𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, August 01, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Tue 2 Aug 02:39:45 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/2022/08/01/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmXniW6uykwhxPzQFCih3ywbRTbNtozdD9MTkKJWNUUis7 Qmba4Ap4JVU96TSWT1jJZfQAasTyweA1EFu92C6ULqfYVF QmQDNYLCxwvKJsAAbaMfkydsH6iMivVs54xVt3e1WhRa4V QmZrgDSeEPr5Tk1kd6ixcTH5gK8gVF6UWZ8USDWkwExtL2 QmdVCZ22xUbZkpsSDmSDMrnFTMypCGWw1f2punvumLq2NJ QmXJTu6CfqTRzBWfbZAfQFS2Je8PJA65YsoWMZp6Z3WV8Z QmXptQogxzP3vUxmf2ttL7Vyb5aAwUT9Ux3nmXxPkuNRNp QmYTKahqtmH46iM3ZthdPvDKojc39tpTCiyk2GGs8Y29DU QmRRSvTcmYGSSCvpvxz5PTAHRT4fdRHip9uhxwcQXMWp9G QmQpoFyQcBb3KsKSZ3VzsMZsMmgcTqXq1zThATBh2bp3Yp QmZrQzFnwRoF6P9gTMQfqokg7GSmtCyoyEMWxV7jZxDsZn QmRgX3FU5tqoWu74D2LUMC84rvb5VBXutGnvudD9rbAAgn QmNocWiFPVNdoZoPJy1s4vZQryq4BWRJMou5WsNScHuuMt QmWkLbREwUBZdex6qeeh1UyUD3GwnNihMfEE28VhuPZYAK QmUmo6iUYY6LPz7rMxVJXtYjzryXZaVK76GtZjE3wXnAbk QmTcjQcpQmc33H6tVYxaBQP4SYQnHTEnFzA1HJRmbELhh3 Qmd5sSa6zctA8RcuhbgaMD5PKt4K2aGr7vwBWUT9GrkoLL QmXggz4ZzdoNrnyGD87xZXV7EnECHikMc7N5PUE6qSiZ7Y QmcHk17nfvFbsgxkAzX3fqiG6CVs1EHd6jwajhUb1wWHkg QmfVCS2T3FrMdyAu49nSsRJYhD12dUhVKKQJZAqUMECiet QmYCHDLUuZZxWmEJTbrpvFMNBk7mBbD8uoTPPRsWSqCC2L ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ [Meme] Breaking Out the Champagne for a “Landmark Occasion” | Techrights ⦿ Microsoft is Trying to Hire (Read: Pay Salaries to) Matthew Garrett | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 31, 2022 | Techrights ⦿ EPO Corruption: Internet Censorship or Why the World Wide Web and DNS Aren’t Enough When You Speak Truth to Power | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/djukanovic-and-campinos/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/headhunting-matthew-garrett/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/irc-log-310722/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/video-gemini-and-censorship-by-epo/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/easyos-32-bit/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/gnu-linux-libre-5-19/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/media-distraction-from-linux-release/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/scummvm-2-6-0/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 59 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/djukanovic-and-campinos/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/08/01/djukanovic-and-campinos/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Breaking_Out_the_Champagne_for_a_“Landmark_Occasion”⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 5:05 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_-_Our_SoB⦈_ Summary: EPO President António Campinos queries the Montenegrin President Milo Djukanović about his unsavory reputation as an autocrat. Djukanović assures Campinos of his loyalty. Djukanovic – a Balkan strongman and “stabilocrat” – has dominated the political life of the minuscule Adriatic state for the last three decades and he successfully led_Montenegro_into_the_NATO_fold in June 2017. In 2015, the investigative journalist network OCCRP designated Djukanović as Person_of_the_Year_in_Corruption_and_Organised_Crime. To mark the “landmark occasion” of Montenegro's_accession_to_the_EPC – which will take effect on 1 October 2022 – an in-depth exposé of the EPO‘s new member state is in the pipeline and should be ready for publication in early September. █ ⣀⣀⣀⣀⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⡟⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠻⠿⠿⠇⠀⢸⣿⣿⠋⠀⢀⣤⣀⠀⠈⢿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠟⠉⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠘⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⣿⡃⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡿⣃⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣤⣄⢘⣿⢇⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⢸⣿ ⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣀⣀⣠⣿⡀⠀⠀⢀⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠛⠛⠋⠀⢴⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣛⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⣸⣿ ⢀⣼⣿⣿⠏⠀⡀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣄⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣦⠀⡀⢿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣶⣶⣶⠀⠀⣿⣿⣠⡴⠋⠉⠀⠈⠙⢿⣿⡿⠟⠻⣿⣿⣿⢛⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣯⣷⣾⣷⣷⣄⣸⣿⠋⢩⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢈⣩⣿⣿⣦⣿⣿⣿⣾⠇⡸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠉⠉⠁⣀⣾⣿⣿⡏⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠙⣧⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⢁⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡅⣿⠿⠿⣿⡟⠛⠋⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠫⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⣨⡾⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣤⣿⣧⠀⣀⠀⢿⣿⣷⣬⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿ ⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡽⠿⠛⣿⣿⣿⣟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⣶⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣉⢉⣉⣉⣼⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⡿⣼⣿⣯⣶⠄⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⢁⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣼⡛⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠃⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿ 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Microsoft_is_Trying_to_Hire_(Read:_Pay_Salaries_to)_Matthew_Garrett⠀✐ Posted in Microsoft at 6:31 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇_Matthew_Garrett_and_Microsoft⦈_ Summary: Matthew Garrett, who has_helped_Microsoft_attack_Linux_(rendering_it unbootable_on_many_new_computers), is pursued by Microsoft, just like systemd’s creator ⠛⡟⣿⡿⠟⡟⡿⠛⠻⡋⠛⡟⠻⣛⠿⠛⣛⢻⢻⡖⠛⣽⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠚⡛⣻⡟⠟⡗⡿⢟⢿⡟⠿⠿⠿⣿⠿⠟⡿⢺⢛⢛⡛⣺⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠺⡾⣾⣗⡿⡷⡿⠷⢾⠖⠶⠶⠿⠾⢿⠶⠶⢺⢚⠲⡲⣺⠾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠶⠶⢾⣷⡷⡷⣿⠶⢾⠷⢶⡷⢶⠾⣷⠶⠶⢾⠾⡷⠶⣽⢶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢴⢷⢿⡷⡶⡧⣷⣾⣶⡷⣶⣶⡶⣿⣶⣶⣷⣼⣾⣾⣭⣽⣶⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢴⣵⣽⣧⣥⣧⣷⣾⣶⣧⡤⣄⣤⣤⣼⣼⢶⣧⣦⣥⣵⣤⣬⣤⢦⣬⡤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣤⢤⣭⡬⣼⣭⣥⣴⣼⣤⢤⣼⣣⢤⣤⢤⣤⣧⢤⣤⣼⣤⣬⣤⣤⡤⢤⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣠⣥⣽⣯⣵⣧⣿⣼⣭⣇⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣻⣿⣠⣤⣼⣮⣬⣤⣀⣦⣤⣤⣬⣼⣦⣦⣶⣭⣤⣦⣤⣽⣴⣴⣼⣤⣤⣼⣯⣦⣶⣷⣤⣤⣧⣤⣴⣴⣶⣾⣠⣧⣤⣂⣧⣴⣶⣵⣤⣤⣴⣿⣵⣶⣵⣼⣤⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣠⣦⣾⣇⣝⣇⣯⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣿⣠⣉⣸⣀⣀⣒⣁⣁⣏⣨⣢⣁⣀⣇⣁⣈⣀⣁⣈⣪⣂⣇⣉⣄⣰⣹⣜⣀⣈⣸⣘⣈⣠⣱⣠⣸⣘⣀⣈⣂⣇⣈⣇⣁⣘⣀⣀⣸⣀⣈⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 166 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EPO_Corruption:_Internet_Censorship_or_Why_the_World_Wide_Web_and_DNS_Aren’t Enough_When_You_Speak_Truth_to_Power⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 7:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 0f89cf1335ac693c85cddc2855bc7cb9 Corruption and Censorship of Web Sites Using “IP” Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/montenegro-series.webm Summary: We’re about to release a series about EPO and Montenegro, a country as notorious_as_today's_EPO when it comes to attacks on free press; the video above discusses censorship and what we’re still doing to tackle the problem (the EPO censors inwards and outwards, sometimes_using_bribes_and_blackmail) THE epo.org propaganda machine has not said anything since its bizarre celebration of a_country_with_one_patent_application_per_year (about 20,000 times less than Germany, a country_with_134_times_as_many_citizens). That’s just "Voting_Fodder"_for_autocrats. “As the video above notes, we’re embracing more protocols to lessen the incentive to censor us or even attempt to do this (wasting our time, to our inconvenience).”The EPO pivots in a truly terrible direction. Founding states and key applicant states are being drowned in a sea of voting fodder, by their very_own_admission. The EPO is out of control and it’s not run by scientists; it’s run by corrupt_politicians from banks. Accordingly, and perhaps not surprisingly, today’s EPO undergoes_a_process_of_"financialization". As the video above notes, we’re embracing more protocols to lessen the incentive to censor us or even attempt to do this (wasting our time, to our inconvenience). The EPO, like rogue states, has a long tradition of blackmailing publishers and threatening truth-tellers. “The EPO has already hired multiple law firms to threaten me. Now it’s celebrating Montenegro!”Next month we’ll publish_a_series_about_EPO_management and_Montenegro. The country is known (or notorious) as a fierce_enemy_of democracy as it ranks_notoriously_low_on_press_freedom and the_EU_therefore rejects_it. Why does the EPO celebrate an impending accession? What does that say about the EPO? Montenegro_attacks_journalists, just like the EPO… Apropos, we’re still learning the facts about what WIPO did to a domain with many articles, using “trademarks” as a weapon of censorship despite the basis being entirely invalid (the “trademark” was in the Public Domain, based on a former Project Leader who suggested relinquishing it). It seems like freedom of speech online is a dying dream. Oligarchs and autocrats no longer tolerate dissent. The EPO_has_already_hired_multiple_law_firms_to_threaten_me. Now it’s celebrating Montenegro! █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Montenegro convicts Jovo Martinović again, jeopardizing EU accession⦈ Maybe EPO wants Russia too to join? 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Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Rust * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Pseudo-Open_Source # Openwashing o Linux_Events_and_Linux_Foundation o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_32-bit_works_on_old_Aspire_3681WXMi laptop⠀⇛ Today has been a pleasant experience. My old Acer Aspire 3681WXMi laptop has an Intel Celeron 32-bit CPU and only 512MB RAM. I bought it circa-2005. It has been in the closet for years. I booted EasyOS on a USB-stick, and got a desktop, but lots of things broken. What I discovered is that it couldn’t handle the “top level zram”. I disabled that, went back to the old method of direct writes to the drive (that you can do via a checkbox via “save” icon on desktop), and everything came good. Not enough RAM to juggle the extra requirement of the zram. The laptop has a swap-partition, which is required — I checked and saw that it was being used. Audio works, wi-fi works. Connected to the Internet, Firefox works and is surprisingly snappy. LibreOffice works, also surprisingly snappy. Really, this has given this old laptop a new lease of life. Next up, I plan to put detection of RAM less than 1GB and automatically turn off “top level zram”. So, what are the lower-end specs that will work? I don’t know if Easy will work lower than 512MB RAM, so set that as the minimum. The CPU needs to be 32- bit i686 — 486/586 CPU is no good. The expansion bus needs to be PCI — the predecessor is the ISA bus, and the kernel will not work with that. I compiled the kernel, 5.15.57, for a single-core CPU, supporting 4GB RAM maximum. Also disabled EFI support in the kernel — this is for BIOS computers only. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ ALP_Prototype_is_Evolving,_Proof_of Concept_Expected_in_Fall_|_SUSE_Communities⠀⇛ The Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) is switching from the UNIX-style centered, influenced structure of previous operating systems to a more workload and application-centric design. A flexible and secure platform with advancing concepts, as seen in both MicroOS and SLE Micro, along with the incorporation of other components, is evolving. This platform is designed to easily build, deploy and manage applications regardless of hardware or environment. # ⚓ The_Fathers_of_Kubernetes:_Where_Are_They_Now?_–_Container Journal⠀⇛ Kubernetes, the open source project for container management, has taken the software development world by storm. The platform is used by countless organizations using containers due to its high scalability, elasticity and reliability. According to the CNCF Annual Survey 2021, 96% of organizations are either using or evaluating Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a de facto option for container orchestration and scheduling. But it wasn’t always that way. It took great minds to construct Kubernetes within Google and others to evangelize its use throughout the software industry. And nowadays, new leaders are emerging to carry the torch forward. Below, we’ll revisit the history of Kubernetes and check in with its original creators to see where they are today. We’ll also highlight several other prominent figures within the Kubernetes and open source cloud-native community to gauge where the inertia currently is. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Luxtorpeda;_not_your_daddy’s_Steam_Play compatibility_tool_(or_maybe_it_is)_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Luxtorpeda is a banger of an app. It makes quick work out of native Linux gaming for Steam games that don’t ship a Linux binary. It’s a perfect companion for the Steam Deck and it doesn’t get enough love. Here’s how it works and how to use it. # ⚓ Video ☛ Pardus_21.3_overview_|_For_Freedom_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of Pardus 21.3 and some of the applications pre- installed. # ⚓ Video ☛ I_decided_to_take_Ubuntu_MATE_22.04_LTS_for_a_Spin –_Invidious⠀⇛ Ubuntu MATE is a distribution of Linux that shares its foundation with Ubuntu itself, but defaults to the MATE desktop environment instead of GNOME. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_5.19_is_out_now,_Torvalds_released_it using_an_Apple_silicon_MacBook [Ed: How to distract from Linux 5.19]⠀⇛ The latest kernel release is out with Linux 5.19 and showing just how far Linux support for the newer Apple silicon MacBooks has come, Linus Torvalds did the release on one! # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ You_Can_Now_Install_Linux_Kernel_5.19_on_Ubuntu and_Ubuntu-Based_Distributions⠀⇛  If you’re using Ubuntu or an Ubuntu-based distribution you can now install Linux kernel 5.19 on your computer in case you need some of the new features or because your hardware is not fully supported by the default Linux kernel in your Ubuntu PC. But, if everything works well, you should stick to the default kernel. Whatever the case may be, installing Linux kernel 5.19 on Ubuntu or an Ubuntu-based distribution is quite easy with the Mainline tool. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNU_Linux-Libre_5.19_Kernel_Arrives_for_Those Who_Seek_100%_Freedom_for_Their_PCs⠀⇛  Based on the recently released Linux 5.19 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 5.19 (codename Uhura in memory of Nichelle Nichols) kernel is here to clean up the pureLiFi X/XL/XC and TI AMx3 Wkup-M3 IPC drivers, adjust the cleanup logic for the AMDGPU, Qualcomm WCNSS PIL, Realtek Bluetooth, Mellanox Spectrum, Marvell WiFi-Ex, Silicon Labs WFX, as well as Intel AVS, IFS, and IPU3-ImgU drivers, and clean up the blobs requested by several new devicetree files for Qualcomm AArch64 SoCs. # ⚓ AppleInsider ☛ Linus_Torvalds_uses_M2_MacBook_Air_to release_Linux_5.19_|_AppleInsider⠀⇛ The latest release of Linux 5.19 has more of an Apple angle than usual, with Linus Torvalds releasing it using an M2 MacBook Air running a version of Linux ported to Apple Silicon. Linux, like other operating systems, receives updates periodically, with the open source software being no exception. Linus Torvalds, the driving force behind Linux, recently released version 5.19 of the operating system, enabling maintainers of the different Linux variants to incorporate the changes. Spotted by Asahi Linux, Torvalds has passed comment about the use of Apple products in an email to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Posted on Sunday, Torvalds writes “the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop,” referring to the use of Apple Silicon. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linus_Torvalds_says_he’s_been_waiting_a_‘loong time’_for_this_Linux_laptop_option_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 5.19, and this time released a version of Linux from an Arm-based Apple MacBook running Asahi Linux. Torvalds says Linux 5.19 contains “nothing really interesting” and a “lot of random stuff”. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Padloc:_An_Intuitive_Open-Source_Password Manager⠀⇛  Exploring an open-source password manager with a pleasing user interface, available cross-platform. There are plenty of free and premium password managers for individuals and teams. However, when it comes to open-source solutions, it is often limited to a couple of good ones like Seahorse, KeePassXC, and Bitwarden. If you have read through our list of the best password managers for Linux, you might already know some of them. I stumbled upon another interesting open-source password manager that could make it to that list for its user experience, i.e., Padloc. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ APT_vs._DNF_vs._YUM:_Linux_Package_Managers Compared⠀⇛ APT, DNF, and YUM are the three package managers Linux newcomers are likely to run into. So which one is better in terms of usability and performance? Using the command line to add or remove programs on Linux isn’t necessary, but it is faster than using a graphical application. Many people find that at some point in their Linux journey, they end up opening a terminal to install new apps or system updates. APT and DNF are two of the most popular package managers for the job. These two programs are very similar, but they do have some differences in how they function. Let’s dive in. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_SSH_Into_a_Raspberry_Pi_for_Remote Access⠀⇛ When running a project on a headless Raspberry Pi, it may not always be convenient to plug it into a monitor when you want to change something, but you don’t need to. You can access and control the Raspberry Pi remotely via SSH (Secure SHell) from another computer or even a smartphone on the same network. This guide will first show you how to enable SSH, then how to SSH into Raspberry Pi from another device. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_AWS_command_line_interface_(CLI) on_Ubuntu_|_FOSS_Linux⠀⇛ In recent years, Cloud computing has increased rapidly, with 94% of all enterprises using cloud services. Many platforms provide cloud services, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc. There are four cloud computing types: private clouds, public clouds, hybrid clouds, and multi- clouds. Ubuntu fully supports all these clouds, making it the most popular Linux distribution for cloud platforms. This article will discuss AWS and installing AWS CLI (AWS Command Line Interface) on Ubuntu. # ⚓ MakeTech Easier ☛ How_to_Secure_Your_Linux_Servers_With SELinux_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ SELinux can help you secure your server from malfunctioning processes or applications. Developed by the NSA (National Security Agency) to secure government devices from attackers, the security enhanced (SE) Linux architecture uses security protocols to restrict access to system resources. Find out how you can use it for your own server. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Install_Linux_Kernel_5.19_in Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Linux Kernel 5.19 was released! Ubuntu Mainline PPA has made the packages for testing purpose. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Use_Autojump_Advanced_Navigation_in_Linux_– ByteXD⠀⇛ In this article you will learn how to use autojump to navigate easily between directories without specifying their full path or executing numerous cd commands. