted ample public evidence to support that finding. The Ninth Circuit decision was so cursory that the court didn’t even review the lower court’s sealed opinion addressing the government’s actual evidence of the spying, despite the fact that the District Court specifically required the government to present that evidence in secret. # ⚓ EFF ☛ How_the_Federal_Government_Buys_Our_Cell_Phone Location_Data⠀⇛ Weather apps, navigation apps, coupon apps, and “family safety” apps often request location access in order to enable key features. But once an app has location access, it typically has free rein to share that access with just about anyone. That’s where the location data broker industry comes in. Data brokers entice app developers with cash-for-data deals, often paying per user for direct access to their device. Developers can add bits of code called “software development kits,” or SDKs, from location brokers into their apps. Once installed, a broker’s SDK is able to gather data whenever the app itself has access to it: sometimes, that means access to location data whenever the app is open. In other cases, it means “background” access to data whenever the phone is on, even if the app is closed. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Salon ☛ Fox_News_viewers_have_no_clue:_Network_blocks nearly_all_critical_coverage_of_Donald_Trump⠀⇛ Rupert Murdoch himself was said to be guiding decisions to remove anyone who wasn’t deemed hysterical and shrill enough to entice the disappointed Trumpers back into the fold, marginalizing the few more or less straight news people and giving carte blanche to their “opinion” personalities to follow their bliss into the right- wing fever swamps. The result is Tucker Carlson and his Great Replacement Hour. # ⚓ [Old] Media Matters ☛ Fox_News_is_a_loaded_gun_aimed_at American_democracy⠀⇛ Fox is a primary source of information for the party’s voters and a key Republican power base. That would make the network crucial to the future success of an antidemocratic GOP plot, just as it was when Trump tried to overturn the election in 2020. And Fox’s propagandists appear eager to try again in 2024, relentlessly casting doubt on the 2020 results while helping to push out Republicans who refuse to support the party’s authoritarian turn. They are positioning the country on the brink of the abyss. Next time, political conditions may prove favorable enough to end the American experiment in electoral democracy. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Where_the_January_6_Insurrection_Hearings_Go Next⠀⇛ Never forget: An outgoing American president riled up a mob to attack Congress. That remains an open wound on the polity, one that can’t be healed until justice is served on those responsible for it. The guilty include not just the rioters who have already been charged for their individual offenses but also the masterminds who instigated the failed subversion of democracy. In the key sentence of the first day of hearings, Cheney said, “You will also hear about plots to commit seditious conspiracy on January 6th, a crime defined in our laws as conspiring to overthrow, put down, or destroy by force the government of the United States or to oppose by force the authority thereof.” If we take these words seriously, the hearings are going to be much more than a fact-finding mission. They are a prosecutorial brief that will lay out a criminal case against Trump and his accomplices. # ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ The_January_6_Hearings_Are_Fighting_for_Your Attention⠀⇛ Yes, people have been following the actions of the January 6 committee for nearly 10 months—on Twitter, on cable, via news sites. But the Thursday night broadcast felt different. The committee brought in a former ABC news executive to produce the hearings and make them look less like a C-SPAN live feed. They aim, according to Maryland representative Jamie Raskin, to “tell the story of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election and block the transfer of power” from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. In terms of televised politics, it’s on par with the Watergate hearings. In other words, must-see TV. That’s what the committee wanted, to give their findings to the court of public opinion. At a time of misinformation, the goal is to train the eyes of the electorate to see clearly what has happened to democracy in the US. But the hearing surely didn’t get all of them. During the broadcast, Fox ran Tucker Carlson’s show without commercials. And amidst all of it, attention was split between the TV and the smaller screen. Arguing about politics is one of the social internet’s many enshrined pastimes, but it can often feel like there’s more talking and analysis than actual observation # ⚓ NBC ☛ Idaho_officers_getting_death_threats_after_arresting 31_Patriot_Front_white_nationalists_near_Pride_event⠀⇛ “And the other 50 percent — who are completely anonymous, who want nothing more than to scream and yell at us and use some really choice words — offer death threats against myself and other members of the police department merely for doing our jobs,” White said. “Those people obviously remain anonymous.” Officers have also received threats of doxxing, a practice in which someone publishes personal information such as phone numbers or addresses online, White said. The majority of the threats being made appear to be from outside the Coeur d’Alene community, according to the chief. A 911 caller reported seeing a “little army” of people in masks and with shields in a U-Haul truck on Saturday. Responding officers stopped the vehicle about 10 minutes later and 31 people in “similar attire” were arrested, White previously said. # ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ Leaked_emails_expose_Paul_Mason’s_collusion with_senior_British_intelligence_agent⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Country_Armed_to_the_Teeth⠀⇛ I was packing it illegally, but I knew that a white man in a suit and tie was unlikely to be stopped by the police and frisked, even in a city with some of the strictest gun laws in the country — laws that may soon be swept away if the Supreme Court continues what seems to be its holy war on democracy. In fact, its justices are expected to rule this month in a case that challenges New York’s constitutional right to deny anyone a permit to carry a firearm. That state’s current licensing process allows only those who can prove a “special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community.” That means you can’t pack heat just because you want to feel stronger and braver than you are or because you feel threatened by people who look different from you. It also means that you can’t enjoy the privileges of the past. In his history of gun rights in this country, Armed in America, Patrick Charles quotes this from a piece in a 1912 issue of the magazine Sports Afield: “Perfect freedom from annoyance by petty lawbreakers is found in a country where every man carries his own sheriff, judge, and executioner swung on his hip.