𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, August 02, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Wed 3 Aug 02:51:42 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/2022/08/02/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): Qmba4Ap4JVU96TSWT1jJZfQAasTyweA1EFu92C6ULqfYVF QmQDNYLCxwvKJsAAbaMfkydsH6iMivVs54xVt3e1WhRa4V QmZrgDSeEPr5Tk1kd6ixcTH5gK8gVF6UWZ8USDWkwExtL2 QmdVCZ22xUbZkpsSDmSDMrnFTMypCGWw1f2punvumLq2NJ QmXJTu6CfqTRzBWfbZAfQFS2Je8PJA65YsoWMZp6Z3WV8Z 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Integration | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 01, 2022 | Techrights ⦿ When Windows is Down to 9% market Share | Techrights ⦿ UEFI Firmware Vulnerable to Malware Implants; Worse Than “Legacy BIOS” Ever Was | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/08/02/bribing-gnome/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/02/gnome-adding-microsoft-integration-while-bagging-foss-fund-cash/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/02/irc-log-010822/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/02/turkey-windows/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/02/uefi-malware-implants/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/08/02/links-02082022-kde-plasma-5-25-4/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/02/tails-5-3-1/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 60 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/08/02/bribing-gnome/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/08/02/bribing-gnome/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.02.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Microsoft_Bribing_the_Competition_(to_Get_Something_in_Return)⠀✐ Posted in Antitrust, GNOME, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 3:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Recent: Microsoft_Bribing_Everyone:_Canonical,_‘Linux’_Foundation,_OSI…_(Those That_Should_Push_Back_Against_Microsoft_Crimes) | Microsoft:_Stay_in_Our Proprietary_Prison_(GitHub)_and_Attract_Other_People_to_This_Prison,_We’ll_Give You_‘Gifts’ | Microsoft_is_Trying_to_Hire_(Read:_Pay_Salaries_to)_Matthew Garrett Today: Microsoft_Sends_Broken_Web_Pages_to_GNOME_Web_While_GNOME_is_Adding Microsoft_Integration Weeks ago: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_gamingonlinux⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_Nick⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_Omgubuntu⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_Bobby⦈_ Summary: Antitrust 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Microsoft_Sends_Broken_Web_Pages_to_GNOME_Web_While_GNOME_is_Adding_Microsoft Integration⠀✐ Posted in GNOME, GNU/Linux at 2:51 am by Guest Editorial Team Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission from the_original M icrosoft still sends broken Web pages to GNOME Web, while GNOME is adding Office 365/OneDrive integration. A couple years ago, when I tried to sign into Microsoft Outlook mail with GNOME Web, I noticed that it gets a fallback page meant for obsolete Web browsers. GNOME Web uses (currently) the default version of WebKit that Safari 15 does. So there’s no good reason for Microsoft to send it broken Web pages meant for Internet Explorer and other obsolete Web browsers. I noticed at the time that if I used user agent hacks on every site that said I was running Safari on Mac OS that it loaded the full site. We never did figure out the right user agents to feed each Microsoft domain that loads along the way to reliably get the correct version of Outlook, and the Basic site works. It’s just very ugly. Michael Catanzaro told me that using “Safari on Mac OS” in general for the user agent generally does more harm than good. Most sites start trying to send you Mac files. But it’s very clearly Microsoft seeing the Epiphany and Linux user agent somewhere along the way that’s tipping them off that they can screw up the site in this browser. It’s not the first time Microsoft has sent obsolete or malformed Web pages to a browser with a modern and fully capable rendering engine. It’s a pattern of bad behavior that at Microsoft, they attack small browsers where few will complain and most will go download or open something else. Mozilla Suite and Firefox had to deal with this all the time in the early 2000s, and Microsoft detected Opera’s user agent it sent a deliberately corrupt style sheet on MSN, which was a major Web portal back then. (Microsoft has since fired the editors and has stupid software loading random clickbait. Then they shovel that into their Windows 11 “Weather” widget.) The Opera situation made it into the news at the time when Opera released a special “Opera Bork Edition” that “translated” everything on MSN into the language of the Swedish Chef, from The Muppet Show. Opera_releases_“Bork”_Edition (2003) A_technical_explanation_of_the_Opera_incident. At the time, Microsoft had a version of the page that worked in Opera, but gave it a corrupt version instead. The only change you needed to perform was to tell Microsoft you were visiting MSN in Internet Explorer 6. In fact, to prove that Microsoft was sniffing for “Opera” in the user agent and returning a broken page, they changed it to “Oprah” and requested the page, and got the page for IE6, which displayed fine. Previously, in 2001, Microsoft blocked Opera from accessing anything on MSN at all, and recommended Internet Explorer. Opera filed an antitrust complaint with government regulators, and Microsoft removed the block. Later, Microsoft came back and performed subtle sabotage to make the page look broken in Opera as revenge for getting Microsoft in trouble with regulators. I complained to Microsoft in 2021 about the Outlook Mail issue with GNOME Web and got no response and they locked my post on Microsoft Answers. Amazingly, with all of this going on, proving that Microsoft hasn’t changed at all and attacks GNOME’s official Web browser, GNOME developers are adding support for Onedrive (Microsoft’s “cloud” storage) into GNOME Files. As I was reading through GNOME’s gitlab instance, I found some chatter that led me to a Microsoft page where they will_be_shutting_down_“Basic”_authentication and_forcing_OAuth2_for_Outlook_Mail_as_of_October_1st, which means your only choices are moving to some client that supports that, or using their Webmail interface. Apparently, the plan is to support OAuth2 for Microsoft accounts throughout GNOME and to add_Onedrive_support_into_GNOME_Files. That probably means that Geary and Evolution will work, but I don’t want to use those. It also seems like a lot of effort to support Microsoft when they deliberately do to GNOME Web what they did to Opera in 2003 on their Outlook Mail site. 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gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/08/02/turkey-windows/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.02.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ When_Windows_is_Down_to_9%_market_Share⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 12:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Published hours ago (preliminary figures for August) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Web statistics 2022⦈ These_new_statistics show interesting stuff Summary: End_of_July numbers show that GNU/Linux_share_worldwide_is_estimated at_3%_on_desktops/laptops in spite of Microsoft’s crimes (like UEFI_‘secure’ boot); Notice how Windows is_measured_at_9%_market_share_in_Turkey, down from 95% one decade ago ⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ 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According to security researchers at anti-virus firm Kaspersky, UEFI “implants” that put rootkits into Microsoft Windows are fairly common, and have been since at least six years ago. Ever since Microsoft and Intel teamed up to foist this horrible PC firmware “standard” onto PC users, they’ve had people such as Security Theater person Matthew Garrett cheer-leading it for them and claiming that it makes great leaps and bounds to secure your computer. He’s bounced around from one job to another over the years. At one point, he was working for Red Hat, when he came up with “Security Theater Boot” for Linux, which requires Microsoft to give permission for your PC to boot. Ars Technica: Fedora could seek Microsoft code signing to contend with secure boot Web / Gemini_(NewsWaffle) / “WebWaffle” Ever since Garrett’s specification was adopted, GNU/Linux distributors have had to beg Microsoft and pay them to sign their distribution’s bootloader, or else their operating systems don’t boot up on affected PCs. Instead of telling users to turn off “Secure Boot” or at least just add the distribution’s certificate to the firmware instead, this is where we’ve ended up. I always turn off “Secure Boot” because I’ve never had it prevent any actual attack, and as far as I’m aware, it never has. It is part of an attack, on the user. Matthew Garrett has attacked me repeatedly in the past, especially when I pointed out Lenovo’s 2016 assault on GNU/Linux, in which they crippled some of their laptops to lock them into a mode that only the supplied version of Windows would boot with. Now he’s trying to gain relevance again, and some people are falling for it, by himself complaining about Lenovo and Microsoft’s current corrupt business practices, which is to disable the Microsoft certificate that allowed this scheme to work. Thanks to Garrett enabling Microsoft to avoid the coming lawsuits that would have happened had Security Theater Boot stopped a Windows 8 laptop from allowing Linux to boot up, today if a person tries to boot a Linux kernel, a Windows sticker-compliant laptop with “Microsoft Pluton” will now simply say it’s not allowed “due to a security policy”. When you enable thugs, they get worse, not better. They come back and try to get away with more. While Lenovo has posted instructions for turning on the Microsoft Third-Party CA, Mr. Garrett pointed out that doing that will trip up Bitlocker, Microsoft’s backdoored and fake disk encryption setup, and lock you out of your computer, and potentially cause data loss. (It’s happened to me!) Since flipping off “Secure Boot” makes GNU/Linux work and it’s ridiculous to even attempt to dual boot Windows with anything, since it has always eventually gone on the attack and corrupted the other OS, and turning it off gives you the freedom you used to have to modify your OS to do whatever you want, I persist in saying this is the only correct approach to dealing with it. So, things have come full circle and the guy who actually accused me of being a conspiracy theorist and Microsoft basher when Lenovo did something far nastier to me, and I went to the Attorney General of Illinois and got that reversed, has co-opted my position about Lenovo from 6 years ago. The facts about UEFI couldn’t be more of a 180 from what Garrett and other UEFI promoters have been saying over the years. The code to implement UEFI is gargantuan. The standard that defines it was rushed and based largely on EFI, which was meant for Intel’s failed Itanium CPU architecture. As such, the implementations were not debugged very well. On top of all of this, the existing “PC BIOS Mafia”of companies like Award, Phoenix, and AMI, was largely preserved. When PC OEMs go to include a UEFI firmware package, they license an “off the shelf” solution, usually from one of these companies, and then add or remove features from it, much like they did before with the “Legacy BIOS”. The way these companies got their start was by reverse engineering how the original IBM PC’s firmware (BIOS) worked, and so they’ve been an established cartel since the 1980s. The problem is that the PC OEMs aren’t concerned about actually securing your computer, or the safety of the data that it stores. They are more concerned with getting Windows booting and complying with some idiotic Windows sticker program requirements so that they can get kickbacks from Microsoft. Without these “rebates”, the cost of Windows goes way up and they are at a competitive disadvantage with other PC makers in the marketplace. Microsoft is also not really concerned with making progress in computer and IT security. The illusion of progress will suffice. Even when it really means that the situation on the ground is backsliding terribly. Nobody punishes them for it. Governments like the United States federal government release “weak” and “watered down” security requirements and “executive orders” which mean nothing. Then you hear about another business or government agency getting hit by ransomware, and there’s no gasoline or chickens for a month or so until they pay the criminals in Bitcoin and get their data back. My last PC without UEFI, a Phenom II X4-based desktop with a “Legacy BIOS”, was very stable and I ran it for years. I bought it like that deliberately, knowing that Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, spent about a decade with nothing really positive to say about “EFI”, describing_it_as_“broken”_and_“hacked_up”. As Microsoft has been buying influence and control over outfits such as the “Linux Foundation” (which only spends 4% of its budget on Linux), Linus Torvalds was forced into silence. He used to call bullshit on public mailing lists about something bad unfolding in the PC industry, and ever sense his forced “apology tour” and “time out”, he’s never really been the same. (Various elements claiming to be part of the FOSS movement try to stir up shit against important figures to cause strife and conflict, by slandering them in public with spurious allegations, like what happened to Richard Stallman.) The early days of UEFI were a complete shit show, where all kinds of computers shipping with it would be bricked when trying to use “standard” and “documented” native UEFI interfaces. Even the PC OEMs shipping with it often knew to hide it behind a “Legacy BIOS” emulator and stop the OS from interacting with it directly, lest even Windows break something, and they would have to warranty the computer. Fixing computers after they sell them is really not what OEMs want to do. Often on “consumer” oriented stuff, you don’t even get one UEFI update after they sell it. The only reason why Lenovo ever updated the Yoga 900-ISK2 is because I took action against them. As far as I know, they never fixed any security problems with it, and Ubuntu actually broke that particular model by interacting with the firmware using the Intel Serial Peripheral Interface driver, which was useless for most people, and luckily not even built by Fedora, which is what I was using. OMG Ubuntu!: Ubuntu 17.10 Breaks the BIOS on Some Lenovo Laptops Web / Gemini_(NewsWaffle)/ “WebWaffle” Aside from the garden-variety awfulness of the UEFI “standard” that you’d expect, given it came from Microsoft and Intel, and is implemented by the “BIOS Mafia” and OEMs, it’s vulnerable to malware that is essentially impossible for Windows anti-virus software to remove. These “implants” are designed to get into the Windows kernel, patch it in- memory to turn off security features, and then deliver a malicious payload that becomes part of the operating system. The one detected by Kaspersky appears to have been written by a “Chinese group”, possibly, likely, a state-sponsored one. To have any chance at all against malware like this, you have to constantly security patch your UEFI firmware, but that too is dangerous and in some cases, difficult. They don’t make any official flashers for GNU/Linux, and the only way I’ve seen to deal with this on most computers is to make a Windows Pre-Installation Environment USB stick with the flasher on it. Flashing your firmware is dangerous. You can go from a working system to something totally corrupt that won’t boot. If you’re not in warranty, your OEM will make you pay to ship it both ways and to have the motherboard replaced, which will cause total data loss. Even if the flash is successful, it often puts in crazy settings that were not the default in the last build, which you have to know to go into the setup program and fix. If you get through all of that, there will just be more vulnerabilities next month. They’re endless. Intel is incompetent. Apple gave up trying to fix them and started developing their own CPUs. Every year, Intel has only gotten much worse. I would love to flash my UEFI firmware to knock out the security vulnerabilities that I know have been piling up since I last updated the firmware in September of 2021, right before switching the computer over to GNU/ Linux permanently. Lenovo UEFI updates require Windows, but the Hiran’s BootCD PEis a bootable Windows 10 on a flash drive. It’s a gimpy version of Windows 10, but if all you’re using it for is to run a flasher and then get rid of it, it might be tolerable, if only barely. I’m actually less afraid of Hiran’s BootCD PE and a flasher from some dodgy Chinese UEFI vendor than I am of what Lenovo may have done to “customize” it, given what unfolded in 2016 with my Yoga 900-ISK2, and what Matthew Garrett now admits Lenovo does openly. I have absolutely no intention of updating the UEFI and risking bricking it, only to find out that Lenovo has retroactively added some new sort of fuckery that prevents my laptop from rebooting into Linux. I’m not currently having any MAJOR firmware-related issues, which is unusual on a PC, much less a Lenovo, so_I’m_going_to_let_sleeping_dogs_lie. Lenovo shipped firmware so broken on the Release Engineering date just to get the Thinkpad 15 ITL Gen2 out in time for their Black Friday deal in 2020 that it had major problems even handling Windows 10. Then when the USB-C failed several months in and I had to ship it back for a warranty repair, to their service depot in Texas, they sent it back again with the original firmware on it. Forcing me to update to the firmware that fucked up Microsoft Bitlocker. So basically, the events that transpired were USB-C failed, back everything up, Lenovo had to replace the entire motherboard, of course. They soldered the SSD into the old one, so they ship me back a computer with a new motherboard and SSD, exactly in the Release Engineering condition. First thing I do is update the UEFI, and have it trip up the TPM, and cause Bitlocker to refuse to release the SSD contents. I recover Windows anyway using the “Novo” button and figure out how to get into the emergency recover partition, which isn’t easy, you know, but whatever. The emergency recovery system took about 5 hours to recover Windows 10 for some reason. I used it for another month and then I patched the UEFI again and the firmware couldn’t find the Windows Bootloader on the next reboot. Emergency recovery mode, again. By this time, I rebooted into the UEFI and changed the storage mode to AHCI in preparation for replacing the OS with GNU/Linux because I was getting tired of this Windows shit anyway, and reboot. Microsoft Bitlocker comes up again and tells me it refuses to unlock the disk. So I proceed to install GNU/Linux using a USB stick I made on my other laptop, and once it’s installed, I go back into the UEFI and disable Secure Boot. Because Secure Boot can have a “dbx update” that fucks up your ability to load various operating systems, which bit me in the ass on my older laptop once when I tried to boot Fedora after Ubuntu had updated the dbx as part of “BootHole”. The short version is that UEFI just keeps biting you in the ass, especially if you try leaving Secure Boot on or leaving Windows on the computer, and doing anything at all with the computer to try to have any hope of maybe staying one step ahead of Chinese and Russian UEFI malware implant groups. If you use Windows 10 or 11 today, it’s really the “Windows 2000 Summer of Worms” all over again, except now you’re practically guaranteed to get UEFI malware putting a rootkit into the Windows kernel and then shoving invisible malware that no anti-virus program will ever detect, and it will probably happen so quickly that you’ll be lucky if nobody gets you on the way to replace Windows. On top of the “UEFI Summer of Worms”, UEFI just generally isn’t reliable enough to entrust your data to, and you’ll likely lose it several times over, especially if you have Microsoft Bitlocker turned on and try updating the firmware or changing some settings. There won’t be any warning. It will just happen. You’ll lose your data to Microsoft Bitlocker because TPM state is incredibly fragile and it pretty much panics Bitlocker if someone in the room sneezes. It even got Garrett by surprise while he was trying to figure out his new laptop, and he says he’s an “expert” on UEFI that understands it quite well and has had paying jobs related to it. So if he barely has a chance to save his data, and even then only because his system had backed up his unlock key to Microsoft (LOL), what chance do you have? Real disk encryption never hands the unlock keys to anyone but you. GNU/Linux has real disk encryption. Windows gives you….a mirage. It hands your unlock keys to the government so if Johnny Law ever comes knocking, your data will be State’s Exhibit A. Meanwhile, do enjoy losing your data over and over and over again. I hope you have backups. I never had this sort of trouble out of PC BIOS. Sure they had bugs, but it wasn’t anything like this UEFI mess. You can install all of the updates you want. It won’t matter. They’ll just cause more problems if you do. If Intel and Microsoft have proven anything, it’s that they design systems, hardware, and specifications that are so bad that you can patch them until they’re not “supported” anymore and still only barely be any better off than when you had the computer dumped in your lap like it was. Windows XP is a great example of this. It got patched for over 20 years (including the EOL updates which normal users could only get with registry hacks and visiting Web sites that leaked them out from paying customers), and the security situation still wasn’t much better than it used to be. The same thing happens to all of their products. Why? Fixing bugs and making software more reliable is a cost center. When you want to maximize