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_To_Extract_Tar_Files_Into_a_Specific_Directory –_ByteXD⠀⇛ tar is a very old command line utility from the seventies. tar stands for Tape ARchive, and it is used for creating and extracting archive files. Additionally, tar can be used to compress and decompress these archived files. In other words, the tar program packs many files and folders into a single logical file for easy and fast transmission (e.g. FTP), optionally compressed. This essential tool is implementing various compression algorithms such as gzip, xz, and bzip2. Tar comes with an enormous amount of options which are and can be confusing for even experienced Linux users. However this article will cover only the subject of how to extract tar archives using special tar options to specify the target directory; in addition, we will mention other necessary tar arguments. # ⚓ How_to_use_the_sudo_Command_in_Linux_–_Pi_My_Life_Up⠀⇛ The sudo command allows any user within the sudo group to run commands as another user. By default, sudo will run as root, but you can specify any user you want. If you plan on using a Linux operating system, you will likely use this command quite a bit. You will most likely use this command when you run a command requiring root or super user privileges. For example, many user administration commands will need the user to have root privileges to run. In less likely scenarios, you may need to use a different user to run a specific command. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Windows_compatibility_layer_Wine_version 7.14_is_out_now⠀⇛ Windows compatibility on Linux continues to improve thanks to Wine, with the latest development release out now with Wine 7.14 available. This is the compatibility layer that allows you to run various Windows applications and games on Linux (and forms part of Steam Play Proton). Once a year or so, a new stable release is made but the development versions are usually fine to use. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_gets_support_for_Nintendo_Online classic_controllers⠀⇛ Valve recently released an update for the main Steam client, which amongst other things brings support in Steam Input for the Nintendo Online classic controllers. These are the special controllers Nintendo offers for playing their classics on Nintendo Switch, although Steam having support for them makes sure they have a whole lot more life. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve_bans_devs_from_adding_review_scores and_awards_on_Steam_store_assets⠀⇛ There’s a lot of places where developers can have their game logo across Steam, and some developers have been going pretty overboard with noisy images filled with extras. Valve is putting a stop to it. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_gaming_overlay_MangoHud_version_0.6.8 out_now⠀⇛ MangoHud is probably one of my favourite open source projects giving Linux gamers a fancy HUD to display various performance metrics in a nice overlay. Version 0.6.8 is out now! # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ OpenRazer_new_release_adding_support_for more_Razer_hardware_on_Linux⠀⇛ Razer make some pretty fancy hardware but, like a lot of vendors, don’t exactly support Linux directly and so the OpenRazer project helps you out there. It’s an open source driver and user-space daemon to control Razer lighting and other features on Linux, with version 3.4.0 officially out now. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Q4OS_–_desktop_operating_system_–_Q4OS_4.10_Gemini, stable⠀⇛ We have released a major update to the Q4OS 4 Gemini LTS. The new Gemini 4.10 series receives the recent Debian Bullseye 11.4 updates, updated Debian stable kernel and important security and bug fixes. After a careful review and testing we have concluded to include the full upgrade of the Trinity desktop environment into this release as well, so Q4OS Gemini now features the most recent Trinity 14.0.12 version. For more details see the Trinity desktop environment website. This release brings along improvements of Q4OS specific tools and cumulative upgrade covering all the changes from the previous stable Gemini release. Welcome to anyone who would like to download the Gemini installation media images from the Downloads section of the Q4OS website. We are currently pushing all the changes mentioned above into the Q4OS repositories, automatic update process will take care about to upgrade for current Q4OS users. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Linux_Mint_21_“Vanessa”_now_available_for download⠀⇛ Although Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” was released yesterday, the previous long-term release, namely Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana,” will continue to receive support until 2025. The new version is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, will get updates until 2027, and comes with a wide range of visual changes, as well as improvements in performance, compatibility, and stability. # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ Download_Linux_Mint_21_“Vanessa”_Full_Editions with_Mirrors_and_Torrents⠀⇛ Linux Mint, the desktop user oriented variant of Ubuntu from Ireland, released its new computer operating system version 21 codenamed “Vanessa” late July. This is a list of download links to help you download all editions of it including the alternative mirrors, torrents and checksums so you can run your computer with Linux Mint. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ TuxPhones ☛ The_Pine_Formula⠀⇛ I should start by notifying readers that is a slightly old post, initially written in reaction to first Fairphone, then Pine64 announcing their “true wireless headphones” in April. In spite of this draft staying on my laptop since then, the situation has not particularly changed. Some days ago, I was sitting in a dark, neon- tinted, pleasingly nerdy computing club in Berlin, with several Linux hackers around me. Most of them either had a PinePhone or a PinePhone Pro, someone else had Librem 5s plugged into their laptop as they tested out new software. Most of them were developers of mobile Linux UIs, and what we all agreed on about the ecosystem was its general immaturity, none of us feeling it was complete enough to be advertised to the general world. In this peculiar context, it was a long discussion on how the PinePhone appeared to many as just tangently open, but not per se “ethical”, that encouraged me to polish the long draft, and finally publish this post. Because, in the end, it does not say anything too new. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ BPI-Bit_Lite_is_an_educational_board_that runs_on_Arduino,_Webduino_and_MicroPython⠀⇛ The Banana Pi BPI-Bit Lite is a development board following the BPI-Bit. This tiny device is powered by the ESP32-S3 from Espressif and it features Goldfingers I/O connectors. The microprocessor found on this device is the Xtensa Single-Core 32-bit LX7 with maximum frequency of 240MHz.  Unlike the previous model, the BPI-Bit Lite includes 2048KB of PSRAM but it has less ROM (128KB) and RAM  (320KB).  # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Self-Hosted_Pi_Pico_Development⠀⇛ Older readers and those with an interest in retrocomputing may remember the days when a computer might well have booted into a BASIC interpreter. It was simultaneously a general purpose device that could run any software it would load, and also a development environment. Not something that can be said for today’s development boards which typically require a host computer on which to write code. Have we lost something along the way? Perhaps an answer to that question can be found in [lurk101]’s self-hosted development environment for the Raspberry Pi Pico. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $52_7.5-inch_E-paper_display_connects_to ESP32_boards⠀⇛ So far LILYGO’s ESP32 boards with an E-Paper display such as the TTGO T5 or Mini E-Paper Core featured smaller displays from 1.02-inch to 2.9- inch. But the company is now offering a larger 7.5- inch display that works with most of its T5 boards excluding the one used with a 4.7-inch display. The black and white e-paper display offers a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, is Arduino programmable and backward compatible with earlier T5 E-paper solution, and should be one of the most cost-effective to way to make a wireless E-paper display. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Hidden_Android_code_hints_at_another_Google Pixel_7_upgrade_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Check_your_Google_and_Android_phone_now_–_a MILLION_users_‘hacked’_|_The_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Wired ☛ 5_Great_Features_You_Only_Get_in_Samsung’s_Version of_Android_|_WIRED⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_GBA_emulator:_Emulate_GBA_on_Android_–_Droid Gamers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pocket Now ☛ Three_reasons_why_I’m_not_using_the_stock launcher_on_my_Android_phone_|_Pocketnow⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Beware,_New_Money-Stealing_Android_Apps Spotted⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Xiaomi_12_and_12_Pro_get_Android_13-based MIUI_13.1_developer_builds_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ MECOOL_KP1_projector_review_–_Part_2: Android_11_TV_OS_and_Full_HD_clarity_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_Auto_requirements:_Here’s_what_you’ll need_in_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Express ☛ Nothing_Phone_(1)_review:_Android_phones_get exciting_again_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_updates_Play_Store_policies:_These Android_apps_will_be_banned_under_the_new_rules_–_Times_of India⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Set_a_Picture_as_Wallpaper_on_Android_–_TechPP⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ android:_How_to_create_custom_text_shortcuts on_Android_smartphones⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Make_Your_Android_Read_Text_Out_Loud_–_Guiding Tech⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Help_us_to_test_LibreOffice_7.4_RC2!_–_LibreOffice_QA Blog⠀⇛ The LibreOffice Quality Assurance (QA) Team is happy to announce that LibreOffice 7.4 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.4 will be released as final in mid August, 2022 (check the Release Plan for more information), with LibreOffice 7.4 RC2 being the fourth pre-release since the development of version 7.4 started at the end of November 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.4 RC1, 99 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 56 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. # ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ TDF_Annual_Report_2021_–_The_Document Foundation_Blog⠀⇛ The Annual Report of The Document Foundation for the year 2020 is now available in PDF format from TDF Nextcloud in two different versions: low resolution (12.2MB) and high resolution (31.6MB). The annual report is based on the German version presented to the authorities in April. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Declaring_a_Variable_with_const_in_JavaScript⠀⇛ The const keyword is one of the three ways you can declare a variable in the JavaScript language. What differentiates JavaScript’s const keyword from the others is that once a variable is declared, it cannot be assigned a new value. This is incredibly useful when you need to declare a value that should never be changed during runtime. In fact, as a general rule, you should declare a variable using “const” unless you expect the value to be changed. By the end of this guide, you should have a good understanding of how to declare a variable in JavaScript using const. # ⚓ Sergio_Talens-Oliag:_Using_Git_Server_Hooks_on_GitLab_CE_to Validate_Tags⠀⇛ Since a long time ago I’ve been a gitlab-ce user, in fact I’ve set it up on three of the last four companies I’ve worked for (initially I installed it using the omnibus packages on a debian server but on the last two places I moved to the docker based installation, as it is easy to maintain and we don’t need a big installation as the teams using it are small). On the company I work for now (kyso) we are using it to host all our internal repositories and to do all the CI/CD work (the automatic deployments are triggered by web hooks in some cases, but the rest is all done using gitlab-ci). The majority of projects are using nodejs as programming language and we have automated the publication of npm packages on our gitlab instance npm registry and even the publication into the npmjs registry. To publish the packages we have added rules to the gitlab-ci configuration of the relevant repositories and we publish them when a tag is created. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ 2022.31_JustinTimeRelease_–_Rakudo_Weekly News⠀⇛ Justin DeVuyst was able to release the 2022.07 Rakudo Compiler Release just before the end of the month. Which added inode, dev and devtype methods to IO::Path, and a new .snip method (inspired by Haskell’s span). And many other improvements and fixes! Updated Linux packages are now also available on rakudo.pkg, thanks to Claudio Ramirez. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ Increasing_the_glibc_and_Linux_kernel requirements_|_Rust_Blog⠀⇛ The minimum requirements for Rust toolchains targeting Linux will increase with the Rust 1.64.0 release (slated for September 22nd, 2022). * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Government_Supervised_Times,_Wartime_Reporting,_and More⠀⇛ We talk to Patrick Lawrence about Ukraine by diving deeper into his recent articles written for ScheerPost. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Industrial_Robot_Repurposed_To_Make_S’Mores⠀⇛ It’s summer time in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means campfires for cooking hot dogs, keeping the mosquitoes away, and of course, making s’mores. For our far-flung friends, that’s a fire roasted marshmallow and a square of chocolate smashed between two graham crackers. So called because when you’re done, you’ll want s’more. It’s an easy enough recipe that any child can tell you how to make it. But what if you’re not a child? What if you don’t even have hands, because you’re an industrial robot? This is the challenge that [Excessive Overkill] has taken on in the video below the break. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Adding_Perlin_Noise_To_3D_Printed_Parts,_With_Python⠀⇛ Want to add a bit of visual flair to 3D printed parts that goes maybe a little more than skin-deep? That’s exactly what [volzo] was after, which led him to create a Python script capable of generating a chunk of Perlin noise, rendered as an STL file. What does that look like? An unpredictably-random landscape of hills and valleys. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Callers_say_–_“Can’t_Get_Through”_–_Callees_say_– “Don’t_Want_to_Let_Them_Through”⠀⇛ Imagine the days when you’d pick up your phone, dial and get through to a human being. You couldn’t be waylaid by the evasive robotic operator who gives you the “press one, or two, or three or four” drill. Unfortunately, when you select “one” you often get another automatic recording. At some point you get a voicemail opportunity which is really voicefail. Oh, say the younger people – what about trying email or text messaging? Clutter, filters, distractions and sheer overloads can’t adequately describe the ways Callees can keep you from getting through to a human. The more difficult it is, the more people repeat their attempts, and the more overload there is for the digital gatekeepers. Call this the Callees’ power plays. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Trippy_Bicycle_Uses_Multiple_Partial_Wheels⠀⇛ Bicycles need at least two wheels to be rideable, but [The Q] realized you don’t necessarily need the wheels to be in one piece. As long as you have at least two points of rolling contact with the ground, you can spread the load across multiple partial wheels. He demonstrated this by splitting the rear wheel of his bike first in half and then thirds to create an absolute head turner. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Prize_2022:_An_Eastern_Bloc_NES_Clone⠀⇛ If Nintendo is known for anything outside of their characters and admittedly top-notch video games, it’s being merciless to fans when it comes to using their intellectual property. They take legal action against people just for showing non-Nintendo hardware emulating games of theirs, and have even attempted to shut down the competitive scene for games like Super Smash Bros. To get away from the prying eyes of the Nintendo legal team extreme measures need to be taken — like building your Nintendo console clone behind the Iron Curtain. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Why_the_end_of_Optane_is_bad_news_for_all IT⠀⇛ Intel is ending its Optane product line of persistent memory and that is more disastrous for the industry than is visible on the surface. The influence of ideas from the late 1960s and early 1970s is now so pervasive that almost nobody can imagine anything else, and the best ideas from the following generation are mostly forgotten. Optane presented a radical, transformative technology but because of this legacy view, this technical debt, few in the industry realized just how radical Optane was. And so it bombed. To get to the heart of this, let’s step back for a long moment and ask, what is the primary function of a computer file? The first computers didn’t have file systems. The giant machines of the 1940s and 1950s, built from tens of thousands of thermionic valves, only had a few words of memory. At first, programs were entered by physically wiring them into the computer by hand: only the data was in memory. The program ran, and printed out some results. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Commission’s_Report_Shows Medicare_for_All_Is_Logical_Next_Step_for_California⠀⇛ For years, the private insurance company lobby has falsely claimed that California can’t afford quality and universal healthcare. But a comprehensive new study shows we simply can’t afford not to adopt a universal healthcare system that will save California families and businesses over $100 billion per year. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_We_Are_Not_‘In_This_Together’: The_Biden_Adminstration’s_Covid-19_Policy_Is_Still_Killing Vulnerable_People⠀⇛ I have multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks the central nervous system. The myelin sheath that surrounds the nerve endings hardens during these attacks, preventing nerve impulses from traveling where they should. These hardened nerve endings, or lesions, accumulate on the brains and spinal cords of people with MS. Because the central nervous system regulates the other bodily systems, MS lesions can cause an endless list of debilitating symptoms including fatigue, numbness, spasticity, pain, incontinence, blindness, cognitive dysfunction, paralysis, difficulty swallowing and breathing, and death. MS is unpredictable, progressive, and there is no cure. Frankly, it’s terrifying. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Mission:_Impossible_—_Define_goulash⠀⇛ o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ US_DoD_funds_Google_and_SkyWater_to enable_open-source_chips_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Google has linked up with chip fabrication company, SkyWater Technology, on an open source chip technology program with funding from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to build a reliable source of components for defense applications. SkyWater announced it has received $15 million in funding from the DoD to develop open source design capabilities for its 90nm production process. To enable this, the company has turned to Google to provide the compute resources and other expertise to realize the project. It seems the pair have some history in this respect, with Google working with US- investor-owned SkyWater in 2020 to enable open source design of custom ASICs to be manufactured on its 130nm mixed-signal CMOS process. o § Linux Events and Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Buildroot_Summer_2022_Hackathon_–_Bootlin’s_blog⠀⇛ Buildroot is an easy-to-use and popular embedded Linux build system, used by many as an alternative to Yocto/OpenEmbedded. Bootlin has expertise in both build systems, but as in particular been a long time contributor to the Buildroot project. Bootlin CEO’s Thomas Petazzoni is one of the co- maintainers of the project, to which he has contributed over 5000 patches. From July 23 to July 27, four members of the Buildroot community gathered in the sunny south of France for a 5-day long hackathon on Buildroot: Yann Morin, Romain Naour from Smile, Arnout Vandecappelle from Mind and Thomas Petazzoni from Bootlin. The main goal of this hackathon was to reduce the backlog of patches accumulated in the project’s patchwork, the tool used in the Buildroot community to record all contributed patches and make sure all of them are handled: reviewed, accepted, or potentially rejected. # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_2022_Linux_Plumbers_Conference_schedule_is_out_ [LWN.net]⠀⇛ The 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) has announced its schedule. The conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland, September 12-14. # ⚓ Business Wire ☛ KIOXIA_Introduces_Sample_PCIe_NVMe Technology-Based_Flash_Hardware_for_the_Linux_Foundation’s Software-Enabled_Flash_Community_Project⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (booth, libpgjava, and thunderbird), Fedora (3mux, act, age, antlr4-project, apache-cloudstack-cloudmonkey, apptainer, aquatone, aron, asnip, assetfinder, astral, bettercap, buildah, butane, caddy, cadvisor, cheat, chisel, clash, clipman, commit- stream, containerd, cri-o, darkman, deepin-gir- generator, direnv, dnscrypt-proxy, dnsx, docker- distribution, doctl, douceur, duf, ffuf, fzf, geoipupdate, git-lfs, git-octopus, git-time-metric, glide, gmailctl, gnutls, go-bindata, goaltdns, gobuster, godep, godoctor, godotenv, gojq, golist, goloris, gomtree, google-guest-agent, gotags, gotun, grafana, gron, grpcurl, hakrevdns, hcloud, htmltest, httprobe, hulk, ignition, jid, kata- containers, kiln, kompose, kubernetes, libldb, manifest-tool, mass3, meg, meshbird, micro, mingw- harfbuzz, mingw-poppler, moby-engine, mqttcli, nats-server, nebula, netscanner, oci-seccomp-bpf- hook, ohmybackup, onionscan, open-policy-agent, origin, osbuild-composer, podman-tui, popub, powerline-go, reposurgeon, restic, runc, samba, shellz, shhgit, skopeo, snapd, snowcrash, source- to-image, subfinder, syncthing, sysutil, terrier, thunderbird, tiedot, toolbox, vgrep, vultr, vultr- cli, webanalyze, webkit2gtk3, weldr-client, wgctrl, xe-guest-utilities-latest, xen, xq, yggdrasil, yubihsm-connector, and a vast number of golang packages), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, firefox, gdk-pixbuf2.0, python-ujson, and webmin), Red Hat (firefox and thunderbird), Slackware (gnutls), and SUSE (chromium, firefox, mozilla-nss, rubygem-tzinfo, samba, and xen). # ⚓ UEFI_–_Terra_Firma_for_Attackers⠀⇛ In today’s computing environment, firmware can mean several things, ranging from an entire operating system in embedded devices to a small flash program in a hardware component that tells your operating system (OS) about that hardware’s capabilities. In this blog post, we will focus on the vulnerabilities in the latter type of firmware popularized by the Uniform Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). I will explore how these vulnerabilities are a lucrative target for high- profile attackers, such as nation-states that are seeking vulnerabilities in the less-visible portions of today’s computing environment. First, to get our footing, it is important to understand what UEFI really is. UEFI replaces the legacy Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), interfacing hardware to the OS and provides an extensible intersection between hardware and the OS itself. The UEFI standard also identifies reliable ways to update this firmware from the OS. In essence, in today’s computers, there is another layer of software that can help the OS understand and use available hardware. Of course, this essential layer of software faces all the challenges of today’s software: bugs, security issues, patching, and maintenance. It also lacks visibility, making it hard for defenders to protect this part of their computing environments from ever-increasing threats. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Is_Linux_secure?_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Meet Pal. Pal is a senior developer working at PalBank. For the next 6 months, Pal will be responsible for leading the development of the bank’s web application client, which will be used daily by millions of customers. Pal invests considerable effort into designing and implementing the most secure app reasonably achievable: tightly controlled and secure development, build and deployment pipelines, static code analysis, pentesting by external parties, multi-factor authentication to access the app and encrypting data at rest. And the list goes on! Pal’s the best, isn’t he? Unfortunately, while such efforts are essential, they are insufficient! And even if we assumed, for the sake of argument and humour, that the PalBank’s client web app is completely free of all known and unknown software vulnerabilities, the app’s security guarantees are bound to be threatened once consumers run it on their endpoint devices. They will be threatened by the millions of lines of code which comprise the platform’s privileged system software, if it becomes either malicious or compromised. Within this context, system software includes the operating system, virtual machine manager and all the platforms’ firmware embedded within. To put it differently, it matters little if a user chooses a perfectly strong unique password, when their operating system is infected with a keylogger leaking it to malicious third-parties. Similarly, it matters little if your code has no buffer overflows, if your operating system is backdoored and simply decides to leak all your customers’ data to malicious third parties. So why does the security of user-level applications depend on the security of its underlying system software? The reason is the hierarchical architecture of commodity devices: privileged system software gets unrestricted access to all the resources of unprivileged user-level applications, because it controls its execution, memory, and access to the underlying hardware. Indeed, it’s a feature, not a bug! # ⚓ LinuxSecurity ☛ Best_Practices_for_PHP_Security⠀⇛ Following these best practices will help you secure your PHP applications and protect them from attack. Remember to always keep your software up to date, properly configure your web server and your PHP, and be sure to perform regular security audits to identify any vulnerabilities that may have slipped through the cracks. We hope you found this article useful and we hope you check out our other articles that may help in keeping your systems secure! # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Amazon_finally_admits_giving_cops_Ring_doorbell_data without_user_consent_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ More than 10 million people rely on Ring video doorbells to monitor what’s happening directly outside the front doors of their homes. The popularity of the technology has raised a question that concerns privacy advocates: Should police have access to Ring video doorbell recordings without first gaining user consent? # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Ring_Gives_Videos_to_Police_without a_Warrant_or_User_Consent⠀⇛ Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Genetic_Panopticon⠀⇛ Whatever skeletons may be lurking on your family tree or in your closet, whatever crimes you may have committed, whatever associations you may have with those on the government’s most wanted lists: the police state is determined to ferret them out. In an age of overcriminalization, round-the- clock surveillance, and a police state eager to flex its muscles in a show of power, we are all guilty of some transgression or other. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Re-Creating_The_Unique_Look_Of Unobtainable_Aerochrome_Film⠀⇛ Ever heard of Aerochrome? It’s a unique type of color infrared film, originally created for the US military and designed for surveillance planes. Photos taken with Aerochrome film show trees and other vegetation in vivid reds and pinks, creating images that aren’t quite like anything else. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders_Says_GOP_Shouldn’t_Have_Funded_Wars If_It_Didn’t_Want_to_Take_Care_of_Vets⠀⇛ Calling out Sen. Pat Toomey by name, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said Republicans blocking a bill aimed at providing care to veterans exposed to toxic chemicals overseas should not have voted to fund the wars that created the health nightmare for millions of people. “I say to Senator Toomey, if you don’t believe we can afford to take care of our veterans suffering from toxic burn pit exposure, then you should not have approved funding to go to war,” said Sanders (I-Vt.), who voted to authorize the U.S. war in Afghanistan but against the Iraq invasion. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ What_Are_The_CIA_And_Special_Ops_Doing_In Ukraine?⠀⇛ Katie Halper and Ben Norton discuss what exactly the CIA and Special Ops are doing on the ground in Ukraine. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_A_CIA_Whistleblower_Reflects_on the_Persecution_of_Julian_Assange⠀⇛ It is difficult to talk about happenings in the world other than the continued, appalling Russian invasion of Ukraine and the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde, Chicagoland, and elsewhere. Then, there is the Supreme Court which continues down a judicial road of eroding personal rights and towing the conservative party line. I don’t want to take attention away from those outrages. However, the shadow of one tragedy is not dispelled by the light of another. # ⚓ PIA ☛ Why_Is_July_30th_National_Whistleblower_Day?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Okinawa_(only)_a_War_Zone?⠀⇛ But of course: no one should be surprised by that.  If the US bases and/or the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) bases in Okinawa are used to launch attacks on the Chinese mainland or at Chinese ships at sea, China will have the right under international law to retaliate, transforming Okinawa into a war zone. “War zone” doesn’t simply mean, a place where war is going on.  It means a place where war is legal.  By this I don’t mean, “ought to be legal”, I mean “legal in fact”.  Think: if somebody exploded a bomb inside a building full of people in Okinawa today that would be understood as a horrendous crime, and people would be arrested.  But if Okinawa becomes a war zone,  and a missile lands on a building full of people, someone might say “Oops, sorry”, but no one will be arrested. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Five_Reasons_Why_Nancy_Pelosi_Should Postpone_a_Trip_to_Taiwan⠀⇛ First, US-China tensions over Taiwan are running high. Both sides are responsible for that. President Biden has done his part by consistently misstating the US commitment to Taiwan—there is no security treaty, Mr. President—and by authorizing increased military assistance to Taiwan. To the Chinese, these steps look like a US effort to erode its official policy of “One China” and move closer to China’s red line: Taiwanese independence. Meantime, China’s air force patrols are more regularly intruding in Taiwan’s air defense zone, on occasion causing Taiwan’s air force to scramble. A military incident that could spark serious fighting becomes more likely with each passing week. Second, Xi Jinping is expected to be given another term as party leader at a national congress this fall. A high-level trip to Taiwan by a key US political figure in advance of that party congress could be seen as a personal provocation, particularly since Xi wants to be seen as the leader who will complete China’s national unification by “recovering” Taiwan. He may feel compelled to act. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Nancy_Pelosi_Taiwan_Visit_Could Get_Us_All_Killed⠀⇛ The arrogance of power is especially ominous and despicable when a government leader risks huge numbers of lives in order to make a provocative move on the world’s geopolitical chessboard. Nancy Pelosi’s plan to visit Taiwan is in that category. Thanks to her, the chances of a military confrontation between China and the United States have spiked upward. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Carbon_Capture_Won’t_Work,_But_It_Will_Funnel Billions_to_Corporations⠀⇛ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Amid_Climate_Crisis, Shell’s_Financial_Windfall_Is_Profiteering_At_Its_Most Grotesque⠀⇛ Oil giant Shell has just posted record profits for a second consecutive quarter, smashing its previous record from earlier this year. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_To_End_Fossil_Fuel Industry’s_Destructive_Status_Quo,_Congress_Must_Pass Environmental_Justice_for_All_Act⠀⇛ As he leaves for work each day, Jeff Kelly, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Fish and Game Department director looks out at the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) crossing the Missouri River near his home. “I pray that the pipeline does not break today,” he often says to himself, thinking of the more than 500,000 barrels of oil that flow underneath Lake Oahe daily.  # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Case_Against_Commercial_Logging in_Wildfire-Prone_Forests⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Thousands_Flee_Homes_as_McKinney_Fire Burns_51,000_Acres_in_Northern_California⠀⇛ In Northern California, the McKinney Fire became the state’s largest wildfire so far this year on Sunday, having burned through more than 51,000 acres in just two days and forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. About 3,000 people were under evacuation orders in Siskiyou County on Sunday, a day after Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency to allow easier access to federal aid and so out-of-state emergency workers could “assist California crews in battling the fires.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Volunteer_Fire_Brigades_Are_Resisting Bolsonaro’s_Ecological_Assault_on_Brazil⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Can_Biden’s_New_US_$600B_PGII_Initiative “Replace”_China’s_Role_in_Africa?⠀⇛ The launch of the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) at the recent G7 summit is another example of the Biden Administration’s relentless push to try to undermine the Chinese-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ With_Sinema_Opposing_Tax_Hikes_for_Rich, Progressives_Say_Carried_Interest_Provision_Must_Stay_in IRA⠀⇛ Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has not said yet whether she will support the Inflation Reduction Act, the $739 billion package hammered out by Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and announced last Thursday, but as she reviewed the 725-page bill over the weekend, reports suggested she is likely to object to a $14 billion provision taking aim at the preferential tax rates for wealthy investors—who make up a large portion of her donor base. “The new reconciliation bill will lower the cost of prescription drugs. Sen. Sinema is holding it up to try to protect ultra-rich hedge fund managers so they can pay a lower tax.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Steps_Biden_Should_Take_to_Rein in_Excessive_CEO_Pay⠀⇛ Working families are getting hammered by inflation while corporate leaders and politicians are calling for belt-tightening. But there’s one group of Americans that’s actually profited from increasing prices. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ To_Reduce_Inflation,_Control_Corporate Profits⠀⇛ With all this concern over inflation, one wonders why so little heed has been paid to another “i” word: inequality. For decades, government officials, media pundits, mainstream economists, politicians, and others were content to allow and even enable money to flow upward, enriching the already wealthy. They paid little heed to increasing inequality, beyond shrugging their shoulders and lamenting the injustice of it all. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Britain’s_New_Tories:_a_Party_of Reactionaries,_Crackpots_and_Opportunists⠀⇛ I had always been taught that the final withdrawal of the legions from Britain was the result of civil wars and barbarian invasions threatening other parts of the empire. But a Byzantine historian called Zosimus had written in the early sixth century that the Britons, fed up with the chaotic state of things, “revolted from the empire, no longer submitted to Roman law and reverted to native customs”. Getting back control turned out to be a dangerous illusion from the point of view of the Britons as they were swiftly targeted for ethnic cleansing by incoming invaders. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ At_Rally_for_Levin_and_Tlaib,_Sanders_Warns AIPAC_It_“Cannot_Buy_Our_Democracy”⠀⇛ # § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] CS Monitor ☛ Political_misquotes:_The_10_most famous_things_never_actually_said⠀⇛ Here are 10 of the most widely believed – but completely bogus – things ever “said” by political figures. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Man_arrested_with_AK-47_outside_of_dissident Iranian_journalist’s_Brooklyn_home⠀⇛ The plan to kidnap Alinejad in the US allegedly included hiring private investigators to conduct multiple days of surveillance during which she and members of her household were photographed and recorded on video at and around her Brooklyn home. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Man_With_Loaded_AK-47_Arrested_Near_NYC_Home_of Iranian_Dissident:_Feds⠀⇛ Alinejad is a well-known Iranian writer and dissident who last year was the alleged target of a kidnapping plot by Iranian agents, the FBI said. Iran has denied wrongdoing, calling the past kidnapping allegations “baseless.” # ⚓ Yonkers_Man_Arrested_for_Lurking_with_AK-47_Outside_of Dissident_Iranian_Journalist’s_NYC_Home⠀⇛ Last year, Federal prosecutors charged four foreign agents with attempting to kidnap Alinejad. The defendants live in Iran and were never apprehended. The plan, according to the indictment, was to lure Alinejad to another country where she would be kidnapped. # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ The_continued_blocking_of_Al-Manassa’s_and dozens_of_news_websites_in_Egypt_must_stop_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ The undersigned civil society organizations condemn the blocking by the Egyptian authorities of three links to access the Al-Manassa website within approximately 72 hours, starting from Thursday, 14 July. The blocking occurs as part of a series of continued restrictions on the website, which is one of the few independent news sites operating from inside Egypt. The undersigned organizations call on the authorities to lift the blocking of Al-Manassa, stop its repeated targeting, and bring to an end the censorship imposed on other news websites. Egyptian authorities blocked the Al-Manassa website on the evening of 14 July. First, they blocked the IP address of the hosting company responsible for the website’s domain. An alternative address was then blocked on the morning of 16 July, only three hours after it was launched. A third address was repeatedly blocked, bringing the total number of times access to the website has been blocked to 15. # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Warning:_blocking_online_platforms_in_Kenya will_spread_election_disinformation_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ Following a report highlighting Meta’s failure to remove hate speech from the Facebook platform, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission threatened to suspend Facebook for “contravening hate prevention guidelines.” Disinformation and hate speech around the election period is a very serious issue in Kenya, but preventing people from using major communications platforms is not a proportionate or effective way to stem it. Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition commends the government of Kenya for once again committing not to shut down the internet and social media platforms. “Internet shutdowns are not a solution to preventing the spread of misinformation or disinformation,” said Felicia Anthonio, #KeepItOn Campaign Manager at Access Now. “The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has underscored that blocking major communications platforms not only attacks the rights to free expression and access to information and exacerbates violence and unrest, but also contributes to the spread of disinformation and hate speech, because it instills uncertainty and doubt.” As the Kenya general elections draw closer, there is legitimate fear over whether major online platforms can successfully combat hate speech and disinformation. Investigators and civil society are raising the alarm about content on Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. However, these reports should prompt additional investment and work by the platforms in question to ensure election “preparedness,”not serve as a justification to deprive Kenyans of vital pathways for communication. In Meta’s case, this should include direct communication with Kenyan civil society regarding the exploitative way in which it engages its content moderators in Africa, which directly conflicts with the company’s own human rights policy. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Site36 ☛ German_Investigations_dropped:_Indymedia_platform was_not_a_criminal_association⠀⇛ The German linksunten.indymedia, founded in 2008, was banned under the Associations Act, and the entire technical infrastructure and funds of a left-wing center were confiscated. Seized storage devices apparently could not be decrypted. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Penal_Assassination:_The_Gradual_Effort_to Kill_Assange⠀⇛ In the context of Assange, Britain has been a willing jailor from the start, guided by the good offices of Washington and none too keen in seeing this spiller of secrets released into the world.  Bail has been repeatedly, and inexcusably, refused, despite the threats posed by COVID-19, the publisher’s own deteriorating health, and restrictions upon access, at regular intervals, to legal advice from his team.  Just as some banks are deemed too large to fail, Assange is considered too large a target to escape.  Let loose again, he might do what he does best: reveal government venalities in war and peace and prove the social contract a gross deception and mockery of our sensibilities. The UK legal system has been the ideal forum to execute the wishes of Washington.  Each legal branch that has examined the extradition case has assiduously avoided the bigger picture: the attack on press freedom, exposing war crimes, illegal surveillance of a political asylee in an embassy compound, the breaches of privacy and legal confidentiality, the encroachments upon family life, the evidence on proposed abduction and assassination, the questionable conflicts of interest by some judicial members, the collusion of State authorities. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden_Should_Grant_Clemency_to_Drone_Warfare Whistleblower_Daniel_Hale⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Womb_Service⠀⇛ “Womb Service,” a new original cartoon by the inimitable Mr. Fish, looks at the future of women’s rights and sees the past. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Unions_Can_Do_Plenty_to_Help_Defend_Abortion Access⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Roger_Waters’_‘This_Is_Not_A_Drill’_Show_Is A_Revolutionary_Concert_Experience⠀⇛ Kevin Gosztola reviews Roger Waters’ “This Is Not A Drill” show, which is touring North America from August to October. It is a revolutionary concert experience. The audience is in the round, which means they surround the stage where Roger and his band performs. Every song performed in the “This Is Not A Drill” show is packed with urgent messages that appeal to our humanity and plead with us to no longer be so comfortably numb. Two of the songs performed are featured in the video—”Déjà Vu” [19: 35], which was on Roger’s 2017 album “Is This The Life We Really Want?”, and “Two Suns In the Sunset” [39:45], which is from Pink Floyd’s 1983 album “Final Cut” and about a nuclear holocaust. Each song is about ten minutes.The performance of “Déjà Vu” is where Roger incorporated a clip from the “Collateral Murder” video released by Chelsea Manning to WikiLeaks and urged the audience to join him in demanding that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be freed from prison. You may also watch the full review of Roger Waters’ “This Is Not A Drill” here. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_is_“the_Left”_Red-Baiting_Rise_Up_for Abortion_Rights_on_the_Eve_of_Fascist_Destruction?⠀⇛ Libelous Red Baiting and “Cult”-Charging Still, it’s bracing and a little bizarre in 2022 to see an anti-Communist jihad launched from “the left” (see below) against an organization that has been fighting to defend something commonly identified with mainstream liberalism: the right to an abortion. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ State_of_Alaska_Recognizes_229_Tribes_in Historic_Bill⠀⇛ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Privileged_Conversations_–_Public Knowledge⠀⇛ Public Knowledge has the pleasure of inviting you to a multifaceted program focused on training and developing the next generation of tech policy experts and public interest advocates that reflects the diversity of voices and experiences in our society. Please join us for our monthly Career Breakfast Series. This event is designed for students & recent graduates to learn about tech policy and public interest work, careers, and its community. This month you will have the opportunity of having a great conversation with Larry Irving. Larry Irving is the President of the Irving Group, a consulting firm providing strategic planning and consulting services to international telecommunications, media and technology companies, non-profit organizations, and philanthropies. Irving is also an operating partner and chief public policy, ESG, and DEI advisor to ZMC, a private equity firm. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “Net_Neutrality”_is_Back._It’s_Still_a Corporate_Welfare_Scam_and_Internet_Censorship_Enabling_Act⠀⇛ Why this bill? Because the term “Net Neutrality” polls well among those who don’t bother to look into the details. Why now? Because Democrats are playing every card in the deck as they cast about for ways to stem their likely bleeding in this November’s midterm elections. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ “You_Wouldn’t_Steal…”_Research_Shows Why_Many_Anti-Piracy_Messages_Fail⠀⇛ You wouldn’t steal a car, right? So why are you pirating? With this 2004 message, the movie industry hoped to turn illegal downloaders into paying customers. This campaign eventually turned into a meme and it’s not the only anti-piracy advert to miss the mark. A new research paper identifies several behavioral insights that explain common mistakes made in these campaigns. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Illegal_Blocking_of_Copyrighted Content_to_Be_Punished_Under_Russian_Draft_Law⠀⇛ Every week copyright holders and their anti- piracy agents issue instructions for content to be removed or blocked. Most of these requests are made in good faith but malicious takedown requests are still a problem. A draft law tabled in Russia envisions financial compensation for those affected. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ SpellBinding:_ABEWLVI_Wordo:_TREE⠀⇛ # ⚓ Week_29/30:_Thoughts_and_Photos⠀⇛ The amount of travel I engaged in during the month of July left me very little time to work on the chess service. As a result, I did not meet my target of having it back online by today. I have one more weekend trip coming up in the near future, but beyond that, my afternoons and evenings will now be free. My revised target date for having the chess service back online is 2022-08-15. One of the trips I took in July was to attend EAA’s AirVenture aerospace show in Oshkosh, WI. Many key companies in the American aerospace industry had pavilions at the show, and I had the opportunity to meet several recruiters with those companies. My hope is to get a job in aerospace, an industry I’m very passionate about. # ⚓ Why_I’m_not_a_doomer_(anymore)⠀⇛ I found the solution to “climate anxiety”, and today I want to share it with you. The key to overcoming climate anxiety is understanding that the climate apocalypse is not a looming threat that will soon be upon us. It’s here — you and I are living through it right now. People are dying in heat waves and storms who wouldn’t be dying if we had averted climate apocalypse. But we didn’t. So here we are: living through the apocalpyse. Look — I’m not going to sugar coat this. Things are bad, and because of the way that the climate works, things are going to get worse before they get better, no matter what. Once you pull this uncomfortable knowledge down, through your brain and into your heart, the anxiety will dissipate. You’ll probably feel sad and angry instead, at least sometimes. Cut yourself some slack because you are living through an apocalypse. o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ smolZINE_–_Issue_31⠀⇛ # ⚓ You_Can_Get_a_Weird_Domain_Today⠀⇛ When I set this site up I chose a logical, grown-up, and kind of boring domain name. If you’re looking for logical, grown-up, and kind of boring domain names you’ll find that a whole lot are taken. Either by someone with a good reason to have it or by some company that squats on it in the hopes that someone will pay them a lot for it. But if you’re in the market for a silly, weird, and strange domain name I have a few for you that are still (as of writing this) up for grabs! # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Misadventures_with_bash_shell⠀⇛ There is a Russian proverb that translates roughly as ‘if you are a bad dancer, your own testicles will get in the way’. While gendered, and somewhat offensive, it describes my relationship with bash — it feels like I get tangled up in my balls every time I use it. I am primarily a Common Lisp programmer, and bash makes zero sense to me. Bash has syntax (yuck) and it is really inconsistent – or at least, I can’t figure out how or why things are done without looking up numerous examples. I don’t know why I still use it – I guess every system I’ve used defaults to it… Why in the world does it exist? =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2522 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_01/08/2022:_GNU_Linux-libre_5.19_(Uhura)_and_pgAdmin_4_6.12⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:55 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o Red_Hat_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers # Mozilla o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Security o Environment # Energy o Censorship/Free_Speech * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_July_31st,_2022⠀⇛ This week we had a bunch of exciting news, starting with the launch of the final Linux Mint 21 release and the Firefox 103 web browser, and continuing with System76’s latest Pop!_OS Linux 22.04 distribution for Raspberry Pi 4 devices and a new Steam Client update with more improvements for Linux gamers. On top of that, we talked about some of the upcoming changes in the Endless OS distribution, a new Linux kernel security update for Debian GNU/Linux 11 users, and I prepared another roundup of updates for Xfce users. Below, you can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for July 31st, 2022. o ⚓ Hacker Noon ☛ Understanding_Linux_Containers_Before_Changing_the World_|_HackerNoon⠀⇛ Driven by an array of factors—productivity, automation, and cost-effective deployments—organizations have grown to love container technology, especially as they make it possible to run infrastructure more efficiently. Container technology introduces something we call containers. Containers are application sandboxes. Containers provide a way to run your application by packaging it with the runtime, operating system, libraries, and every dependency it needs. This brings simplicity, speed, and flexibility to application development and deployment, with a more efficient way to utilize system resources. A major step up from virtual machines, I must say. Various container technologies are available, like Docker containers, Kubernetes containers, and Linux containers (LXC). This article will look at Linux containers and their uses. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lilbits:_Booting_Linux_on_some_Lenovo_laptops requires_an_extra_step,_Macintosh_Pi,_and_fanless_Jasper_Lake mini_PCs_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ The new Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 is a 13.3 inch mobile workstation-class laptop with support for up to a 2880 x 1800 pixel OLED display, up to an AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6860Z processor, and up to 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. It’s also one of the first laptops to feature a Microsoft Pluton security co-processor and, as prominent Linux developer Matthew Garrett discovered, it ships with the UEFI configured to prevent you from booting anything other than Windows. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ New_Features_in_Linux_Mint_21_[Quick_Look]_– Invidious⠀⇛ Linux Mint 21 is finally available. It is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and is codename Vanessa. The upgrade path from Mint 20.3 will be available soon. Meanwhile, you can see what’s all new in this quick review of Linux Mint 21. Mint 21 features: – New upgrade tool – New Bluetooth application – WebP image support – Improved thumbnail support – New wallpapers (not really a feature but well) – Fixing up a few shortcomings of Ubuntu 22.04 – Cinnamon 5.4 – New process monitor # ⚓ Linux_User_Space:_Episode_3:03:_Text_Ed⠀⇛ 0:00 Cold Open 1:17 A Minty Fresh Release 7:48 Lubuntu’s Backports 9:36 Points for Ubuntu 12:18 Text Ed: ed 32:02 The Missing Thoughts on Ubuntu 41:37 Minizilla Watch 45:45 A Return to the Missing Thoughts 55:49 Larry’s Feedback 1:01:56 Community Focus: Stevesveryown 1:05:20 App Focus: Thunderbird 1:14:09 Next Time: EndeavourOS 1:15:57 Stinger o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Linux_5.19_Release_–_Main_changes,_Arm, RISC-V_and_MIPS_architectures_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Those look to be minor changes indeed. This was followed later with an update to build fix for Loongson-3 (fix compile mips cpu_hwmon as module build error). The full Linux 5.19 changelog with commit messages only is available, and I generated it with the command git log v5.18..v5.19-rc8 –stat. Alternatively, you could check out a detailed summary on KernelNewbies website. # ⚓ Linux_5.19_released,_Bootlin_contributions_inside_– Bootlin’s_blog⠀⇛ Linux 5.19 has been released yesterday. We recommend the usual resources of LWN (part 1 and part 2) as well as KernelNewbies to get some high- level overview of the major additions. CNX-Software also has an article focused on the ARM/RISC-V/MIPS improvements. # ⚓ Linux_Kernel_5.19_Officially_Released⠀⇛ inux Kernel 5.19 Officially Released Linux Kernel 5.19 is now officially available. As usual, Linus made an announcement regarding the availability of Linux Kernel 5.19. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Remove_Exif_Data_in_Linux_Command_Line⠀⇛ Most images contain Exif (Exchangeable image file format) data which includes some crucial data such as the date and time of capturing an image, device, place, and so on. While this can be useful in various scenarios, it also has privacy threats and through this guide, I’ll show you how to remove Exif data from images using the Linux command line. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_manage_pods_in_Podman_with_the REST_API_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ The REST API became available in Podman two years ago, and it is still actively maintained with new features added with every release. This article explores how Podman’s REST API helps you manage pods. I’ll use the classic use case for a pod: a WordPress container and a MariaDB database container using Podman’s native REST API. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_FreeCAD_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FreeCAD on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, FreeCAD is a parametric 3D modeler. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters. 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 FreeCAD 3D parametric modeler 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. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Convert_String_to_Lowercase_in_Bash_–_Easier Than_You_Think⠀⇛ In Linux, the tr command is used to translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters. So with the help of the tr command, you can convert the case of any character. You can do this quickly with a single- line command. You can use the following command to convert a string to lowercase. Here the command takes the standard input of a string and processes it. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_I_disabled_IPv6_on_Linux⠀⇛ IPv6 is a good thing for the Internet in general, but I find it unnecessarily complex for use in most home and small- to medium-size businesses. Like many others, I continue to use private IPv4 address ranges for my own internal networks and those for which I have some level of responsibility. My ISP only provides IPv4 addresses anyway, so it makes no sense to use IPv6 internally when all external packets are IPv4. Besides, IPv4 is much simpler, and one of my Linux Philosophy tenets is “Find the Simplicity.” As a result, I disabled IPv6 on all my hosts. It seemed easy—at first. Here is how I did it. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_configure_Helm_charts_using_JKube,_part_2 |_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ Discover how to customize Helm charts and registries with the advanced configuration of the Eclipse JKube OpenShift Maven Plugin. (This is part 2 of a series.) # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_and_use_Ubuntu-Make_for developer_tools⠀⇛ Let’s learn the steps to install the Ubuntu-Make tool to quickly download and set up standard tools that developers need to work on Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu-Make is a tool that is listed on the official website of Ubuntu Linux. The key purpose of it is to let developers install the popular IDEs and other developing tools without leaving the command terminal such as PyCharm. Because these tools are not available to download and set up using the default APT package manager of Ubuntu. This command line not only installs the tool but also all the required dependencies, of course, root or sudo access is required. Further to help the developers easily install the tools required by their project, the developers of Ubuntu-Make have listed them in categories, for example- Android (java and native) development to games, frontend web (javascript and dart), backend (go and dart), and various IDE (python, C++ java…). # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ Ubuntu_21.10_Reached_EOL_and_How_To_Add Support⠀⇛ Canonical announced that now Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri has reached End of Life (EOL). This means your Impish computer will not be able to install applications anymore, nor receive any security updates, although it can still be used without any time limits. This tutorial will explain how to check that out and add support provided by Canonical and also third-parties. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Containerize_.NET_applications_without_writing Dockerfiles [Ed: IBM/Red Hat employs Tom Deseyn to work for Microsoft while taking a salary from IBM. This never made any sense, but then again Red Hat even hired managers from Microsoft -- an epic mistake]⠀⇛ This article introduces dotnet build-image, a tool that containerizes .NET applications automatically. You can use build-image to create Dockerfiles and containerized images. You will also discover how to use the tool in a GitHub workflow to create an image from a .NET application and push it to a repository. # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ PHP_Warning:_Constant_ABSPATH_already_defined_in wp-config.php⠀⇛ While looking into the nginx PHP error log file fixing unrelated issues, I noticed I was spammed with the following message… o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Unvanquished_0.53_Beta,_what_a_milestone!_–_Unvanquished⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce the 2nd Beta release of Unvanquished, a First Person Shooter featuring the ability to build and two factions with radically different abilities: humans who master technology versus aliens and their many specialized evolutions. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Rolisteam_–_July_2022_–_Monthly_update_#2⠀⇛ As you may know, rolisteam is now part of KDE. We are trying to enjoy that new status. One way to do it, it’s to change the way rolisteam is translated. The KDE project has huge translation team and they are really efficient. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ KaOS_2022.06_and_KDE_Plasma_5.25⠀⇛ The KaOS distribution is a rolling release operating system which intentionally narrows its focus to provide one desktop environment (KDE Plasma), with applications built with one toolkit (Qt), running on one CPU architecture (x86_64). The distribution is developed independently and uses the pacman package manager. o § Red Hat / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Cloud_services:_4_ways_to_get_the most_from_your_committed_spend [Ed: Red Hat is promoting stupid buzzwords to encourage companies to foolishly outsource and then rent, becoming slaves of corporate masters such as IBM]⠀⇛ Cloud spending commitments can create a different mindset in the grander context of cloud costs – instead of focusing on what you’re spending money on (and why), you might naturally think more along the lines of “Well, we have to spend this money now.” This can produce significant effects, including increased susceptibility to the sunk cost fallacy and other potential inefficiencies. But let’s back up for a moment and define the term: In the world of cloud, “committed spend” refers to when an organization (the cloud customer) agrees to spend a minimum amount of money with a cloud provider – typically within a specified time period – in exchange for discounted pricing on their usage. (An enterprise agreement could also include other benefits, such as dedicated account management services.) # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 4_reasons_IT_leaders_should_champion sustainability [Ed: Mindless greenwashing nonsense]⠀⇛ I’m a member of the Climate Change Community of Practice at Red Hat. This Community of Practice is an associate-led internal community to support the development and implementation of sustainability targets and initiatives, both operationally and across core business activities. We aim to connect passionate associates around the challenges humans are facing as a result of climate change. Managing our carbon footprint is Red Hat’s responsibility to the planet. In addition to fulfilling this responsibility, what do enterprises stand to gain from embracing more sustainable practices? # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Why_program_management_matters_in_open source [Ed: Master IBM insists on having managers in Free software communities, in order to herd the slaves (volunteers, developers)]⠀⇛ I’ve used that line for a laugh at the beginning of talks, but it’s true. Program management is, at its core, the act of coordinating the interfaces between teams to produce something of value. In open source projects, the “something of value” is generally the software that the community produces. Most open source communities create software, and almost none of them have a formal program manager. So why have a program manager? The difference lies in managing the software development with intent instead of by accident. The smaller the community, the easier it is to self- coordinate. The need for intentional coordination increases as the community grows or the software becomes more complex. In The Mythical Man Month, Fred Brooks noted that the number of communication channels goes up dramatically faster than the number of people working on a project. A program manager can help simplify the communication overhead by serving as a centralized channel for information. By lurking on mailing lists and chat channels, the program manager sees what’s going on in the project and communicates that broadly to the community and the public. This way, anyone who needs to know the high-level details can look at the program manager’s summary instead of paying attention to every channel themselves. # ⚓ Highly_Secure_API_Enablement_for_IBM_i⠀⇛ The explosive growth of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) over the past few years has dramatically transformed how business is conducted. APIs allow customers to increase revenue by leveraging new channels to reach their customers; they facilitate cost reduction by automating manual processes and raising an organization’s responsiveness. In many industries, the benefits of APIs are so compelling that it is already impossible to compete or participate in a business supply chain without supporting APIs. # ⚓ Guru:_IBM_i_Privileged_Account_Management,_And_What’s_So Special_About_Special_Authorities⠀⇛ # ⚓ IBM_Finally_Shows_Some_Growth_In_Sales_And_Profits [Ed: IBM-sponsored site spreads IBM-sponsored lies, using the company's dirty accounting 'tricks'; journalism has been replaced by PR]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Altair_Delivers_More_Options_for_Running_SAS_Code⠀⇛ Companies that have legacy SAS code for analytic applications running on IBM i servers and other platforms but don’t want to pay the SAS Institute for the runtime have another option from Altair, which recently acquired World Programming. # ⚓ Power10_Entry_Machines:_The_Power_S1022_And_Power_L1022⠀⇛ o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Lubuntu_Introduces_Backport_PPA_to_Experience Latest_LXQt_Desktop⠀⇛ The Lubuntu team brings a backport PPA to help you install the latest LXQt desktop in the current Lubuntu LTS release. # ⚓ DELL’S_XPS_13_PLUS_IS_THE_FIRST_LAPTOP_CERTIFIED_FOR_UBUNTU 22.04_LTS_|_Tic_Tech_Toe_–_MAG_THE_WEEKLY⠀⇛ Dell and Canonical announced that the XPS 13 Plus is the first OEM PC certified for Ubuntu 22.04 Long-Term Support (LTS). That makes this a straightforward route to having a PC that just works without worrying about whether or not each component is ready to work with Linux. Linux- equipped Developer Edition models of the laptop were available with prices starting at $1,289, but currently ship with the older 20.04 LTS software. Long-term support releases deliver what it says on the tin for ten years of software updates, with the end of standard support for this version scheduled in 2027. Certified devices are lab tested to check the compatibility of each component, which means your device gets the specific drivers installed that will make all of its features work properly. The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS package has a long list of upgrades, including better power management, new touchpad gestures, and improved support for Bluetooth audio devices. According to Dell, if you’d like to have your XPS 13 Plus and its “capacitive touch function row” set up with a hardware-optimised version of 22.04. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_–_July_2022 Updates_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. This month’s focus has been on expanding our features on games and web apps. These sections are now fairly comprehensive. We’ve also published new articles in the fields of video, system administration, graphics, and coding. As always, We welcome suggestions for new articles or additional open source software to feature. o § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ When_an_Algorithm_is_Your_Boss_—_The_Internet_Health Report_2022⠀⇛ Gig workers around the world report directly to algorithms in precarious jobs created by secretive corporations. We take you to the streets of Quito, Ecuador where delivery workers are protesting against artificial intelligence, and we hear solutions from people in several countries on how to audit the algorithms and reclaim rights. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ Adminer_–_A_Full-Featured_MySQL_Database Management_Tool [Ed: Old but newly updated]⠀⇛ Formerly phpMyAdmin, Adminer is a front-end database management tool written in PHP. Unlike phpMyAdmin, it only comprises a single PHP file that can be downloaded on the target server on which Adminer is to be installed. Adminer provides a stripped-down and leaner UI compared to phpMyAdmin. It works with popular SQL database management systems such as MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQLite, MS SQL as well as Elasticsearch search engine. In this guide, we will walk you through the installation of Adminer on RHEL-based distributions. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_pgAdmin_4_v6.12_Released⠀⇛ The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 6.12. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 21 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes. pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical management tool for PostgreSQL. For more information, please see the website. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ What_is_Miklos_hacking_–_Content_controls_in_Writer:_the plain_text_type⠀⇛ Writer now supports a 6th content control type: it is possible to insert a plain text content control. This work is primarily for Collabora Online, done as a HackWeek project, but the feature is fully available in desktop Writer as well. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Linux-libre_5.19-gnu_(Uhura)⠀⇛ GNU Linux-libre 5.19-gnu cleaning-up scripts, cleaned-up sources, and cleaning-up logs (including tarball signatures) are now available from our git-based release archive git://linux- libre.fsfla.org/releases.git/ tags {scripts,sources,logs}/v5.19-gnu. Compressed tarballs and incremental patches will soon also available at . The cleanup scripts are unchanged aside for a typo fix since rc5, the first in this cycle. Jason Self and I picked a new image from his beautiful Freedo-and-GNU-themed artwork collection for this release, check it out at https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/#news or the whole collection at https://jxself.org/git/ ?p=freedo.git;a=tree This release is codenamed Uhura in memory of Nichelle Nichols. Her Star Trek character, and thus this release, are named after the word for freedom in Swahili. Freesh and RPMFreedom, the distributions of .deb and .rpm packages of GNU Linux-libre maintained by Jason Self, are expected to have binaries of 5.19-gnu available eventually. Jason is taking well-deserved vacations, so that may take a bit longer than usual. Thanks, Jason! The ATM Ambassador driver was removed upstream, so we could drop the corresponding cleaning up logic. HDCP helper and Mellanox Core cleaning up bits were split into their newly-introduced separate kconfig identifiers, out of Direct Rendering Management and Mellanox Spectrum. A couple of new drivers required cleaning up: pureLiFi X/XL/XC and TI AMx3 Wkup-M3 IPC. Silicon Labs WFX graduated out of the upstream staging area, in spite of still requiring cleaning up. Various preexisting drivers needed adjustments to their cleaning up logic, mainly out of new blob versions or names: amdgpu, Qualcomm WCNSS PIL, Realtek Bluetooth, Mellanox Spectrum, Marvell WiFi-Ex, and Intel AVS, IFS and ipu3-imgu. Blobs requested through several new devicetree files for Qualcomm AArch64 SoCs have been cleaned up. New patterns have been added to our blob finder to match and accept a new file naming convention adopted by Sound Open Firmware. For up-to-the-minute news, join us on IRC (#gnu- linux-libre on libera.chat). I often mention our releases on P2P or federated social media as well. The link in my email signature has directions. Be Free! with GNU Linux-libre. What is GNU Linux-libre? ------------------------ GNU Linux-libre is a Free version of the kernel Linux (see below), suitable for use with the GNU Operating System in 100% Free GNU/Linux-libre System Distributions. http://www.gnu.org/distros/ It removes non-Free components from Linux, that are disguised as source code or distributed in separate files. It also disables run-time requests for non-Free components, shipped separately or as part of Linux, and documentation pointing to them, so as to avoid (Free-)baiting users into the trap of non-Free Software. http://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2010-11-Linux-2.6.36- libre-debait Linux-libre started within the gNewSense GNU/ Linux distribution. It was later adopted by Jeff Moe, who coined its name, and in 2008 it became a project maintained by FSF Latin America. In 2012, it became part of the GNU Project. The GNU Linux-libre project takes a minimal- changes approach to cleaning up Linux, making no effort to substitute components that need to be removed with functionally equivalent Free ones. Nevertheless, we encourage and support efforts towards doing so. http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LinuxLibre: Devices_that_require_non-free_firmware Our mascot is Freedo, a light-blue penguin that has just come out of the shower. Although we like penguins, GNU is a much greater contribution to the entire system, so its mascot deserves more promotion. See our web page for their images. http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/ If you are the author of an awesome program and want to join us in writing Free (libre) Software, please consider making it an official GNU program and become a GNU Maintainer. You can find instructions on how to do so at https://www.gnu.org/help/ evaluation. We look forward to hacking with you! :) What is Linux? -------------- Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel [...] (snipped from Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst) -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Deco_IDE:_The_Open-source_Free_React_IDE_for macOS,_Linux,_and_macOS⠀⇛ Deco IDE is a free open-source IDE for React that allows developers to visually code, edit and build their React apps in a visual manner. It has been around for some time now, and it has many devoted users who are still using it, even though it did not receive any updates since 2016. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Efficient_Infrastructure_Testing_|_Pen_Test_Partners⠀⇛ Before we start let’s set the scene regarding vulnerability assessment. It is imperative that enterprises conduct their own continuous automated scanning, to have up-to-date assessments of threats that their networks may be susceptible to. Infrastructure penetration testing (discussed in this blog post) should be then used to delve further to expose issues and attack chains using manual testing that would have not been uncovered by automated techniques. To go one step further, mature environments with well-formed patch management policies and good security practice, should then consider Red Team engagements to assess response and detection against emulated real-world adversaries. On several infrastructure tests I’ve found myself performing vulnerability assessments on expansive networks. While Nessus and other scanning tools have their place, it is crucial to be able to work efficiently to provide much more value on an engagement rather than providing tool output that clients can run themselves (and should be doing, regularly). # ⚓ IPFire Official Blog ☛ blog.ipfire.org_–_Celebrating_10 Years_of_Lightning_Wire_Labs_(10%_Off_All_Appliances)⠀⇛ We are celebrating 10 years of Lightning Wire Labs! A whole decade where we have been working to make the Internet a safer place. Time that has been moving fast, has been full of challenges, as well as a time that has been a great success for ourselves, and our customers and partners we work with. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Is_(cryptocurrency)_winter_coming?⠀⇛ A ‘winter’ which significantly cooled the cryptocurrency bubble might allow more space for the development of cryptocurrency tech and systems more oriented towards facilitating forms of exchange much more rooted in environmental sustainability, capital circulation rather than capital accumulation, and economies which prioritise support for human thriving in general over support for the Four Monopolies[f]. Or it might not. And anyway, it feels like this is probably moot: my guess is that there are yet more cryptocurrency bubbles to come in the near future. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ The_Indian_Government’s_Fight_Against_‘Fake News’_Targets_Political_Dissent⠀⇛ * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Crimson_and_Clover⠀⇛ Gonna listen to the Joan Jett and The Blackhearts version and then immediately listen to the original by Tommy James/The Shondells and decide which one I want to put on my “any/all genre” playlist. As I do so, I will write other stuff Been listening to “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel nightly for the past few nights, and it seems to be even more climactic/powerful each time I listen to it. Like a Pop song that gets stuck in one’s head, only instead of the “catchy-ness” being the draw, it’s the energy and catharsis of listening to it that makes me want to keep coming back. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3520 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_01/08/2022:_diaspora*_0.7.18.0_and_Media_Distraction_From_Linux_Release (Clickbait)⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:35 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Civil_Rights/Policing * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Technical # Science # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Docker_Slim_–_Earthly_Blog⠀⇛ Docker is an open containerization platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. It enables you to package your applications in isolated environments, called containers, where they can run independently from infrastructure. In the container, they have all the dependencies needed for the application to run. However, a common issue with Docker images is their construction and size. Docker Slim is a tool for optimizing Dockerfiles and Docker images. It can reduce image size up to thirty times without any manual optimization. It can also help automatically generate security profiles for your Docker containers and has built-in commands that help you analyze and understand your Docker files and images. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Non-Obvious_Docker_Uses⠀⇛ Many developers use Docker the old-fashioned way — a docker build and a docker run. Some non-obvious ways to use Docker. As a compiler. I gave a talk at DockerCon back in 2019 about the potential to use Docker as a compiler, and the idea is finally coming to fruition. Use a multi-stage build to copy the output files to a scratch container, then use the –output flag on docker buildx build to output the contents of an image build to a folder. Now you can easily cross-compile binaries (using multiple –platform targets) or whatever else without dealing with actual Docker images. As a task-runner alternative to make. With Docker Buildkit, you can write alternative frontends to build images (other than the Dockerfile). Together with the built-in caching infrastructure, this makes Docker an interesting replacement for make. That’s part of the idea behind the co-founder of Docker’s second act, Dagger. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ SCaLE_is_all_about_Linux_(Coverage_Uploading_Soon) –_Invidious⠀⇛ It’s time to cover SCaLE 19x. # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Josh_Bressers:_Episode 334_–_Leap_seconds_break_everything⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about leap seconds. Every time there’s a leap second, things break. Facebook wants to get rid of them because they break computers, but Google found a clever way to keep leap seconds without breaking anything. Corner cases are hard, security is often just one huge corner case. There are lessons we can learn here. # ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_471⠀⇛ **kgamma** , **kgeorgraphy** , **kget** , **kglobalaccel** , **kgoldrunner** from Slackware set **kde**. s o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Linux_Kernel_5.19_Released_with_Major_Network Improvements_+_More_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ A brand new version of the Linux kernel is available to download, to round off July or signal the start of August, depending on your locale. Linux 5.19 is a pretty sizeable update all told, and it features a litany of low-level optimisations, several notable improvements to networking support, all-important security fixes, and lots more. In announcing the release on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Linus Torvalds remarks “…the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It’s something I’ve been waiting for for a _loong_ (sic) time, and it’s finally reality, thanks to the Asahi team.” Asahi is the project to get Linux working on laptops using Apple Silicon. He also says that the next release of the Linux Kernel is “likely” to be badged as v6.0 rather than 5.20 — we’ll hear more on that approach in the coming weeks. # ⚓ Linus_Torvalds_Releases_Linux_5.19_–_From_an_Apple_Silicon MacBook_–_Slashdot⠀⇛ “Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.19 as stable for the newest version of the Linux kernel…” reports Phoronix. But they also note that on the Linux kernel mailing list, “Torvalds went on to write about his Arm- based MacBook [running an AArch64 Apple M1 SoC]… now under Linux thanks to the work of the Asahi Linux project.” # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_5.19_kernel_is_out_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ He also notes that the next kernel is likely to be 6.0. Significant features in 5.19 include Arm Scalable Matrix Extension support, a number of io_uring improvements, BIG TCP support, numerous random- number generator improvements, support for AMD’s Secure Nested Paging and Intel’s Trusted Domain Extensions mechanisms, support for the Loongson “LoongArch” CPU architecture, a new proactive reclaim mechanism, and more. See the LWN merge- window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 5.19 page for more information. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Linus_Torvalds_Released_Linux_Kernel_5.19_From An_Apple_Hardware_Running_Asahi_Linux⠀⇛ Release highlights of Linux Kernel 5.19 (mainline) which brings improvements across CPU, CPU, storage and misc updates. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Linus_Torvalds_Uses_Apple_MacBook_Hardware_to Release_Linux_Kernel_5.19_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛ Three months after the last kernel release, Linux Kernel 5.19 is finally here. This exciting release brings plenty of improvements to every aspect of the kernel and opens up opportunities with new hardware. The most interesting part is that the Linux creator Linus Torvalds used an Apple MacBook, the Arm version, to announce this release. Don’t get your pitchfork out just yet. Torvalds used Asahi Linux, a project dedicated to adding Linux support to Apple’s Arm-based Silicon Macbooks. # ⚓ Google’s_Pichai_To_Staff:_‘time_To_Sprint’;_Linus_Torvalds Shows_Latest_Linux_On_Apple_Silicon_–_Forbes_India⠀⇛ Google is launching a new initiative called “Simplicity Sprint” to improve efficiency and focus as the global economic slowdown grinds on, after reporting back-to-back quarters of weaker-than- expected earnings. Linus Torvalds, the Finnish software developer who created Linux, yesterday, used an Apple MacBook running on an M1 chip to release the latest version of the open-source software # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linus_Torvalds_looses_Linux_5.19_using Asahi_Linux_on_a_Mac_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Linus Torvalds has released version 5.19 of the project, and hailed Apple’s homebrew silicon – and the Asahi Linux distribution that runs on it – for making Arm-powered computers useful for developers. In his announcement of the release, Torvalds called out work to support for the made-in-China Loongarch RISC architecture as an important step, along with “another batch of the networking sysctl READ_ONCE() annotations to make some of the data race checker code happy.” Torvalds then revealed he’s got his hands on some Apple silicon. “On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It’s something I’ve been waiting for for a _loong_ time, and its finally reality, thanks to the Asahi team,” he wrote. “We’ve had arm64 hardware around running Linux for a long time, but none of it has really been usable as a development platform until now.” The emperor penguin hedged a little, admitting “Not that I’ve used it for any real work, I literally have only been doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging.” o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ FOSS Post ☛ Czkawka_is_Your_Swiss_Knife_For_Cleaning_Files on_Linux⠀⇛ After using your Linux system for a couple of months or years, you will find that a lot of dust will start building up on different parts of your OS. This is especially true regarding your own data and files. You will have many duplicate files, large files that you no longer use or need, files which you copied to somewhere else but forgot to delete from the original position to free up space… It will eventually be a mess. On Windows, there were many data cleaning programs like CCleaner and others, but are there any useful alternatives on Linux? Luckily, the answer is yes, and today we will be doing a walkthrough on Czkawka; an open source data cleaning software which can be used for all your system cleaning purposes. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ The_whatis_command_in_Linux⠀⇛ If you want information about a package or command you can use the man command (Manual Pages). You will find a manual page for almost every single package you installed in your Linux Distribution and Linux commands. # ⚓ LinuxOpSys ☛ How_to_Install_XFCE_Desktop_Environment_in Linux_Mint⠀⇛ # ⚓ LinuxOpSys ☛ 4_Ways_to_Check_Which_Shell_You_are_Using_on Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ LinuxOpSys ☛ Sudo_Command_in_Linux_Explained_with Examples⠀⇛ # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Install_NodeJS_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ This tutorial will walk you through installing NodeJS step-by-step on Ubuntu using the three methods. Although we use Ubuntu 22.04 for the demos, you can use your preferred version. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Uninstall_NodeJS_in_Ubuntu_22.04_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ Uninstalling NodeJS in Ubuntu can be ineffective if you don’t understand how programs get installed in Ubuntu. The confusion worsens when you are unsure whether to use the uninstall, remove, or purge commands. This tutorial simplifies NodeJS uninstallation by explaining the workings of package managers, installation directories and the most suitable commands to apply. Lastly, it takes you through practical examples of uninstalling NodeJS in Ubuntu. # ⚓ Chris ☛ Long_Hiatus:_Emacs_Upgrades⠀⇛ I wrote before about how I started publishing these articles using Emacs. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ What_are_the_Absolute_and_Relative_paths, and_why_do_we_use_them?_–_TREND_OCEANS⠀⇛ While following some of the articles, you may frequently hear about absolute and relative paths. They may suggest you to use an absolute path or a relative path, but what is exactly this term, and why should you care about it? And what is the key difference between absolute and relative paths, and how can you exactly use the following fundamental concept to get a more proficient way of traversing (moving) through a directory? So let’s clear up this topic with a basic command that everyone has used till now. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Check_if_a_Library_is_32-Bit_or 64-Bit⠀⇛ If you have managed to explore the software development ecosystem, then you are well aware of the implication a library has on a system. We can define a library as a grouping of non-volatile resources or an assortment of pre-compiled code blocks reusable to running programs. A program will therefore query a library for a resource it needs to continue with or finish its execution. Libraries can either be 32-Bit or 64-bit depending on the availed Linux system architecture. A 64-bit Linux system can host both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries while a 32-bit Linux system can only host 32-bit libraries. For this reason, this article will focus on 64-bit Linux system users. We should also note that the libraries being addressed in this article are C/C++ libraries due to their strong ties to the Linux operating system. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Spotify_on_Fedora_36?_–_Unix_/ Linux_the_admins_Tutorials⠀⇛ Hello, friends. In this short and simple post, you will learn how to install Spotify on Fedora 36? Spotify is one of the most popular audio music streaming platforms in the world, like Apple Music and many more. From where you can listen to tons of songs and music. The Spotify team has worked really hard to make it the best music platform by adding the oldest music libraries to the latest song playlists. That’s why many people consider it indispensable for the system, and it has become one of the most important ones out there. The procedure to install Spotify on Ubuntu 20.04 we have already seen that it was simple, but today we will tackle another very popular system, such as Fedora 36. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Linux_Mint_21_‘Vanessa’_released,_available_in Cinnamon,_MATE,_and_Xfce_flavours_–_Neowin⠀⇛ The Linux Mint team has announced the availability of Linux Mint 21 ‘Vanessa’. It comes after a two- week beta testing period and just days after the final ISOs began last-minute checks. Each of the Linux Mint editions will get the same amount of support, including security updates that will be delivered for five years until 2027. # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Linux_Mint_21_is_now_available_–_gHacks_Tech News⠀⇛ The Linux Mint team has released a new version of the popular Linux distribution to the public. Linux Mint 21, codename Vanessa, is now available. Linux Mint 21 is a long-term support release that will be supported until 2027. Linux Mint 21 remains the base until 2024; expect several point releases with easy to perform upgrades. Development shifts to a new base in 2024, Linux Mint 22, but Linux Mint 21 will continue to be supported until 2027. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ diaspora*_version_0.7.18.0_released!_–_The_diaspora* Project⠀⇛ As announced, a new minor release is now released. Over the past three months, we have managed to collect 113 commits made by 3 contributors for this minor release. A huge thanks to all the contributors from diaspora*’s amazing community! If you want to help make diaspora* even better, please check out our getting started guide. Please see the changelog for a complete list of changes made in this release. # ⚓ People_of_WordPress:_Carla_Doria⠀⇛ In this series, we share some of the inspiring stories of how WordPress and its global network of contributors can change people’s lives for the better. This month we feature Carla Doria, a customer support specialist from South America on how WordPress opened up a new world for her, and gave her the ability to help the local community. For Carla, working with WordPress is a vital part of her life. It gave her a career and a community, in which she she would organize the first WordCamp in her city, Cochabamba, and the first in Bolivia. Carla studied industrial engineering and has a master’s degree in environmental studies. Her first experience with WordPress was when she decided to start a small business designing and selling cushions and bedclothes. While Carla sat in the small store she had rented, hoping that people stopping at the shop windows would step in to buy something, she decided she needed to create a website. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ YAML_Comments⠀⇛ In this article, we will be discussing the concept of creating comments in a YAML file. YAML allows single-line comments with the help of the “#” character. We can use the single-line comment multiple times to make a block comment paragraph in the YAML file. Now, a YAML file is a configuration support file for storing data for other programs like Ruby and Dockers. For this article, we used the YAML file as a support file for Dockers. The Docker-compose supports files with a “.yml” file. In these files, the configuration of a Docker image file is stored. The pre-requisite for the implementation is to install Dockers and Docker- compose through the Ubuntu terminal. # ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ RuboCop_Serves_(Much)_Faster⠀⇛ RuboCop’s motto has always been “The Ruby Linter that Serves and Protects”.1 Now, with the addition of a server mode in RuboCop 1.31 that motto is truer than ever! But first – a bit of background. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Fault-Tolerant_Design⠀⇛ The very first fault-tolerant computer was the Samočinný počítač, or SAPO, built in 1950. It could tolerate the failure of an arithmetic unit –it had three parallel arithmetic logic units and decided on the correct result by voting1. The obvious use cases for fault-tolerant computers are when maintenance or repairs are extremely hard to do (spacecraft) or when failures are extremely costly (nuclear power plants). # ⚓ Geshan ☛ JavaScript:_Return_multiple_values_from_a_function call_with_code_examples⠀⇛ Learn how to return multiple values from a function call in Javascript. Unlike go lang, JavaScript does not have a native way to return multiple values from a single function. In this post, you will learn how to improvise on this and get around the issue if you have to get back multiple values from a JavaScript function call. Time to get going. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Build_a_Next.js_React_Apps_with_MongoDB_in_Mins⠀⇛ Next.js is a free open-source React framework for building a web applications. It allows developers to generate start website or use server-side rendering to create a highly scalable sites. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Lightence_Is_a_Free_Outstanding_Full-Featured Dashboard_Template_for_React⠀⇛ React is a popular open-source web development framework for creating interactive web apps. It has a large community of developers of all levels, and it is the first choice for many companies and enterprise developers. Open-source React templates save developers time, and fasten their development speed, especially in large projects. There are many React dashboard and control panel templates, that we covered the open-source free ones here, however, most of them come in 2 editions; free/ open-source and a pro or enterprise edition that has more features, components and custom pages. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ SPVM_continues_to_undergo_heavy_changes._| Yuki_Kimoto_Perl_Blog_–_Perl_Club_[blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ Sorry, SPVM continues to undergo heavy changes. After building real-world modules and applications, I realized that a lot of changes needed to be made. You can see what I’m currently working on below. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Update:_re-search.py_Version 0.0.21⠀⇛ This new version of re-search.py adds a regex for UNCs to the library and has a Python 3 fix. # ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Update:_oledump.py_Version_0.0.69⠀⇛ This update brings an update to plugin plugin_vba_dco.py. This is a plugin that scans VBA source code for keywords (Declare, CreateObject, GetObject, CallByName and Shell), extracts all lines with these keywords, followed by all lines with identifiers associated with these keywords. For example, if the result of a CreateObject call is stored in variable oXML, then all lines with this oXML identifier are selected. I updated this plugin with two options -g (–generalize) and -a (–all). Option -g generalize will replace all identifiers (like variable & functions names) with a general name: Identifier#### where #### is a numeric counter. I added this option to analyze a sample where almost all identifiers where completely unreadable, as they consisted solely out of characters that are between byte values 128 and 255 (e.g., non-ASCII). * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ A_Note_About_“Guest”_Posts⠀⇛ What are my thoughts on this? It’s never happening! I didn’t start a personal blog, so I’d be posting here random content from random sources. My blog, my thoughts, my rules. I don’t care about making money out of my blog – I care only about writing down my thoughts and sharing them with the world. [...] I wish some of those “content managers” would come across this article and think twice about their approach and the people who they are targeting. I’m quite skeptical this is going to happen, though, so I’ll just keep dealing with them the only way I know how. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ How_Big_Is_a_Billion?