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_United_States:_Armed_to_the Teeth_and_Strutting_Toward_the_Apocalypse⠀⇛ The gun I carried on the streets of New York City in the late 1960s was a Beretta, similar to the pistol James Bond packed in the early Ian Fleming novels. It was a small, dark beauty that filled me with bravado. I was never afraid when I had it in my pocket, which is why I’m so very afraid now. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Robert_Lipsyte:_Please_Take_My_Gun⠀⇛ Robert Lipsyte offers a little inside information from his own past on what it feels like to be a young man in this country packing a weapon, while your emotions and sense of manliness run wild. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Why_the_Spirit_of_June_12,_1982,_Matters⠀⇛ Time for a new movement to stop the nuclear arms race. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Worrying_Trend’:_Global_Nuclear_Stockpile Set_to_Grow_for_First_Time_Since_Cold_War⠀⇛ The world’s stockpile of nuclear warheads is expected to expand in the coming years for the first time since the 1980s and the catastrophic threat of those weapons being used is escalating, a leading arms watchdog said Monday. “If the nuclear-armed states take no immediate and concrete action on disarmament, then the global inventory of nuclear warheads could soon begin to increase for the first time since the Cold War,” Matt Korda, an associate researcher with the Weapons of Mass Destruction Program at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said in a statement released alongside SIPRI’s annual report. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘No_one_feels_sorry_for_them’_The_long_road_to dismantling_Kyiv’s_Soviet_monument_to_friendship_with Russia⠀⇛ At the end of April, the city of Kyiv dismantled a Soviet-era statue that was meant to symbolize friendship between Russia and Ukraine. The sculpture was part of a complex in the city center that includes the Peoples’ Friendship Arch — a massive rainbow-shaped structure that was recently renamed the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian people. Writing for Meduza, architectural journalist Asya Zolnikova digs into this monument’s controversial history — and future. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Those_who_unleashed_aggression_won’t_be_in heaven’:_St._Petersburg_priest_faces_criminal_charges_for condemning_Russia’s_war_against_Ukraine⠀⇛ Former priest and doctor of theology Ioann Kurmoyarov has been jailed for two months pending trial on felony charges of spreading “false information” about the Russian military. St. Petersburg’s Kalininsky District Court remanded Kurmoyarov in custody on Saturday, June 11.  # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘War_Crimes’:_Amnesty_Probe_Details Hundreds_Killed_by_Russia’s_Indiscriminate_Bombing_of Kharkiv⠀⇛ Russia’s repeated attacks on Ukraine using cluster munitions “constitute war crimes,” Amnesty International said in a new report released Monday, highlighting several bombings in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, where more than 600 civilians have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. The report, titled Anyone Can Die at Any Time, was compiled from interviews with 160 people, including survivors of strikes, witnesses, and medical professionals who treated victims. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘People_Over_Pentagon’_Proposal_Would_Take $100_Billion_From_Pentagon_to_Fund_Social_Programs⠀⇛ Progressive advocacy groups across the United States on Monday welcomed a new legislative proposal that would cut Pentagon spending for the next fiscal year by $100 billion and reallocate it toward top threats facing the nation that “are not military in nature.” “How come when it comes to funding the Pentagon, no one asks how are we going to pay for it, but when it comes to funding healthcare, suddenly the government is poor?” # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Europol_warning:_Right-wingers_equip_themselves with_3D_printed_weapons⠀⇛ A radical right-winger has been arrested in Slovakia for using self-printed weapons and explosives. Investigators on the phenomenon met in The Hague three weeks ago. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘The_Children_Scream_From_the_Hunger_at Night’:_Afghans_Suffer_After_Biden_Seizes_Funds⠀⇛ New reporting from The Washington Post on Monday laid out the increasingly dire conditions across Afghanistan amid drought and in the wake of the Taliban takeover and disastrous U.S. withdrawal last year following nearly two decades of war. “Sometimes all we have is donated stale bread and tea.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ocasio-Cortez_Raises_Concern_Over Criminalization_Provisions_in_Senate_Gun_Bill⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Hundreds_of_Civilians_Killed_by_Russia’s_Bombing of_Kharkiv,_Report_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_state_cancels_support_for charity_concert_for_Ukraine_in_Budapest⠀⇛ Ukrainian president Volodimir Zelensky’s former actor colleagues will be among the artists appearing at the charity concert which is to be held later this week, on 16 June at Bakáts tér in Budapest. The event was supposed to have taken place at the prestigious Várkert Bazár, but after weeks of organizing, the Hungarian state canceled its support of the event, which is why the 9th district of Budapest stepped in as host. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘In_Moscow,_we’re_the_majority’:_Opposition politician_Ilya_Yashin_is_still_in_Russia_and_still_speaking out._So_far,_he’s_stayed_out_of_prison.⠀⇛ Russia has effectively been under martial law for three months now. Anti-war protests are illegal, independent media outlets have been blocked, and anyone who spreads “fake news” about the Russian army (such as reports of war crimes) can face up to 15 years in prison. Naturally, a huge number of journalists, activists, and opposition politicians have left the country. Ilya Yashin is a rare figure: he’s chosen to stay in Russia, but he also openly refers to the war as a war (which violates Russian law). Four administrative offense reports have been filed against him as a result. Meduza special correspondent Svetlana Reiter spoke with Yashin about what’s changed in Moscow since February 24 — and why he’s chosen to stay in Russia. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Turkey’s_Assault_on_Syrian_Kurds:_a Secondary_Crises_of_the_Ukraine_War?