profits, it’s always easier to dump something in the customer’s lap that only barely works and to actually take care of it as little as you can get by with. That’s been the way Microsoft and Intel have gotten things done for decades, and it’s not getting any better. At the same time, Free and Open Source Software has gradually improved because the process iterates as bugs are fixed over the years. Even if proprietary software companies care about quality (some do), the nature of the proprietary software beast is such that everyone you get to work on it is paid and sworn to secrecy, which limits how much development can get done. Pretty much the only programmers that try to defend the notion proprietary software and slander FOSS are the ones cashing paychecks building proprietary software that does unethical things to the users. Dumping broken crap into the customer’s lap and moving right along is exactly what’s going on with UEFI. By the time Lenovo sells a laptop, especially to Home users who don’t know what firmware is, much less a malicious “implant”, most of the time there are never any security updates at all. Why would they? From Lenovo’s perspective, trying to fix it up would only cost them money. Lenovo has demonstrated to me repeatedly that it is far too stupid to patch up my “business class” laptop without tripping up Bitlocker or doing something that causes it to be unable to find the Windows Bootloader. If they update your computer at all, chances are they’ll hose it and get angry customers demanding warranty repairs. How any of this would make it past even the slightest amount of quality control is beyond explanation, which hints to me that there probably is nobody testing this stuff, and since it can ruin your computer at a hardware level (impossible to fix) if it goes wrong, you’re gambling by installing the updates. As a Home user, your security doesn’t matter to them. That’s a “you problem”. A parade of awfulness ensues about half the time you try to patch the UEFI on a Lenovo computer according to their instructions, and that’s if you PLAN to keep using Windows. Just get rid of Windows.You’ll be so glad you did. If your UEFI works at all, live with it. On a final note, I am very amused that Lenovo bumped the UEFI almost monthly for the first 10 months I owned this “Professional” grade laptop and none of those patches ever fixed the typos in their firmware setup program. If you watch how many CPU security bugs Intel springs and what has to be done to plug them, and how usually that doesn’t even work and OS vendors have to keep coming back and dealing with the same problem over and over again, you’ll leave with the distinct impression that UEFI updates are likely pointless anyway. Linux can update the CPU firmware at boot anyway, and that’s usually the biggest part of the UEFI update. In my opinion, only a person of first-order stupidity or corruption could praise Intel and Microsoft knowing what the real score is. Much less implement their specifications and tell others to use them. Linus Torvalds said he managed the release for the latest Linux kernel using an “Apple Silicon” (ARM64) Mac using Asahi Linux. If things keep going the way they are on the Intel PC, I may very well go that direction as well. It sounds like things are really starting to shape up for Linux over there and I’m sure the computer is less of a disaster if that’s why Linus has switched to one. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1056 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.02.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_02/08/2022:_KDE_Plasma_5.25.4⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:16 pm 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 # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers # Chromium o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Python * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation 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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Carl Svensson ☛ Proprietary_Art:_How_Microsoft_didn’t splinter_the_Linux_desktop⠀⇛ Much of the article, however, strikes me as problematic. I’ve previously dissected the allure of historical cherry-picking when trying to explain various annoyances in computing. This isn’t always intentional and it’s easy to make mistakes, because the history of software inventions is a deeply tangled web of inspiration (or copying, or stealing – whatever you want to call it) and incremental improvements dating back to the very first general purpose computers ever made. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_188_–_Late_Night_Linux⠀⇛ Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Talospace ☛ LINUX_5.19⠀⇛ Linux 5.19 is released, largely with more hardware support and new architectures (including an unusual super-modern virtual Motorola 68000 platform to emulate Google Goldfish devices — my real Q800, clockchipped running A/UX, is flabbergasted). Here’s a full list of changes. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_run_a_command_on_bash_script_exits⠀⇛ Shell scripts are handy for automating tasks like backup databases, clearing log files, etc. You need to perform some tasks when the script finishes the execution. No matter at which stage the script is finished. For example, a script that clears the log files from the system. The script first checks the size of the log file, if the log file size is lower than the specified size, the script exits. In that case, you still want to run a block of code. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_I_use_the_Linux_sed_command_to automate_file_edits⠀⇛ When I use the Linux command line, whether I’m writing a new program on my desktop computer or managing a website on my web server, I often need to process text files. Linux provides powerful tools that I leverage to get my work done. I frequently use sed, an editor that can modify text according to a pattern. sed stands for stream editor, and it edits text in a file and prints the results. One way to use sed is to identify several occurrences of one string in a file and replace them with a different string. You can use sed to process text files to a seemingly endless degree, but I’d like to share a few ways I use sed to help me manage files. # ⚓ Michael Lynch ☛ Back_Up_Encrypted_ZFS_Data_without Unlocking_It⠀⇛ I recently built my first home TrueNAS server. I use it to store the bulk of my personal and work data, so I’ve been learning how to make the most of TrueNAS and its filesystem, ZFS. Today, I want to tell you about backing up encrypted data. # ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Hunt_for_Better_WordPress_Hosting_–_Update⠀⇛ Nearly a year ago, I wrote about my hunt for better WordPress hosting and the results weren’t great. Here’s an update… o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_Beta_update_brings_bug_fixes, external_display_improvement⠀⇛ Valve has released a small update to the Steam Deck Beta branch, mostly bug fixes but also an improvement for handling external displays. Here’s what’s new. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Stealth-action_game_Republique_is_now_FREE and_Steam_Deck_Verified⠀⇛ Consider this your quick tip of the week, as Republique from developer Camouflaj is now free to keep on Steam and it’s also Steam Deck Verified! The developer has reached their 10 year anniversary as a studio, so they’ve put Republique free as it was their first game. A nice little gesture. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ No_need_to_wait_on_Valve,_the_Steam_Deck Docking_Station_from_JSAUX_is_great⠀⇛ While many will no doubt wait on Valve for the official Steam Deck Dock, a lot of hardware vendors are coming out with their own versions. JSAUX are one of them and they sent over their Docking Station for Steam Deck for me to take a look at. # ⚓ 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. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.25.4,_Bugfix_Release_for_August⠀⇛ Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.25.4. Plasma 5.25 was released in June 2022 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds three weeks’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include… # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.25.4_Improves_Plasma_Wayland for_Steam_Proton_Games,_Fixes_More_Bugs⠀⇛ Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 5.25.3, the KDE Plasma 5.25.4 point release is here to further improve the Plasma Wayland session by fixing an issue that caused Wine or Steam Proton apps and games to crash when switching virtual desktops with a touchpad swipe gesture, as well as a KWin crash when pressing the physical buttons on a connected drawing tablet. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Secure_Boot_Disabled?_GNOME_Will_Soon_Warn You_About_it!⠀⇛  When you install Linux on your UEFI-enabled computer, you have to disable Secure Boot because the live USB will refuse to boot with the option enabled. Some mainstream Linux distributions support Secure Boot, but it is still challenging to set up for many other distributions (and with Nvidia hardware onboard). While things may not have improved over the years, Secure Boot is an essential protection feature in general. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Give_More_Apps_Rounded_Corners_with_this GNOME_Shell_Extension⠀⇛  Want all your apps to have nicely rounded bottom window corners like GTK4/libadwaita apps have? There’s — what else? — a GNOME Shell extension that can do it! Apply titled, the Rounded Window Corners GNOME extension aims to “try to add rounded corners for all windows”. While it works great with GTK3 (as pictured) it also goes out of its way to apply rounded bottom corners to pretty much every app you use, including Electron apps like VSCode. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Even_more_randomness⠀⇛ Damien Miller (djm@) committed a change randomising the rekeying interval in arc4random(3) (and friends): [...] o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Preparing_for_the_next_wave_of transformation [Ed: Buzzwords-filled fluff]⠀⇛ We’re lucky to work with so many innovative and forward-thinking companies here at SUSE. We see how committed our customers are to tackling their transformation challenges by leveraging open source tools and platforms that allow their developers to quickly build new solutions that drive their organisation forward. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Like_Ubuntu,_just_a_bit_less_hassle: Linux_Mint_21_‘Vanessa’⠀⇛ Linux Mint 21 is here, with a tweaked Ubuntu 22.04 base, natively packaged Firefox, Flatpak instead of Snap, and strategically pruned systemd. Just a couple of weeks after we looked at the beta- test version, Mint 21 “Vanessa” is out. As usual, there are three different editions, each with their own release announcements: one based on Mint’s flagship Cinnamon desktop, one based on the GNOME 2 fork MATE, and a slightly lighter-weight version based on Xfce. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_Is_Now_Powered_by_Linux_Kernel 5.15_LTS_from_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛  On August 2nd, 2022, Canonical published a new Ubuntu kernel security updates for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS systems that address four security vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution. The interesting part is that Canonical lists only Linux 5.15 kernels for both Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as being patched, despite the fact that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS runs Linux kernel 5.13 since the release of the Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS point release back in February 2022. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ reComputer_J101/J202_carrier_boards_are designed_for_Jetson_Nano/NX/TX2_NX_SoM⠀⇛  Seeed Studio’s reComputer J101 & J202 are carrier boards with a similar form factor as the ones found in NVIDIA Jetson Nano and Jetson Xavier NX developer kits, but with a slightly different feature set. The reComputer J101 notably features different USB Type-A/Type-C ports, a microSD card, takes power from a USB Type-C port, and drops the DisplayPort connector, while the reComputer J201 board replaces the micro USB device port with a USB Type-C port, adds a CAN Bus interface, and switches to 12V power input instead of 19V. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ OpenNCC_NCB,_an_Open_Source_alternative_to Intel’s_Neural_Compute_Stick_2⠀⇛ The OpenNCC NCB is an accelerated AI reference platform fully developed by EyeCloud.AI. This board can be interfaced with Raspberry Pi boards and it was specifically designed as an alternative to Intel’s Neural Compute Stick 2. This platform features the Movidius Myriad X VPU, which is Intel’s first VPU that integrates the Neural Compute Engine along with 16 SHAVE cores. The device also includes up to 8GB of LPDDR4 (1600 MHz, 32-bit).  # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ ZX_Spectrum_Emulator_Runs_on_Raspberry_Pi Pico⠀⇛ Everybody knows the ZX Spectrum was better than the Commodore 64, but what’s even better is Spectrum emulation on the RP2040 chip, better known as the Raspberry Pi Pico, with video output that suits modern screens. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Emulates_6502_Computer and_Runs_Loderunner⠀⇛ The original 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor developed by a team that used to work for Motorola on the 6800. There are similarities between the two, and the 6502 is a more straightforward take on the 6800 processor. Overall, the Pico is more than capable of emulating the 6502 as it’s a 32-bit microprocessor, but you can find plenty of RP2040 boards that would be fun to implement for a project like this. # ⚓ Pine64 ☛ July_Update:_A_Pinecil_Evolved⠀⇛ Two years ago, the Pinecil V1 was announced, and since then has become PINE64’s most popular consumer hardware. Sadly, I’m far worse at Riddles than the great Lukasz, so to cut to the chase, today we are announcing the follow up version two, which is more of an evolution than a revolution. Featuring improved hardware and accessories it retains the same ergonomics and design as the original Pinecil, and it will work with any accessories you already have. It will obviously work with any external accessories, such as cables, but also with existing cases and tips. # ⚓ Hackster ☛ Accelerate_Your_Robotics_Design_with_the_Kria KR260_Robotics_Starter_Kit_–_Hackster.io⠀⇛ AMD-Xilinx launched its new line of systems-on- module (SOM) last year, which introduced us to the Kria K26 with the KV260 Vision AI Kit. If you’re not already familiar, an SOM is a modular type of FPGA development board that isolates the actual FPGA chip to its own modular PCB with some sort of high-speed, high density connector interface; the rest of the peripherals such as power supplies, interface connectors, COM ports, etc. are placed on a compatible baseboard PCB with the corresponding high density connector. This makes SOM FPGAs a more cost-effective option with shortened development cycles since the hardware development changes are isolated to the peripherals located on the carrier board the SOM base board is attached to. This is especially important in current times where supply chain issues have created shortages across all markets, so any reuse of hardware that is possible is critical at the moment. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Transpeed_P10_Android_10_Full_HD_projector features_Allwinner_H700_SoC_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lifewire ☛ The_10_Best_Reddit_Apps_for_Android_in_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ 5_Easy_Ways_To_Fix_‘Unable_Answer_Calls’_On_Any_Android Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Here’s_What_Actually_Happens_When_You_Don’t Update_Your_Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ FOSSBytes ☛ How_To_Mirror_Your_Android_Phone_To_Fire Stick?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_share_your_Wi-Fi_password_on_an Android_phone_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Slow_Phone?_Ultimate_Guide_to_Speed_Up_Slow_Android_ [2022]⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Discord_says_Android_users_won’t_be_left hanging_anymore_–_TechCrunch⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Highest-Grossing_Android_Mobile_Games⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Android_13’s_beta_can_now_be_installed_on_the Pixel_6A_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ When_will_my_phone_get_the_Android_13 update⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia Mob ☛ Nokia_G50_receiving_new_Android_12_Build_| Nokiamob⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_F12_Android_12_update_(One_UI 4.1)_has_been_released_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Rogbid_King_Android_smartwatch_arrives with_dual_cameras_and_face_unlock_feature_–_NotebookCheck.net News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Z_Fold_4_Preview:_Peak_Android –_PhoneArena⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 7_Top_Free_and_Open_Source_F#_Web_Frameworks⠀⇛  One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework. A framework “is a code library that makes a developer’s life easier when building reliable, scalable, and maintainable web applications” by providing reusable code or extensions for common operations. By saving development time, developers can concentrate on application logic rather than mundane elements. A web framework offers the developer a choice about how to solve a specific problem. By using a framework, a developer lets the framework control portions of their application. While it’s perfectly possible to code a web application without using a framework, it’s more practical to use one. o § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Wired ☛ It’s_time_to_ditch_Chrome⠀⇛ Chrome’s hefty data collection practices are another reason to ditch the browser. According to Apple’s iOS privacy labels, Google’s Chrome app can collect data including your location, search and browsing history, user identifiers and product interaction data for “personalisation” purposes. Google says this gives you the ability to enable features such as the option to save your bookmarks and passwords to your Google Account. But unlike rivals Safari, Microsoft’s Edge and Firefox, Chrome links this data to devices and individuals. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ The_GNU_C_Library_version_2.36_is_now_available⠀⇛ The GNU C Library ================= The GNU C Library version 2.36 is now available. The GNU C Library is used as the C library in the GNU system and in GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel. The GNU C Library is primarily designed to be a portable and high performance C library. It follows all relevant standards including ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2017. It is also internationalized and has one of the most complete internationalization interfaces known. The GNU C Library webpage is at http://www.gnu.org/ software/libc/ Packages for the 2.36 release may be downloaded from: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libc/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libc/ The mirror list is at http://www.gnu.org/order/ ftp.html NEWS for version 2.36 ===================== Major new features: Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of relative relocations in shared object files and position independent executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR. On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems. On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified by the pidfd. On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller. The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC validation by applications. On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree, and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work with namespaces. localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8. Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in unpredictable output. Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF- 8 character conversion functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals. Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined. The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type). The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/ urandom to return high- quality randomness from the kernel. Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float ABI is supported: - loongarch64-linux-gnu The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian. Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader. The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed when libc.so is issued directly. On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed. The following bugs are resolved with this release: [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo") return different result with versioned "foo" [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter mess [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which calls dlclose [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially enforced [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork deadlock [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation format [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and other standards. [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory from the stack [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group (breaks test isolation) [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing __convert_scm_timestamps [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are inaccurate without /sys and /proc [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on missing libraries [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyone 2038 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp- avx2-rtm fallback on non- rtm variants when avoiding overflow [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and SUCCESS=MERGE [28936] build: nm: No such file [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona) [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup clobbers errno [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make bench. [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to /proc/self/fd/ [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer on ENOENT and EACCES [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread cancellation and with cancellation disabled [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated) [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object is promoted to global scope [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization broke ld.so [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone() failure [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/ glibc 2.35 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error: include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';' before '__fortified_attr_access' [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18 value for filling after \0 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038 aware [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in line 184 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are missing on microblaze with largefile Release Notes ============= https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.36 Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: =Joshua Kinard Adhemerval Zanella Adhemerval Zanella Netto Alan Modra Andreas Schwab Arjun Shankar Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Carlos O'Donell Cristian Rodríguez DJ Delorie Danila Kutenin Darius Rad Dmitriy Fedchenko Dmitry V. Levin Emil Soleyman-Zomalan Fangrui Song Florian Weimer Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy Guilherme Janczak H.J. Lu Ilyahoo Proshel Jason A. Donenfeld Joan Bruguera John David Anglin Jonathan Wakely Joseph Myers José Bollo Kito Cheng Maciej W. Rozycki Mark Wielaard Matheus Castanho Max Gautier Michael Hudson-Doyle Nicholas Guriev Noah Goldstein Paul E. Murphy Raghuveer Devulapalli Ricardo Bittencourt Sam James Samuel Thibault Sergei Trofimovich Siddhesh Poyarekar Stafford Horne Stefan Liebler Steve Grubb Su Lifan Sunil K Pandey Szabolcs Nagy Tejas Belagod Tom Coldrick Tom Honermann Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho WANG Xuerui Wangyang Guo Wilco Dijkstra Xi Ruoyao Xiaoming Ni Yang Yanchao caiyinyu o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Chen HuiJing ☛ The_horizontal_overflow_problem⠀⇛ My good friend, Wei, has a pet peeve: unintended horizontal over-scrolling on mobile. Which is very different from intentional horizontal scrolling on mobile. Anyway, we thought it was worth a discussion, from why this phenomenon exists to how we can do our best to avoid it. As you can see, I have chosen the reasonably “loose” phrase “do our best”. This is because there will inevitably be some edge cases where a trade- off needs to be made on whether to just let things be. We’ll talk about those as well. # ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ Clojure_Tricks:_Number_to_Digits⠀⇛ If you’re into programming puzzles you probably know that there’s a whole class of problems about doing something (e.g. some calculations) with the digits of a number. This means you need to break down a number into its digits first. I’ve always assumed that those problems exist just because decomposing a number to its digits is a classic example of recursion: [...] # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Print_based_debugging_and_infrequent developers⠀⇛ One of the great advantages of print based debugging for the infrequent developer is that it requires essentially no extra knowledge. We almost always know how to print things in the language, and we have to know how to build and run the software in order to work on it. The extra learning required to do print based debugging is basically nil. This is not the case for debuggers; even the best debugger, one that sticks as close as possible to the language’s syntax, has some extra things we need to learn and then to try to remember over time. # ⚓ Julia Evans ☛ A_toy_remote_login_server⠀⇛ Hello! The other day we talked about what happened when you press a key in your terminal. As a followup, I thought it might be fun to implement a program that’s like a tiny ssh server, but without the security. You can find it on github here, and I’ll explain how it works in this blog post. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Python_is_my_default_choice_for_scripts that_process_text⠀⇛ Every so often I wind up writing something that needs to do something more complicated than can be readily handled in some Bourne shell, awk, or other basic Unix scripting tools. When this happens, the language I most often turn to is Python, and especially Python is my default choice when the work I’m doing involves processing text in some way (or often if I need to generate text). For example, if I want to analyze the output of some command and generate Prometheus metrics from it, Python is often my choice. These days, this is Python 3, even with its warts with handling non-Unicode input (which usually don’t come up in this context). # ⚓ AIM ☛ RStudio_launches_Shiny_for_Python,_announces change_in_brand_name⠀⇛ Normally, RStudio makes a soft launch of its products to a small group of people who have access and can give feedback before it is released to the public. However, Shiny’s early release was done discreetly before the conference. Shiny will now be a part of other Python packages like Dash and Streamlit. Cheng said that Shiny’s addition will offer a separate set of features to the users. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ ESPN ☛ Boston_Celtics_great_Bill_Russell,_11-time_NBA_champion, dies_at_88⠀⇛ Bill Russell, the cornerstone of the Boston Celtics dynasty that won eight straight titles and 11 overall during his career, died Sunday. The Hall of Famer was 88. Russell died “peacefully” with his wife, Jeannine, at his side, a statement posted on social media read. Arrangements for his memorial service will be announced soon, according to the statement. o ⚓ Andre Franca ☛ Migrating_my_Jekyll_website_to_Codeberg_Pages⠀⇛ Okay, back to the point that I’ve been 26 days without posting. I believe that one of the reasons that makes me post less – besides the time factor – it’s my publishing workflow. This blog is powered by Jekyll, where I write everything in a .md file, then I push the modifications to my git repository. If I want to add some picture, this process becomes even annoying, as I convert the image to lightweight and web-friendly format, strip the metadata, and upload it to my s3 storage. Over the last week, I tried to improve this process by migrating to an opensource blog publishing platform called Writefreely. It is [...] o ⚓ Björn Wärmedal ☛ I_Just_Left_Feedly!⠀⇛ Running FreshRSS has been a great experience. So much so that I almost forgot that I had Feedly account, despite using it for more than a decade. I’m subscribing to more feeds now. Adding new subscriptions no longer feels like a dumb idea; reading posts on Feedly was starting to become so annoying I just didn’t want more there. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Adverse_Selection_Examples⠀⇛ Adverse selection happens when there is information asymmetry between buyers and sellers. One side takes advantage of information that isn’t known to the counterparty. It’s one of the most important economic ideas to think about when starting a company or buying or selling anything. # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_Russia_withdraws_from_the_ISS⠀⇛ In my last silly show I talked about how I missed looking forward to the future. The ISS was a symbol of global cooperation, and represented the idea that we could rise above (and maybe even solve) our terrestrial issues. The crew wear flag patches, but it’s a station full of humans and scientists first. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Haapsalu_library_traces_roots back_to_19th_century_lounge⠀⇛ The library was also accessible to more affluent local Estonians fluent in foreign languages, but as increasing numbers of Estonian societies started to crop up at the end of the 19th century, so did the Kungla Society of Haapsalu in 1895. The latter established its own library as well, which it opened to readers in 1896 and later took on the duties of Haapsalu’s town library. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Best_Books_to_Learn_Statistics_for_Data_Science⠀⇛ Best Books to Learn Statistics for Data Science, Do you want to learn statistics for data science? If so, read these books. If so, your quest is over here. The eight finest books for learning statistics for data science are listed in this post. So, read the entire article to choose which book is ideal for you. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ PC_shipments,_chip_sales_growth_face_record slump_this_year:_Report⠀⇛ Global semiconductor revenue is projected to slow down to 7.4 per cent this year, down from 2021 growth of 26.3 per cent, while chip sales from PCs are likely to decline 5.4 per cent, according to Gartner. PC shipments are set to decline by 13.1 per cent this year after recording growth in 2020 and 2021. Semiconductor revenue from smartphones is on pace to slow to 3.1 per cent growth, compared to 24.5 per cent growth in 2021. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Keyboard_Shortage_Unfolds_in_Russia⠀⇛ Since big PC makers like Apple, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, as well as major suppliers of PC peripherals like Logitech, have officially ceased to do business in Russia, the country adopted its so-called ‘parallel imports’ scheme that allows imports of products from foreign markets without approval from trademark owners, reports The Moscow Times (opens in new tab) (via ExtremeTech (opens in new tab)). To get a new PC or a keyboard into Russia, a distributor can now buy it in China, Serbia, Turkey, or the United Arab Emirates and have it shipped to the country. # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ The_2nd_edition_of_the_drone_conference_in Zimbabwe_is_upon_us⠀⇛ The 2nd edition of the Zimbabwe International Drone Conference is scheduled for the 3-5th of August of 2022. Find more information about how you can be a part of it below. [...] # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_GPU_prices_a_bit_closer_to normalcy⠀⇛ GPU prices continue to fall across the board. I bought my RTX 3070 at the exact wrong time earlier this year; I could now get 3080 Ti or an AMD 6900 XT for about the same money, and I’ll bet they’d have more robust cooling than the two inadequate fans on this Zotac card that make me long for the days of my PowerMac G5’s over-the-top cooling. That was a long sentence. But then I think back to all the fun memories of playing multiplayer games with Clara during the past four months, and I’d say it’s worth it. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ The Economist ☛ Apple_already_sold_everyone_an_iPhone._Now what?⠀⇛ Now, after a decade and a half of expansion, the global smartphone market has plateaued, according to idc, a data firm, which also forecasts no growth over the next four years. Apple still has room to increase its market share. Although in America the iPhone accounts for nearly half of smartphone sales, in Europe it makes up more like a quarter, according to Kantar, a research firm. Nonetheless, the years of rocket-powered annual growth are over. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Congress_takes_aggressive_stance_against_foreign spyware [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Last week, the House Intelligence Committee passed the Intelligence Authorization Act, which included a provision authorizing the Director of National Intelligence to prohibit the U.S. intelligence community from buying and using foreign spyware. The bill would also allow the president to impose sanctions on foreign government officials and firms that target U.S. officials with spyware. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LinuxSecurity ☛ 9_Wise_Linux_Cybersecurity_Tips_for Businesses⠀⇛ The Linux operating system is used on most cloud servers, and this fact is important to know. More companies are moving their data to the cloud. A good Linux cybersecurity professional will have a deep understanding of the key areas of this operating system to ensure that their system is secure. You should protect the integrity of your data. This ensures that no one can alter it or corrupt it. Data should be available when a user needs it. This requires securing your system from the outside world by implementing strong user authentication. Keeping your system secure also means enforcing all privacy laws. When choosing your software, make sure that you choose a system with strong security features. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ CosmicStrand_Malware_Infects_ASUS, Gigabyte_Motherboards⠀⇛ Researchers from Kaspersky labs found the malware stranded in the motherboards’ Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) – their boot sector, so to speak, which is tasked with identifying, verifying and booting up all the connected hardware bits. From simple fans spinning up all the way to your PC’s overclocking capabilities on the latest and greatest gaming CPUs – it all leads to your PC’s BIOS. For the sake of clarity, this isn’t the first such threat discovered – but one is already too many, and it does add to possible infection vectors. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Police_open_probe_of_news_agency_STT’s_cyber_attack [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The agency announced on Friday that it had taken some of its systems offline following a malicious attack the previous night. It said the attack caused extensive damage. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Stacy on IoT ☛ For_$8_a_month,_this_company_will track_your_tools_–_Stacey_on_IoT_|_Internet_of_Things news_and_analysis⠀⇛ A few months ago, we had some tree work done on our property, and while here the crew left behind a water bottle, a rake, and a chainsaw. When we called to tell them, they weren’t concerned about the water bottle and rake; it was, however, worth it for them to come and fetch the chainsaw. But what if we hadn’t called? It’s possible that such a valuable piece of equipment would be counted as lost, costing the business money and — until they purchased another chainsaw — productivity. Preventing gear from being lost and/or finding it once it has been is one reason businesses are interested in asset tracking services. But the current process and business model associated with trackers can make it hard to track anything but the most expensive items, such as cars or large equipment. So a company called Momentum IoT hopes to bring that price down. # ⚓ The Markup ☛ Who_Is_Collecting_Data_from_Your_Car?⠀⇛ The Markup has identified 37 companies that are part of the rapidly growing connected vehicle data industry that seeks to monetize such data in an environment with few regulations governing its sale or use. # ⚓ NYOB ☛ Annual_Report_2021_out_now!⠀⇛ 2021 marks noyb’s fourth year of fighting for the right to privacy. We have taken things up a notch by filing a record-breaking amount of complaints: noyb filed over 400 half- automated GDPR complaints on deceptive cookie banners. Hundreds of major websites have switched to a more reasonable cookie banner in the course of this project. Towards the end of the year, we started to see decisions resulting from our 101 complaints on EU-US data transfers based on the Court of Justice decision in “Schrems II”. In a groundbreaking decision, the Austrian and French Data Protection Authority decided that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR. Furthermore, we worked on many other projects, such as worker’s rights, or collective redress, or a new automatic browser signal that serves as a consent management system. 2021 was not only the fourth year of our organization but also the second year of a global pandemic. We are even more thankful to all our supporters, members, sponsors and funders, who made it possible for this organization to get through another difficult year and be financially stable. # ⚓ Citizen Lab ☛ John_Scott-Railton_Delivers_Testimony to_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence⠀⇛ On July 27, 2022, Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton was asked to appear before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He was invited to provide expert testimony on a hearing devoted to combating threats to U.S. national security from the proliferation of foreign commercial spyware. What follows is the written submission of that testimony. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ What_does_Tim_Hortons_think_your_data_is worth?_A_coffee_and_donut,_apparently⠀⇛ The allegations surfaced in a report from the National Post, when a reporter found that the app had tracked their location over 2,700 times in under five months. A subsequent investigation by Canadian privacy watchdogs said that although the app asked for location tracking permission, it misled users into thinking they would only be tracked while using the app. Instead, they were allegedly tracked throughout their day, allowing Tim Hortons to infer where they lived, where they worked, and to analyze when they visited competing restaurants or major sporting venues. # ⚓ Gabriel Sieben ☛ Remote_attestation_is_coming_back. How_much_freedom_will_it_take?⠀⇛ Remote attestation has been a technology around for decades now. Richard Stallman railed about the freedom it would take in 2005, A Senator presented a bill asking for the required chips to become mandatory, and Microsoft prepared Palladium to improve “security” and bring remote attestation (among other things) to the masses. Then it all fell apart – Palladium was canceled, a Senator retired, and TPM chips have been in our PCs for years but have generally been considered benign. For those who do not know what remote attestation is: [...] o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Economist ☛ The_world_in_brief_|_The_Economist⠀⇛ President Joe Biden confirmed that Ayman al- Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in Afghanistan by an American drone strike over the weekend. Mr Zawahiri was second-in-command during the plotting of the September 11th attacks and took over after Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. He returned to Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, after the Taliban took over last year. Mr Biden said that “justice had been delivered,” and warned that America would not allow Afghanistan to become a “terrorist safe haven” again. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Al-Shabab’s_Enigmatic_Invasion_of Ethiopia⠀⇛ In countries such as the U.S., there is an unwritten theory in police investigation that assumes whenever a neighborhood robbery occurs it was done by someone who not only had the motive to commit that crime, but the basic intelligence to help time it well and to get away with it. In other words it was committed by someone who lives or operates within 5-miles radius around the crime scene. If your gut feeling is ‘such mentality, regardless of how logical it may sound, will keep the law-enforcement stereotypically myopic and perpetually racist’ you are not alone. But that is a topic for another day. # ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Mullahs_Running_Scared⠀⇛ Of course, the key words here from Iran are “not looking to directly” escalate tensions. The Iranians want to conduct their regional aggression not “directly,” but through their two closest proxies, the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon. So far, Iran has supplied Hezbollah with 130,000 rockets and missiles that have been hidden in civilian areas all over southern Lebanon, and occasionally Hezbollah launches a rocket or drone toward Israel. # ⚓ Medforth ☛ Shortly_after_an_Afghan_refugee_crossed_the Austrian_border_he_beat_up_a_female_soldier⠀⇛ In the Austrian province of Burgenland, an illegal migrant injured a female soldier (32) after crossing the border. During a border check, the Afghan hit the female soldier in the face with his fist. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ With_Threat_at_Historic_High,_Nuclear Powers_Urged_to_Stop_Violating_Global_Treaty⠀⇛ As a treaty review conference kicked off in New York City, anti-war groups on Monday called out nuclear-armed countries—particularly the United States—for not complying with the decades-old agreement, especially as global tensions escalate. “Nuclear-armed states are violating their disarmament obligations under the treaty and increasing the risk of catastrophic nuclear war.” o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ NBC ☛ ‘Sending_drivers_out_to_die’:_UPS_workers_demand_heat safety_amid_record_temps⠀⇛ The majority of UPS workers, some 350,000 people, are covered by the biggest union contract in North America, which expires next year. Heat protections will be one of the key issues in the upcoming negotiations, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents the workers. # ⚓ Salon ☛ Phoenix_could_soon_become_uninhabitable_—_and_the poor_will_be_the_first_to_leave⠀⇛ One important metric is wet bulb temperature, or the temperature of a wet thermometer in a shaded area while water evaporates freely off of its surface. As University of Arizona geosciences professor Peter W. Reiners wrote for Salon last year, “It is important to understand that wet bulb temperatures of 95 °F (35 °C) are not conditions we can just get used to. Human bodies have fundamental physiological limits; our planet’s perturbed, angry climate doesn’t care about them.” Reiners added, “Air conditioning may save some, but increased demand and likelihood of outages in already strained power grids makes this a risky bet at best.