⠀⇛ I’m sure many people reading this know what a billion is, right? It’s a thousand, thousand, thousand. That’s a big bloody number! But quantifying this mind-bogglingly big number is difficult. I was thinking about this while walking the dog last night. So did some basic maths to try and quantify this stupidly big number in a way my little brain can comprehend. I thought I’d share some of those numbers. # ⚓ Integration_leads_to_leap_in_tech_for_forest_inventory, management_–_Purdue_University_News⠀⇛ Through integration of aerial and ground-based mobile mapping sensors and systems, a team of Purdue digital forestry researchers has used advanced technology to locate, count and measure over a thousand trees in a matter of hours. # ⚓ New Scientist ☛ Quantum_computer_cools_itself_down_by performing_calculations_|_New_Scientist⠀⇛ Quantum computers made from imperfect diamonds could stop themselves from overheating just by running an algorithm. Most quantum machines must be kept at low temperatures, but “algorithmic cooling” might allow quantum computers to perform well at room temperature in the future. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Q&A_about_my_NW-A55_Walkman⠀⇛ My recent Walkman post generated a ton of email and comments; thanks to most of you for sharing your ideas and questions! I say most, because it seemed to attract more trolls than anything I’ve written in a long time. It’s disheartening to have something you enjoyed (and tried to share with people) immediately shat on by those who don’t even bother to read it. At times it makes me wonder why I even blog in the first place; but then I remember all the rest of you :). o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Radio_waves_for_the_detection_of_hardware_tampering_– Newsportal_–_Ruhr-Universität_Bochum⠀⇛ Up to now, protecting hardware against manipulation has been a laborious business: expensive, and only possible on a small scale. And yet, two simple antennas might do the trick. As far as data security is concerned, there is an even greater danger than remote cyberattacks: namely tampering with hardware that can be used to read out information – such as credit card data from a card reader. Researchers in Bochum have developed a new method to detect such manipulations. They monitor the systems with radio waves that react to the slightest changes in the ambient conditions. Unlike conventional methods, they can thus protect entire systems, not just individual components – and they can do it at a lower cost. The RUB’s science magazine Rubin features a report by the team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and the IT company PHYSEC. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Coveware:_Median_ransom_payments_dropped_51% in_Q2 [Ed: This is predominantly a Microsoft Windows issue]⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ SSH2_vs._SSH1_and_why_SSH_versions_still matter⠀⇛ The Secure Shell protocol, SSH, was redesigned and released as SSH2 in 2006. While SSH1 lingers for legacy uses, find out how the protocols differ and why it’s important. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Ish Sookun ☛ [Repeat]_How_much_space_is_required_to store_2_mins_of_data_captured_from_all_internet_traffic in_Mauritius?⠀⇛ That number is not fixed because internet traffic changes all time, every day, every second. However, we can use it to base our answer. Let’s first convert the number into Megabytes, which is understood by many. To do so, we divide the number by 8, because 1 byte = 8 bits. Thus, 211,312 Megabits is equivalent to 26,414 Megabytes. # ⚓ The Center for Investigative Reporting ☛ Facebook_and Anti-Abortion_Clinics_Are_Collecting_Highly_Sensitive Info_on_Would-Be_Patients_–_Reveal⠀⇛ Facebook is collecting ultra-sensitive personal data about abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion organizations to use that data as a tool to target and influence people online, in violation of its own policies and promises. In the wake of a leaked Supreme Court opinion signaling the likely end of nationwide abortion protections, privacy experts are sounding alarms about all the ways people’s data trails could be used against them if some states criminalize abortion. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Associated Press ☛ In_Ukraine_war,_a_race_to_acquire smarter,_deadlier_drones⠀⇛ Drone camera footage defines much of the public’s view of the war in Ukraine: grenades quietly dropped on unwitting soldiers, eerie flights over silent, bombed-out cities, armor and outposts exploding in fireballs. Never in the history of warfare have drones been used as intensively as in Ukraine, where they often play an outsized role in who lives and dies. Russians and Ukrainians alike depend heavily on unmanned aerial vehicles to pinpoint enemy positions and guide their hellish artillery strikes. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ [Older]_Coffin_Holding_Patrice_Lumumba’s Tooth_Returns_to_DRC_Six_Decades_After_Assassination_| Democracy_Now!⠀⇛ The Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing to soon hold three days of national mourning for slain independence leader Patrice Lumumba, who was assassinated in 1961. On Monday, Belgium, the former colonial power, handed over a tooth that a Belgian police officer said he took as a trophy after he helped cut up Lumumba’s body and then dissolved it in acid. The tooth is believed to be the only remains left of Lumumba, who was killed a year after he became the first elected prime minister of the Congo in 1960. The CIA had ordered his assassination but could not complete the job. Instead, the United States and Belgium covertly funneled cash and aid to rival politicians who seized power and killed Lumumba. A coffin holding Lumumba’s tooth is expected to fly from Brussels to Kinshasa today. Lumumba’s son Roland spoke on Tuesday. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ ACM ☛ When_Should_a_Black_Box_Be_Transparent?⠀⇛ We have been working with a third-party vendor that supplies a critical component of one of our systems. Because of supply-chain issues, they are trying to “upgrade” us to a newer version of this component, and they say it is a drop-in replacement for the old one. They keep saying this component should be seen as a black box, but in our testing, we found many differences between the original and the updated part. These are not just simple bugs but significant technology changes that underlie the system. It would be nice to treat this component as a drop-in replacement and not worry about this, but what I have seen thus far does not inspire confidence. I do see their point that the API is the same, but I somehow do not think this is sufficient. When is a component truly drop-in and when should I be more paranoid? # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Digital_Transparency:_A_Right to_Information_Report_for_July_2022⠀⇛ For the month of July 2022, IFF has filed 9 Right to Information (“RTI”) applications. In response to an RTI application on surveillance of sanitation workers in Chandigarh, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has shared that they have been using “human tracking watches” on field staff since August 1, 2020 and incur approximately Rs 17.5 lakhs per month on it. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ There’s_a_new_sheriff_in_town_(and_43 into_47_will_go)_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ The 47th Parliament opens on Tuesday with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promising to get Labor’s 43% emissions target legislated as the first order of business. Albo is pledging a more consultative approach, and in that conciliatory frame of mind, on Monday he damned the former Coalition government’s wedge politics. Promises of a kinder, gentler politics are the stock-in-trade of new governments. Tony Abbott boasted that ”the adults are back in charge” when he won government in 2013. Malcolm Fraser was going to get politics off the front page. John Howard was going to get us ”relaxed and comfortable”. Ah, memories. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Venture Beat ☛ Does_the_engineering_world_need_to care_about_NFTs_and_blockchain?⠀⇛ If the first question out of people’s mouths about either blockchain or NFTs is “What exactly are they?” the second question inevitably is “Is this something that I actually need to care about?” If you’re an artist who makes a living selling art, the answer might be yes. But if you’re in the engineering world, the potential benefits are far less clear. # ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Quickpost:_Standby_Power_Consumption Of_My_USB_Chargers_(120V_vs_230V)_|_Didier_Stevens⠀⇛ I connected each one to the AC power supply (120V 60Hz) and used a powermeter (GPM 8310, resolution 0,1 µW) to measure the standby power consumption over 24 hours. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ The_Dutton-proof_fence_has_got_a hole_in_it_(got_a_hole_in_it)_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ The idea of ”Dutton proofing” a law has a certain appeal. Up there with the legendary Abbott-proof fence. And as of writing on Tuesday, this was the vow by Greens leader Adam Bandt as his party’s negotiations continued with the Albanese government. Bandt is adamant that the 43% emissions reduction target by 2030 not be unwound at a future date. Alas, most legislation can be unwound at a future date. Under the Westminster system, parliaments do not allow themselves to be hobbled. That’s the job of the constitution. As for the Abbott-proof fence, Tony Abbott unwound Labor’s climate targets. Peter Dutton could do the same, should he choose (though he shouldn’t). o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Triumph_of_the_Teals:_a_media_love-in rolls_on⠀⇛ The Teal independents are still riding a wave of media adulation. The coverage suggests a new, more idealistic way of practising politics. But when MPs emphasise the primacy of their own electorates, the unity of the nation is overlooked, writes Mark Sawyer. There are plenty of challenges awaiting the new members of Australia’s 47th parliament, challenges particular to each. Labor has the complicated task of governing in an environment of austerity and without a Senate majority. The Greens have the opposite problem: harnessing their newfound power in a way that helps the progressive cause and does not embolden the right. The Opposition is cactus of course. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Crash_tackled_by_reality:_when_your morality_is_my_poison_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ But seven players have refused to don the jersey. Josh Aloiai, Jason Saab, Christian Tuipulotu, Josh Schuster, Haumole Olakau’atu, Tolutau Koula and Toafofoa Sipley have indicated that its message is incompatible with their cultural and religious beliefs. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Technical⠀➾ # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Chris ☛ Survival_Analysis_For_Customer_Retention⠀⇛ This is similar to another problem in medical research: patients die, but not all of them. Medical (and epidemiological) research is sometimes done by recruiting patients who are at risk for something (maybe the ones who have been hospitalised for some serious disease), and then following up on them every month. Some of them die, and then we know in which month they died. At some point, the study ends, and then some patients are still alive. At that point, we know they have been alive for so-and-so many months, but we don’t know when they will die. Do you see how that leads to the same sort of data analysis problem we’re having? Formally, we say that the survival times (or customer retention times) are right-censored, in that we know the true value for some patients (that have actually died) and for the currently alive patients we only know that their death date is greater than the time they have been with us so far. There’s a branch of statistics called survival analysis that deals with data of this kind. It’s named after the patients dying, but sometimes it’s also called time- to-event analysis because death isn’t the only significant event. In particular, it’s the right tool to analyse customer retention data. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Antenna_–_A_Python_Player_for_Radio_Streams⠀⇛ My visitors went home today. I always have a tough time getting used to having a houseful of people. Then I do get used to them and miss the buzz of conversation when they leave. I am suddenly reacting to insect bites. In the past, I never got any swelling or itching. This year, my bites are big red and yellow welts and they’re miserably itchy! Weird. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4712 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_02/08/2022:_Emmabuntüs_Debian_Edition_4_1.02_and_ScummVM_2.6.0⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:38 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Instructionals/Technical o WINE_or_Emulation o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o GNU_Projects * Leftovers o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Technical # Science # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Mirantis_Adds_Lens_Pro_Edition_to_IDE_Portfolio_for Kubernetes_–_Container_Journal⠀⇛ Mirantis has made available a Lens Pro edition of its cloud-native application integrated development environment (IDE) that includes a local instance of Kubernetes. That instance can be automatically provisioned along with on-demand support and a streamlined set-up process for container image scanning and vulnerability reporting tools. Miska Kaipiainen, vice president of product engineering for Mirantis, says Lens Pro is aimed at enterprise IT organizations looking to improve productivity. It is priced at $19.90 per month per seat or $199 per seat for an annual license. # ⚓ Istio_/_Announcing_Istio_1.13.7⠀⇛ This release contains a fix for CVE-2022-31045 and bug fixes to improve robustness. We recommend users install this release instead of Istio 1.13.6, which does not contain the above CVE fix. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.13.6 and Istio 1.13.7. # ⚓ Istio_/_Announcing_Istio_1.14.3⠀⇛ This release contains a fix for CVE-2022-31045 and bug fixes to improve robustness. We recommend users install this release instead of Istio 1.14.2, which does not contain the above CVE fix. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.14.2 and Istio 1.14.3. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ WP_Briefing:_Episode_37:_The_World_of_WordPress_on_World Wide_Web_Day⠀⇛ In the thirty-seventh episode of the WordPress Briefing, WordPress users and contributors reflect on how WordPress has changed their understanding of the web as we celebrate World Wide Web Day. # ⚓ Video ☛ CLIfm:_Is_This_Really_A_Terminal_File_Manager??_– Invidious⠀⇛ I’ve seen my fair share of terminal file managers and some of them are admittedly quite strange but today we’re looking at a project that kind of bridges the gap between terminal file manager and pure cli commands called clifm # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Mint_21_MATE_Run_Through_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at Linux Mint 21, the MATE edition. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ Linux_Mint_21_MATE⠀⇛ Today we are looking at Linux Mint 21, MATE edition. It is based on Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Kernel 5.15, MATE 1.26, and uses about 1GB of ram when idling. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Linus_Torvalds_Upstages_Own_Linux_5.19_Kernel Release_by_Announcing_It_on_Apple_Silicon-Powered_MacBook Air⠀⇛ Linus Torvalds has announced the latest version of his Linux kernel, 5.19, but he might have upstaged his own release with how he announced it: from an Apple Silicon-powered Macbook Air laptop running Asahi Linux. # ⚓ Collabora ☛ Kernel_5.19:_Probably_the_final_release_of_the 5.x_series⠀⇛ As usual, there are quite a few changes merged into the mainline; among the most interesting are: - Arm Scalable Matrix Extension - Intel “in-field scan” mechanism for CPU diagnosis - initial support for the LoongArch CPU architecture - support for running 32-bit binaries on 64-bit RISC-V systems - several io_uring subsystem enhancements - BIT TCP support for handling huge IPv6/TCP packets - Zstd compression support for firmware files - AMD’s Secure Nested Paging and Intel’s Trusted Domain Extensions for enhanced virtualization/ containers security More details about the merge window are available on LWN.net: part 1. Looking at the version history, one may notice the 3.x kernel series ended with version 3.19, while the 4.x series ended at 4.20. As there is no clear naming convention for future kernel versions, it remains to be seen if Linus will decide to end this series with version 5.19 or to extend it to 5.20 or beyond. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Neos_CMS_on_Ubuntu_22.04_– RoseHosting⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to install Neos CMS on Ubuntu 22.04 OS. Neos CMS is an open-source Content Management System that allows developers and users to build their websites in a couple of steps quickly. Neos CMS is written in PHP and javascript and uses SQL. In this blog post, we will install Neos CMS with the LAMP stack so you can easily access it via a domain name. # ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_KVM_on_RHEL_9_Step-by-Step⠀⇛ In this guide, we will cover how to install KVM on RHEL 9 step-by-step. Kernel-based Virtual Machine, or KVM in short, is an opensource virtualization solution for the Linux kernel. It supports both Intel and AMD CPUs and allows users to create and manage virtual machines on a Linux system. The kernel functions as a hypervisor and allows you to virtualize your entire dedicated server and create multiple VMs. # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ DNS_settings_to_avoid_email_spoofing_and phishing_for_unused_domain⠀⇛ As you may know, email spoofing allows attackers to pose as someone else to gain illegal profit. For example, I only use webmaster@cyberciti.biz for communication, but someone might create a spoofed- up email, say info@opensourceflare.com, to trick someone. # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_set_filesystems_mount_order_on_modern Linux_distributions⠀⇛ In a previous tutorial we discussed about the /etc/ fstab file, and how it is used to declare the filesystems which should be mounted on boot. In the pre-Systemd era, filesystem where mounted in the order specified in the /etc/fstab file; on modern Linux distributions, instead, for a faster boot, filesystem are mounted in parallel. Systemd manages the mounting of filesystems via specifically designed units automatically generated from /etc/ fstab entries. For these reasons a different strategy must be adopted to establish the dependency between two filesystems, and therefore to set their correct mount order. In this tutorial we see how to establish an explicit dependency between two filesystems and set their mount order on modern Linux distributions. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Gacha_Club_Edition_Beta on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Gacha Club Edition Beta 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. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_To_Use_I/O_redirections_in_Linux_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ In this article you will be acquainted with the concept of I/O redirections, and the different ways to use standard output, standard input and standard error. # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_install_Java_11_in_OpenSUSE_in_Rocky Linux/Alma_Linux_9⠀⇛ In this guide we are going to explore how to install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and the Java Developer Kit (JDK) in Rocky Linux 9. This guide also works for RHEL 9/Alma Linux 9. Java and the JVM (Java’s virtual machine) are required for many kinds of software, including Tomcat, Jetty, Glassfish, Cassandra and Jenkins. Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. Java was developed by Sun Microsystems (which is now the subsidiary of Oracle) in the year 1995. James Gosling is known as the father of Java. # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_install_and_set_up_Jenkins_in_Rocky_Linux/ Alma_Linux_9⠀⇛ In this Guide we are going to learn how to install and configure Jenkins in Rocky Linux 9. This will also work for other RHEL 9 derivatives like Alma Linux. Jenkins is a popular opensource automation tool to perform continuous integration and build automation. Jenkins allows to execute a predefined list of steps, e.g. to compile golang source code to build build binary file. The trigger for this execution can be time or event based. # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_disable_Plymouth_on_Linux⠀⇛ Plymouth is an application originally developed by Red Hat and later adopted basically by all the most commonly used Linux distributions. The software runs very early in the boot process, and provides eye-candy animations which accompany the user until he is prompted to login into the system. When Plymouth is used, boot messages are hidden, although they can be visualized simply by clicking the esc key. Some users, however, may prefer to visualize boot messages by default, and avoid any animation. In this article we see how disable Plymouth animations on some of the most used Linux distributions. # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_customize_the_SDDM_display_manager_on Linux⠀⇛ SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager) is a modern, free and open source Display Manager available on Linux and other Unix platforms like FreeBSD. It works both with X11 and Wayland, and is based on QtQuick, a framework to build QML applications. SDDM allows a great degree of customization and; thanks to this, a lot of custom themes are available for it. In this tutorial we see how to install and enable SDDM on some of the most used Linux distributions, and how to change its look by using custom themes. # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_create_snapshots_of_QEMU/KVM_guests⠀⇛ KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the virtualization solution (type 1 hypervisor) included in the Linux kernel, which, by default, is used together with QEMU, the userspace software which actually performs the guest systems emulation (type 2 hypervisor). In a previous tutorial we saw how to create and manage KVM virtual machines from the command line; in this article, instead, we will learn how to create and manage guest systems snapshots using tools like virsh and virt-manager. In this tutorial we learn how to create snapshots of guest systems emulated with QEMU/KVM, using virsh and virt-manager. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_the_Dolibarr_ERP/CRM_platform on_Ubuntu_Server_22.04_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ If your business has grown to the point it requires help with planning and organizing details such as contacts, suppliers, invoices, orders, stock and schedules, you need an ERP tool. You can either turn to a third-party platform, or you can deploy an in-house solution to your data center or a third-party cloud host. Follow this step-by-step process of installing the Dolibarr ERP/CRM solution, which is perfectly suited for organizations of all sizes as well as for freelancers. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_create_a_Linux_virtual_machine_with VirtualBox_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ Linux is everywhere — in phones, smart appliances, cloud storage services, cars, thermostats, and just about everything with an embedded system or a major third-party service. It can also be on your desktop. Linux is a fantastic choice as a desktop operating system because it’s incredibly reliable, secure, and more flexible than any other OS on the market. But for those who might be hesitant to install Linux over macOS or Windows, what can you do? One route that makes it very easy to test and use Linux, without doing anything to your primary operating system, is the virtual machine route. # ⚓ LinuxSecurity ☛ Installing_SurfShark_VPN_On_Kali_Linux:_The Authoritative_Guide⠀⇛ Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) were initially created to grant workers who are remote, workers who travel, or workers who do not tend to be in the office access to the local network over an insecure network connection when they are not physically within the local network. Essentially, a VPN can be used for various reasons however, the main purpose was for the use of businesses and companies. Not only would workers need to access resources on the company network but companies with multiple offices that need to work in unison as if they’re on the same network found that a VPN would be the ultimate solution. Nowadays, daily computer users use VPNs for many different use cases but mainly, they want to maintain their privacy and better control access to resources. VPNs are used to guard daily users and companies alike against cyber criminals on public networks and are also used for hiding your IP address, your browsing activity, and your personal data on any network you may be connected to, whether it be at home or at a coffee shop. Ultimately, what mostly all VPNs have in common is the ability to connect remotely to a private network over a public connection. VPNs are used to secure internet connections, protect against malware and hacking, maintain digital privacy, gain access to geo-restricted content, and conceal users’ physical locations. A VPN is an essential tool for staying safe and secure online as more and more users value their privacy, as well as companies with multiple offices and remote workers. # ⚓ Keychron_keyboards_fixed_on_Linux_|_Bastian_Venthur’s Blog⠀⇛ Last year, I wrote about on how to get my buggy Keychron C1 keyboard working properly on Linux by setting a kernel module parameter. Afterwards, I contacted Hans de Goede since he was the last one that contributed a major patch to the relevant kernel module. After some debugging, it turned out that the Keychron keyboards are indeed misbehaving when set to Windows mode. Almost a year later, Bryan Cain provided a patch fixing the behavior, which has now been merged to the Linux kernel in 5.19. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ ScummVM ☛ ScummVM_2.6.0_or:_Insane_Escapism⠀⇛ Free your mind for yet another ScummVM release! Eight newly supported games on 6 engines will plunge you into a variety of different settings. Are you able to escape from an alien-infested planet? What about challenging the Lord of the Dead in the Underworld? And have you ever explored the deepest depth of your psyche to see if you really know yourself? o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ This_GNOME_Extension_Brings_’Material You’_Vibes_to_Linux_Desktops⠀⇛  When enabled, ‘Material You Color Theming’ GNOME extension generates a patched version of GNOME desktop’s stock libadwaita theme accented by colours pulled directly from the desktop wallpaper. Then, every time you change your wallpaper you can generate a new re-coloured Adwaita theme that affects the appearance all installed GTK4/libadwaita applications from the archive. Just mouse up to the tray icon the extension adds and hit the “Refresh Material Theme” option to VIBE CHANGE… * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ On_August_1st,_2022,_Emma_DE4_2nd_update_–_Emmabuntüs⠀⇛ On August 1st, 2022, the Emmabuntüs Collective is happy to announce its Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 4 1.02 (32 and 64 bits) update, based on Debian 11.4 Bullseye and supporting both Xfce and LXQt desktop environments. This distribution was originally designed to facilitate the reconditioning of computers donated to humanitarian organizations, starting with Emmaüs communities (which is where the distribution’s name obviously comes from), to promote the discovery of GNU/Linux by beginners, as well as to extend the lifespan of computer hardware, in order to reduce the waste induced by the over-consumption of raw materials. This new update of our distribution incorporates the improvements implemented in the recent Emmabutüs DE4 version supporting a better handling of both the UEFI and the Secure Boot, thanks to an update of our refurbishing key which now supports the saving and cloning operations with the Secure Boot option. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Linux_Mint_21_is_Now_Available⠀⇛ Linux Mint 21 has arrived and it includes some interesting updates and features that will please both new and previous users alike. One big addition is the new upgrade tool that makes it even easier to upgrade to a major version with just a few clicks of a graphical tool. The new updater displays packages that have been upgraded as well as those that won’t and reports if any PPAs will no longer be supported in the new version. Linux Mint 21 also ships with a new Bluetooth application, Blueman, and the bluez backend. This was done for two reasons. First off Blueman is a superior application. The other reason is explained by Clement Lefèbvre (Linux Mint Lead Developer) when he said in a blog post back in March… # ⚓ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_746⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_746⠀⇛ Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 746 for the week of July 24 – 30, 2022. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Canonical_adds_instance_modification_to Multipass,_and_more_•_The_Register [Ed: Canonical is working for Microsoft while Microsoft attacks Linux, moreover promoting WSL (Windows), which goes against Ubuntu, the_prime brand_of_Canonical]⠀⇛ Never one to shy away from tootling its own trumpet, Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has talked up the instance modification features of version 1.10 of its lightweight VM manager, Multipass. Multipass is a handy tool for developers seeking to simulate a small cloud deployment on a workstation (so long as Ubuntu is your thing, of course) and – unlike something like Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux – will straddle platforms using KVM in Linux, HyperKit on macOS, and Hyper-V on Windows. The Canonical team has been quietly working away on the platform over the years and recently released version 1.10, a major update of which is the ability to modify the RAM use, disk space, and CPU core of existing instances. While it is a little surprising that it has taken so long for something that VM wranglers usually take for granted to arrive, the update is a welcome for developers less than keen to destroy and rebuild an instance just to add a bit more RAM. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Canonical_at_SIGGRAPH_2022_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ The VFX community beckoned, and we answered the call! Ubuntu by Canonical is proud to announce we will be attending SIGGRAPH 2022, and we have quite a bit to share with you all. # ⚓ 10_Tech_Terms_You’re_Saying_Wrong_(And_How_to_Pronounce Them_Correctly)⠀⇛ These days most people share funny memes and GIFs with friends and family, but how often does someone say “JIF” or “me-me” out loud when referring to one? If that’s you, you’re saying it wrong. Tech terms, brands, and products often have weird names or words. For example, when you clear the cache on your computer, do you pronounce it as “cash-ay” or “cash”? Only one of those is correct. With that in mind, here are ten popular tech terms or brand names you’re saying wrong and how to say them right. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Plausible_Analytics_on_Ubuntu_22.04_– LinuxWizardry⠀⇛ Plausible Analytics is a lightweight and open- source web analytics tool. It is a simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. With Plausible, you can track your website visitors and get valuable statistics that help to improve the user’s experience. This tutorial will discuss how to install and set up Plausibe Analytics on Ubuntu 22.04 server. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ DIY_SawStop_saves_fingers_from_shop_mishaps_| Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Many power tools have the potential to cause serious harm, but few are as dangerous as table saws. But table saws are also indispensable for woodworking, which means that people are willing to risk their fingers to use them. There is a manufacturer called SawStop that builds table saws that automatically stop the blade if they detect flesh. Unfortunately for hobbyists, SawStop table saws start at around $900 for even the most compact models. After receiving a free table saw from a friend, Ruth Amos decided to add DIY SawStop-style finger protection on a friendlier budget. SawStop table saws have braking systems built to work with special blades. They use capacitive touch sensing, just like a touch-sensitive button, to detect when a finger (or any other body part) touches the blade. When that happens, it deploys the brakes and brings the blade to stop in just a few milliseconds. As SawStop advertisements love to demonstrate, the blade stops before it can do more than knick a finger. The emergency brakes destroy SawStop blades, but that’s a small price to pay to save a finger. Amos’s DIY safety precaution works in a similar manner, but without destroying the blade. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Arduino-controlled_robot_solves_Rubik’s_Cubes_in a_couple_seconds_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Rubik’s Cubes have been sold in stores for more than 40 years now, but most of us still can’t solve them. Others take the puzzles very seriously, competing in many speed-solving competitions around the world. The world record for the fastest Rubik’s Cube solution is a mere 3.47 seconds, set by China’s Yusheng Du. But this robot created by Redditor iBoot32 puts that record to shame by solving the 3D puzzle in less than two seconds. It may not seem like it, but the central square on each side of a Rubik’s Cube remains stationary. By spinning those squares, one can rotate the entire side of the cube. iBoot32’s robot design takes advantage of that fact and has six steppers motors that attach to the central squares on each of the Cube’s six sides. This arrangement gives the robot full manipulation of the Rubik’s cube. # ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ LINMOB.net_–_Weekly_GNU-like_Mobile_Linux Update_(30/2022):_Ubuntu_Touch_on_FairPhone_4,_and,_maybe, RISC-V_phones_in_the_future!⠀⇛ Also, more and more apps get ported to GTK4/ libadwaita, Phosh 0.20 beta 3, KDE progress and more._ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lilbits:_Linux_5.19,_Ryzen_Embedded,_and_RISC- V_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ The MangoPi MQ Pro is an inexpensive single-board computer that looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi Zero, but which features a RISC-V processor rather than an ARM chip. So can you use it for all the same things you’d use a Raspberry Pi Zero for? Kind of. RISC-V is a newer, less common CPU architecture and there’s not as much software optimized for it yet. But an independent developer has published a set of benchmarks that show the MangoPi MQ Pro does offer competitive performance, even if it costs a bit more and is a little harder to find in stock. In other recent tech news from around the web, Gigabyte’s GIGAIPC subsidiary has unveiled a new 3.5 inch embedded PC board powered by an AMD Ryzen V2000 series embedded processor, Linus Torvalds used an Apple laptop with an ARM64 processor and Asahi Linux software to release Linux 5.19, and TuxPhones raises some good questions about the role of Pine64 in the open hardware space. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Android_Auto_Has_Stopped_Supporting_Some_Old Phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ When_You_Should_Clear_an_Android_App’s_Cache⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ How_to_save_battery_life_on_your_Android_phone –_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Google’s_tweaking_of_Android_13_could_be behind_delay_in_start_of_Samsung’s_One_UI_5.0_beta_– PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_likely_getting_a_September_launch_– 9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_13_Beta_Now_Available_on_Pixel_6a⠀⇛ # ⚓ Kim Kommando ☛ These_17_malicious_Android_apps_sneak banking_Trojans_onto_your_phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Huawei_MatePad_Paper_review_–_The_E_Ink tablet_can_handle_Android_apps_–_NotebookCheck.net_Reviews⠀⇛ # ⚓ Chrome Uboxed ☛ Install_Android_Studio_on_an_ARM-powered Chromebook⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ July_GNU_Spotlight_with_Amin_Bandali:_Nineteen_new GNU_releases!⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Files_Comments_Urging FCC_To_Strengthen_Phone_Locking_Reporting_–_Public Knowledge⠀⇛ Today, Public Knowledge joined Consumer Reports and New America’s Open Technology Institute in filing comments in the Federal Communications Commission’s proceeding considering the state of competition in the communications marketplace. Phone locking, the controversial practice of using software locks to restrict a phone to just one carrier, has major effects on competition, disproportionately harms low-income consumers, creates e-waste, and frustrates users looking to switch carriers. Public Knowledge urges the agency to thoroughly report on phone locking as part of its upcoming 2022 Communications Marketplace Report to help create a competitive, more affordable mobile device market. In the filing, Public Knowledge also asks the Commission to continue a balanced spectrum policy that makes large, contiguous blocks of spectrum available for a diverse range of uses, including on an unlicensed and “license by rule” basis. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Technical⠀➾ # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Using_computers_as_“information_batteries”⠀⇛ I was reading Brian Sutherland’s LIMITS 2022 paper, “Strategies for Degrowth Computing”, and came upon this really interesting idea… # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_Misadventures_with_bash_shell⠀⇛ I have to agree that shell syntax is often weird, the error messages can be confusing, variable quoting isn’t obvious and certain constructs are whitespace-sensitive. I encountered all of the problems StackSmith mentioned when I first started writing shell scripts and any one of them could have put me off from using or learning shell. I’m not sure why I stuck with them but after properly learning about the shell most of the issues went away. I must admit though that even after learning about it, it’s still a weird language with the potential for programs to fail in bad ways due to subtle bugs. Which is why I routinely pass my scripts to ShellCheck. # ⚓ Making_a_COPR_package⠀⇛ For those who are not aware, COPR is basically the Fedora equivalent of openSUSE’s Open Build Service. Useful software that don’t quite meet Fedora’s Packaging Guidelines or experimental/newer versions of software than in the repos often make it into COPR. I use both Firejail and libimobiledevice but as mentioned previously, the former is too outdated (posing a security issue) and the current version of the latter doesn’t support newer versions of iOS. I pointed this problem out on IRC and got rebuffed with “well sounds like an upstream problem then.” So the natural solution is do the job myself. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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