⠀⇛ But some of the worst consequences of the war outside Ukraine remain beneath the media radar, notably Turkey’s announcement in the last few weeks that it is planning an offensive to seize Kurdish- controlled enclaves in northern Syria. Going by previous Turkish incursions over the last five years this attack will mean the ethnic cleansing of Kurds left with no choice but to flee to other parts of Syria. Displacement, destruction, death # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Hedges:_Society_of_Spectacle⠀⇛ Opinion column: The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, whose first of six televised hearings began last Thursday, is spectacle replacing politics. There is nothing substantially new in the accusations. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_January_6th_Spectacle_Won’t_Save Democracy⠀⇛ The televised hearings on the events of January 6, 2021 detailing the alleged insurrection at the Capitol after the 2020 election illustrates the sclerotic state of American politics and news media. It occurs at a time when democracies are weakening and disappearing. Regardless of one’s party affiliation or ideology, questions about a violent attempt to disrupt or ignore the democratic process are as serious as they are consequential. On the surface the hearing is a powerful example of democracy in action, but what happened on January 6th and what it means for democracy is hindered by the establishment news media and political classes’ fixation on Donald Trump. Indeed, they are addicted to the benefits of focusing on Trump all the time—so is Trump himself. Meanwhile, the public remains in the unenviable position of being inundated with propaganda while lacking a background in critical media literacy education. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Playing_Fiddle_While_the_Nation_Burns⠀⇛ Eventually some “insurrectionists” may be charged and held to account but for the most part they will most likely simply supply great amounts of entertainment, entertainment in the form of ammunition for the Democratic hounds who love to hate and condemn the Republican party as the Republican hounds love hating the Democrats. Unless Trump himself is brought to account and is treated in the same manner as any citizen the hearings, like the impeachment hearings, will accomplish little to nothing. Even so, the hearings will do nothing to stop or better the Republican Party or the Democratic Party or the nation as a whole and all this just before the mid-terms! These hearings, however entertaining, will not solve the problems that lie at the root or heart of the United States, a country which is in obvious and statistically verifiable decline and these hearings, as sometimes reported, sure as hell won’t save our democracy. Likewise, convicting those citizens who were caught up in the passion of their political beliefs, as twisted as some of those beliefs may have been, will not play out in a just and righteous manner, bringing in the leaders that is and delivering sentences fairly handed down. They will if anything, only drive the wedge deeper into the heart of the nation while the real problems that affect us every day and the real criminals that hoodwink us without mercy and helped to bring on, either directly or indirectly, the fury of that crowd, go on unaddressed, untried and for the most part, unnoticed. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_January_6th_Spectacle_Won’t_Save Democracy⠀⇛ Americans are not media literate. For the most part, their schools do not mandate critical media literacy education. Writers have long warned that having a media illiterate citizenry threatens a democracy’s viability because voters are unable to discern fact from fiction, entertainment from reality. Indeed, numerous scholars and journalists have argued that it was these conditions that enabled Trump to become president of the United States. A long time media figure and reality television personality, Trump engaged in delivering sensationalistic content that the news media could not avoid. For four years, the news media enjoyed a massive increase in their audience size for covering every aspect of Trump’s life.  Some later issued a mea culpa, but all suffered from a huge reduction of their audience once Trump’s presidency concluded by nearly half in some cases. The Democratic Party engaged in what was known as a pied piper strategy to make Trump the 2016 nominee because they thought he was the best opponent to ensure Hillary Clinton’s victory. As evidenced by the 2020 election, antipathy for Trump drives Democratic Party voter participation like abortion and immigration animate Republicans. That Democrats rely on the “we’re not Trump” strategy has them facing dismal prospects for 2022 voter participation. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Schiff_Says_There’s_Plenty_of_Evidence_DOJ_Could Use_to_Charge_Trump⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Key_Jan._6_Witness_Backs_Out_of_Public_Hearings Due_to_Family_Emergency⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_January_6_Hearings:_Examin­ing the_Elec­tion_Sabot­age_and_Ongoing_Damage_to_Democracy⠀⇛ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Jan._6_Hearing_Offers_Yet_More_Proof_That_‘Trump Lied’_and_‘He_Knew_He_Lied’⠀⇛ Donald Trump’s incessant and frequently outlandish lies about the 2020 election were in the spotlight Monday as a special House committee laid out its case that the former president’s falsehoods about widespread voter fraud were pivotal in catalyzing the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Monday’s hearing, the second in a series of six, featured videotaped testimony from Trump administration insiders—including former Attorney General William Barr—and campaign officials who told House investigators that they informed their boss his claims about the 2020 election were unfounded, but he nevertheless made them on the night of the November contest and in subsequent weeks, ginning up his right-wing base and raking in massive sums in donations from supporters. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Jan._6_Committee_Confirms_‘Big_Lie’_Was_Also_a ‘Big_Ripoff’_of_Trump_Donors⠀⇛ The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection on Monday detailed how the Trump campaign blatantly deceived the former president’s supporters by using the “Big Lie” of a stolen election to bilk hundreds of millions out of them in massive fundraising blitz. “Not only was there that big lie, there was the big rip- off.” o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ WATCH:_Second_Jan._6_Hearing_Aims_to_Prove Trump’s_Willful_Lies_Drove_Violent_Insurrection⠀⇛ Update: The House January 6 committee announced that Bill Stepien, former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, will no longer be testifying at Monday’s hearing due to an unspecified “family emergency.” o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ocasio-Cortez_Calls_on_GOP_January_6_Pardon-Seekers_to Reveal_Themselves⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Where_the_January_6_Insurrection_Hearings_Go_Next⠀⇛ The art of whipping up anticipation is usually better understood in Hollywood than in Washington. Grabbing hold of an audience requires first offering some enticement (in the form of a trailer that craftily hints at the story) before the main feature. The first day of the congressional hearings on the aborted coup of January 2021, however, offer an indication that at least some politicians have a talent for shaping narrative suspense. The team of Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the committee, and Republican Representative Liz Cheney, the vice chairman, presented a masterful overview. They unfolded a plausible narrative for the events leading up to the storming of the Capitol and summarized the forensic case for former President Donald Trump’s culpability in the attempted insurrection. Video clips from the riot offered a vivid reminder of the orchestrated violence that Trump stirred up. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Torture_Memo_Lawyer_John_Yoo_Devises_Theory_for Stealing_Presidential_Elections⠀⇛ * § Environment⠀➾ o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘A_lawsuit_against_Russia’s_non-Russian_population’_The Russian_authorities_are_threatening_to_revoke_the_citizenship_of the_country’s_most_prominent_climate_activist.⠀⇛ Arshak Makichyan is a Russian climate activist and Greta Thunberg ally. On the day the war began, Makichyan was getting married to fellow activist Polina Oleinikova; their wedding turned into a public statement against the war (Makichyan’s shirt had the words “Fuck the War” written on it) and the couple later left Russia. In May, Makichyan learned that the Russian authorities wanted to revoke his citizenship. He’s currently in Europe, where he continues to fight for a more sustainable planet and for Ukrainian sovereignty — but with a visa expiration date looming, his future is uncertain. o § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Setting_the_Precedent_for_a_Peace Industrial_Policy⠀⇛ Last week, Biden invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA) to speed up the production of domestic clean energy infrastructure. This Act, originally passed in 1950 as a response to the Korean War, provides support for domestic production of materials deemed essential to national defense. As invoked last week, the DPA now provides investments in the domestic manufacturing of five green energy technologies (solar energy, heat pumps, insulation for buildings, hydrogen, and grid components) and waives solar tariffs. This move is an important milestone not only for federal U.S. support for a transition to green energy, but also in harnessing the precedent set by defense industrial policy to invest in peace, sustainability, and human needs instead of war. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Warning_signs_flash_for_[cryptocurency] industry⠀⇛ The latest cryptocurrency selloff reveals signs of trouble for the crypto industry, which was already facing layoffs and hiring freezes amid a global economic downturn. Bitcoin plunged nearly 23 percent from Friday to Monday, hitting its lowest mark since late last year. Ethereum, the second most popular cryptocurrency, dropped 32 percent over the same period. The total [cryptocurrency] market cap dropped below $1 trillion for the first time since January as investors unloaded their digital coins. o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ The_English_Volunteer_Group_Changing_How_We Study_Animals_at_Night⠀⇛ * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Soaring_Food_and_Energy_Prices_Drive_Inflation Higher_in_May⠀⇛ Rents are still rising rapidly. The Fed’s rate hikes have likely already slowed or reversed the rise in sale prices, but it will be a while before any effect can be seen in rents. It is disappointing that new and used vehicle prices rose sharply. The latter was inconsistent with the Manheim Used Vehicle index, which showed a much smaller rise. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_‘Secret’_That_Gets_CEOs_Rich:_Keep_Workers Poor⠀⇛ o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Stacey_Abrams_Unveils_New_Plan_to_Raise_Base_Teacher Salary_to_$50k⠀⇛ o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Ron_DeSantis_Continues_To_Waste_Taxpayer_Funds_To_Pay For_His_Unconstitutional_Culture_Wars⠀⇛ Remember when Republicans pretended they were the party of fiscal responsibility, not wasting taxpayer money, and limited government? Sure, sure, you say, that was all just sloganeering, and never actually true in practice, but it’s really starkly on display in Florida, where governor (and wannabe 2024 Presidential candidate) Ron DeSantis has taken this all to new levels. Sure, sometimes he still makes statements with those old GOP slogans and tag lines, but he’s taken big, intrusive government to new levels, stripping rights away from those he dislikes, and having no problem wasting taxpayer funds so long as it helps him wage a culture war that gets him headlines and sycophantic adoration from a new bevy of brainwashed fans. o ⚓ 180s⠀⇛ I went from thinking that “cryptocurrency looks pretty nifty and good, I should get into that” into “ugh it sucks I really dodged a bullet“ within like three seconds of joining Fedi. Like, less than three years ago! o ⚓ All_Human_Relationships_are_Built_on_Trust⠀⇛ The idea of trustless money is ludicrous, because there’s no such thing as a trustless social relationship. This applies for business relationships or personal relationships. Without trust, that dog won’t hunt. Trust, violence, or the threat of violence is what backs any currency. I include the latter two things, because the US dollar is backed both by faith in the US government and fear of the US military. So what backs a currency pegged to a precious metal like gold or silver? Trust that we won’t find a new and ready source of the metal. Trust in the status quo. See why gold is beloved by conservatives? When bloodthirsty men looted the Americas in the 1500s and shipped incredible amounts of gold home to mother Europe, gold lost its value. Goldbugs don’t talk about the inflation in Spain during the 16th century. they don’t want to admit that their “eternal store of value” is in fact built on nothing more and nothing less than faith, just like any other currency. * § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ BBC ☛ Musk_to_hold_first_meeting_with_Twitter_staff_this_week⠀⇛ The event was announced by Twitter’s chief executive Parag Agrawal in an email to staff on Monday. Mr Agrawal told employees they could submit questions to