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_Climate_Change_is_Intensifying_the Water_Cycle,_Bringing_More_Powerful_Storms_and_Hurricanes⠀⇛ The impact of climate change on extreme water- related events like this is becoming increasingly evident. The storms in the U.S. followed extreme flooding this summer in India and Australiaand last year in Western Europe. Studies by scientists around the world show that the water cycle has been intensifying and will continue to intensify as the planet warms. An international climate assessment I coauthored in 2021 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lays out the details. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_411_on_Climate_911:_Why Families_Showed_Up_at_Ron_Klain’s_House_Dressed_as Firefighters⠀⇛ As parents, we would do anything to protect our kids. And nothing threatens their survival or their futures more than the climate crisis. That’s why, on a (fittingly) 96 degree Saturday morning, we joined a dozen families with young children in visiting White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain’s home in Chevy Chase with a message for President Biden: Declare a climate emergency, stop new fossil fuel expansion, use every executive tool possible to meet his own clean energy targets, and support Supreme Court expansion to protect the executive branch’s ability to act on climate. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Tallinn_launches_‘Bike_to School’_bike_buying_support_measure⠀⇛ Tallinn’s “Bike to School” support measure is aimed at encouraging children to earn their cyclist driving licenses, which help improve their safe traffic habits and awareness, as well as promoting them to bike more, according to a press release. # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ The_Value_of_a_Kilowatt⠀⇛ As I picked up the discarded materials, I took time to consider each object I found. Mostly vessels, packaging, and containers and one time use plastics, I realized these objects were made with the very intention to be discarded. Never before has a civilization produced such abundance with an intended use duration of just a few seconds. Each time I went back to this stretch of shoreline, it was once again covered in debris as if I had not just been there just days before. It seemed never ending. That overwhelming feeling led me to contemplate each item individually. Each small item that I found was once thought useful and necessary. So I cradled each piece as I went, to honor that history of production and use before it got recycled or discarded once again. Like in the Pharaoh project, it was an exercise in pointing at the absurdity of these unsustainable systems we find ourselves part of and fighting against. And it made me ask the question, what are we willing to sacrifice of ourselves and our natural habitat for a kilowatt of energy. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ New_publication_shows_how overpopulation_drives_biodiversity_loss⠀⇛ The concept of human overpopulation, once common, is now rarely used in the scientific literature. Yet overpopulation is a major driver of biodiversity loss and a key obstacle to fairly sharing habitat and resources with other species. A new publication from TOP explores the connections between human numbers and preserving wild nature. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Earth_Overshoot_Day’_comes_earlier_every year⠀⇛ From today onwards, humanity is living on credit. Every year, Overshoot Day – the date by which humanity has consumed all the resources that Earth can sustainably produce in one year – arrives earlier. In 1970, it fell on December 29, in 1990 on October 11, and this year on July 28, proof that we are deepening our “ecological debt” to the planet. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Chile’s_Lithium_Provides_Profit_to_the Billionaires_But_Exhausts_the_Land_and_the_People⠀⇛ SQM and Albemarle, the two major Chilean mining companies, dominate the Atacama salt flat. It is impossible to get a permit to visit the southern end of the flats, where the large corporations have set up their operations. The companies extract the lithium by pumping brine from beneath the salt flat and then letting it evaporate for months before carrying out the extraction. “SQM steals our water to extract lithium,” said the former president of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Atacameño, Ana Ramos, in 2018, according to Deutsche Welle. The concentrate left behind after evaporation is turned into lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide, which are then exported, and form key raw materials used in the production of lithium-ion batteries. About a third of the world’s lithium comes from Chile. According to Goldman Sachs, “lithium is the new gasoline.” What Necessity Does # ⚓ Variety ☛ Visa_‘Intended_to_Help’_Pornhub_and_Its_Parent Company_Monetize_Child_Porn,_Judge_Finds_in_Allowing_Case_to Move_Forward⠀⇛ On Friday, July 29, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney of the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California issued a decision in the Fleites v. MindGeek case, denying Visa’s motion to dismiss the claim it violated California’s Unfair Competition Law — which prohibits unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business acts and practices — by processing payments for child porn. (A copy of the decision is available at this link.) # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Fed_Should_Not_Punish_Working People_for_Inflation_Driven_by_Big_Oil’s_Greed⠀⇛ If you own a car, pay energy bills, or buy groceries, then you have probably noticed that prices are soaring. The cost of food is up 10% and the cost of a gallon of gas is up 50% from a year ago. And in May this year, median monthly rent hit a record high at $2,002. We’re experiencing the highest levels of inflation in 40 years, which is taking a particularly harsh toll on low-income households. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Coalition_Representing_24_Million_Workers Blasts_‘Dangerous’_Cuellar_Bill⠀⇛ A coalition of 40 labor and social justice groups on Monday sounded the alarm over anti-worker legislation recently introduced by right-wing Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas and two House Republicans. “The latest attack on working people by Rep. Cuellar is proof positive that elections matter.” # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Senate_Bill_Subsidizing_U.S. Semiconductor_Production_Clears_House,_Going_to_White_House⠀⇛ Dubbed the CHIPS Act for Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors Act for America Fund, the measure is expected to incentivize domestic semiconductor manufacturing and also provide grants for the design and deploying of wireless 5G networks. It also includes a $24 billion fund to create a 25 percent tax credit for new semiconductor manufacturing facilities. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ More_Democrats_are_using_TikTok,_despite_the warnings_from_colleagues⠀⇛ While primarily known for viral dance videos and dishing up a lighter side of the [Internet], lawmakers see an opportunity to reach new and different demographics, especially younger voters. But that opportunity presents security risks. So much so that intelligence officials have cautioned some lawmakers against using the app due to concerns that the Chinese-based tech company could face pressure to share data stored by the platform with Beijing. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ White_House_cyber_hire_highlights_diversity challenges_in_tech_workforce⠀⇛ Suzanne Spaulding, a senior adviser for homeland security and director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Stewart Gloster’s hire was significant. # ⚓ Aral Balkan ☛ NLnet_Grant_Application_for_Domain⠀⇛ I feel it’s important that such grant applications are made public so everyone has visibility into the process. This will allow us to collectively learn from the experience and perhaps even to improve the process itself. # § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Tone_as_important_as_truth_to counter_vaccine_fake_news⠀⇛ Prof Dimitrakopoulou studied public perceptions of Covid vaccines and obstacles to acceptance of reliable information as part of a project called FAKEOLOGY. She found that, when people lose faith in institutional sources, they end up relying only on themselves, close friends and family. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Fact_Check-The_Atlantic_did_not_publish_a headline_on_‘the_quiet_courage’_of_Biden’s_economy⠀⇛ Contacted by Reuters, a spokesperson for The Atlantic confirmed that the screenshot does not show “a real article” and that it is “a fabricated image of our newsletter.” # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Fact_Check-The_Atlantic_did_not_publish headline_calling_President_Biden’s_bike_fall_‘heroic’⠀⇛ The Atlantic did not publish a headline calling U.S. President Joe Biden heroic after falling off his bike when on a weekend trip to Rehoboth Beach in Delaware in June 2022. The image is fake, and no such headline was published by the outlet. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ Bahrain_latest_to_ban_block-buster_Thor⠀⇛ “The ministry of information has decided to halt projection of one of the films showing in cinema halls for the sake of preserving and safeguarding society’s moral values,” the ministry said in a brief statement late Thursday. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ CPJ_calls_for_Ukraine_to_revise_draft_media_law⠀⇛ If passed, the legislation would expand the regulator’s power, allowing it to invalidate online news outlets’ registrations, issue fines against them, and shut them down pursuant to court rulings, according to media reports and the text of the bill, which CPJ reviewed. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ Journalists_barred_from_covering_Zimbabwean_first lady⠀⇛ Two uniformed prison officials prevented the journalists from covering the event and denied their requests to photograph it, ordering them to stay away from the state-media journalists who were allowed to cover it, according to those sources. # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Saudi_police_arrest_Egyptian_TikToker_with millions_of_followers_for_video_they_claim_had_‘sexual content’⠀⇛ The video received backlash on social media and a hashtag denigrating her that translates into “Tala offends society” circulated on Twitter, according to Vice. Safwan stated that her comments were taken out of context and denied the allegations social media users made against her. # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Saudi_police_arrest_Egyptian_TikToker with_millions_of_followers_for_video_they_claim_had_‘sexual content’⠀⇛ The Saudi Public Security authority’s official Twitter posted a statement Monday saying Riyadh police had “arrested a resident who appeared in a broadcast talking to another with sexual content and suggestion that would prejudice public morals.” The tweet didn’t mention Safwan by name, but included an extremely blurred clip from the influencer’s TikTok live stream which has over 1.6 million views. # ⚓ India ☛ ‘Fatwa’_issued_against_YouTuber_Farmani_Naaz_for singing_‘Har_Har_Shambhu’⠀⇛ Deobandi Ulema issued a ‘Fatwa’ against a singer named Farmani Naaz for singing “Har Har Shambhu”. The Muslim body cited that it is against “Sharia” law. Farmani Naaz, a resident of Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, sparked the controversy with her music cover hindi song “Har Har Shambhu”. While many are praising her for her beautiful singing and non- stereotypical approach, Deobandi Ulema was seen angry with her. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ John Pilger ☛ The_US_Is_‘Close_To_Getting_Its_Hands_On Julian_Assange’._An_Interview_With_John_Pilger⠀⇛ Until the High Court hearing last year, I believed the country’s senior judges would reject the US appeal and reclaim something of the mythologised notion of British justice if only for the system’s survival, which partly depends on ‘face’ within the arcane reaches of the British establishment. This show of ‘independence’ in support of justice has happened in the past. In Julian’s case, the facts are surely too outrageous – no properly constituted court would even consider it – yet I was wrong. The decision by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales last October that the US in effect had the right to fabricate and belatedly introduce ‘assurances’ that had not even been part of previous due process was quite shocking. There was no justice, no process; the guile and ruthlessness of US power was on show. Might is right. Today, the US knows it is close to getting its hands on Julian. Unlike previous parliaments at Westminster, there is not a single voice speaking up for him. In spite of a tenacious campaign emphasising the threat Julian’s extradition poses to a ‘free press’, he is barely acknowledged in the media, which remains intensely hostile to him. Journalists have never been as compliant as they are today, and Julian’s case is a reminder – to some – of what they ought to be. He shames them. # ⚓ News AU ☛ Doctor’s_grim_diagnosis_for_WikiLeaks_founder Julian_Assange⠀⇛ He could die in jail in the coming months, the Australian Doctors For Assange warned. “Medical examinations of Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison in the UK have revealed that he is suffering from severe life-threatening cardiovascular and stress-related medical conditions, including having a mini stroke as a result of his imprisonment and psychological torture,” spokesman Dr Robert Marr said. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ DW_Russian_marks_60th_anniversary:_From radio_jamming_to_partnerships_and_back_again⠀⇛ February and March 2022 saw Moscow bureau shuttered, staff accreditations annulled, website blocked and DW declared a “foreign agent”: the 60th anniversary of DW’s Russian Service marks the return to the Cold War era. “Without our studio in Moscow work has become more difficult for us. There’ s no way to sugarcoat it either. But we have found a way to continue to provide our audiences in Russia with authentic information from and about their country,” says Christian F. Trippe, Director of Programs for Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. In response to censorship, the team relocated to Riga, under the direction of Juri Rescheto, and reinforced DW’s Russian-language content, recently offering two new podcasts, DW Novosti Show and Geofaktor. Both multiplatform broadcasts are available online and on medium-wave frequencies (MW). In a way, DW’s Russian Service is back to its roots, having set up its first radio broadcast in August 1962 and its last in 2011. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_CIA_Whistleblower_Reflects_on_the Persecution_of_Julian_Assange⠀⇛ I continue to have passion to shed light on and right the wrongs of the Espionage Act and how the United States government is using it to target not only whistleblowers, but also anyone who dares reveal its transgressions and illegalities. I was extremely honored to participate in the Belmarsh Tribunal which, in addition to calling for the closure of Guantanamo Bay, also decried the international disgrace that is the potential extradition of Julian Assange. This affront to accountability, press freedom, and freedom of speech is on stage for the entire world to see, yet I wonder who is paying attention. Assange has been held since April 2019 in Belmarsh prison, which is what many call the United Kingdom’s version of our super-max prison. He has been held in solitary confinement for every moment of every day at Belmarsh while the U.S. makes an incredible effort to have him extradited to face charges of violating the Espionage Act. The U.K. courts have been all too obliging by issuing rulings, with no support in truth, that Assange can and should be extradited. And — in a final blow to demonstrate its willingness to be the puppet government that the U.S. needs to continue its Espionage Act campaign of terror — on June 17th, Priti Patel, the U.K. Home Secretary certified Assange’s extradition, clearing the way for Assange to be turned over to the United States. Assange is appealing, but given U.K. reticence, it is only a matter of time until Assange will find himself, as I did, in the Alexandria jail being charged with violating the Espionage Act. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ The Economist ☛ Water_and_women_to_the_fore_in_the_Navajo Nation’s_election⠀⇛ The candidates have a lot of ground to cover. The Navajo Nation, straddling Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, is the largest Native American reservation in the country, bigger in area than ten of the 50 states. And thanks to brisk enrolment of citizens living outside the reservation (boosted by the lure of covid relief funds), it vies with the Cherokee to be the most populous tribal nation, with around 400,000 people. Legally, it is both a “domestic dependent nation” and a sovereign state predating the founding of the United States. In practice, the Navajo government’s authority is somewhere between that of an American state and an independent country, not unlike Scotland’s relationship with the United Kingdom—which is to say, it’s complicated, and distinctive. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Conservative_Hypocrisy_Over_Brittney Griner⠀⇛ Really? Well, how about all the people who have received long jail sentences in the United States for drug possession or distribution? What about them? I don’t recall many conservatives calling for mercy when they were receiving those punishments during the past 40 years or more. I certainly didn’t read anything about them in Opelka’s WSJ op- ed.   A couple of days ago, theleafonline.com published an article entitled “Biden Pardons Nine Federal Cannabis POWs.” Let’s review a few of the people mentioned in that article. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Impossible_to_Stop_Praising,_Cheering,_and Applauding_the_Athletes_at_Olympia⠀⇛ The sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia For more than a thousand years, the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia was at the center of Greek life and civilization. This is where every four years the Olympics took place. The Olympics was the greatest Panhellenic athletic and religious celebration. Greek men and the best athletes from mainland Greece and from the entire Mediterranean went to Olympia, sometimes as many as 40,000. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Patriarchal_and_Militarized Impacts_of_RIMPAC_on_Okinawa_and_Japan⠀⇛ In its Article 9, the Japanese constitution promulgated in 1946 under the U.S. post-war occupation renounces war as a means of resolving international disputes and proscribes maintaining land, sea and air forces. This article is widely supported by the Japanese people. To those in the countries and areas in Asia that Japan invaded and colonized during the Asia-Pacific War, Article 9 is a pledge by the Japanese people not to repeat colonial and military violence. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Collins-Murkowski_Abortion_Bill_Denounced as_‘Just_Another_Political_Stunt’⠀⇛ As GOP-led states continue working to further restrict reproductive freedom in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s late June ruling, some progressive advocates on Monday responded critically to the introduction of bipartisan abortion rights legislation. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Kyrsten Sinema (D- Ariz.) introduced the Reproductive Freedom for All Act, which they claim “would undo the damage of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.” o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ What_is_the_future_of_DStv?⠀⇛ For the longest time, DStv has been the dominant player in the satellite tv space in Sub-Saharan Africa. You cannot count 3 houses without a dish in any direction owing to how ubiquitous they are. And that has been the case for decades now. However, technology is now a lot different from where it was 10 years ago. And like it or not, DStv’s current model might be on its last legs…unless they use the biggest asset they have to their advantage. Satellites. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Addressing_the_challenges_of_modern_DNS⠀⇛ Earlier this year, we published a tutorial paper ‘Addressing the challenges of modern DNS: A comprehensive tutorial‘. The paper was co-authored with colleagues at the University of Twente and sinodun. It describes the Domain Name System (DNS) from two perspectives — what the modern DNS actually looks like in practice, and what security challenges the DNS currently faces. The paper is aimed at technical personnel who want to know more about the DNS, and at DNS specialists looking for somewhere to get started on a more detailed exploration of the subject. In this article, we want to give an overview of our paper and to discuss open challenges. # ⚓ [Old] RIPE ☛ IPv6_10_Years_Out:_An_Analysis_in_Users, Tables,_and_Traffic⠀⇛ The RIPE NCC has been collecting BGP routing data with the RIS project since late 1999. In November 2002, the first IPv6 peering sessions were established on the collector at AMS-IX, Amsterdam. At that time, a default free IPv6 routing table had about 300 prefixes. By the time of world IPv6 launch in 2012, this had grown to 9,500. And now, 10 years later, RIS sees a total of 155,000 IPv6 routes; a growth close to 1600%. Alongside that, the IPv4 table has grown by roughly 140%, from 410,600 to 935,500. Figure 1 shows the development of both IPv4 and IPv6 tables in the past 10 years. Note that in the many peering sessions, RIS also picks up a significant number of routes which are not announced on the global Internet, but are meant to stay local; internal to a peer’s autonomous system, at best only shared with customers. To estimate the number of routes circulating in global default free routing tables, we restrict the RIS view to those routes which are seen by at least 10 peers. # ⚓ Wallanag ☛ Don’t_Lie_To_Me_About_Web_2.0⠀⇛ No! Stop there! Web 2.0 was not social media! You’re rewriting history that’s less than 20 years old! o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Ed_Sheeran_Becomes_the_First_Artist_to Reach_100_Million_Spotify_Followers⠀⇛ Other artists with a similarly large Spotify following include Ariana Grande, with nearly 82 million followers, and Billie Eilish, with over 66 million followers. With such a massive fanbase, it’s an unsurprising yet fitting achievement for Sheeran, whose latest album, =, was released last year. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Human_Un-nature⠀⇛ Everyone has gotten into some kinbd of argument or disagreement about “human nature,” which is supposed to be the one true thing that makes humans actually human if you dig deep enough through all the layers of society, relationships, morals, etc. Or if you haven’t had an argument about it, you’ve at least had someone bring it up as some kind of self evident explanation for something in the world, usually something they take to be unfortunate but unavvoidable. “I don’t really like the police either, but humans are naturally violent and greedy, so we need them.” “My boss is a dick too, but the sad truth is that humans are naturally lazy, so what are you gonna do?” o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Finally_Moved⠀⇛ Finished the move. Glad to be up in the PNW. It’s so pretty. Also fuck CA I hope I never have to go back there. o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ MoonGem_2.3_–_Key/Value_Store⠀⇛ MoonGem 2.3 includes an in-memory key/value store. This allows for keeping persistent state across requests. The entire feature is abstracted into the `mg.store` Lua table. Any primitive value stored in that table will be persisted in- memory and available to subsequen =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3419 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.02.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_02/08/2022:_Go_1.19,_GNU_Octave_7.2,_and_Tails_5.3.1⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:12 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Linux_Magazine o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_Red_Hat o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers # Mozilla o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Pseudo-Open_Source # Openwashing o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ AboutChromebooks ☛ Why_I_use_a_Chromebook [Ed: Proper GNU/Linux lets you do far more, plus it does not spy on you]⠀⇛ I’ve been using Chromebooks since they first launched, starting with the CR-48 prototype back in 2010. Over, and even before, that time, I’ve used Linux, Mac, and PCs. I still do. But for the majority of my computing these days, I use a Chromebook. And when I report on some of the premium Chromebooks that cost as much as a decent Mac or PC, I routinely hear the question: “Why spend that much when you can get a Mac or PC for the same price and do so much more?” It’s a great question. Here’s my answer to why I use a Chromebook and ChromeOS. o ⚓ PC World ☛ 5_terrible_reasons_angry_nerds_say_I_should_switch_to Linux_|_PCWorld [Ed: IDG at it again... sponsored by Microsoft.]⠀⇛ As a nerd of average make (nothing special to see here, folks), I’m aware of Linux. I’ve used Linux. I like Linux as a concept. It’s free, open-source, and flexible—an alternative to Windows and macOS that lets people of all backgrounds access modern computing. But I could do without the Linux fanatics. You know who I mean. The ones who burst into conversations like the Kool-Aid Man whenever you bring up Windows. You don’t need to ask them how they feel about Linux. It’s absolutely clear. That’s their operating system of choice. It’s the only OS of choice. But you don’t know it, so they’re here to enlighten you. Doesn’t matter what you say. The fanatics still appear. They have no concept of reading the room (or the conversation). The suggestion of Linux doesn’t need to have a reasonable link to the topic at hand. Out come the same tired proclamations. And they have no idea how bad those declarations are (even though Linux itself isn’t the problem here). o § Linux Magazine⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Growing_Linux_Desktop⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Build_your_own_web_server_in_a_few_simple steps⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Zack’s_Kernel_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ This_month_in_Linux_Voice.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Sparkling_gems_and_new_releases_from_the world_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Open_RAN_and_the_future_of_mobile networks⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Home_Assistant_controls_microcontrollers over_MQTT⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Cap_and_Gown⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ openSUSE_Leap_15.4_and_MX_Linux_21.1⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Using_Homebrew_with_a_minimum_of_fuss⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Exploring_decentralized_chat_and microblogging_platforms⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Photo_location_guessing_game_in_Go⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Simple_web_scraping_with_Bash⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Setting_up_Nextcloud_with_Podman⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Building_Slide_Presentations_with present⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ MEPIS_and_antiX_come_together⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Useful_innovations_in_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Mapping_out_a_novel_with_Manuskript_and the_snowflake_method⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Get_creative_with_the_FLUX_Beamo_laser_and open_source_software⠀⇛ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Spotlight_on_SIG_Docs_|_Kubernetes⠀⇛ The official documentation is the go-to source for any open source project. For Kubernetes, it’s an ever-evolving Special Interest Group (SIG) with people constantly putting in their efforts to make details about the project easier to consume for new contributors and users. SIG Docs publishes the official documentation on kubernetes.io which includes, but is not limited to, documentation of the core APIs, core architectural details, and CLI tools shipped with the Kubernetes release. To learn more about the work of SIG Docs and its future ahead in shaping the community, I have summarised my conversation with the co-chairs, Divya Mohan (DM), Rey Lejano (RL) and Natali Vlatko (NV), who ran through the SIG’s goals and how fellow contributors can help. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Mint_21_keeps_the_crown,_but_for_how_long? Cinnamon,_MATE_and_XFCE_review_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Home_Directory_Cluttered_With_Dotfiles?_Move_Them! –_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I want to talk a little bit about the XDG Base Specification which states that certain types of files must go in certain locations. For example, all of your config files should go in HOME/.config. All of your cache files should go in HOME/.cache. And so on. Is the XDG Base Specification a hard and fast rule that you must follow? And if you choose to follow it, how do you go about cleaning up your HOME? # ⚓ Video ☛ 10_Things_To_Do_on_Linux_Mint_21_after_install…_– Invidious⠀⇛ This is a quick guide on what to do after installing Linux Mint 21 ‘Vanessa’ as well as a quick overview of the new features of the release. # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_CLI_in_60_Seconds_–_Changing_Directory_– Invidious⠀⇛ Linux Commands in 60 Seconds is a YouTube shorts series that teaches you simple examples of common Linux commands. In this video, examples of changing directories are shown. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Linux_kernel_5.19_includes_major_networking improvements_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Linus Torvalds is a busy man who continues to toil away at the Linux kernel to bring it new features, better performance and enhanced security. While the latest release of the Linux kernel might not be viewed as the biggest milestone in the history of the open-source operating system, it does have very interesting new additions to help the OS soar to new heights. The showstopper bit of trivia about Linux 5.19 is that Torvalds managed the release on an M2-powered Apple laptop. The Linux kernel has come so far that it can work with the latest and greatest hardware — from Apple. Let’s dive in and see what the latest Linux kernel has to offer. # ⚓ Video ☛ Linus_Torvalds_Is_Testing_Linux_On_M1/M2_Macs_– Invidious⠀⇛ The Asahi Linux team has been doing incredible work getting Linux running on the M1/M2 Macs and Linus Torvalds has been looking for powerful ARM based systems running linux so he decided to try it out. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_Does_the_Linux_Kernel_Work?_The_Linux Kernel_Anatomy_Explained⠀⇛ The Linux kernel is like a bridge that enables computing communication between applications and hardware and manages the system’s resources. Linus Torvalds developed the Linux kernel with C and Assembly and thus, he succeeded in creating a lightweight and portable core that was released to the public as open source. You can see the Linux kernel in many different sectors such as space, computers, smart watches, mobile phones, robotics, and health. But have you ever wondered how does the Linux kernel work under the hood? # ⚓ OpenChrome,_An_Open_Source_Driver,_Is_Not_Yet_Ready_To_Be⠀⇛ You might remember that one month ago, the sole developer left working on open source VIA x86 graphics support for Linux intended to eventually mainline this “OpenChrome” DRM/KMS driver for the Linux 5.20 cycle. Even though Linux 5.19 is being published today and the Linux 5.20 merge window is now open, the OpenChrome DRM driver is still in the development stage. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Libre_Arts_–_8_audio_editors_for_Linux_that_are_not Audacity⠀⇛ Over the past few years, you might have seen a number of posts that attempted to list audio editors for Linux. Pretty much every time whoever made those lists, would start with Audacity, maybe pay a small tribute to non-free Ocenaudio, then immediately exhaust themselves and start listing Ardour, Rosegarden, LMMS, Mixxx, and even Guitarix — none of which are audio editors, of course. Even last year, when new Audacity owners were under fire for how they managed community relations (it’s so much better now), the attempt to list alternatives would be just about the same. Meanwhile, the world of Linux audio is a little fancier than that. So let’s review 8 free/libre audio editors for Linux that are not Audacity or one of its pride forks. # ⚓ Aral Balkan ☛ Make_Helix_Editor_follow_the_system_colour scheme⠀⇛ Black Box adheres to the system colour scheme in GNOME. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Add_External_USB_Storage_To_Proxmox_– OSTechNix⠀⇛ The default Proxmox local storage location is /var/ liz/vz. This is where all the Proxmox containers, VMs, and their VZdump backups, ISO images, disk images, snippets and templates are stored. If you run Proxmox on production, you should not keep all containers and VMs in the local disk itself. You must add an additional backup storage to regularly backup Proxmox containers and virtual machines. Just in case if your Proxmox system is crashed, you will still have your containers and VMs. In this brief tutorial, we will see how to add an external USB storage to Proxmox VE. At the end of this guide, we also included a link that demonstrates how to use the newly added storage to backup the proxmox containers and VMs. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_To_Automate_Multiple_FFmpeg_Commands_With_Bash –_ByteXD⠀⇛ In our daily computing life, we make use of software and programs without realizing that we are using a particular different program used by our main program. One very good example of this description is FFMPEG. This tool powers many widespread media-based applications, such as: iTunes, Youtube and the famous video player VLC. FFMPEG is a very fast tool used for converting and streaming video and audio, and also used in grabbing from live video or audio sources. FFMPEG is actually a command line utility (CLI) used mainly by software developers and media industry professionals, to perform operations on media files such as format conversion, encoding, resizing, concatenation, and compression. This project has a lot of useful features, specially the conversion feature. For the majority of people, the idea of converting video files may not be even in their dictionary. Unless they are part in a video production project or they happen to manage media files in regular bases. However, a normal person can be in situations where they require the capability of converting video files, for example: to ensure that the video can be played on different devices, to compress videos to smaller file sizes, or to improve the bitrates. In this article we will discuss how to use bash to automate multiple FFmpeg tasks. There a high chance that anyone could run into a situation where they want to extract or convert a large quantity of media files. In such situations, it’s imperative to understand how to use bash scripting to work for your advantage. # ⚓ Dignited ☛ How_To_Convert_a_Website_to_a_Chrome_App_on_a Chromebook_–_Dignited⠀⇛ Chromebooks are a good choice for a new laptop. They’re fast, lightweight, and have tons of power under the hood. One of the many features of a Chromebook is that you can customize it to fit your personality. You can, for example, change themes, choose a background, install apps, or even create a web app for any website. Chromebooks offer support for most Android and Linux apps, but you can also have a native-app-like experience for your favorite websites. In this article, I will take you through how to convert a website into a Chrome app. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Htop_on_Rocky_Linux_9_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Htop on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Htop is an interactive process manager and viewer for system monitoring. It is just like the default top command with an additional set of options and a better display on the monitor. Htop displays a frequently updated list of the processes currently executing on a computer, usually in the order of CPU consumption. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Htop interactive process viewer on Rocky Linux. 9. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Postman_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Postman on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Postman is a complete API development platform that helps you manage your APIs in every stage of development, from designing and testing, to publishing API documentation and monitoring. It was early released as a chrome browser extension, but now it has quickly emerged as a robust API tool with guaranteed compatibility in several operating systems, including Linux. 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 Postman 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. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Jami_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Jami on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Jami is an end-to-end encrypted secure, and distributed chat communication platform also supports audio and video calling, which makes it the competitor or alternative of Skype. It is a cross-platform application, therefore all the operating systems such as Linux, Mac, and Windows support it. 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 Jami (Ring) 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. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Sails.js_Framework_on_Rocky_Linux 9_–_idroot⠀⇛ ll show you how to install Jami on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Jami is an end-to-end encrypted secure, and distributed chat communication platform also supports audio and video calling, which makes it the competitor or alternative of Skype. It is a cross-platform application, therefore all the operating systems such as Linux, Mac, and Windows support it. 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 ac # ⚓ MakeTech Easier ☛ How_to_Create_a_BBS_in_Linux_with EnigmaBBS_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) used to be the quintessential information hubs of the 90s. These were geographically local machines that users could connect to in order to access information, obtain files and even communicate with other BBS users. Over the years, however, the know-how that you needed to even connect to one made it challenging for a regular user to participate in a BBS. As such, BBS have lost its luster and appeal in favor for the more global web. Despite that, it is still possible to create your own BBS server today using Linux. There are numerous projects, such as EnigmaBBS, that use modern languages and technologies to recreate the BBS experience of the 90s. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Create_a_Simple_(.deb)_Debian Package⠀⇛ The software package format for Debian-based Linux distributions and their associated derivatives can easily be identified by the .deb extension. Debian packages are also attributed to two tar archives. The first archive file contains control information and the second one installable data. This article will walk us through the creation of a simple Debian package and later demonstrate its installation on any Debian-based system. To cover all the basics needed in creating a Debian package, we will create and package a simple trivial application from scratch. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_LibreWolf_Browser_on_Linux Mint_21_LTS⠀⇛ Firefox is a widely used web browser known for its speed, security, and privacy features. However, some users are concerned about the amount of personal data collected by the browser through telemetry. LibreWolf is a fork of Firefox that aims to address these concerns by eliminating telemetry and increasing protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques. In addition, LibreWolf includes a few security improvements, such as disabling the auto-updating feature and allowing only signed add-ons to be installed. As a result, LibreWolf provides a more privacy-conscious alternative to Firefox that still offers a good user experience. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install LibreWolf Browser on Linux Mint 21 LTS release series. The tutorial will describe importing the official repository and gpg key and updating and removing the browser by utilizing the command line terminal. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Brave_Browser_on_Linux_Mint 21_LTS⠀⇛ Brave is a free, open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. that promises faster internet browsing speeds and better privacy protection than other leading browsers. Based on the Chromium web browser, Brave includes features like built-in ad blocking and tracker blocking in its default settings. This makes Brave a good choice for users concerned about their online privacy and who want a browser that won’t slow down their computer. In addition, Brave offers rewards to users who opt to view advertisements through its BAT (Basic Attention Token) system. This allows users to support the websites they visit directly while still enjoying an ad-free browsing experience. Whether you’re looking for a fast, privacy-focused browser or a way to support your favorite websites, Brave may be the right choice for you. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Brave Browser on Linux Mint 21 LTS series using the command line terminal to install the stable version, and optional beta or development builds. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Rotate_Logs_With_Logrotate_in Linux⠀⇛ When an application under a Linux operating system environment is running, background processes linked to that application are initiated. Events linked with the execution of these applications are recorded on a log file (generated by the applications and/or background processes). Since log files are constantly generated; especially on a busy system like a server environment, it is necessary to keep them in check. For a Linux system that is not running too many applications, log files can be easily and manually trimmed on timed schedules. However, such a log files management approach is not applicable to enterprise/production-ready Linux systems. Logrotate takes care of automatic rotation and compression of growing log files to ensure that we save on the system’s available disk space. This article will walk us through the installation and basic usage of the Logrotate utility in managing log files in the Linux system. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Keep_SSH_Terminal_Session_Alive_in Linux_–_TREND_OCEANS⠀⇛ SSH, or Secure Shell, is a gem for the Linux administrator to manage the remote system via a Linux terminal. It provides you with access control over the remote machine with or without root privileges. Logged-in users can easily perform admin tasks such as updating the system or managing system packages. However, when you leave a terminal session on a system update for a certain period of time, the session becomes inactive after the update is complete. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Pardus_21.3_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show how to install Pardus 21.3. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_6.1_on_Linux_Mint 21_LTS⠀⇛ VirtualBox is a free and open-source hypervisor for x86 and x86-64 virtualization, which the Oracle Corporation develops. The software targets users wishing to create virtual environments for servers and desktops that allow users and administrations to run multiple guests operating systems on a single computer for either testing methods or production use. VirtualBox may be installed on Windows, macOS, Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD. With the help of VirtualBox, one can run multiple guest operating systems on a single host machine. This is because it removes the hardware differences between various CPU architectures and allows running different operating systems on the same computer. In other words, it enables cross-platform compatibility. This feature makes VirtualBox very popular among developers and system administrators who need to test software on multiple platforms. Another advantage of VirtualBox is that it supports a wide range of guest additions, which add features like improved graphics support, mouse pointer integration, seamless windows, and shared folders to the guest operating system. This makes it possible to use virtual machines for day-to-day tasks such as web browsing or office work. Overall, VirtualBox is a powerful and convenient tool that can be used for both personal and professional purposes. The following tutorial will teach you how to install VirtualBox on Linux Mint 21 LTS series by importing the official virtual box repository and installing the most up-to-date version using the command line terminal. The extra benefit for users using this method is that you will receive them instantly from the VirtualBox repository when updates drop. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ How_to_use_SIGKILL_to_rapidly_terminate containers_in_Kubernetes⠀⇛ Originating from Linux, which uses a Unix operating system, SIGKILL is a common command that developers use to terminate absolutely any process. Most commonly, if anything needs to be shut down immediately as it’s causing damage to the system itself, then SIGKILL is the go-to signal to use. Alongside Linux, SIGKILL has also found itself into any developer platform that manages container systems, with the most popular example of this being Kubernetes. As one of the most drastic signals that you can execute, SIGKILL will instantly terminate a process, without giving the system the opportunity to block or ignore the signal. With this, absolutely any processes that are connected to the process you’ve killed will also terminate. In the rare case that SIGKILL doesn’t totally terminate a process, your console will return a whole operating system error, which could reveal you have a much more difficult problem on your hands to solve. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_limit_container_privilege_with socket_activation_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ Originating from Linux, which uses a Unix operating system, SIGKILL is a common command that developers use to terminate absolutely any process. Most commonly, if anything needs to be shut down immediately as it’s causing damage to the system itself, then SIGKILL is the go-to signal to use. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Neofetch_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ Neofetch is a free, open-source command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+. Neofetch displays system information in a beautiful aesthetic way, such as system model and manufacturer, operating system, kernel version, uptime, memory resources, disk usage, and more. All this is displayed in an easy-to-read format that can be further customized with colors and logos. Neofetch also outputs the information in JSON, so other programs and scripts can use it. Neofetch is an excellent tool for anyone who wants quick and easy system information without installing additional software. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Neofetch on Rocky Linux 9 using the command line terminal and how to use the terminal commands to achieve more with Neofetch. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Pinta_on_Linux_Mint_21_LTS⠀⇛ Pinta is an excellent image editing tool for both novice and experienced users. The user interface is straightforward yet still packed with features. The drawing tools are comprehensive and easy to use, and the wide range of effects makes it easy to add a professional touch to your images. One of the best features of Pinta is the ability to create unlimited layers. This makes it easy to keep your work tidy and organized and allows you to experiment with different effects without damaging your original image easily. Whether you’re looking for a simple way to crop and resize your photos or you need a more powerful tool for advanced retouching, Pinta has everything you need. The following tutorial will teach you how to install Pinta on Linux Mint 21 LTS series using two different methods: apt and flatpak, along with the command terminal to install the image editor. # ⚓ OSNote ☛ How_to_Install_ProcessWire_CMS_on_CentOS_– OSNote⠀⇛ ProcessWire is a free and open-source PHP content management system and framework that was created by Ryan Cramer in 2008, initially using the name Page CMS. In February 2011, it was publicly released as an open-source project under the MIT license. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Porting_a_Roblox_Game_to_Steam_with_Unity: the_Case_of_“Find_the_Cats” [Ed: But this is a Microsoft Mono problem]⠀⇛ Find the Cats is a new game that was released just a few days ago on Steam by a game developer that we happen to know personally, Bemmu. Find the Cats is a cute little title aimed at kids, challenging them to find all the cats hiding across different levels. This is Bemmu’s first Steam game, released on day 1 with native clients for Windows, Mac and Linux. It was however not his first game. Find the Cats was originally a very popular game he had created on Roblox – so popular that he had created a series of cat-themed games on Roblox following its initial success. # ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Godot_Engine_–_Maintenance_release:_Godot 3.4.5⠀⇛ It’s been a while since our last stable release! And this is not the long anticipated 3.5, nor 4.0, but simply a Godot 3.4.5 maintenance release to fix a handful of issues in the current 3.4 stable branch. But don’t worry – the feature release 3.5 is just around the corner (and you can use it now via its last release candidate), and 4.0 beta is not far off either. This is a safe and recommended update for all Godot 3.4.x users. It should have no major incidence on your projects, even complex ones in production, if you’re already using 3.4.4-stable. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Emmabuntüs_1.02_Brings_Debian_Bullseye_11.4_Goodies, Improves_UEFI/Secure_Boot_Support⠀⇛  Emmabuntüs 1.02 is here almost seven months after Emmabuntüs 1.01 and it’s based on the Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 “Bullseye” release that arrived last month with 79 security updates and 81 miscellaneous bug fixes. Supporting both the Xfce and LXQt desktop environments on the same ISO image, Emmabuntüs 1.02 adds 64-bit UEFI boot on the 32-bit ISO and vice-versa to improve the handling of UEFI and Secure Boot, switches to the Liberation Sans font for the LXQt desktop by default, and adds MemTest86+ option to the UEFI boot menu to let you test your PC’s RAM for errors. o ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Emmabuntus_DE4_1.02_Is_Here,_a_Linux_Distro_with_Noble Goals⠀⇛ Emmabuntus DE4 1.02 is here to breathe new life into your old computer, support humanitarianism, and encourage newcomers to discover Linux. Emmabuntus is a distribution that is unfamiliar to the average Linux user. This is primarily due to its target audience. But first, a few words regarding the distro. While the name implies an association with Ubuntu, this is untrue and originates from earlier versions of Emmabuntus that were based on Ubuntu. As of February 2016, the distro is based entirely on the Debian stable branch and comes with two default desktop environments, Xfce and LXQt. o ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Feren_OS_is_a_Linux_distribution_that_is_as_lovely_as_it is_easy_to_use_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ Linux is many things to many people. For me, it’s served just about every purpose that an operating system is capable of. I’ve used it on desktops, servers, phones, tablets, the cloud, and countless embedded systems. But the most widely-used purpose for me is as a desktop operating system. o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_32-bit_Dunfell-series_version_4.3.1⠀⇛ The version numbering is for the EasyOS infrastructure, not a measure of 32-bit compatibility. I have only tested on one old 32-bit laptop, works fine, but there could be issues on other old computers. This is released with “minimal support”, as I don’t want to be distracted too much from the main thrust, which is for 64-bit computers. o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ So_you_are_not_good_enough_to_contribute?_|_Mageia_Blog_ (English)⠀⇛ No. Only that you do not need to be good enough. Not a single one of us is, we all have gaps in our knowledge, we all have missing talents. Yet Mageia is still there, since over a decade. Why? Because, by bundling our very different skills and talents and by bundling our available time, Mageia became good as a whole. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ YaST_Development_Report_–_Chapter_6_of_2022_|_YaST⠀⇛ Cockpit has been selected as the default tool to perform 1:1 administration of ALP systems. Easing the adoption of Cockpit on ALP is, therefore, one of the main goals of the 1:1 System Management Work Group. Since clear documentation is key, we created this wiki page explaining how to setup and start using Cockpit on ALP. The document includes several so-called “development notes” presenting aspects we want to work on in order to improve the user experience and make the process even more straightforward. So stay tuned for more news in that regard. o § Fedora Family / Red Hat⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Using_hosted_image_builder_via_its_API⠀⇛ Image builder is a new hosted Red Hat service for building customized cloud images. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use it from the command line. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Creating_an_Ansible_controller_config_as code_pipeline⠀⇛ In a previous article, I described how to implement configuration as code for automation controller (then Red Hat Ansible Tower) using the controller_configuration Ansible Content Collection created by the Red Hat Community of Practice. In this article, I describe how to take that Collection and create an organization-wide solution to deploying configuration as code. The code in this article makes use of the updated redhat_cop.controller_configuration Collection. # ⚓ Weekly_status_of_Packit_Team:_August_2022⠀⇛ Week 30 (July 26th–August 1st) # Packit has switched to python-specfile library for handling spec files. This may cause some issues to pop up. (packit#1588) Packit CLI can now build RPMs in mock. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Nest_with_Fedora_2022:_Thanks_to_our Sponsors!⠀⇛ Fedora’s annual contributor conference Nest with Fedora 2022 is occurring August 4th–6th. Even with the virtual format, we are so excited to see everyone together, so don’t forget to register! Nest with Fedora is made possible by funding from our sponsors. Their assistance brings us everything from the conference platform to promotion to swag. A big “Thank You!” goes to our astounding sponsors for their support in bringing Fedora Friends together in 2022. Thank you Red Hat, Lenovo, AlmaLinux, openSUSE, GitLab, Datto, and Das Keyboard. We also want to thank TuxDigital, GNOME, KDE, and Opensource.com for being our amazing media partners for this event and helping us reach a bigger audience. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 7_‘stay_interview’_questions_to gauge_employee_satisfaction_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ One of the most valuable things to come out of The Great Resignation has been a refocus on people. As leaders, we need to show up for our people every day. We need to understand their concerns. We should show appreciation and help them feel valued. We must be present. Stay interviews are an excellent tool for understanding our people. Exit interviews help us discover why people are leaving. Stay interviews help us determine where people find value in the organization and why they may be inching towards the door. They are an invaluable tool to implement continuous improvement and show people that their voice matters. I’ll admit the name “stay interview” is a little wonky. If I heard it as a direct report, I might think, “Should I consider leaving?” Instead, shape the conversation as “I’d love to get your perspective on a few important topics to help me serve you better.” Lead by clarifying the benefit to the employee. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ What_transformational_leaders_do differently_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ Transformational leaders can catalyze the kind of change organizations need now. They have a bold vision for the future and a plan for empowering others to make that vision real. What sets a transformational leader apart? We recently asked IT leaders who won the 2022 Miami CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards to define transformational leadership. Here’s what they had to say. # ⚓ Rocky_Linux_Is_Not_CentOS;_It’s_Better:_Gregory_Kurtzer⠀⇛ The discontinuation of CentOS Linux affected many people in the community who relied on it for its stability and mirror level of bug-to-bug and bit- for-bit compliance and compatibility with the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). However, this acted as a catalyst for the creation of Rocky Linux, which aims to bridge the gap for CentOS users. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Tails ☛ Tails_5.3.1_is_out⠀⇛ This release is an emergency release to fix a security vulnerability in the Linux kernel. # ⚓ Sparky_news_2022/07⠀⇛ o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linux_Mint_21_arrives._Here’s_what’s_new_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ I’ve been using Linux desktops since the interface debate was between the C shell and Bash. I’ve used over 100 major Linux desktops. But over the past few years, time and again, Linux Mint has proven to be simply the best Linux desktop of all. And with the release of Linux Mint 21, Vanessa, I have every reason to believe it will stay at the top of my list and on my production desktops. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Open_source_laptop_PineBook_Pro_is shipping_again_•_The_Register⠀⇛ After a very long delay, Pine64 has once again started shipping its open source devices to hardware and OS hackers. Shenzen is just starting to emerge from its latest lockdown, and perhaps the most hotly anticipated device that the company offers is available to order online… but don’t all hammer the order button at once. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Golioth_ESP-IDF_SDK_connects_ESP32_boards_to the_Golioth_Cloud_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Golioth have released an open-source “ESP-IDF SDK” to let ESP32 hardware connect to their Golioth Cloud, extending existing support from the existing Zephyr SDK. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Introducing_multitasking_to_Arduino_|_Arduino Blog⠀⇛ With the increased capabilities of Arduino and other microcontroller boards, including faster clocks or even multiple cores, the need to handle multiple tasks simultaneously arises more often than in the past. For instance, you often want to control motors, update a display and detect user interactions at the same time, or perform tasks that have different timing or wait for external events. The traditional way to do this is to write non- blocking code so that the loop() function can run as fast as possible, updating state variables and calling the millis() function to ensure proper timing (see the “Blink without delay” example to learn more). This approach leads to bloated code, though, which is hard to debug and maintain, and also does not support multiple cores. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_Tablet_Market_Dropped_By_Half_In_Q2 2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_share_your_Wi-Fi_password_on_an Android_phone_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Enable_Grayscale_Mode_On_Your_Android_smartphone?⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Lock_Android_Apps_On_Samsung_Smartphones?⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Tor ☛ Help_Smash_Tor_Bugs!⠀⇛ Last year, your support of the Bug Smash Fund helped us solve 241 tickets related to Tor bugs and maintenance. From smashing bugs related to anti-censorship features for censored users, resolving issues in Tor Browser, and conducting sysadmin maintenance, to squashing bugs on the network, resolving errors on metrics.torproject.org, and making documentation updates, you’ve powered the behind-the-scenes work that keeps Tor safe and strong. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Patterns_to_achieve_database_High Availability⠀⇛ A study from ManageForce estimated the cost of a database outage to be an average of $474,000 per hour. Long database outages are the result of poor design concerning high availability. With the exponential growth of data that is generated over the internet (which is expected to reach 180 zeta-bytes by the end of 2025) and the increasing reliance on different database technologies to serve those data to their intended users, the cost of database downtime will continue to increase in the upcoming years. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Never_Too_Rich_Or_Thin:_Compress_Sqlite_80%⠀⇛ We are big fans of using SQLite for anything of even moderate complexity where you might otherwise use a file. The advantages are numerous, but sometimes you want to be lean on file storage. [Phiresky] has a great answer to that: the sqlite- zstd extension offers transparent row-level compression for SQLite. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice_project_and_community recap:_July_2022⠀⇛ o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Linux_or_Windows_for_eCommerce?⠀⇛ An operating system is the most important component for eCommerce success. The software manages the system’s memory, hardware, all software, and processes. When setting up eCommerce, an investor needs to make several decisions. One of the key decisions is whether to use Linux or Windows in the business systems. The business owner or customers cannot interact with the eCommerce system without an OS. It is the main computer language that helps it communicate with hundreds of other applications. The critical part when choosing the right OS is determining which one will allow the business backend to communicate with an ever-growing wide range of front-end applications. [...] Developers of Linux were keen to ensure they created an open-source operating system. It creates the bottom layer under which every other application or program runs. All hardware operations reply to commands given through the OS. Being an open software, Linux makes a top choice for eCommerce due to its wide range of advantages. # ⚓ Why_WordPress_Is_a_Good_First_Platform_for_Students⠀⇛ A lot of students consider the opportunity to create their own platform. It can be a blog, portfolio, or small business site. Although there are many options out there, WordPress overcomes competitors by far. In this guide, you’ll learn all about why it is the best first platform for students and how it can be used. [...] Sure, there is some learning curve to understanding all the functionality. But the best part is that you do not need to have any specific knowledge to use the software. There is also no need for any coding experience. All you need is attention and average computer skills. If you want to study WordPress, it is a great opportunity as well. Starting from this point will make the process simpler and faster. It is an out-of-box solution accessible to anyone. Because it has been widely used, there are also multiple resources and guides teaching all tricks and hacks one might need. So even if you struggle with some particular feature, you can find an answer easily. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ GNU_Octave_7.2_Released!_Here’s_PPA_for Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ GNU Octave 7.2 was released a few days ago. Here’s unofficial Ubuntu PPA for those who prefers the classic .deb package. The new 7.2 release of this scientific programming language contains mainly bug-fixes. See the release note for the changes. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ FOSSLife ☛ Google_Announces_Cirq_1.0_—_An_Open_Source Framework_for_Quantum_Computing⠀⇛ Google has announced version 1 of its open source quantum programming framework: Cirq. According to the Google blog, “Cirq is a Python framework for writing, running, and analyzing the results of quantum computer programs,” and it functions as “the lingua franca” for writing programs to run on Google’s quantum computing hardware. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Open_Chemistry:_18_Open-source_Chemistry Libraries_and_Frameworks⠀⇛ As we at MEDevel.com are hunting for open-source medical and healthcare apps, as well as education and software development. Chemistry is not an exception. So here is our list for the open-source chemistry library and frameworks. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 9_Open_Source_React_and_React_Native_IDEs⠀⇛ React is a JavaScript framework by Facebook for creating scalable applications. It is used to create many popular apps that you use every day as Instagram, Facebook, Walmart, and Gyroscope. The React Native is yet another React port for creating mobile apps for Android and iOS. It is used by dozens of global companies such as Skype, Facebook, Instagram, Airbnb, Wix, and Uber. While many developers prefer to use agonistic IDEs, and code editors such as VS Code, and Atom, there are many React specific IDEs and code editor that come with a dozen of useful features and options. In this post, we review some of these React IDEs, that will help developers speed up their production time, and enjoy their work on their React projects. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Rekit:_Create_and_Manage_React_App_With_a_Modern IDE⠀⇛ Rekit is a toolkit for building scalable web applications with React, Redux and React-router. It helps you focus on business logic rather than dealing with massive libraries, patterns, configurations etc. # ⚓ The_GNU_C_Library_version_2.36_is_now_available⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_GNU_C_Library_version_2.36_is_now_available⠀⇛ The GNU C Library ================= The GNU C Library version 2.36 is now available. The GNU C Library is used as *the* C library in the GNU system and in GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel. The GNU C Library is primarily designed to be a portable and high performance C library. It follows all relevant standards including ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2017. It is also internationalized and has one of the most complete internationalization interfaces known. # ⚓ LWN ☛ GNU_C_Library_2.36_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Version 2.36 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include support for the new DT_RELR relocation format, wrappers for the process_madvise(), process_mrelease(), pidfd_open (), pidfd_getfd(), and pidfd_send_signal() system calls, wrappers for the new filesystem mounting API, a DNS stub resolver that only does IPv4 queries, support for the BSD arc4random() API (despite some last-minute discussion), LoongArch architecture support, and more. # ⚓ Go_1.19_Release_Notes⠀⇛ The latest Go release, version 1.19, arrives five months after Go 1.18. Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Go_1.19_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Version 1.19 of the Go programming language has been released. “Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before”. This release includes some memory-model tweaks, a LoongArch port, improvements in the documentation- comment mechanism, and more. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ #_Perl_Weekly_Challenge_176:_Permuted Multiples_and_Reversible_Numbers⠀⇛ # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Change_Windows_line_endings_to_Unix_version⠀⇛ # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Running_cron_job_every_12_hours_(twice_a day)⠀⇛ Some of the tasks are required to run twice per day. You can use */12 in hours section to schedule a job to run at 12AM and 12PM daily. Sometimes you need to run crontab at different hours or minutes. In that case, you can define the hours like 09,17 etc. # ⚓ Convert_indentation_to_tabs⠀⇛ # ⚓ Find_non_ascii_characters_in_files_in_folder⠀⇛ o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Business Wire ☛ CXL_Consortium_Releases_Compute_Express Link_3.0_Specification_to_Expand_Fabric_Capabilities_and Management⠀⇛ # ⚓ Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar_H._Gunderson:_AV1_live streaming:_The_bitrate_difference⠀⇛ As part of looking into AV1, I wanted to get a feel for what kind of bitrate to aim for. Of course, Intel and others have made exquisite graphs containing results for many different encoders (although they might have wanted to spend a little more pixels on that latest one…), but you always feel suspicious that the results might be a bit cherry-picked. In particular, SVT-AV1 always seems to run on pretty wide machines (in this case, 48 cores/96 threads), and I wondered whether this was the primary reason for it doing so ell. So I made my own test, with the kind of footage I care about (a sports clip) at the speeds that I care about (realtime). I intentionally restricted the encoders to 16 cores (no HT, since that was the easiest), and tried various bitrates until I hit VMAF 85, which felt like a reasonable target. Of course, you don’t always hit exactly 85.000 at any bit rate, VMAF is not a perfect measure, encoders encode for other metrics than VMAF, etc.…, but it’s in the right ballpark. (Do note, though, that since I don’t enable CBR but let both encoders work pretty freely within their 1-pass VBR, SVT-AV1′s rate control issues won’t really show up here. I consider that a feature of this graph, really, not a bug. But keep it in mind.) # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Troubleshoot_name_resolution_on_Windows,_Linux and_macOS⠀⇛ Name resolution relates two important identities: hostnames and IP addresses. Humans are typically more comfortable with hostnames, which are easier to remember. However, TCP/IP requires source and destination IP addresses to communicate. Name resolution works between these two identities. Name resolution via DNS is one of the most critical services on the network. Without it, network printers, servers, websites and other essential services could become inaccessible. This article shows several methods and commands for troubleshooting name resolution from the client’s perspective. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ From_2008_to_the_Present:_Changes_in_China_and_the World⠀⇛ Comparing the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China’s zeitgeist and national mentality have changed significantly. So what has happened in the past 14… o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Democracy_vs._the_Megamachine⠀⇛ That is the picture Fabian Scheidler presents in his compact history of how we have arrived at the current moment, The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization. Densely detailed, it summarizes the development of hierarchical civilization since earliest developments in the Middle East some five millennia ago, and dives deep into its modern emergence in capitalist form over recent centuries. (Those are covered in previous installments here and here.) That form has spurred many movements of resistance, which have been met with tactics ranging from force to manipulation of public opinion. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ R2Home_Is_Ready_To_Bring_Back_Your_High_Altitude Payload⠀⇛ With high-altitude ballooning, you are at the mercy of the winds, which can move your payload hundreds of kilometers and deposit it in some inaccessible spot. To solve this [Yohan Hadji] created R2Home, an autonomous parachute-based recovery system that can fly a payload to any specified landing site within its gliding range. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Sophist_Network⠀⇛ There is a feverish search, conducted in books, to find ways to place the Internet within the daily texture of lived experience. Some critics diagnose this condition in psychological terms: as a problem of addiction (to screens and feeds), a problem of overload (of information and content), a problem of fragmentation (of self, community, or a once cohesive social body), or a problem of loss (of authenticity, immediacy, or mental faculties). Others frame life online using the language of political economy: The pervasive capture of personal data by Big Tech monopolies annihilates previous standards of privacy, introduces pernicious mechanisms of surveillance, and may even constitute a whole new model of capital accumulation itself. Each contribution to this literature, however narrow its focus, constitutes an effort to conceptually map a supposedly novel kind of social universe; the very heterogeneity of the strategies testifies to that effort’s insuperable difficulties. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Bill_Russell_Has_Died,_But_His_Legacies_in_Basketball and_Racial_Justice_Live_On⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Bill_Russell_Was_a_Revolutionary⠀⇛ William Felton Russell revolutionized basketball with a simple innovation: jumping. In an era when players were told to stay fastened to the ground when playing defense, he jumped. And when Bill Russell jumped, he blocked shots. He blocked so many shots—while averaging an astounding 22.5 rebounds a game—that even though the blocked shot was not a stat that was kept during his day, it is widely assumed that he is the all-time leader. Russell turned the blocked shot into an art form and played unselfish basketball en route to 11 championships and five MVPs in 13 years with the Boston Celtics. He also played a role in revolutionizing politics, and at this moment when the GOP is trying to roll back time—to in effect kill the reforms and memory of the Black freedom struggle—remembering his legacy is especially vital. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Simple_Propulsion_For_The_Lazy_Paddle_Boarder⠀⇛ One of the downsides to healthy outdoor activities is all the exercise. Who would want to do that if you can build something to do the hard work for you? That seems to be the theme of [Bitluni]’s latest build, a simple (and hacky) propulsion system for a stand-up paddleboard. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Combat_Gets_A_Computer_Controlled_Opponent⠀⇛ If you ever spent some time playing on the Atari 2600, there’s an excellent chance you went through a few rounds of Combat. The two-player warfare game not only came with the console but was actually one of the more technically impressive titles for the system, offering nearly 30 variations of the core head-to-head gameplay formula. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Scavenging_CDs_For_Flexible_Parts⠀⇛ CDs are becoming largely obsolete now, thanks to the speed of the internet and the reliability and low costs of other storage media. To help keep all of this plastic out of the landfills, many have been attempting to find uses for these old discs. One of the more intriguing methods of reprurposing CDs was recently published in Nature, which details a process to harvest and produce flexible biosensors from them. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Ask_Hackaday:_What_Was_Your_First_Electronics Win?⠀⇛ Back in high school, I joined the stage crew — because of course I did. As student theater groups go, it was pretty active, and with two shows to produce each year, there was always a lot of work to do. I gravitated to the lighting crew, which was a natural fit for me. Besides the electrical part of the job, there was also a lot of monkeying around on scaffolding and rickety ladders to hang the lights, which was great fun for the young and immortal. Plus there was the lighting console to run during performances, a job I eventually took over for my last two years. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ What_does_goulash_have_to_do_with Hungarian_gulyás?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Dr._Gerald_M._Sacks_Settles_With_DOJ_Over Drug_Company_Kickback_Allegations⠀⇛ A dozen years ago, a Santa Monica, California, pain doctor named Gerald M. Sacks emerged as one of the pharmaceutical industry’s top paid speakers — anointed to extol the virtues of a variety of drugs, even though several experts in pain medicine said they’d never heard of him. His drug company haul had occurred largely under the radar until 2010, when ProPublica started digging into what the firms were paying physicians to deliver talks and consult on their pills. That’s when we consolidated the payments from seven companies, most of which had been forced by government settlements to make them public, in a database we called Dollars for Docs. o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Public-private partnerships_in_health:_The_journey_ahead_for_open source⠀⇛ The past three years have redefined the practice and management of public health on a global scale. What will we need in order to support innovation over the next three years? In May 2022, ASTHO (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials) held a forward- looking panel at their TechXPO on public health innovation, with a specific focus on public-private partnerships. Jim St. Clair, the Executive Director of Linux Foundation Public Health, spoke alongside representatives from MITRE, Amazon Web Services, and the Washington State Department of Health. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (curl and jetty9), Fedora (dovecot), Gentoo (vault), Scientific Linux (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11- openjdk, and squid), SUSE (booth, dovecot22, dwarves and elfutils, firefox, gimp, java-11- openjdk, kernel, and oracleasm), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency- hwe-5.15, net-snmp, and samba). # ⚓ CSO ☛ How_OpenSSF_Scorecards_can_help_to_evaluate_open- source_software_risks⠀⇛ Everyone knows the phrase “software is eating the world” by Marc Andreessen from over a decade ago. Software powers and touches nearly every aspect of modern society, both personally and professionally, and is critical to the modern economy and national security. # ⚓ Kali Linux ☛ Secure_Kali_Pi_(2022)_|_Kali_Linux_Blog⠀⇛ This is the first part of a 3 part series of blog posts surrounding Kali usage on Raspberry Pi devices. This first post will cover enabling Full Disk Encryption (FDE) on a Raspberry Pi, part two will cover remotely connecting to it, and finally, part three will cover debugging issues we ran into while making these posts, so others can learn how to do so as well. # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Stable_Channel_Update_for Desktop⠀⇛ The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 104 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux.Chrome 104 is also promoted to our new extended stable channel for Windows and Mac. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. # ⚓ eSecurity Planet ☛ New_Linux_Malware_Surges,_Surpassing Android [Ed: Just that same promotional FUD from Atlas VPN, using the wrong yardstick and a fake "model" of security]⠀⇛ The Atlas VPN report said the number of new Linux malware samples collected soared by 646% from the first half of 2021 to the first half of 2022, from 226,334 samples to nearly 1.7 million. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Facial_Recognition_Technology_Down Under⠀⇛ It all began with an investigation by CHOICE which found that the department store chain Kmart, and household warehouse chain Bunnings, were using FRT to ostensibly protect customers and staff while reducing theft in select stores.  The group also found a third retailer, The Good Guys, had not lived up to its distinctly smug name, using technology that stores the unique biometric information of its customers. According to the investigation, 25 major Australian companies were asked whether they used FRT and how their privacy policies stacked up.  Based upon the findings, the three big culprits were identified. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ And_Now_EU_Commissioners_Are_Reporting Their_Phones_Were_Infected_With_NSO_Group_Malware⠀⇛ NSO Group has gone from being an under-the- radar spyware darling selling powerful phone hackery to some of the absolutely worst governments in the world to being an extremely exposed malware pariah which has sold powerful phone hackery to some of the absolute worst governments in the world. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Michigan_Supreme_Court_Says_Photographing, Fingerprinting_People_Without_Probable_Cause_Is Unconstitutional⠀⇛ The only surprise in this decision isn’t that the court ruled the way it did. It’s that the Grand Rapids, Michigan police department apparently believed it wasn’t a violation of rights. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ShotSpotter_Asks_Court_To_Hold_It_In Contempt_Rather_Than_Turn_Over_Information_To_Defense Lawyer⠀⇛ ShotSpotter — the gunshot analytic company with the rather sketchy reputation — is, once again, endearing itself to the public by doing things that seem… well… sketchy. # ⚓ The Markup ☛ Who_Is_Collecting_Data_from_Your_Car?_– The_Markup⠀⇛ Today’s cars are akin to smartphones, with apps connected to the internet that collect huge amounts of data, some of which is highly personal. Most drivers have no idea what data is being transmitted from their vehicles, let alone who exactly is collecting, analyzing, and sharing that data, and with whom. A recent survey of drivers by the Automotive Industries Association of Canada found that only 28 percent of respondents had a clear understanding of the types of data their vehicle produced, and the same percentage said they had a clear understanding of who had access to that data. # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Surveillance_of_Your_Car_–_Schneier on_Security⠀⇛ TheMarkup has an extensive analysis of connected vehicle data and the companies that are collecting it. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Tens_of_Thousands_of_Afghan_Women_Refugees_Risk Being_Returned_to_Acute_Danger⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ House_Passes_Assault_Weapons_Ban,_First_of_Its Kind_in_Decades⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Critics_Call_Pelosi’s_Confirmed_Trip_to Taiwan_a_‘Dangerous_War_Provocation’⠀⇛ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Taiwan this week, U.S. and Taiwanese officials said Monday, despite warnings from China, the Biden administration, and anti-war campaigners. “The chances of a military confrontation between China and the United States have spiked upward.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Nancy_Pelosi_Could_Get_Us_All_Killed⠀⇛ Long combustible over Taiwan, the tensions between Beijing and Washington are now close to ablaze, due to Pelosi’s desire to be the first House speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years. Despite the alarms that her travel plans have set off, President Biden has responded timidly — even while much of the establishment wants to see the trip canceled. “Well, I think that the military thinks it’s not a good idea right now,” Biden said about the prospective trip on July 20. “But I don’t know what the status of it is.” # ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ NATO-backed_network_of_Syria_dirty_war propagandists_identified⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Role_of_Christianity_in_the_Crimes_of Indigenous_Boarding_Schools⠀⇛ As at many boarding schools set up to assimilate Indigenous children, students were punished for speaking their language and sometimes experienced abuse. According to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba, 15 children died at this particular school over the years. Several of them succumbed to tuberculosis. During his visit, the pope said he was “deeply sorry” for “the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the Indigenous peoples.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Henry_Kissinger:_A_Warmonger’s_Lying Continues⠀⇛ Kissinger, who believed in the possibility of limited nuclear war in the 1950s, favored the use of a nuclear card in the war between India and Pakistan in 1971, and the October War in the Middle East in 1973.  On an earlier occasion, in 1970, when the Nixon administration was faced with a threat about the Soviet construction of a submarine repair facility in Cuba, Kissinger wanted to send a strong military signal to the Soviets.  Nixon wisely said, “I think we can resolve this with diplomacy.”  Nixon was right. The following year, during the Indian-Pakistan War, Kissinger feared that the Soviet Union would use the war to “move against” the Chinese and that if “we don’t do anything, we’ll be finished.”  Nixon wanted to know if Kissinger meant that we should “start lobbing nuclear weapons in, is that what you mean?”  Kissinger made it clear that he meant must just that, referring to it as the “final showdown.”  (I was an intelligence analyst at the Department of State in the early 1970s, a period when Kissinger and his director of the Bureau of Intelligence, William Hyland, were convinced that the Soviets were prepared to go to war against China.  There was no intelligence to support their obsession.) # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘The_world_has_changed’_Winning_a_nuclear_war_is impossible,_says_Moscow,_but_Washington_must_understand_that peace_is_harder_now_than_during_the_Cold_War_—_Meduza⠀⇛ World leaders traded ominous remarks about the future on Monday as the 10th Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) got underway in New York. “Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” warned UN head Antonio Guterres, adding, “We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict.” Western powers and senior officials in Russia agree about the dangers of atomic bombs, but the consensus weakens once the conversation moves to concrete steps. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_World_Does_Not_Want_a_Global_NATO⠀⇛ Most of the world rejects NATO’s policies and global aspirations and does not wish to divide the international community into outdated Cold War blocs, writes Vijay Prashad. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ News_Organizations_Sue_Texas_Department_of Public_Safety_Over_Withheld_Uvalde_Shooting_Records⠀⇛ More than a dozen news organizations filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Public Safety on Monday, accusing the agency of unlawfully withholding public records related to the May school shooting in Uvalde. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UN_Chief_Says_Humanity_‘One_Miscalculation Away_From_Nuclear_Annihilation’⠀⇛ The head of the United Nations issued a stark warning Monday that global geopolitical conflicts and escalating military tensions between nuclear- armed powers have pushed humanity to the brink of self-destruction—a looming catastrophe that can only be avoided by eliminating atomic weapons entirely. “We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Distorted_and_discredited’:_From_the_peace_sign to_scare_quotes,_these_are_the_gestures_that_now_trigger prosecution_in_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In the week after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February, federal lawmakers raced to pass legislation that effectively abolishes the freedom of expression regarding criticisms of the “special military operation.” The strictest new law criminalized the dissemination of “knowingly false information” about the military. Under aggravated circumstances, the maximum penalty for violating this new statute is 15 years in prison. According to researchers at the OVD Info project, investigators across Russia have opened at least 75 felony cases against people accused of “spreading fakes” about the army. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘They_don’t_belong_here’_Even_after_five_months_of Russian_occupation,_Kherson_residents_haven’t_lost_faith_in the_Ukrainian_army_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Ukraine’s Kherson region came under Russian occupation on March 3, less than two weeks after the full-scale war began. In the months since, the occupation authorities have repeatedly announced their intentions to make Kherson a part of Russia. In late June, Kirill Stremousov, who Russian state media refers to as the deputy head of the region’s new “Military Civil Administration,” announced that preparations were underway for a referendum on joining Russia to be held in the fall. But Ukraine has other plans: in late July, the Ukrainian Armed Forces started shelling the Antonivskyi Bridge, a roadway across the Dnipro River that’s crucial for Russian forces to transport supplies. Belarusian news outlet Zerkalo spoke to Kherson residents about what it’s like to live under occupation as Ukrainian forces inch closer to liberating the city. With Zerkalo’s permission, Meduza is publishing an abridged translation of the article. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘If_they_dare_to_kill_Serbs,_Serbia_will_win’: Kosovo_Serbs_take_to_the_streets_in_protest_of_new_ID_rules, leading_international_officials_to_get_involved_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In northern Kosovo, where the population is predominantly Serbian, tensions soared on Sunday amid plans by the authorities to require Serbian citizens entering the country to be issued temporary IDs as well as to replace Serbian license plates with Kosovo ones. Kosovo officials called the measures a “reciprocal” response to Serbia’s policy of issuing temporary IDs to Kosovar visitors. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ How_California’s_‘Transparency’_Bills_Will_Only Make_It_Impossible_To_Deal_With_Bad_Actors:_Propagandists, Disinfo_Peddlers,_Rejoice⠀⇛ It is bizarre that the California legislature, in a state that has produced most of the biggest internet companies out there, has apparently decided it wants to destroy them all in a flood of purely vexatious litigation. There are a whole series of bills that the legislature is reviewing, and so many of them are terrible — yet seem very likely to be passed by the legislature and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. While bills like AB 2408 (with its ridiculously impossible “don’t addict kids”) language have received more attention, I want to talk about a pair of bills (slightly conflicting bills!) that seem likely to pass and have received somewhat less scrutiny, in part because of the myth that these are “merely” about “transparency.” The bills in question are AB 587 and SB 1018. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Indigenous-Led_Blockade_Demands_Biden Declare_Climate_Emergency,_End_Oil_Leasing⠀⇛ An Indigenous-led blockade outside the U.S. Department of Interior early Monday morning called on President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency and halt all new fossil fuel projects, a demand that came as the White House and Senate Democrats are pushing legislation that could unleash a flurry of drilling activity on public lands and waters. “Native land back in native hands, we are not your sacrifice zones!” declared the Ikiya Collective, which helped organize the direct action. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Another_Dam(n)_Extinction⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ OpenDendrometer_Can_Measure_How_Your_Tree Feels⠀⇛ There are various ways to measure plant health, and we’ve seen many projects creating open-source solutions. One we haven’t seen is a dendrometer, which involves measuring various physical dimensions of trees to track their health and growth. [John Opsahl] is changing this with the OpenDendrometer, a tool for tracking the diameter of tree limbs and fruit. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Dark_Money_Pouring_Into_Secretary_of_State Races_Featuring_‘Big_Lie’_Candidates⠀⇛ A new analysis out Monday reveals that far-right dark money groups and donors are pouring millions into secretary of state races across the U.S. this election cycle, far outpacing such giving in previous years and a worrying sign that Trump’s 2020 “Big Lie” has grotesquely altered races for powerful state-level posts that could control the fate of the nation’s democratic future. Compiled by Ian Vandewalker and Maya Kornberg for the Brennan Center for Justice, the new report found that across six battle­ground states with secret­ary of state elec­tions in 2022, “fundrais­ing by candid­ates contin­ues to outpace recent elec­tions.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Health_Cost_Calculator_Shows_Most Californians_Would_Save_Big_With_Medicare_for_All⠀⇛ Universal healthcare campaigners in California on Monday unveiled a tool they say shows how most working families would save at least hundreds—and likely thousands—of dollars each year if the state implements a Medicare for All-type system. “Every second of inaction costs hundreds of dollars, and each year of inaction has an even greater cost—4,000 lives.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fetterman_Ridicules_‘Out_of_Touch’_Dr._Oz Claim_About_Happiness_and_the_Super_Rich⠀⇛ Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman released a video Monday spotlighting newly resurfaced comments by his Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz, an ultra-millionaire who once claimed that “it’s very hard to discern significant differences in happiness in someone who’s making $50,000 and $50 million.” “If Dr. Oz would like to prove it to me, he could give me the rest of his money and we’ll see how far he can get on $50,000 a year.” o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Chalk⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Boris_Johnson’s_(Far_From_Final)_Bill_for Damages⠀⇛ “Them’s the breaks,” an unrepentant Boris Johnson told reporters crowding outside Downing Street on July 7. Just 1,079 days after he took the reins of the United Kingdom’s government, the man once dubbed “Britain’s Trump” resigned in a storm of scandals, lost local elections, and plummeting popularity ratings. On the surface, his decision to promote a known sexual predator to high-ranking office—a man the prime minister callously joked was a “Pincher by name, Pincher by nature”—finally took him down. The reality is that Johnson had been losing the confidence of British voters long before he’d lost that of his right-wing party; it just took power-hungry Conservatives nearly three disastrous years to finally force him out. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Right-Wing_Extremists_Are_Making Dystopian_Fiction_Come_True⠀⇛ Ever since the early morning hours of November 9, 2016, standing in a ballroom with red-hatted Trump election celebrants in the New York Hilton, I’ve been waiting for this moment. This eruption of misogyny, unlike any since perhaps the witch trials and the burnings of midwives at the stake, was only a matter of time. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Chile’s_Draft_Constitution:_Undemocratic—or_Too_Much Democracy?⠀⇛ Chileans will vote in September on whether to approve a new constitution that promises to address inequality and lack of democracy (Reuters, 7/4/22). It would replace the present constitution imposed by the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who came into power through a US-backed coup in 1973. The nation’s newly elected left-wing leadership is calling for a “yes” vote, although in the much- divided country, the constitution faces steep opposition from the right. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Pelosi’s_Taiwan_Gambit⠀⇛ After keeping the world in suspense for these past few weeks, it now appears that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Taiwan while on her trip to Asia. But even if she’d chosen not to go, as advised by President Biden and top US military officers, the very talk of such a trip at this critical moment has caused significant damage to US-China relations and increased the risk of a military clash. It is essential, then, that leaders of both China and the United States exercise caution in responding to her disruptive behavior, and avoid any actions that might provoke an armed encounter. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Nancy_Pelosi’s_Reckless_Trip_to_Taiwan:_A Decision_That_Could_Get_Us_All_Killed⠀⇛ Even the foreign policy mainstream thinks Pelosi’s Taiwan trip is a dangerous gamble. Why won’t Biden stop her? # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Eyes_Wide_Shut⠀⇛ The planning for what would be a government for zombies run by conservatives vetted for their loyalty to their leader in the White House emerged as Trump returned to Washington for the first time since he left office to tout his ideas for creating a country few of us would want to live in. This advance outlining for a Republican win of the presidency in 2024 is occurring as conservatives await the arrival of their new North Star, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a far-right autocrat. He recently came under fire for complaining in a speech in neighboring Romania that he didn’t want Hungary “to become a mixed race” country of Europeans and non-Europeans. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ignore_Joe_Manchin’s_Comments_About_Biden_and Democrats⠀⇛ Joe Manchin’s gonna Joe Manchin. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Here’s_What’s_in_the_Senate’s_$369_Billion_for Climate_and_Energy⠀⇛ The Democrats’ deal with Manchin is a climate landmark that would also boost fossil fuels. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_‘Carried_Interest’_Loophole in_the_Age_of_Manchinema⠀⇛ This week, the spotlight once again will be on Democratic senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (dubbed “Manchinema” by the Washington press corps as the two blocked much of Biden’s agenda). It’s the Democrats’ last chance for a large package—Manchin has agreed to $790 billion—on the climate and healthcare, financed by a tax increase on the rich and big corporations. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Marco_Rubio_Got_Furious_At_Google_Because_His Fundraising_Emails_Were_Going_To_Spam._Turns_Out_His_Email Was_Misconfigured⠀⇛ Over the last few months, we’ve been covering a ridiculous situation in which Republicans are trying to force their spam into your inboxes. It began with a study that some Republicans misread (or deliberately misinterpreted) to claim that Google was “censoring” their political mailings. That study showed that for an untrained, brand new mailbox, Google would send more GOP campaign mailings to spam as compared to Democrats. However, it also showed that the reverse was true for other large email providers Outlook.com and Yahoo Mail. Perhaps even more importantly, it showed that if the user did just a bit of training of Gmail’s spam filter, this issue went away. Also, the study did not take into account the differences in tone, style, and content of Republican and Democrat emails. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Myth_of_Libertarian_Exit⠀⇛ Imagine if Ayn Rand had written a novel that imported the basic attitudes and ambitions from her famous protagonist John Galt into a steel-willed detective who gallivanted around the Caribbean in an attempt to turn a coup d’état into the stateless society of tomorrow. Her protagonist would probably resemble a collage of the real-life adventurers, financiers, ex–CIA agents, abject European nobles, and gunsmiths who mounted several profit-driven attempts at “exit projects,” or plans to create stateless and market-oriented micronations in the decolonizing world of the late 20th century. In his new book, Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age, author and professor of history Raymond B. Craib demonstrates how Rand’s vision of “Galt’s Gulch,” the libertarian safe haven in Atlas Shrugged, actually served as a source of inspiration for so-called exit projects. But unlike Rand’s bestselling novel, every exit project has flopped. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders:_GOP_Shouldn’t_Have_Funded_Wars_If_It Didn’t_Want_to_Take_Care_of_Vets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Wired ☛ Kenya’s_Threat_to_Ban_Facebook_Could_Backfire_| WIRED⠀⇛ IN JULY, META touted its efforts to clamp down on hate speech on Facebook ahead of Kenya’s August 9 election. It spoke too soon. The company continued to permit ads encouraging ethnic violence in the country, according to a new report—and now Meta’s platforms face a possible suspension. In the report, researchers from the activist group Global Witness and the British law firm Foxglove Legal attempted to buy ads that included hate speech and calls for violence, including genocide, in both Swahili and English. Meta’s ad systems eventually approved all of them. “It is very clear that Facebook is in violation of the laws of our country,” Danvas Makori, the commissioner of Kenya’s National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), said in a press conference following the publication of the Global Witness report. “They have allowed themselves to be a vector of hate speech and incitement, misinformation, and disinformation.” The NCIC said Meta would have a week to comply with the country’s hate speech regulations, or be suspended. (The NCIC and the Communications Authority did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication). o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_When_the_Just_Go_to_Prison⠀⇛ When those who expose the crimes of the state are criminalized and sent to prison, tyranny is inevitable. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Mother_Country_Radicals”:_Weather Underground’s_Bernardine_Dohrn_&_Bill_Ayers’s_Son_Makes_New Podcast⠀⇛ We spend the hour with an activist who replaced Angela Davis on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List: Bernardine Dohrn, a leader in the radical 1960s organization called the Weather Underground. When Dohrn and her activist husband Bill Ayers literally went underground to avoid arrest, they then raised a family as they continued to fight for revolution. Now a new podcast that was created, written and hosted by their son, Zayd Ayers Dohrn, explores their family history. Dohrn and Ayers discuss how they were radicalized, how they raised their children underground and why they resurfaced, and respond to whether they think their actions — like bombing the Pentagon to protest the war in Vietnam — perpetuated violence. We feature excerpts of the family from the podcast, as well as of former Weather Underground leaders who were captured and went to prison, like the late Kathy Boudin, mother of former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who then became a brother to Zayd, and Kakuya Shakur, daughter of Assata Shakur, who is still in exile in Cuba. “This is an important part of the story to the collateral damage to the next generation,” says Ayers Dohrn. “None of those kids chose to be part of the revolution. They, we, were born into it and still had to suffer the consequences.” # ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ FBI_Targets_Black_Liberation_Activists, Claims_Russia_Used_Them_As_Pawns_To_Spread_Propaganda⠀⇛ The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States raided the offices and homes of members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement.At 5 am in the morning on July 29, FBI agents in St. Louis, Missouri, targeted the Uhuru Solidarity Center and the homes of 80 year-old APSP founder Omali Yeshitela and the African People’s Solidarity Committee chair Penny Hess. FBI agents simultaneously busted into the Uhuru House and the group’s radio station Black Power 96.3 LFM in St. Petersburg, Florida.FBI agents told Yeshitela, the founder of the APSP, that they raided his home in north St. Louis because they had indicted a Russian national named Aleksandr Ionov.Ionov is a Moscow resident who the U.S. Justice Department claims engaged in a campaign to “influence” U.S. political groups and “interfere” in US elections. He founded a group called the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia that hosted international solidarity conferences, which Yeshitela attended.No one allegedly connected to Ionov was charged with a crime nor were they issued a grand jury subpoena.Members of the Uhuru Movement and various leaders of other solidarity groups condemned the FBI raids as a continuation of the history of attacks on Black activists, like Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, and Marcus Garvey, as part of COINTELPRO under FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Child_Support_Is_Bad_Because_It_Encourages Abortions,_GOP_Lawmaker_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Incarcerated_Women_in_Illinois_Win_Court_Battle Against_Brutal_“Tactical_Team”⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ New_Podcast_Spotlights_Bernardine_Dohrn,_Bill Ayers_and_Their_Children’s_Story⠀⇛ o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Democrats_“Strategically”_Push_Net_Neutrality Bill_That_Won’t_Pass_And_Won’t_Be_Noticed_In_The_Summer Heat⠀⇛ Democrats have a “strategy” they really love to employ that involves pushing bills they know will never pass. The idea is that while the bill may not pass, it will bring extra attention to whatever issue they’re pushing, and force the GOP to put their opposition to (policy X) on the record, shaming them publicly. # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Commends_FCC,_NTIA_for New_Memorandum_Improving_Spectrum_Resource_Coordination_– Public_Knowledge⠀⇛ Today, the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced an agreement to update their memorandum of understanding in order to better coordinate spectrum resources and prevent interagency conflict. Last updated in 2003, the memorandum now works to limit interagency spectrum disputes by requiring monthly communication between the agencies’ staff and outlining a process for sharing technical data to resolve concerns before the FCC publicly releases proposed changes in spectrum policy. In exchange, the NTIA commits to providing any objections in a timely manner and to support objections with evidence “based on sound engineering principles.” It also requires the FCC to notify the NTIA and the executive branch of spectrum actions that might trigger debate. The agreement explicitly addresses the root causes of the growing tension between the FCC and federal agencies that have hindered future spectrum planning and the roll out of 5G, which culminated in near shut down of numerous airports by the FAA from fear that new 5G services would cause interference with airplane landing equipment. The new formal processes to be created under the MoU should prevent such a thing from happening in the future. # ⚓ Daniel Aleksandersen ☛ “Gigabit_Router”_doesn’t_mean_it_can deliver_gigabit_internet_speed_|_Ctrl_blog⠀⇛ Most manufacturers of consumer-grade network routers (both Ethernet and Wi-Fi) brand their products as “Gigabit Routers”. At the very least, it’ll say “Gigabit Ethernet”. However, neither term necessarily means the router can fully exploit your gigabit internet connection. # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_President_and_CEO_Chris Lewis_To_Testify_Before_Senate_Commerce_Subcommittee_on Spectrum’s_Future_–_Public_Knowledge⠀⇛ Public Knowledge President and CEO Chris Lewis will testify before the U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband Tuesday, August 2 at 2:30 p.m. His testimony in the hearing on “The Future of Spectrum” will urge Congress to strengthen our national spectrum policy by innovating our spectrum access models that serve the public interest. The testimony will also argue for grounding our spectrum policy in public interest objectives; promoting competition, innovation, and economic opportunity; and extending the Federal Communications Commission’s auction authority to ensure a long-term strategy. As the testimony explains, the nation should also invest auction revenues in public interest objectives to help connect all Americans to critical telecommunications services. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ VeePN_Agrees_to_Block_Torrent_Traffic and_Pirate_Sites_on_U.S._Servers⠀⇛ VPN provider “VeePN” has reached a settlement with a group of filmmakers to resolve a piracy lawsuit. Most of the agreed details remain confidential but the VPN provider will block BitTorrent traffic on US servers going forward. A statement from VeePN’s owner further clarifies that the service is not required to store IP address logs. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Stock_Photo_Company_Decides_To_Treat ‘Pirates’_Like_Humans,_Rather_Than_Demons⠀⇛ Over these many years, we’ve talked about a myriad of ways in which people and companies can respond to copyright infringement. The common reaction, and probably the one most natural, is for those copyright holders to absolutely freak out, scream about lost sales and “teh pirates!!1!”, and then turn to their lawyers. Others take a more nuanced approach. Some video game companies mess with pirates by making pirated games unplayable or annoying. Others look at piracy as a market force that illuminates where potential customers are under-served. And still others try to actively engage with those doing the infringing in the hopes of being seen as humans, building up a connection, and trying to convert them into paying customers. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 6233 ➮ Generation completed at 02:52, i.e. 49 seconds to (re)generate ⟲