Mr Musk in advance of the meeting. o ⚓ Salon ☛ Jan._6_committee_makes_the_case_clear_for_Merrick Garland:_Failure_to_prosecute_Trump_is_political⠀⇛ Few Republican voters will even allow themselves to take in this information. Instead, they will turn to propaganda outlets like Fox News to be told comforting lies. But the problem may be even bigger than that. Waking Republican voters up with the truth only works if “truth” is something Republican voters care about. Unfortunately, there’s little reason to believe it is. Republicans know full well that Trump is just making up his claims of a “stolen” election and they simply don’t care. They weren’t duped by the Big Lie —they think they’re in on it. As I’ve argued before, the Big Lie is less of a literal belief for Trump supporters, and more a myth embraced because it speaks to their deeper belief: That they’re entitled to rule, no matter what. They don’t believe the 2020 election was a “fraud” because of any actual evidence. It’s far more that they just think that people who voted for President Joe Biden shouldn’t have a right to vote in the first place. By repeating the Big Lie, they are participating, along with Trump, in spinning a narrative that they are using, just like Trump, as a pretext to justify this deeper and more fundamental belief. It’s just that they know that there’s no way to argue out loud that only conservative white Christians should have the vote, so they use these conspiracy theories to perpetuate this ugly belief without stating it out loud. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Junior_President_from_the_State_of_Delaware⠀⇛ The best Senators, the ones we need to listen to, can rise to a watershed moment putting their convictions ahead of individual or party gain, vendetta or transient popular favor. For example, in 1964 two otherwise unremarkable Democrats, Wayne Morse (D-OR) and Ernest Greuning (D-AK), were the only Senators to vote against President Lyndon Johnson’s fraudulent assertions that North Vietnam was provoking war off its coast. By a vote of 88 to 2, the Senate passed the notorious Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to authorize ten years of American war- making in Indochina. Similarly, early in the Watergate scandals, two Republicans, Edward Brooke (R-MA) and Lowell Weicker (R-CT), attacked the Nixon Administration for its lying. Subsequent events proved all four right – morally and on the facts — and yet they never achieved the popular adulation that latecomers grabbed. The higher functioning party hacks raise themselves through the Senate pushing party or ideological agendas but little else. Nothing is more important than winning some advantage – no matter how minor — while making sure the detested “other” gets no gain. An early example I observed was Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) who exerted himself to undo not just Democrats but Republicans who didn’t toe his line. A repellent personality to many of his own colleagues, Helms never achieved high party office, but he did achieve wide spread national standing among hard core right wingers seeking to purge the Republican party of nonbelievers. (They were very successful.) A contemporary highly functioning party hack is the Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who has pretzeled his position on the filibuster, Supreme Court appointments and more depending on what advantages his party’s power. Should he become the Majority Leader after the 2022 elections, watch as he reverses himself on the filibuster for a third time when the tactical situation makes it advantageous. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Unjustified_Criticism_of_High_Commissioner Michelle_Bachelet’s_Visit_To_China⠀⇛ As former UN rapporteurs we are committed to the promotion and protection of human rights in all corners of the world, including China.  Progress can only be achieved on the basis on good faith implementation of the UN Charter and UN human rights treaties, and requires patience, perseverance, and international solidarity. An artificial atmosphere of hostility, sustained by geopolitical agendas, double standards, fake news and skewed narratives has made it difficult to tackle specific human rights problems and advance on the progressive enjoyment of human rights in larger freedom. Human rights allegations were being selectively deployed as a geopolitical tool, above all to stoke the embers of confrontation that was high on the agenda of both the Trump and Biden presidencies. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Conservatives_on_the_Supreme_Court_Have Officially_Become_Homicidal⠀⇛ The basic definition of a homicide is the death of one human because of the actions of another. By that definition, Clarence Thomas attempted homicide via the majority opinion he wrote in the Supreme Court case Shinn v. Ramirez on May 23. I do not say that merely because Thomas denied the appeal of two people on death row. Supreme Court justices deny final appeals from people condemned to die all the time, and while those denials have the effect of killing people, I wouldn’t call every denial a homicide. I call Thomas’s opinion a homicide because his reason for denying the appeal was so twisted and evil that his intent to kill was discernible through the legal jargon. He even added a footnote wherein he callously explained that he had the discretion to save these lives, but was choosing not to use it. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Conservative_Supreme_Court_Justices_Disagree About_How_to_Read_the_Law⠀⇛ As a political scientist who has published several books on law and politics, I know it’s true that the political affiliation of the president who appointed a justice is a powerful indicator of how that justice will vote. But ideology does not explain everything. Not all cases divide neatly along partisan lines, and, what’s equally important, Supreme Court decisions consist of more than votes. They also set forth judicial reasoning, which offers vital clues to differences in how justices read the law and how they might rule in future cases. o ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘Calibrated’_Dishonesty:_Western_Media_Coverage_of Venezuela_Sanctions⠀⇛ US sanctions, even by outdated estimates, have killed tens of thousands of Venezuelans. The unilateral policies have been widely condemned by multilateral bodies and human rights experts for their deadly impact, as well as for violating international law (Venezuelanalysis, 9/18/ 21, 9/15/21, 3/25/21, 1/31/19). o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_case_of_the_mysterious_small_aircraft_which violated_Hungarian_airspace⠀⇛ We spoke with retired pilot and accident examiner György Háy regarding the Lithuanian airplane which flew across Hungarian airspace illegally last week. He said that there is not much that can be done with an airplane flying in the air. At the most – if it is acting dangerously – it can be shot down. o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Harvest_of_Empire:_Juan_González_on_His_Landmark Book,_Immigration_&_Consequences_of_U.S._Imperialism⠀⇛ As the Summit of the Americas wrapped up in Los Angeles with President Biden announcing a plan to address migration in the Western Hemisphere that includes a series of so-called bold actions, we spend the hour with Democracy Now! co-host, professor, longtime journalist and author Juan González, who has just released the newly revised edition of his landmark 2000 book, “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.” González’s best-seller has been expanded to include more contemporary Lantix history, such as U.S. immigration policy under Presidents Trump and Biden, the overpolicing of non-U.S. citizens and how it connects to a history of Western colonialism in the region. While European colonization caused Latin America to be “the incubator of the American empire,” the millennial immigration apparatus has become fixated on “kicking out Latin Americans, and no one is doing anything about it,” says González. He also examines the culture and history of Latinos and discusses the history of U.S. involvement and imperialism in countries like the Dominican Republic, where many of the immigrants here in New York City hail from, and the conditions of Guatemala’s Indigenous peoples under the brutal U.S.-backed government that drove many of them to leave their country and head north in search of safety. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_the_French_Really_Owe_Haiti⠀⇛ Last month, The New York Times made headlines with its front-page series about the billions (in today’s dollars) that France forced Haiti to pay following centuries of slavery. Despite the terrors and tortures of French colonialism, the Haitian revolutionaries won their independence from France in 1804 to become the first modern nation to permanently abolish slavery. Yet, in 1825, the French returned to Haitian shores to demand 150 million francs in exchange for recognition of Haitian independence—21 years after the fact—and to compensate enslavers for their lost “property.” o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Evidence_Just_Doesn’t_Support_Any_Of_The Narratives_About_The_Harms_Of_Social_Media⠀⇛ A whole bunch of people over the last month have sent me Jonathan Haidt’s essay in The Atlantic, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid,” and asked for my thoughts. Haidt’s basic premise is that the problem is social media. It’s more complex and nuanced than that, and there are some important points in the complexities and the nuances, but the takeaway remains that social media is the problem. I’ve written about half of three different responses to it, but am still working on a more complete article explaining what I think it gets wrong. So this article is not that. However, this article is about an excellent piece in The New Yorker by Gideon Lewis-Kraus that is, itself, something of a response to Haidt, with the title: “How Harmful is Social Media?“ o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Andrew_Giuliani_Can’t_Attend_GOP_Gubernatorial_Debate Due_to_Being_Unvaccinated⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump’s_Coup_Plot_Relied_on_Giuliani’s_Inebriated Lies⠀⇛ “The mayor was definitely intoxicated,” declared Jason Miller, a veteran fixer for Donald Trump who was in the White House on the night of the November 3, 2020, presidential election. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Driven._Crazy.⠀⇛ * § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Telex_will_belong_to_the_Telex_team:_the publisher_of_Telex_becomes_employee-owned⠀⇛ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Doctors_to_Top_UK_Officials:_‘Do_Not_Extradite Julian_Assange;_Free_Him’⠀⇛ With the U.K. home secretary expected to decide this week whether to approve Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States to face prosecution for publishing classified information, a group of more than 300 medical professionals elevated its call Monday for the British government to immediately free the WikiLeaks founder or be complicit in his “slow-motion execution.” “Under conditions in which the U.K. legal system has failed to take Mr. Assange’s current health status into account, no valid decision regarding his extradition may be made, by yourself or anyone else,” Doctors for Assange, a coalition of representing physicians and other medical professionals from 35 countries, wrote in a letter to U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel and Prime Minister Boris Johnson. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Doctor’s_Orders:_‘Do_Not_Extradite_Assange’⠀⇛ More than 300 Doctors For Assange have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to not make the U.K. “complicit in the slow-motion execution” of Julian Assange. o ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Patel_Responsible_For_Assange’s_‘Slow-Motion Execution’_If_Extradited,_Doctors_Warn⠀⇛ A coalition of over 300 doctors warned UK Home Secretary Priti Patel that she may be responsible for the “slow- motion execution” of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if her office approves the United States government’s extradition request.Patel has until June 19, which is ten years after Assange entered Ecuador’s embassy in London and sought political asylum, to decide whether to approve the extradition.Assange faces 18 charges brought against him by the US Justice Department, 17 of which are under the Espionage Act. All the charges relate to documents WikiLeaks released in 2010 and 2011, which were provided by US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning.Doctors for Assange” is an international coalition of medical doctors, psychiatrists, and psychologists who have spoken up for Assange because of the toll the US government’s prosecution has taken on his health. Many of the doctors are from the UK and Australia, which is Assange’s home country. The doctors sent a letter to Patel on June 10, 2022, ahead of the Home Office’s extradition decision.“Should [Assange] come to harm in the US,” the group contends Patel “will be left holding the responsibility for that negligent outcome.” They add, “The extradition of a person with such compromised health, moreover, is medically and ethically unacceptable.” * § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ o ⚓ The Hill ☛ As_the_Taliban_try_to_silence_women,_the_international community_must_do_more⠀⇛ But a new report from the Association of Wartime Allies (AWA), a member-based organization focused on saving the lives of Afghan and Iraqi applicants for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV), has taken a giant step in the right direction — one that we hope other organizations will follow. The AWA survey is one of the first to document the human rights abuses and gender-specific experiences of female SIV applicants left behind in Afghanistan. Women are too often forgotten in policy discussions about Afghan evacuees because they form less than 10 percent of the at-risk Afghan community that gets most of the attention: those with Special Immigrant Visas. SIVs are a special visa program for Afghans and Iraqis who worked with the U.S. government during military operations there. o ⚓ CBC ☛ Phone_won’t_stop_buzzing_after_work?_How_right-to- disconnect_policies_might_help_—_and_might_not⠀⇛ “The legislation is quite toothless,” said Matthew Fisher, a partner at Lecker & Associates Law who specializes in employment law. “What it really does is it requires employers of a certain size in certain circumstances to make a policy,” he added. “The problem is they are relying on the good faith of employers…. There is nothing in the legislation that requires the policy to be reasonable.” o ⚓ NBC ☛ 13-year-old_killed_by_San_Antonio_police_was_not_a_threat to_officers,_attorney_says⠀⇛ Attorney Lee Merritt said there was “a clear civil rights violation” based on the police videos he watched, which included two police dashcam videos and footage from the bodycam of officer Stephen Ramos, who has been identified as the officer who shot Andre Hernandez Jr. The videos, Merritt said, contradict the narrative put forth by officers. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Mayoral_Elections_in_LA_Are_About_Knowledge⠀⇛ Democracy, Demos Kratos, power to the people as we all know, is what is being politicked in LA. In a deeply individualistic culture, in a city with a receding public life, voters are being called to decide on the future of one of the most important cities in the world. Though charisma, persona, experience, conviction, and leadership are what are on the ballot, LA residents are truly being called to the polls to further define California democracy, a complex entity that must be improved in order to achieve peace, justice, and a more humane city. In houselessness, or homelessness, a crisis in Los Angeles? A crisis is a concept with a very specific definition. A crisis is a time of “intense difficulty”, when a “decision needs to be made”, is what google tells us, which we will settle with. In other words, a crisis is a point in which actors, aided by a public and by spectators (let’s just say the reading public) are placed on a hot seat and must make the right decision. This decision can redress the situation. The Bhagavad Gita is one of the great texts that explores the concept of a crisis. In it Arjuna, a prince, cannot decide to fight because fighting will harm his relatives that stand opposed to him on the battlefield. Krishna explains to him that it is his dharma to fight, and that he must fight in order for certain things to happen. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Critics_Say_Starbucks_CEO_Just_Declared_‘Permanent War’_Against_Union⠀⇛ Billionaire Howard Schultz’s vow to never negotiate in good faith with Starbucks Workers United may violate federal labor law. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Time_to_Launch_“Dads_Demand_Action_to_Raise Healthy_Boys”⠀⇛ There’ll be time enough for backyard barbeques once fathers take the lead in establishing “Dads Demand Action to Raise Healthy Boys,” following in the footsteps—a decade late—after “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense,” launched the day following the mass murders at Sandy Hook. In recent years, a growing number of men have been questioning conventional definitions of manhood and masculinity, so it’s an apt moment—with the scourge of male mass shootings fresh in our minds—for fathers and other men to reinvent Father’s Day. A day more about raising healthy boys and girls than about flipping ‘burgers and ‘dogs on the grill, as fun as that may be. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Mia_Couto_and_the_African_Guilt_Slavery⠀⇛ And more from the writer: “The simplification of the continent may have helped when it was necessary to claim that Africa had culture and history-we Africans ourselves spoke of one Africa. But then we built differentiated identities and voices, we have been plural since forever.” Here again we can note that it is possible to speak big lies with partial truths. Remember an anthological Washington Olivetto ad, which reconstructed a terrible figure with flattering references?  The video of the ad spoke with images in dots on the screen: “This man took a destroyed nation. He restored its economy and restored pride to its people. In his first four years in office, the number of unemployed fell from six million to nine hundred thousand people. This man made the Gross Domestic Product grow 102% and the per capita income double. This man loved music and painting. And as a young man, he imagined pursuing a career in the arts.” Then the points were reduced and the image of Hitler came up, to conclude: “You can tell a pack of lies by telling only the truth.” Here’s the video clip: o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Police_and_Indigenous_Group_Deny_Bodies_Found_in Search_for_Dom_Phillips_and_Bruno_Pereira⠀⇛ Brazilian police and a local Indigenous association are denying reporting Monday that a pair of bodies were found in the Amazon in the search for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Patriot_Front_Members_Arrived_in_Riot_Gear_to Terrorize_Idaho_Pride_Event⠀⇛ o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Civil_Rights_Lawsuit_Accuses_Police_of_Unlawfully Arresting_a_High_Schooler_in_the_Early_Days_of_the_Pandemic⠀⇛ Police in a Texas border town used stay-at-home orders in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to unlawfully stop and arrest a high school senior driving to his mother’s house, according to a civil rights lawsuit that has its first hearing this week. Socrates Shawn, then 18, was commuting between his divorced parents’ homes when he was pulled over in April 2020 by a police officer in Progreso, a town of about 4,800 residents in the Rio Grande Valley. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Report_Shows_Kansas_Law_Enforcement_Seized_$21_Million From_People,_Most_Of_Whom_Were_Never_Charged_With_Crimes⠀⇛ A new report on asset forfeiture arrives at the same conclusions every other report on the subject has: forfeiture makes money for cops, does almost nothing to stop illegal activity, and rarely, if ever, results in criminal convictions. (via CJ Ciaramella at Reason) o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Protests_Erupt_After_UK_Court_Greenlights_Plan_to Deport_Asylum-Seekers_to_Rwanda⠀⇛ Progressives demonstrated outside the United Kingdom Home Office in London after judges on Monday greenlit right- wing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s widely condemned plan to expel some asylum-seekers to Rwanda. “Deporting refugees to Rwanda has nothing to do with tackling people-trafficking and everything to do with whipping up hate and stoking division.” * § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ U.S._Broadband_Maps_Remain_Unfinished_As_Billions_In COVID_Broadband_Funding_Starts_To_Flow⠀⇛ We’ve noted a few times how there’s an absolutely historic amount of money being thrown at the “digital divide” this year. The broadband infrastructure bill alone designates $42 billion to expanding broadband access. Billions more in COVID relief money started flowing this week courtesy of the Treasury Department. o ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Podcasting_“Regulatory_Capture”⠀⇛ Net Neutrality is a very simple proposition: it’s the idea that your ISP should send you the bits you request when you click links as quickly and efficiently as it can. The opposite of neutrality is net discrimination, which is when your ISP demands bribes from the services you want to use, and punishes the companies that refuse to pay by slowing down their connections to you. No one wants this, for fairly obvious reasons, which left Pai with a dilemma: as a matter of law, he couldn’t just kill off Net Neutrality; first, he had to seek public comment on the proposal, and the public didn’t want Net Neutrality dead. When John Oliver did an episode about this, 1.5m people commented in the docket, melting the FCC’s servers. * § Monopolies⠀➾ o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ With_The_INFORM_Act,_Congress_Plans_To_Empower_Ken Paxton_To_Go_After_Amazon_If_It_Doesn’t_Tell_Him_Who_Sold_The_Books He_Doesn’t_Like⠀⇛ Don’t think this headline is hyperbole; as this post will explain, it is not. o ⚓ The Verge ☛ John_Oliver_exposes_how_Google_and_Amazon_stifle competition⠀⇛ “The problem with letting a few companies control whole sectors of our economy is that it limits what is possible by startups,” Oliver said. “An innovative app or website or startup may never get off the ground because it could be surcharged to death, buried in search results or ripped off completely.” Specifically, Oliver noted two bills making their way through Congress aimed at reining in these anti- competitive behaviors, including the American Choice and Innovation Act (AICO) and the Open App Markets Act. o § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ WTO_Draft_Text_Has_Abandoned_COVID_Patent Waiver,_Critics_Say⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ As_WTO_Ministerial_Opens,_Civil_Society Slams_Rich_Nations_for_Acting_as_Big_Pharma_‘Henchmen’⠀⇛ The 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization kicked off in Geneva on Sunday amid mounting protests against rich nations’ refusal to support a patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, obstruction that has left billions of people around the world without access as Covid-19 continues to spread and take lives. While WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala voiced “cautious optimism” that member countries will ultimately reach an agreement on patents and other key items on the body’s agenda, civil society groups warned that the intellectual property text currently on the table represents such a departure from South Africa and India’s original proposal that it can’t even be called a waiver. o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ The_U.S._‘Small’_Copyright_Claims_Board Goes_Live_this_Week⠀⇛ The US “Copyright Claims Board” starts accepting its first claims this week. The tribunal, which is part of the Copyright Office, allows parties to resolve “small” copyright disputes relatively cheaply outside of the federal court system. Damages available under these claims are capped at $30,000 and the entire process takes place online, without the need to hire an attorney. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ IPTV_Pirates_Who_Lost_$90m_Lawsuit_Lose Another_Worth_$130m⠀⇛ Former operators of pirate IPTV service SetTV were previously ordered to pay $90 million in damages after losing a DISH Network piracy lawsuit. A second lawsuit ensued when DISH discovered that the men had violated an injunction by launching a new pirate platform called ExpediteTV. That lawsuit has now concluded with a second injunction attached to a $130 million damages award. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Copyright_Being_Used_To_Stifle_Attempts_To Preserve_A_Dying_Language⠀⇛ One of deep-seated problems with copyright is that its supporters believe everything created should be “owned” by someone and protected from being “stolen” by others. We’ve already written about how that’s a bad fit for writing music, and NBC News has a fascinating story about how the same issue is plaguing a very different world – that of indigenous languages (pointed out by D. J. Mary on Twitter). It concerns the Lakota language, one of many native American languages that are at risk of extinction because so few people speak them fluently. In recent years, there have been increasing efforts to create language resources from the surviving speakers, to prevent the language and its culture being lost, and to produce learning materials. The long and interesting article discusses the details of the dispute between the Lakota Language Consortium and some Lakota language speakers, like Ray Taken Alive: # ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ Let’s_end_the_rocky_marriage between_academia_and_commercial_publishers⠀⇛ Third, publishers have resisted repeated attempts to make their contracts with universities more transparent. A 2014 analysis showed that the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor paid Elsevier $2.16 million (£1.77 million) for the exact same package of journals sold to the University of Wisconsin, Madison for $1.22 million. Yale, with about 12,500 students, paid Springer $711,564 for the same package that the University of Texas, Austin, with more than 50,000 students, purchased for $481,932. Scientific publications need to get back to their original goal of distributing the best scientific information to the largest audience at the lowest cost. To replace the expensive, dysfunctional system, we need a national or global digital library that will edit and post peer-reviewed scientific papers. This will require multi-institutional consortia and a substantial expansion of university libraries and professional librarians. Oversight will also be needed – and could be provided by a distinguished non-profit entity, similar to the national academies. 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